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It "requires" W11 only because the driver developers are lame Micro$lop butt-kissers and you're required to use the new cancer OS because they've not done right by consumers in terms of releasing drivers for Windows 10 or Windows 7. The Redmond Retards told them not to and they obeyed. There are no true operating system incompatibilities, only a lack of quality product support. It is particularly bad today for me. Accessing anything is met with lengthy delays and unresponsive web pages. I had a good run in the sun with Ryzen and their latest generation is the only product stack that has been any good for me. No regrets, only minor disappointment with the limitations. However, I've always preferred Intel and I still think they make a better CPU all things considered. At least that is true if overclocking is your primary consideration on making a purchase, and it's no secret to anyone here that this is my primary consideration. Ryzen overclocking is very limited in comparison . The SFF build with the B850MPOWER and 4585PX is still in the family. It is my wife's desktop now and connected to the living room TV where she can use it as often (or as little) as she wants. It's a potent and respectable build and I still like it. I like the Unify X a lot, but the 270K Plus that came with it is a pretty crappy sample compared to the other two I have. I'm probably going to buy a better one and sell it to offset the cost. It is a voltage pig with a weak memory controller. Totally usable and a good candidate for a gaming or content creation focused build. I am going to move it to one of the Apex systems for testing to confirm my impressions about the silicon quality. I think it's probably very average and the two that I had already are better than average. I wish I had purchased another 270K Plus when Microcenter had them on sale for $199 about 10 days ago. I'm going to keep watching and snag one when they drop the price again. I'm not going to delid this since it is going to be replaced and will be easier to sell to a normie or gamer boy. That tends to freak them out due to general ignorance and the misguided belief that delidding is bad, or the preference to give priority to warranty over performance enhancement. The motherboard is very nice. Nicer than the Apex even. But the firmware is your typical MSI/Gigabyte "gamer-focused" trash BIOS that is lacking in features needed for world-class overclocking. There is a reason they dominate overclocking leaders... A$$zeus is the only manufacturer that actually knows what they're doing when it comes to firmware now that EVGA has left the building. I'll probably reach out to Svet about the missing features and VNNANON 1.00V cap that is an impediment to D2D overclocking. It needs to be raised to at least 1.100V. I am very tempted to do something bold and crazy, like taking a dump of the Apex BIOS and forcing a cross-flash on the Unify X using an SPI programmer just to see what happens and see if it would actually work. I think it would actually be safe to try since it has a dual BIOS.

Its slow for me as well. I'm from India. Made me recall GPRS. It seems Qcomm is licensing Logic Folding, 5G and other tech from Huawei. This is pure speculation from me, Qcomm might make few new gen SoCs using China's Foundries to launch in China to get better pricing with Sammy, TSMC, intel, and Rapidus. https://www.techpowerup.com/353397/qualcomm-licenses-huaweis-logicfolding-5g-and-other-technologies

Oh hohoho look what I found! https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/19351/intel-wireless-wi-fi-drivers-for-windows-10-and-windows-11.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/18649/intel-wireless-bluetooth-drivers-for-windows-10-and-windows-11.html?countrylabel=Asia%20Pacific&product=86451 Windows 10 drivers for a wi-fi 7 module you say? I thought wi-fi 7 required windows 11 (wink wink). I finally got the built in wi-fi module working in windows 10 on my Asus Maximus Apex encore motherboard this way. I'd been using a USB wi-fi adapter with wireless AX since I built this machine. I'm glad I get to free up that USB port now and get faster speeds as well. Note that these wi-fi and bluetooth drivers are for intel wireless modules. If your mortherboard has an intel wi-fi 7 module, these drivers should make it work in windows 10. I also found a windows 10 driver for qualcomm since I have an alienware m18 r1 AMD advantage edition (yeah, I know, BGA turdbook, but I can't get away from laptops as I still need them), and got that wi-fi module working in windows 10 as well. If your laptop also has a qualcomm wi-fi 6e module, these drivers should get it working in windows 10: https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=7vt5x I've had some adventures on the m18 and will report on those later. While it is a BGA laptop, it's good for what it is and what I use it for. I also got it for a good price and really needed a second laptop when I got it. It's an excellent linux laptop (since it has an AMD GPU), and it's excellent for my software suite (which has a performance advantage on AMD GPUs, the main reason I bought this laptop). The fact it has an AMD GPU also makes it perfect for use as a Lossless Scaling frame gen machine (hmm, this opens up possibilities like using it as a terminal for a backpackable sff desktop, hmmmm).

I love my PC hobby, but I've been Mac and iphone as my core setup for years now for work along with an iPad. With all the cross platform tools, there's a reason many of the big houses now deploy Macbooks for dev work. I agree with @Mr. Fox on this one @Papusan. You have to attack the problem on all levels and the reason Microcenter implements a one per household / ID checked policy on many products IS to prevent scalpers and also in this case straw buyers and agents from buying up 5090 products and just either finding a way to sell/ship them as is or ripping the cores and memory off the board and shipping them that way. This isn't much tighter than their valid ID on file / One GPU per month quota they had during the Pandemicryptoboom. It is also why Microcenter routinely has items in stock while you can't find them any place else online because bots don't work when you can only reserve items online for pickup and then have to eventually enter the store front to purchase and pick up in person. In short, on any level, any potential scalper/straw buyer/agent that is turned away by this new requirement opening up even one unit for a legit customer is a win. I agree the main culprits are the corporations and big AIBs/resellers, but would you rather scalpers and straw buyers be able to walk in and just buy out everything they want? Toss out the baby with the bathwater? Trust me, if Microcenter decided to go all Newegg/Amazon and just volume sell online, their stores would be even barer than they are now for many products. $7k desktops anyone? It is the one thing still hanging on atm for 5090s..... As for the 5070, at MSRP to me it was one of the sweet spot cards I called around launch. Yeah for a bit there it was running like dogwater.... I just load it up and go get something to drink... 🤣 I usually don't complain. I know you guys are all over it when you get time. Ruh Roh! You tend to keep things in threes.... This means either one of the Apex's is on its way out or you're heading towards being done with AM5 before Nova drops 🤣 Looks nice! Again, I was tempted to snap it up but I've yet shockingly found myself with a pile of hardware again that I will have to wait till January to downsize. I'm on the cusp of kicking myself up into another tax bracket because of this year and I definitely don't need that.... Or I am going to have to go the local/FB/CL route which I haven't done in a bit to offload some gear.

US Senate kills bill that could potentially shield Americans from skyrocketing power bills due to AI data centers — opponents say bill is 'toothless' and doesn't do enough to protect citizens Meanwhile, local communities continue to push back against data centers over several issues, including electricity bill hikes. Some states are already taking steps to address the hikes.

A free update for Metro 2033 and Last Light?.....kewl

There shouldn't be any other problems, the usual nvidia driver modification must be done on windows to use the GPU and you will be all set. If it's okay with you can you tell us the price for the A2000 and pro 2000 ? It would be nice to know.

New Timespy high score - 28,947 GPU score - 32,177 New Steel Nomad high score 9072 This may of interest to others - https://github.com/Heavyfail/Unbound-Power

AMD Firepro S7100X does not post (black screen) at all. But 970m (MSI 3GB) works nicely in SG & PEG. You included the whitelist in BIOS as I don't need to mod driver, driver installs automatically. That BIOS is a gamechanger for our old R3, install it right NOW! That's great job mate, I'm definitely gonna buy you a coffee 🙂

If people are willing to test I can mod the m17xr4 bios using the same patch I did for m17xr3 which allows both variants of 980m to work including g-sync

Damn no one wants my 4070 bruh

I listed reasons for wanting P5200, I won't be taking a 4070 lol.

Yes all the Xeon, 8750H, 9750H, 9980H have all locked multipliers. No turbo bins. Yes the RTX 4070 MXM is available from me and it works in my I7 9750H G6 17 system.

Aren't they all locked though? Therefore Xeon at 4.8 or 5.0 would be highest? As in the 17 G5/G6 with Xeon?

Xeon is a locked multiplier, you can undervolt like the 9850H. A 4070 MXM would be a perfect match for the Xeon variants. I have one if interested.

Early BIOS of Predator 21X.

I would like to add that the GPU id must be 13D7 which is the non g-sync model. If you receive the G-Sync model, only SG mode will boot the laptop. Putting PEG will result in 8 beeps.

Well when I looked it up, I used passmark cpubench to easily compare them all side by side, and the top single thread performers were the 2186M and the 2286M. I may also see about ECC or other features idk, but I think going for the Xeon is a no brainer.

The 8850 and 9850H have +400MHz turbo bins on all cores unlike the 9750H and 9980H so you do end up with a faster single thread at the end.

Now your asking the old memories I myself already had an 14+ unlocked BIOS. You can get them right here if you want to try https://notebooktalk.net/topic/161-unlocked-bios-for-laptops/#findComment-1059 If I remember right you needed the laptop to be in full EUFI mode with no secure boot and unsigned drivers allowed. NVCleaninstall was hit and miss then so I always modified my own .inf files @ssj92 made a video on that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8igM5DcTukw and installing the actual card I found this on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvxiRFxikW0 @Maxware79 What did I forget?

The Apex Twins have a new sibling. I just got the hardware set up and in the process of installing Linux and Windoze. No tuning yet.

After doing some research, it appears the cheapest way for me to get a P5200 will be to wait for a good deal on a ZBook 17 G5 with a P5200 to come. These models also appear to exclusively come with the highest end CPU that the 17 G5 came with, the Xeon E-2186M. This CPU outperforms the G6's 9850H all around, and is better than the 9980H in single thread. The only all around better CPU for the G6 would be the E-2286M. So I would need to get the highest end 17 G5, and then probably the highest end or close to it 17 G6. It would be cool to have both, but that is a bit steep for what I want and I would have a mid-high end RTX card of some sort and nothing to do with it. So I may just get a 17 G5 with the 2186M and P5200 when one pops up.

Dont know if its everyone, but forum is running slow for me. I pinged Hiew to take a look when he gets up so apologies until then.

Does anyone have the data sheet for Xvsion RTX 5090 MXM GPU? I keep asking them but they don’t provide it and I need it to make an x bracket and heatsink.

This is like using a cannon to shoot birds. It isn't going to work. The corruption and greed will find it's own way to make profits. And we both know it. You should go after the big birds instead; that way, the problem becomes maybe smaller. Whether or not one shows ID shouldn't be the deciding factor in solving the problem. In my case, it backfire. It’s a matter of principle. I will never accept this as a solution—regardless of whether I show/use ID for payment or not. Nope, I won't accept this as a sloooopy fix. This is moreb a practice/more common you see from China... Not from the free world. People shoud start stop buy expencive PSUs with 3.1 5gen PCIe connectors. And they often come with only 3-5 8 pin-connectors. You can't use that if you want to be safe with modern tech.... Not enough connectors. You are probably safer with your old PSUs with enough 8-pin connectors😀 New is newer... Not always better. The modern 5 gen tiny trash connector can be worthless. Pay several hundred dollars in premium and it will only be a drawback $5,245 prebuilt RTX 5090 PC's connectors melt after sitting boxed for a year Everyone points at someone else. Exactly as predicted. xx60 series are replaced by the more expensive xx70 series. Will they dare to push for xx80 series next time? Or do they need more time? The RTX 5070 becomes the most popular GPU in Steam's September 2026 hardware survey