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Well, I am glad that it turned out OK on the Jeep from a legal perspective. The Astral is a joke by most measurements. They are just overpriced cards with a fancy cooler. They do not have binned core or memory and their stock firmware has nothing going for it. I'm glad you didn't waste money on an Astral. I am 99% certain you would have gained nothing for the extra cost.

Same statement here. Use the 12V-2*6 cable perfectly fine in 2 months, then BOOM

Price: $70.00 USD OBO Condition: Excellent Warranty: None Reason for sale: Upgraded Payment: Paypal, Venmo Item location: Nashville, TN Shipping: UPS, Shipping included in price International shipping: Yes Handling time: Ships within 1-3 days Feedback: eBay Profile Specification: Core i3 12100f The CPU was purchased sealed on Ebay in June of 2023 and used up until March of 2025. It was used for games and basic tasks and was given an Arctic Freezer 3 360 for the second half of its usage. I also have the original box the CPU came in alongside the unused stock cooler. These can be had for an extra $10 if requested (still with shipping included). This CPU has been sitting for about a year now in its plastic casing. Fast, power efficient chip that would be great for a light build, especially with its ability to support DDR4 right now. Proof of ownership: If the cooler is purchased alongside the CPU:

Yeah the Astral 5080 is a joke money wise. These cards are $1,950 USD BEFORE TAX lol. 😂 Well in NC if it’s 10 years old or older, we don’t need a title to sell as junk or sell for parts, I’d only want a title if I’m reselling the vehicle to a person as a running car, which rarely happens. Checking the vin is easy to do, but if it’s not marked stolen when you buy it, and then suddenly reported stolen right after you buy it, then no checking can help avoid that situation. Which is apparently what happen with the Jeep.

5 years, still have this thing lol. Any amount of money and anyone can have it, trying to downsize my closet. Can retest the board if there's interest.

Yeah when they keep changing the prices and going back and forth because in the end he wants to extract another $100 out of you, it's time to walk. I would never pay $1400 for a 5080 anything..... Holy crap! This close -><- to being charged with possession of stolen property but it wasn't knowingly but still that is bonkers crazy! Glad it (kinda) worked out but it would suck to be out ~$200 for it but wow..... How does it work buying cars with no titles?? Any ways of immediately checking vins? Just insane....

Yeah, i wish the 4090 was cheaper, but apparently there's thermal throttling and other issues, but i just seen some of the wizards on here make improvements with that and other newer cards, so theres still hope for that yet. So when you got your 3080 did you have to get an X-bracket and VBIOS? I messaged XVsion and they said that the card doesn't come with either.

Man the guy with the Astral was very iffy. It was a 2 hour drive just going there. We were good for $1,300. Then I was about to leave, and he messaged me and said another guy offered him $1,350. And if I wanted to one up the other guy, I could pay $1,400 lol. I didn’t say anything, then he said NM guy wasn’t serious if you want it for $1,300 C’mon and get it and I’ll stop taking messages. Then he messaged again! Okay, guy for $1,350 is serious now, if you want for $1,400 you can come get it though. I told him no, I need a 100% legit deal if I’m coming. Then he messaged again, said he felt bad and he would now take $1,300. And I just couldn’t drive this far with him potentially changing his mind again or trying to get more from me when I got there. 😂 He went back and forward on me three times! But I will tell you all a crazy story! I bought a junk car Wednesday, I towed it home, after getting home with it, my phone notified me that a tracking device was nearby. Presumably inside this 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee that I just purchased which was sitting on my trailer 😁. So, this Jeep was full of trash. Who knows where it was, I didn’t really care. I was gonna haul it in for junk. I paid $180 dollars for it, and was offered $550 (Easy money) the next day sheriff shows up at my door. “Is this your Jeep” yep! I bought it! “You got a bill of sale?” Or “Title?” NOPE.. But I have a string of text messages showing who I bought it from though and where to go pick it up at. “SIR, this Jeep is reported stolen” “You are in possession of it” “Can I have some ID?” Handed over my ID. And then about 4 more Sheriff vehicles and two unmarked detective vehicles rolled up at my house. OH CRAP.. They said well, the owner may decide to press charges, and you could be arrested for theft of a motor vehicle. I started getting very upset at this point. No freaking way right now. I had to explain the story a few times to two different detectives and show the texts and conversations again about how I obtained this 2004 Jeep. They wanted me to make a recorded and written statement. And describe the guy who sold it to me. After giving them everything they needed. I offered to bring the vehicle back to where I got it. Which I did lol. They said This guy has sold three cars out of the same location under false pretense to other people just like me. The tracking device that was in the Jeep belonged to the Sheriff department lol. 😂 they also had cameras out there mounted to trees. This area was a flood area and has a lot of abandoned homes and RV’s, cars, trucks out there. Anyways, I thought this was crazy! I have purchased and sold about (40) cars, trucks, vans so far just this year. And this was the first one ever reported as stolen in all my time of doing this off and on over the years! And fortunately the truth set me free on this 100%. I was only out the $180 and cost of gas. Which they said I may get back, since I was a victim in all of this I was able to identify the guy though a picture they detectives showed me. So they already knew exactly who he was, and who they were looking for.

@ssj92did your A4500 from Aetina do 7 beeps? I tested the A5500 without backlight mod, First testing: 7 beeps with custom heatsink. Without custom heatsink (nothing for cooling), laptop can go to BIOS but nothing in HDMI. pc seems to boot in windows with startup sound but then after reboot, 7 beeps. RTX 4070 had no problem about 7 beeps, displays in bios, couldn't test Windows because no custom heatsink for it

The 4080 and 4090 stock do 150W. The 3080 and 3080 ti do 115W stock. Soon I'll receive the Backlight mod v2 cables and I hope you'll be the first customer the next month!

Garbage. Also a creative scammy way to help their cartel brothers financially because the sheeple will also need a new PSU or a special new power cable for a new motherboard. The wickedness of the PC hardware bastards has no limits. Totally unnecessary changes that nobody asked for and nobody needs and no consumer benefits from that fabricates an unmerited necessity of an additional purchases.

Well it's been 48hrs since this post. Either @tps3443 scored that Astral or he spent the day filing a police report.... 🤑 Oh yeah I'll definitely wait for a deal to manifest on a marked down or used one.... AMD Radeon issues have returned to WoW.....again. Absolute crashing and graphic artifacting entering Azeroth. Spent the last hour diagnosing the wife's system and final diagnosis: DX12 driver timeouts...ended up having to switch back to DX11 for now. Not sure what changed since server reset, but here we are...... again. DDU and tried the last 6 releases including the newest (she was running Feb 2026 drivers). Simpler and smarter could be achieved without it needing to be smaller or perhaps smaller but larger and robust connectors as an offset.

Looking forward to hearing how it goes. I took got the RTX 3080 from them and yes, weird purchase process but I did it through PayPal. Got my heatsink off ebay and it actually went very smoothly. Quick modded driver and it's been running for months with not a single issue yet. I wish the 4080 and 4090 weren't so expensive, I have more M18x's laying around aswell as a M17x R4 with 120hz screen waiting for a gpu upgrade. I can't justify the cost for them right now though.

Bro, i cant wait to buy a 4080 fro xvision, 154 is the catd TDP?? I cant find the card tdp in the website

Got this, https://www.ebay.com/itm/134146959388, beastly 780w adapter for my Alienware m18x r2. Anyone here have any experience with this adapter for this machine? Or any machines from this generation? Luckily, for me I found a slightly cheaper one that wasn't being sold from Canada with those insane shipping and import fees...BUUUT i did have to buy the Alienware cord from that seller in the link since the adapter i bought came with a Clevo one :( . 67$ and 55$ shipping and import fee respectively (OOUUCH lol). I actually spent more on that wire than the box itself lol. Also upgrading my GPU from a Quadro P5000 to an RTX 3080 from X-Vsion. And...oh man...I gotta tell y'all....that was the most bizarre purchase experience to say the least lol. Also had to buy the custom heatsink and X-bracket since it doesnt come with a bracket. Seller who sold me the adapter said he got one from that seller from the link and it got lost in customs for a month and half and just bought another one and then got the delayed one a week after buying the other adapter lol. Man, I hope that doesn't happen with my cord lol. Anyway, posting this to give updates during this process and MAY come into road blocks so I might ask you wizards here for help if needed. Wish me luck y'all!

Temps can get a little high in the 80s but 980M doesn't run full power in m15x anyways. pretty sure I need a vbios mod for that. 970m should be perfect

The stupidity making power connectors smaller and smaller continue. They never learned from the 12V-2*6 failure. Now we also get cute 8-pins(to save board space and costs). Smaller is always better. Just look at the modern Jokebooks. Intel ATX12VO V3 to remove the 24-pin motherboard power connector

Well, I flashed both of the latest XMG Ultra 17 BIOSes --- first the 1.07.09RTR7-G2, and then the 1.07.09RTR6, and the Secure Boot certificates DID NOT update, despite issuing the commands to download and update them from an elevated PowerShell. I'm still getting the warning. What's worse, NEITHER of them allowed the PC to boot with 128GB of RAM, and with 64GB, the memory is running at 2666MT/s. So, slower and less memory, and NO updated certificates. Wonderful 🙄 I'm going back to Origin's BIOS, and pray that the memory controller resets to a faster speed. EDIT: I went back to Origin's 1.07.08TOPC BIOS, and everything went back to what I had before trying out the XMG BIOSes ONLY AFTER I installed the four RAM sticks, because the memory was stuck at 2666MT/s with only two SODIMMs immediately after reinstalling Origin PC's BIOS. It seems the RAM I have does not want to play well with any of the XMG ULTRA 17 BIOSes. If I had money, and RAM was cheaper, I would buy a different set of RAM sticks, but alas, I have what I have, and that is a fast, powerful, and beautiful notebook that just doesn't want the new Secure Boot certificates.

Ouch, that's unfortunate, maybe the age of the liquid cristals is making the image burn in ? I did notice that the DC screen on my m6700 would get very hot at the bottom of the screen bezel, where the eDP to LVDS converter sits, like 60°C hot !

Awesome, what are your temps like with a 980 out of curiosity? I ended up buying a new old stock GTX 970M for £37 and a I7 940XM for £20 going to see how the 970M performs for the time being and then get a 980M and throw this 970 into my grey M15X I also have.

hey, I ended up buying a new old stock GTX 970M for £37 and a I7 940XM for £20 going to see how the 970M performs for the time being and then get a 980M and throw this 970 into my grey M15X I also have. 🤟🏼

Well, seems DC screen have new problem lately. I left screen closed for few days and that happened. So not only do they get very hot and are too bright (on lowest settigns), but they also have trouble with image retention 😕

@JadeRover OK , that makes sense now , thank you for the explanation , I will let you know how my quest goes 😁 Regarding drivers , yes I have seen a few tutorials , looks similar to what we had to do years ago for Broadcomm Bluetooth dongles , in XP , That bit I feel confident on , but flashing with a CH341a 🙄 if I can't find a card in a couple of weeks then I may succumb to your suggestion. It's not immediate as I have this HP 8760w with a DC screen I am using now , this will be my upgrade 😊

Hello, Yes, keep in mind all green pcb M3000m are the same regardless of HP or DELL branding, the only reason they call some DELL and others HP is for the different vbios. So yes if you convince the seller to flash that vBIOS for you it will work. Regarding driver install, you will need to mod an official driver yourself with nvflash (not complicated there are plenty of short tutorials on how to do so). No whitelist has never been an issue for me, only MXM laptops that have a whitelist and that I know of are lenovo P70 and P71 as well as early clevo dual MXM gpus laptops. Haha ok, honestly I would get a CH341a programmer, it really isn't that difficult to get it working, you can then flash 84.04.9B.00.14, especially if you still have your m3000m card with a zbook 17 g3 compatible vbios.