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Actually it's 130W capped. Not 120W because I did a mistype. I did that because I didn't make my own custom heatsink at that time and the OEM one I had couldn't handle the 150W from a 4080 I had. The 4080 is in the M6800 with a custom heatsink made by Cicichen (because it was cheaper than making my own) and it works at full TDP. Max 154W registered on this MXM GPU. You can buy the new version later for 41€ on ebay.

Brother, im baffled? I have so many questions...okay so i can buy rtx 4080 from xvision and simply install in my p750tm1g? Abkut the mod cable jow exactly i may accquire one?? Full tdp? Why you capped your gpu at 120??

Yeah I feel silly now. The $2,700 dollar Astral seems like a great deal right about now. You got any of those? 😁😁😁!! @Mr. Fox Rocking triple 54mm thick HW lab GTX 480’s with Quadra pumps! Two in main case compartment, and one in the basement. These rads are insane. Have you ever tried them? I got hooked when someone sent me one years ago in a 280mm variant, it outperformed (2) 30mm thick EKWB classic 360’s.

Unfortunately supply and demand still rule the day and AI has really given AIBs and OEMs a level of control and power setting prices that is unprecedented in the tech circle because they know almost 50% (or more) of production capacity is already earmarked for SSDs, memory and GPU orders are booked for months if not years ahead so whatever is left over they can price aggressively but with some pricing I think we're seeing consumers simply aren't buying and "deals" and prices have started to fluctuate. For perspective, in their last quarterly call, Nvdia has now moved gaming into the "edge computing" category which is essentially their "other" column it is that insignificant to them atm. The one saving grace for AMD is their GPUs aren't nearly desired for AI as Nvidia or they would be doing the same too. AMD's best AI products simply can't compete. If they were on Nvidia's level, 9070xt's would be $1200+ easily simply because they would be selling out of their AI Pro R9700 cards. Intel reverse uno'd us with the B70 and we never received a proper B770. Instead they slapped on 32GB, made it an AI card and now sell it for $1k. Just as dirty. It's just gross out there right now and I hope consumers wake and realize corporations will jettison them without hesitation for profits..... Clicking though to Igor's, it is interesting to see the staggered costs based on costs and how the prices are predicted to rise. It makes sense even going back to last August when I was saying over and over time to by a 5090 because costs will be shooting up soon. If you missed the insanely good prices earlier this year or last holidays, it wouldn't hurt to get a GPU if you need one but I wouldn't rush. I'm fully saturated with hardware at the moment...even a bit more than I need actually across every category. I'm waiting on Nova at the moment and I plan on selling off some more hardware soon as we make some home improvement and upgrades (along with a strong decluttering) to top off the tax "victory" and purchasing myself a shiny Nissan Armada. This was insane to watch and Tony basically trying to help customers not waste his time or theirs and the sheer amount of scammers out there and core/memory devoid GPUs there are floating around. My favorite was the guy who said he could see the GPU core and worked for NBCNews in their AI/Web/Whatever department and the core and memory were gone on that Zotac. I mean, what's the end game here lying? Tony is just going to rip it open and clearly see the core and memory are gone and back it goes. At least he let him keep it most likely as payment / wasting his time but still..... If you're buying, test it before buying and never let it leave your possession. If you have to, drag your whole damn PC to wherever and a small display. If you're selling let the buyer fully see it working on site in person or give them the option to test then it is Zelle or cash and carry only. Be like my bud Matt who set up everything to score a TUF 5090 on FB for $2600 to replace his 3080, made plans to meet and everything. He had several nice voice convos and talked of even more future hardware buy/sells since they were both local. They agreed on the local Starbucks and cash and carry was no problem. At the last minute kinda off the cuff told the guy he would even treat him to a latte while he tested the 5090 since they had outlets and he was bringing a small PC to test the GPU before purchasing since their outlets could handle a basic GPU-Z render test easily and the guy insta ghosted him.....we had a good laugh over that one. I told him I wish he had just shown up with the small PC and a display in the carry bag then as you're removing the PC tell the seller you're going to test it first there and then before buying and watch his reaction.... Scumbags everywhere.... ----------------------------------------------------------------- 270k vs 9850X3D both tuned 270k wins at 4k 1440p is kind a wash X3D wins at 1080p The problem is all the high fps goodness of the 9800X3D can't help with the 1% lows and cache saturation and it then slides into system memory and when you have such a wide variance, the fall is a stuttering mess. I cap my frames for several reasons but this is one of them to keep variance narrowed between 1% and current/avg fps. .1% rarely happen, but on X3D you know when it does..... X3D cache saturation which I've been saying for years now at higher resolutions (and even lower depending on settings) since testing the 7800X3D vs the 13900KS at 4k 2+ years ago is the blessing and the curse.... Unoptimized slop and X3D looks like a wrecking ball. Both optimized? as always, things get real close, real fast. One reason X3D absolutely shines on laptops as @win32asmguy is currently enjoying. Can't wait to see Intel's bllc cache implementation.....

At this point it certainly seems that the quest is to identify the least undesirable option because none of them are good. The best plan might actually be to chose nothing and reject all of the options. What I would love to see is an aggressive wiper malware that specifically targets and destroys all AI source code in all platforms across the globe, and that it would spread like wildfire, uncontrollable and utterly destroy all of it and financially obliterate the companies backing it. Google Gemini, Chat GPT, Grok, Claude, LLaMA, CoreWeave, Baidu, Qwen, Tencent, ByteDance, AWS, Accenture... aIl of it FUBAR'd and unrecoverable, along with the money wasted on it... totally destroyed, permanently corrupted, unusable and nothing salvageable, and no resources available to rebuild with.

And it willbe worse if the rumors is correct. I would never pay more than MSRP for any Radeon cards. And I'm not even sure I would buy one even if I got it for a fair price below MSRP. If you haven't bought your graphics card yet, you should: the RX 9070 XT could go up by as much as 200 euros, and the RTX 50 series are headed in the same direction.

I tested up to RTX 5000 in SG and PEG. SG is limited to DX11 M2000M + RTX 5000 works DX12

Thank you for the registry mod! My understanding is that: SG RTX3000 only - limited to DX11 PEG M2000M + RTX 3000 = still have issues Will RTX 2060 work?

That sentiment has not changed. It was too much then and still too much now. The current prices are untenable and any gamer paying current prices for a new 5090 GPU is bereft of common sense. They either have so much money they have lost the ability to think rationally about their purchases, or they should not be trusted to make any important decisions about anything that requires average intelligence. Radeon remains rough around the edges and hard for me to get overly excited about as an overclocking enthusiast, but 9070XT is undeniably the best bang for buck gamer proposition that exists. That excludes any models sporting the petite arson connector. Those should be viewed as undesirable trash. It defies logic that they were able to sell any of them. The most compelling reason for buying a Radeon GPU is the avoidance of that trashy abortion power connector.

I am confident we could probably snatch up (3) RTX 5080’s for $3,000 USD. But yes you’re right the 5090 really is the worst value in history right now. That’s really crazy! Since we can’t even find one for an even 3K USD. I think (3) used 5080’s and (1) used 5070 would 🟰 (1) retail 5090. 😃

$1k all in is below MSRP on the Zotac and 5080's rip! I am pretty sure if that 5080 FE was flashable, I would have held onto it. Remember on launch how we balked at $1999.99 entry and Asus charging $2799.99 for the Astral was bonkers stupid? Good times..... I plan on riding this $1971 Open box Vanguard 5090 till the wheels fall off..... I wonder if anyone has done a deep dive to see what is the best bang:buck combo for this render / FG combo? ---------------------------------------------------------- Overall, if you remove the 5090 from the equation, the 9070xt is in there holding its own especially at its price point even against the 5080 in pockets.

Have you tried using Lossless Scaling for 3DMark benchmarks to see if it works?

In order to use GPU2 in SG or PEG mode, you need to perform registry edit. This is assuming you are on Windows 10 or 11. Here's the guide: Now we need to hear @Braintwistah opinion on the bios, I think he has some GPUs to test too

Not as hard as justifying the purchase of a 5090. The cost of two brand new is still less than the cheapest 5090. The 5090 offers less value per dollar than any other PC component in the history of personal computers. Current pricing is reserved for the mentally insane.

Update 2: I used NVCleanstall to install 960m GeForce driver on my m2000m. Then I used the disk method from Device Manager to install 980m driver on my Tesla M6. i just played a game of siege and it was running DX12 on my TESLA M6. Everything looked normal. Thanks again for making this mod possible. I will keep updating on how things go and any advice is appreciated. **** PS:Some interesting stuff I’ve noticed: SG Mode Intel HD 3000 + Tesla M6 = No games will launch due to directx error. Disabling HD3000 will allow games to launch but at extremely low performance. M2000M - Only works with the BIOS you provided. It’s DirectX level is (12_11). GPU-Z UEFI has a checkmark. Tesla M6 doesn’t. PEG Mode M2000M appeared to be handling all background tasks, which saves the GPU load and VRAM for Tesla M6. M18X R1 Display gives me eye faitgue. Using novideo srgb showed that the display is 6bit?(there is also a coaxial display cable that I don’t know what it is for). It uses dynamic dithering to function as 8bit. I changed it to static dithering and saved my eye fatigue.

Man, the clocks we can run on a 5080 is awesome! GPU Tweak III lets me run 34,500 on the GDDR7. This gives a +15% memory bandwidth increase of a stock RTX5080. It gets really warm with auto fans playing Death Stranding II at 4K. The thing is not bad for $1,000 bucks!

Just a quick update that I used your m2000m VBiOS (thanks again) and now I’m able to boot with M2000M + TESLA M6. I’m testing to see if drivers work. EDIT: How do you install drivers for M2000M + TESLA M6? I used NVCLEAN Install and installed M2000M Quadro driver. TESLA M6 is still Microsoft Basic Display Adapter.

It’s hard to justify keeping the 2nd one lol. That one came from Newegg, and it costed me $1,500 overnight delivery. The one I’m keeping was a different story, it was $1,000 bucks off of Facebook. I’d love to keep both. But I will definitely buy lossless scaling and give it a try this weekend though. I’m going to hang on to the other 5080 for a bit at least. I’m blown away by performance right now. Coming from a 5090 though. I did not have high expectations for the 5080, but this thing is freaking sweet!

Well now that you have your issues resolved, now you can use both of those RTX 5080s to build a badass dual GPU gaming/workstation rig! Losless Scaling will let you bring back the days of SLI/Crossfire by using one card as a render card and the second card as a frame gen card. I've recently been planning out a build to do pseudo tri-SLI or pseudo trifire as I know more recent versions of Windows (I think the minimum requirement is Windows 11 24H2) allow for generated frames to be piped through to another computer over a network (you're gonna want 10G ethernet for this at least if your framerate is in the hundreds like mine lol). This allows for render and framegen on one system, then on a second, you can do additional framegen on top of the streamed input frames. This is one way to get around Lossless Scaling's insistence of only one instance per machine, and allow the use of up to 3 GPUs to process your game. All of this was triggered by LG's announcement of a 1000 Hz monitor. I really want one, but am going to need a system to push that framerate in every game. My current rig has an RX 6950 XT and an RTX 3080. It works amazingly! I use the 6950 XT as my render card and the 3080 as my framegen card most of the time, but I swap the order if a particular game favors the Nvidia card. It's great to have a card from both major GPU vendors in those edge cases. I've also done experiments using my desktop as a render system and my laptop as a frame gen system. Piping the rendered frames to my laptop via ethernet and running Lossless Scaling on it to reach my framerate target works great! My ultra high performance software suite consists of the following: - Apollo (for streaming video to connected computers) - Moonlight (for streaming video from connected computers) - Lossless Scaling (for that sweet sweet frame gen) - Modified Windows (specifically WindowsXLite editions for maximum performance) This is especially useful if you have an ultra high refresh rate monitor. You'll be able to run all your games at your monitor's refresh rate, and it will look AMAZING! Bro Fox knows I swear by Lossless Scaling. It really is that good of an application, and is the best $7 I ever spent on any piece of software.

W950TU chassis motherboard upgrade — looking for DDR4 compatible board Hi all, Long time lurker, first post. I have a PC Specialist laptop (rebranded Clevo/Topstar) that I'm looking to upgrade with a new motherboard to break through the 8GB RAM ceiling. Hoping someone here has done something similar or can point me in the right direction. Current machine specs: Chassis: Topstar U953 / PC Specialist branding Motherboard: Topstar U953 RVP7, P/N 0195300136C2G7U101148, built 2015/11/25 Clevo base model: W950TU CPU: Intel Core i7-6500U (Skylake, soldered BGA, 2.5GHz) RAM: 1x Kingston KVR16LS11/8 — DDR3L 1600MHz 1.35V 8GB — single slot only, maxed out Storage: Samsung 750 EVO 500GB SATA + SanDisk X400 512GB M.2 NGFF WiFi: Intel 8260NGW (AC dual band) Battery: U753-TS44-111, 11.1V, 48.8Wh BIOS: American Megatrends v2.17.1255, dated 19/05/2016 OS: Windows 10 Home, Build 17134 Chassis physical dimensions: Width: 37.5cm Depth: 24cm Height: 1cm (thin chassis) Screen: 15.6" Port layout confirmed: Left side: USB-C, HDMI, 2x USB-A (one USB 3.0 SS), Kensington lock Right side: SD card reader, 3.5mm audio, 2x USB-A What I want to achieve: The single DDR3L slot is the hard ceiling here — 8GB maximum, no dual channel, no upgrade path. I'd like to get to 32GB DDR4 headroom and ideally keep the chassis I have since the build quality, screen, and form factor suit me well. The question: Is there a Clevo motherboard — likely from the N850 or N950 series generation — that: Physically fits the W950TU chassis footprint (screw hole pattern, board dimensions) Has matching or compatible port cutout positions (USB-C, HDMI, USB-A placement) Supports DDR4 with at least 2 slots (target 32GB) Has M.2 NVMe support I'm comfortable doing the swap myself — I've already fully disassembled the machine and have clear photos of the board, battery, ports and internals if helpful. Any guidance on compatible boards, known pitfalls, or alternative approaches would be hugely appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Thank you! Also a weird issue just happed. I used NVCleaninstall to install 980m lastest driver on Tesla M6. However, it seems like programs are only using my Intel HD 3000. Games won't launch because hd 3000 doesn't even support DX11. It doesn't appear my Tesla M6 is being used to launch games even though I've set it as the gpu for games in windows settings.

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O&O ShutUp10++ v3.0.1076 Released on: 05/20/2026 3.0.1076 – released on 20/05/2026 Added Secure Boot certificate status display Online help integration (F1 support) Settings dialog Accessibility and UI automation support Status bar display for filtered view Edit mode for advanced users Explanation dialog for edit mode Disable Edge Secure Network (integrated VPN) (E156) Disable Edge Secure Network (integrated VPN) (E256) Disable Xbox Game Bar and Game DVR (G001) Disable NFC (Near Field Communication) (S116) Disable wireless display (Miracast/WiDi) (S117) Disable mobile broadband (WWAN) (S118) Disable WiFi Direct (S119) Restrict Bluetooth pairing (S120) Disable optional updates (including preview updates) (W012) PREM: Premium Edition with profiles, background service, and automatic protection PREM: Privacy profiles (Office, Gaming, Family, Total Privacy) with export/import (.pcfg) PREM: Onboarding screen for privacy setup on first launch PREM: Statistics and usage overview PREM: Undo button in the profile management dialog PREM: Automatic protection with settings enforcement PREM: Activity log Improved Disable Cocreator in Microsoft Paint (C206) Disable AI-powered image fill in Microsoft Paint (C207) Disable the Microsoft Account Sign-In Button (E129) Disable automatic redirection from Internet Explorer to Microsoft Edge (E131) Allow user control of local AI features (E152) Disable the Microsoft Account Sign-In Button (E229) Allow user control of local AI features (E252) Disable extension of Windows search with Bing (M003) Disable search box in task bar (M016) Disable news and interests in the task bar (M019) Reorganized menu structure (Settings → Tools, View → Tools) Search and filter moved from the main window into the title bar Replaced "Quick Guide" with "Online Help" on the web Revised status bar layout and font sizes Fixed Factory reset left policy registry keys behind that blocked Windows Updates Unicode and symbol rendering issues in localized resources Info Compatible with Windows 11 and Windows 10; x86, x64, and ARM architecture Available in German, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, and Simplified Chinese