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@win32asmguy someone wrote an article for 2026 for WoW CPU performance and X3D. Article pushing for X3D superiority for WoW. I agree with some of his points, but two things: #1. There is NO WAY his "friend" was keeping a consistent 165fps+ in Dorongal or Raids even on X3D at 1440p 7 settings. No, just no. Maybe spikes here or there or nights with low to no players in town but on average? No.... #2. Properly tuned, a 13th and 14th gen Intel chip is competitive vs X3D while providing better overall even lows. With Midnight, I'll end up retesting this on the wife's rig (SP109 14900KS tuned B-die at 59/45/50) when she plays, 14900KS is locked at 5.9ghz everywhere vs 9800X3D vs tuned 270k when I get time. I recently gave her SP109 14900KS the yearly, "is it degraded" test with Intel's tool, OCCT and tons of decompression and shader compiles and it is running just as crisp and right as ever. Then again, it was tuned from day one. I really want to take each GPU I have (5090, 2x 9070xt, 1x B580) and CPUIs I have (14900KS, 9800X3D, 265k/270k) at 1440p and 4k through the Twin Dragon's fight especially for this: WoW in the twin dragons encounter has a moment it puts a beating on the GPU and CPU to the next level. I've seen the 5090 at stock (which this is for both GPU and CPU) hit 596w and the CPU pull 80w+ which in WoW for a 9800X3D and mostly single threaded is rather juicy let alone actually seeing near capped GPU utilization..... --------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm shocked..... (not). I would be curious to see how much is in the AI sector vs consumer sector for GPU failures and how much are card related vs power connector related. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm still running 1.36. I'll snag it....

New version of ZenTimings with new features. Works nice and looks nice. Square corners FTW! Much better than icky round Winduhz 11 ugliness. https://github.com/irusanov/ZenTimings/releases/tag/v1.38 @jaybee83 @Raiderman wassup?

It seems like almost everything new is trash now. Built to fail and only last long enough for the warranty to expire to keep revenue streams on repairs and sale of replacement products flowing. Even in construction, materials and building techniques are engineered in a deliberate manner so as to require ongoing maintenance rather than durability. Pharmaceuticals are not a remedy because big pharma, doctors and hospitals do not make money on cures. They only make money when people stay on meds for life and stay sick and require medical care until they die. Natural remedies can't be patented and require no maintenance from the medical profession, so they label it as quackery.

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Coil whine = high FPS. Happens on every cards I own. What FPS did you get for average? Isn't the maximum throttle 87C for the core? That's good! Hotspot throttle is 105C I believe. Maybe -10C with a two heatpipes design. Standard heatpipes, not the "big flat" one.

I use PTM 7950 + Upsiren UTP-8 putty on CPU+GPU dies and VRM+VRAM

Didn't have any results yet, but from what I see - this GPU needs a VBIOS with less max TDP, this goes into a scary territory + some scary coil whine. This is under FurMark 2 VK stress test ≈ 1 minute.

I said it wrong, oops. I wanted your results with your custom v1 heatsink!

When you get the heatsink - please, make a few photos, I have some equipment and I'll try to replicate it, installed driver right now, time to test it

Okay, I'm waiting for the temps results with the version 1 of the custom heatsink made by Cicichen. Cicichen is working for the double heatpipes m4800 GPU heatsink. I bought an eDP 9772P laptop for 120€.

New tech for old Papusan bro @Prema🙂 Norway have a very good varranty (5 years whatever happens). The old robot failed and the tech service failed to fix it. All money back. Bought the brand new flagship for this year from Dreame and got a free handheld vacuum cleaner due the intro offer due this is brand new model. I paid $350 on top of the refund and got this two babies for the wife. Happy Wife... Happy life🤩 What I think... Modern vacuum robots won't last 5 years. This means I' will get new models without paying much extra years forwards. First paid for one, then you can just upgrade to next model for free and at minimum costs above the refund when it fails. Look at it this way... No new technology is meant to last. At least not for as long as 5 years. I'm going to seize every opportunity to exercise my Norwegian consumer rights @Rage Set🙂

Do you know anything about Lenovo ditching Microsoft in favor of Linux (Ubuntu)? I looked on support.lenovo but could not find linux drivers for it.

Hello everyone in this forum. Same problem in a laptop with a corrupted bios after installation a new pch in a p750dm g . Has anyone a good unlocked bios to fix the usb2 problems and no sound ?

I've just plugged it in for a test. So, the PCIe x16 goes straight from the CPU itself, and what happened is that my i7 4980HQ died one day... I ditched the whole mutant idea and went with i7 4930MX, one folk gifted me one and with this CPU 4060 started working. When i7 4980HQ is installed - 4060 doesn't work, when i7 4930MX is installed - 4060 works. I will check everything out, as I have only tried this with laptop being half disassembled and booted into WinPE. This is HUGE.

How about the temperatures at 110W? There's no way a CPU is making a GPU to stop working. Maybe the Intel Optimus wasn't working that great with your CPU + Ada? Do you have pictures of your laptop? Like to see if there's any space to shove an extra heatpipe on the GPU heatsink? A gap? Could help for cicichen

Guys... it works... it freaking works... 4060 was fine all along, it was a fault with my old i7 4980HQ mutant CPU. 4060 WORKS FINE.

I forgot one thing. When I plug any PSU, 240W or 330W when the laptop is shutdown. The charging led doesn't come on, if it was charging, it'll light up.

No, I tested with 2 batteries. Same results. One is a new aftermarket (Kingsener) one that charges on M6700 and one that's OEM that charges on M6700 as well. None charges with the M6800. I was able to get 154W in the MXM slot too, no power cuts, no throttles. 4080M: 16000 GPU scores in TimeSpy. 260-270FPS in Heaven benchmark 4.0 1080p Ultra. I don't think the load on the MXM made the charging IC goes bad. Otherwise the whole power rail would be failing and the laptop won't power on.

Cannot confirm. Have not tried it personally. I have heard multiple stories of users trying 330W in "regular" hardware configurations and it not offering any benefit over 240W at all. But stock configurations are hard to push past 240W power needed just for compute. So what I was going for is something like: if there is any chance that >240W will get you some benefit, you'd have to be using an aftermarket high-power GPU. If the system isn't charging, I doubt that it is the PSU's fault. The system should charge even with a 90W adapter (maybe even less) if it is powered off. I see you have new motherboards on the way to test, but there's also a chance that it could just be the battery going bad?

Hello. So 330W will fully work (past 240W) if we use a 150W MXM card? I get orange blinking in 3DMark TimeSpy but the performance doesn't throttle. I use an old 330W Dell PSU + FV993 battery. I think the motherboard is cooked, the charging IC part, it doesn't charge. I got the laptop as parts, it had a BIOS lock and I didn't test anything before doing the big upgrades. I bought a new Dell 330W PSU after but I've the same issue, no charging. I bought 2 eDP motherboards after and I'll test one of them. (140€ for 2)

I just tested it to see and yep. Trash. All that noise about wanting the XOC bios and it's just as I suspected. Give people the warm and fuzzy's so they can say I pulled 1200W from the wall, but yet....nothing else to show for it.

upgraded the SSD heatsinks... 10-14°c. lower temps, so was fully worth! original heatsinks: new ones: how it looks: