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It's now not only RAM, NVME and even HDD drives are basically sold out until 2028. Mainboard manufacturers cannot get materials and so on. Even if they lower their profit margin prices will go up a lot. It's only about how much they preorderd with old pricing. AI datacenters just take whatever is available. AI is now surpassing humans in basically everything - so it makes sense from a business standpoint that all available ressources should be used to scale AI. Now humans will not stop eating and using up resources but things will get hairy (and that's right in the point of time where many resources get much harder to extract and less available). Getting a new laptop right now surely makes sense just as anything else you really need for work or life. I still think Panther lake is the biggest upgrade in the Gram line since at least the 11. gen. It's the first time without a big compromise either in performance or battery use. With the limited cooling power - it will be the most performant, and with the battery life it's just better than anything before. Plus OLED really improved in text readability and power use the last years. Besides contrast there is no improvement in IPS displays since many years. Higher refresh rates are pretty old - LG just took a long time to use more than 60hz.

Yeah, the main problem is that it must be quite a simple setting because on my first try I got it right. I gues I can only CMOS reset the bios to start from scratch - I think the load default is a saved set of options, that doesn't include all options. I don't think you can really destroy something - modern bios will restore to default after a couple of failed boots. Looking for what enables Prochot to 98° I destroyed my completely unlocked power envelope. And yeah the price increase mentioned in Korea was my reason to buy the Gram now - I really wanted it to be below 1000€ before VAT - so I can detax it in the same year. I would prefer 32GB but I rarely need it - and I have a server with 128GB for really big workloads that is idle 5.5 days of the week. The 2TB models sometimes have PCIE5 NVME disks - meaning twice the speed of PCIE4. But yeah that too is a lottery. It doesn't look likely prices will go back within the next 2 years - except if we have financial crash and then it's really hard to predict with prices of anything. After switching to Bitdefender instead of PandaDome and disabling most things in it - especially the web protection - I get pretty reliable 15-16 hours battery life for working with 60-30% display brightness depending on time of the day. I'm pretty sure with Panther lake 20 hours would be realistc after debloating Windows 11, and making sure antivirus is not set to monitor whatever. I can myself identify scam websites, and click on manual scan if I get download something where I'm not 100% sure. Bitdefender looks like right now the lowest ressource free antivirus. Trying to fully disable antivirus doesn't work well anymore with windows 11. Any kind of update will then put windows defender instead of none. That's especially annoying on a server where you are super careful anyhow and firewall plus login security is way more important than antivirus. I guess the new 2025 Ultra 5H or X7 model will be at least at 2000€ plus VAT when it becomes available in April? I'm in Taiwan next moth but prices there aren't much better than Europe. Only China and Korea are cheap.

I didn't notice a significant difference in display quality between the IPS panel on my 17" 2024 gram Pro and the 15.5" OLED panel on the LG gram Superslim. I will be watching the prices of the Panther Lake models with interest. I feel that notebook manufacturers will have to absorb part of the higher RAM cost if they want to sell the 2026 products. For most users the improvements offered by the new models aren't sufficient to pay a big price premium.

You have been very adventurous with your changing of the advanced BIOS setting than I would consider doing. Amazon UK has followed LG UK with big price increases on the 2025 models but I'm waiting to see if one which is returned is offered at a tempting discount.

speaking of, any indications that the lightning vbios has leaked yet? 😛 im guessing they dont have any reason to upgrade to quad channel anytime soon, what with DDR5 (and likely also 6) doubling the amount of internal "channels" with each new gen. btw, resolved the bad paste job, turned out that the Thermal Grizzly AM5 High Performance Heatspreader was the culprit, or rather its missing z height vs the stock heatspreader. the Arctic LF3 coolplate doesnt make proper contact with it, even though im using the TG shortened offset mounting kit. ive tried twice now with crappy results. so its back to the regular AM5 retention mechanism incl the stock heatspreader, but at least now i got a nice clean delid with TG conductonaut extreme on it. done with disassembling my hardware for now, back to RAM tuning! 😄 on another note: received and email from TG, seems like a new firmware update is out for the WV Pro II, including first official version of the accompanying software, nice 🙂

no worries, ive done this for years with superb results 🙂 just make sure the pads are the same brand / type and are squished well together so that they make good contact to each other 🙂

I am using the new 9961 beta BIOS on the Apex and it seems OK so far. So, I may test 2101 on the Strix. AGESA 1.3.0.0 sucked for me on the Apex and the Strix, but 1.3.0.0a may have corrected the bugs that I had with 1.3.0.0 AGESA. Nah, I was wrong. AGESA 1.3.0.0a is still garbage. I still have random freezes at idle and light load from excessive vdroop using this AGESA that I don't have with older versions.

Thank you. Yes, it is definitely a relief. As a side note, I am more excited about this new role than any I can remember before. It is a newly created position in a new department. The job description reads like it was written for me by someone that knows me well. It will allow me to lean into my strengths and skillset. This will be the first time in around 25 years that I will not be responsible for the performance of other employees, hiring, disciplinary actions and terminations. Data analytics has been a big part of what I have been responsible for in terms of people performance evaluation for 2.5 decades and that will be the bulk of my daily grind, but from the perspective of evaluating process and program performance rather than execution (or the failure to execute) by individuals. Apart from the previous 6.25 years working for a small business, the previous 32+ years I have worked for huge fortune 500 corporations with many thousands of employees. I am also looking forward to going back to that again. The small business experience was wonderful until it wasn't. And, another plus is that I can continue working remotely. I haven't worked from a corporate office location since 2000. I have been a remote employee ever since, before the term "remote" was even invented. Most of the jobs I applied for would have required working on-site daily or hybrid with with only 1 or 2 days a week remote. I'm so glad I don't have to waste time behind a windshield going to/from work and battling traffic every day.

I've been riding on AM4 for what feels like forever lol, my replacement board finally got in, they were nice enough to update the bios to something somewhat recent so the 2200g I bought just to update the bios was a waste of 20 USD lol oh well tried to do the pcie splitter but with it my system didnt want to post, even after testing the GPU's individually but no dice, perhaps i need more research on that end of things, for now, i'll just enjoy my games. I'll need to get another PSU if I go that route long term, got fed up tearing down the system this weekend and just went and used the EVGA 1300w. If I plan to use the 7900 XTX and 3090Ti side by side ill need more VGA hookups anyways. I'll look forward to when ever the next release cycle comes along, either I get something new or I get something new to me :) Be sure to keep me in mind all when ever you decide to pull triggers! Also @Mr. Fox congrats on acquiring new employment! I was never in doubt, but its a relief none the less!

Hi everyone, just wanted to know if its a good idea to put a 1.5mm thermal pad on top of a 2.5mm for these chips I highlighted (GTX1070MXM), (Im using a customized heatsink, so I just wanted to know if will putting those thermal pads on top of each other will keep the chips cool enough)

Microsoft is getting fed up with OpenAI and wants to distance itself from it if it continues to ask for money frequently. Before launching ChatGPT in late 2022, OpenAI was an AI startup that needed funding to achieve its goal of creating a cutting-edge AI model called GPT, which would later power its popular chatbot.

Yep, running away from the sinking ship? Microsoft is getting fed up with OpenAI and wants to distance itself from it if it continues to ask for money frequently. Before launching ChatGPT in late 2022, OpenAI was an AI startup that needed funding to achieve its goal of creating a cutting-edge AI model called GPT, which would later power its popular chatbot.

Hmmm. I said/guessed 50-100. The estimate is 100 to 200 units were distributed to reviewers and influencers. Not sure who have correct here. But for pure promo of the company I would say MSI send out more than 100 cards. How many of the influencers will put the cards on ebay to grab some profits? This gen Lighning cards is just an ad. Not as a flagship card they used to offer the consumer/enhusiasts in the old days. MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING lands on ebay with price ranging from $7,000 to $14,000 Sadly... This is the way mainstream goes. HEDT will cost a lot more but offer more mem channels and PCIe lanes. What you see is the new price level for mainstream/consumer/gamer chips. More cache cost money... Keep in mind that the details aren't official, so do take these numbers with some skepticism. That said, the variants with 144 MB of on-die Last-Level Cache (bLLC) are reportedly going to measure roughly 57% more or 153.92 mm2 (14.8 mm x 10.4 mm). These SKUs are reportedly built specifically to compete against AMD's X3D SKUs for superior gaming performance, where higher L3 cache often leads to faster data retrieval. That said, these will result in higher pricing, as building a larger die on cutting-edge nodes like TSMC N2 will be more expensive.

can someone tell me which caps/switches the M17 has? picture below, need it to know bcs want swap the keys fom my M6800 to white ones, n when they have the right caps i will take the white keyboard to use the caps of it 😄

install now, we want results in the next 30 mins 😄

Well seing that the price difference between Panther lake ultra 5 H and AMD isn't that big I would rather recommend that model. That effectively OLED now wins over the IPS in battery life and the green seams for text should be mostly solved in newest generations is in my eyes the differentiator. I would stay away from the non H series basic panther lake however.. they actually shouldn't have better battery life Vs the X/H as panther lake can basically switch off all cores that are not in use and just run the 4 LP cores, and performance of AMD will be much better at lower prices. Well let's see once they are actually sold. LG will increase prices again for all 2026 notebooks in March. Best time to buy a panther lake or AMD gram were those group buying events in January in Korea. Also I think it's still a lottery it you get an IPS black or traditional panel. At least 2025 contrast figures on tests varied wildly.

New benchmark results: 10-minute test: https://www.3dmark.com/spy/61810196 https://www.3dmark.com/fs/34303826

I sure hope so (return of Intel and back to HEDT and more PCIe lanes). This has been the longest amount of time I have ridden an AMD donkey. It is the first time the experience was respectable and not plagued with functionality issues, yet with overclocking being my primary source of computer satisfaction it feels so lackluster, mediocre, subdued and limiting in comparison to what I had grown used to with Intel. I've also heard some very bad things (like no longer having "unlimited" power and current options in the firmware) and want to see how those things shake out before calling it a win for Intel. My start date for the new job is 2/23. I'm excited about that. My 90-day unpaid "vacation" has been a real test of faith. As an added blessing, (thank you Lord,) it will be a compensation upgrade, so as long as the new Intel prices are not too off the rails NVIDIA-level stupid and the performance rumors turn out to be true I will likely be looking to make the move back to Team Blue. I'm not going to shoot until I see the whites of their eyes. In an era where lying and misrepresentation are normal marketing tactics, early adoption isn't very smart. Since Linux developers seem to not be hardware junkies and early adopters, it usually takes a while for Linux support to surface as well. Since Micro$lop Windoze is no longer my OS of choice that also needs to be looked at before leaping. I fully expect that there will be no driver support for Windoze 10 and the feces OS (Winduhz 11 ) will likely be the only OS supported. One step forward, two steps backward.

Nova Lake is looking like the return of Intel, but it is going to cost. A Z990 mobo is going to be expensive. Stepping down to Z970 and you are losing a lot of PCIe lanes - BCLK OC'ing. If the rumors of the top NL chips costing over 1000 are true, we are back in the days of HEDT - but only two memory channels. Lastly, still no ECC memory support unless you go W980. I am not sure whether it is going to be AMD or Intel that offers the first mainstream platform with quad channel memory support, but it needs to happen.

Any idea when the more expensive option would be out? Update: The M6800 GPU heatsink I ordered from ebay has just arrived at my doorstep! Shipping sure is quick! But that's because I'm in Singapore and shipping from China only takes 1-2 days... 😆

AMD+ LCD will be the less expensive version as seen on LG Korea website, for most people upgrading after 5-6 years it will be a good upgrade. The LG IPS Black 2 has increased the contrast ratio, earlier 2021-22 etc Grams has 1400-1500:1 contrast but last year Gram 16 Pro was measured 2600:1 contrast ratio by notebookcheck. OLED screen also needs some care to avoid burn-in and has flickering/PWM issues which is why many still prefer LCD panel.

do u tried 2933 furys? they r hard to find, its like ddr3l 2133 😄

this mem set the speed automatically via XMP, n the 7920HQ is the same CPU like mine 7820HQ just higher clocks, so i would suppose: nope, n 2933 will see when i get a kit of it, otherwise will put 2666 C15 in, should end up at +2-5% on the AVR frames n up to 12% at the 1% lows compared to the stock 2400 C17(with really bad subtimings) mem.

Windows 11 update KB5077181 is causing critical boot loops for some users KB5077181 is causing devices to restart over 15 times in an infinite loop. Users also report network issues and error codes. Rufus blames Microsoft for allegedly blocking latest Windows 11 ISO downloads Microsoft has seemingly blocked Windows 11 ISO downloads for certain users as it may be trying to get them to only use the official way Microsoft under fire for allegedly pushing OEMs to exclusively bundle Edge in Windows PCs Microsoft is in hot water again as regulators check if its Jumpstart program nudges PC makers to favor Edge over other browsers.