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Lol, nothing worse than multiple teardowns trying to fix cooling issues, but it all ended up great and it makes you wonder what thermal pads Asus is using..... What thermal compound are you using on the GPU Core? Nova Lake looks so good. Hopefully they stick to their "late 2026" launch and don't drag it into 2027.

Decided I wanted to repad my RTX 5090 HOF VRAM as the memory temps are atrocious since I got the card. Even with an undervolt and gaming at 500-600w, the memory temps would climb to around 82-84c which is a bit toasty for me. My old TUF ran around 70c on memory temps under load. I for some reason though the pads were 1.5mm and so I ordered some thermal grizzly advanced minus 8 pads. Turns out they were actually 1.0mm (still tried them as they compress decently). They were just too thick and the core wasn't getting good contact and it was hitting 86c lol. Tore the card down again and tried some old 1.0mm I found in my closet collection. These were absolutely shit, worse than the stock pads. Hitting 96c on memory temps with good core temps. Thought I was out of options and was just going to put it all back together with the stock pads. Decided I would try my spare Asus TUF 5090 pads I had on a spare heatsink I had purchased (long story). Luckily the pads were all in good shape and I was able to easily remove them for use on the Galax card. They were also 1mm and super compressible. I applied the pads and booted up with my fingers crossed I wouldn't need to tear the card down again. These pads are amazing, my memory temps now peak around 66-70 under 500-600w gaming loads with better than ever core temps. Finally this card is running awesome with the air cooler. I still need to break it down and to full water, but I'm waiting for my rebuild with Nova Lake later this year lol. I'm planning to finally swap PSU, coolers, the works at that time. I figured I'll go water then. TLDR; the Asus thermal pads used on VRAM is actually some super quality stuff which is why their memory temps are so good compared to other brands. I think MSI also uses similar pads as their vram temps are also amazing and slightly better than both my Asus and Galax card.

That's a very nice project indeed ! Keeping the interest in these old precision alive, especially info on the rare m6800 covet ! One small thing I noticed while looking through some of your sections, under the CPU and GPU : The m6800 didn't ship with any IPS screens, I think you are referring to eDP screens (that offer upgrades to IPS lcd, instead of TN that is garanted with LVDS). All pascal cards and above don't have support for LVDS, it is possible to run one in the m6800 it's just that optimus must be turned on so that the internal dipslay gets a picture from the iGPU. With an eDP screen, the pascal GPUs can run the display directly, without using optimus. Upgrades to an IPS eDP FHD display is possible required you have an eDP motherboard, m6800 shipped with both eDP and LVDS motherboards.

No, AI is not what is causing the damage (Jensen). What is causing the damage is deliberate market manipulation that was planned years in advance (Jensen). Decisions like removing NVLink from workstation-class hardware (Jensen) were not technical necessities. They were strategic moves designed to ensure the hardware could only be used properly in the specific ways that extract the most value from customers (Jensen). That is not AI hurting society. That is vendors engineering artificial constraints to maximize rent extraction. Blaming AI is a convenient deflection (Jensen). The damage comes from choices made by people who were trusted with the keys to the ecosystem (Jensen). Over two decades, that trust was built carefully. The moment leverage became absolute, it was abused (Jensen). This is no longer about innovation. It is about control, segmentation, and rent-seeking behavior disguised as progress. History is unforgiving to this pattern. Companies at the peak of perceived indispensability (Jensen) convince themselves the fall cannot happen. It always does. The bigger the pedestal, the harder the landing. Today’s industry heroes (NVIDIA) have a habit of becoming tomorrow’s cautionary tales. AI is just the excuse. The real problem is greed dressed up as inevitability, Mr. Huang.

Looking at the CVEs, for the zbook 17 g6 you'll need to go back as far as v01.02 I got all of them from the official HP driver website, here is the page for your g6 (under "see revisions history") : https://support.hp.com/ca-en/drivers/swdetails/hp-zbook-17-g6-mobile-workstation/22892902/swItemId/ob-352280-1 You'll need to download the exe, run it and chose the option to install to usb. Then on the zbook, plug in the USB and boot to the bios and go to : Main -> update system bios -> make sure "lock BIOS version" is unchecked + "unrestricted bios rollback" is selected -> "Update system bios ... using local media" Normally that should do it, I think you'll need to jump slowly down to v01.02. There is no risk of corrupting the bios if you have power plugged in + charged battery Only downsight is that having to go as far back as v01.02 might make some BIOS features that got added later dissapear.

You can't do that. Don't spread this type of negativity. Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage"

Thanks for the video links. I can see from the first video that the fans are thin but metal bodies are probably thinner than plastic which leaves more room for the fan blades within the overall thickness. Out of curiosity I measured the fans in my 2024 gram 17 Pro and the 2025 gram 14 and these were about 5mm and 5.75mm in overall thickness. There's also a demonstration of the scratch resistance of the Aerominim material. The colour is clearly in the material itself and not a layer of paint. The second video includes, at approx 2 min 25 s, a comparison of the display stiffness between the 2025 and 2026 models.

Of course it will be like this when all graphics cards being funneled into China. Nvidia's AIC partners sell to the grey market for higher profits. And we all know China is nvidia's preferred market. Where everything easly will sell out and make shortage in the global market. This of course will result in higher prices and bigger profit margins globally. Japanese retailer will buy almost any used gaming PC as new and used systems get harder to find A similar type of shortage is reportedly affecting the Japanese GPU market. A recent report says higher-end GeForce cards are selling out almost as soon as they arrive, with the weakest availability starting around the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB tier and above. Some retailers say restocks are hard to predict because the bottleneck seems to be further up the supply chain, and many stores have put purchase limits in place for all models

Hello, someone made a new heatsink on ebay for the M6700. It's compatible for the RTX 3060/3070/3080/4080/4090 But these cards are only compatible in LVDS (Internal screen + big impact of performance) or thru HDMI out (full performance). eDP 3D with backlight mod cable, could work? But with RGB-MB, the mod didn't work.

Ok, so all is looking good tests nicely heat is not majorly bad I will look to replace the paste with a pad, the thermal paste is messy as I've only added to what was there, but in a nutshell it works but the card is larger than the Rtx 3000 so I'm down to one SSD, need to find a bigger SSD without costing me a small fortune

Decided to give MX Linux a go. Really nice distro. Comes with a built-in dedicated NVIDIA driver tool and lots of other stuff. I think I mentioned this once before, but LACT is a really nice NVIDIA GPU overclock tool. (Works for AMD as well.) And cpupower-gui works nice for CPU overclocking.

I decided to give MX Linux a try. Nice distro. I like it.

It has the i7-7820HK is the cpu.

RIP - Bob

If you are peaking (not sustained) at 88-90 °C, that's pretty good and probably due to the fans ramping up slowly. Try Dell Power Manager's different Thermal Management plans? If 88-90 °C is sustained under load it is better than factory configuration, but has room for improvement.

That sounds like quite the journey to get to a bios that still allows fan control and undervolting! Not sure I would risk bricking mine if indeed so many downgrades are needed but even if I wanted to I would not know where to get the files - where did you get yours?

RebelsTool Shows How Linux Still Unlocks AMD GPU Power Controls Windows Can’t https://wccftech.com/rebelstool-shows-how-linux-still-unlocks-amd-gpu-power-controls-windows-cant/ A new Linux utility called RebelsTool is gaining attention as it introduces deep power and voltage control for AMD GPUs that is almost impossible with most Windows-based tools. It's developed and documented by Igor's Lab, and as explained in the blog post, the RebelsTool takes a different approach to increase the power limit for AMD RDNA GPUs. Unlike conventional tools, RebelsTool bypasses the traditional driver paths entirely and can directly interact with the hardware controllers.

RebelsTool Shows How Linux Still Unlocks AMD GPU Power Controls Windows Can’t https://wccftech.com/rebelstool-shows-how-linux-still-unlocks-amd-gpu-power-controls-windows-cant/ A new Linux utility called RebelsTool is gaining attention as it introduces deep power and voltage control for AMD GPUs that is almost impossible with most Windows-based tools. It's developed and documented by Igor's Lab, and as explained in the blog post, the RebelsTool takes a different approach to increase the power limit for AMD RDNA GPUs. Unlike conventional tools, RebelsTool bypasses the traditional driver paths entirely and can directly interact with the hardware controllers.

@Mr. Fox when you thought you have seen the dumbest tech ever... 12v-2*6 cable adapers as replacements for real cables. COUGAR showed a 1200W PSU with six 16-pin power ports at CES 2026, and it is probably not what you think Well, the explanation is simpler than it looks. The six 12V-2×6 ports are PSU-side modular connectors that act as a shared interface. COUGAR’s bundle uses adapter cables that turn some of those ports into CPU EPS connectors, and others into PCIe 6+2-pin connectors for GPUs. For cards that use a 16-pin input, the same ports can stay 12V-2×6 on both ends. We don’t know, though, what would have happened if these conectors had only been used for GPU This one offer firecracker for all the tiny 12V-2*6 connectors on the PSU shroud🥴 Yup, the yellow tip from MSI stands out. And the pc consumers is their own enemy. 750W PSU should be fine for 5080 but that heavily depends on the quality of the SKU and the brand. After RAM and SSDs, PSUs and CPU coolers are next in line for price hikes......

Deep dive into LG Gram Pro 16 2026 from two Korean reviews: 1. Aluminium-Magnesium6 Alloy case makes the case much more sturdier while maintaining the same weight. 2. The surface is highly scratch resistant and looks unique. 3. Fans and cooling are redesigned to bring 21% more airflow. 4. Fans are now made of Aluminium-Magnesium alloy. 5. Better Speakers. 6. AMD AI 400 series, intel Panther Lake and Arrow Lake. 7. Prices are expected to be higher due to SSD and RAM. 8. OLED and LCD screens. Both videos have auto-dub English Audio options. First video with dismantled laptop and discussion about parts and metallurgy, LG Gram content from 0 mins-28 mins: Second video is typical review with benchmarks, games fps and better look at the laptop:

Hey all, I have the zbook 17 g5, You can control fans with NotebookFanControl : GitHub - hirschmann/nbfc: NoteBook FanControl and use this profile for Zbook 17 g3 : Current Fan Speed Negative Value · Issue #501 · hirschmann/nbfc You can control GPU and CPU fan independently + create your own fan curve Bought it last year with bios v1.24. I went down to v1.08 going through : v1.24 -> v1.20 -> v1.18 -> v1.14 -> v1.12 -> v1.08 using the plugging in usb method and selecting the "update bios" in the bios setup. It didn't always downgrade, not sure why, but I got there in the end by jumping a few versions at a time. It was a massive pain but now I can undervolt and the 8850H I have has +400mhz OC option that gets enables meaning in theory it can run all core at 4.7ghz (never saw it happen, all core 4.45 ish possible @ 100 watts, -110mv, crashes)

hey peeps, got an M6800 for 100 bucks n now just want upgrade... some stuff already clear n ordered / installed, but need to know a couple of things(mainly about GPU options). Service Tag is: 9F9PZ52 (so u guys can take a look of original config) original configuration --> whats ordered/already installed: i7-4710MQ --> i7-4930MX 2x 4GB DDR3L 1600 --> 2x 8GB DDR3L 1866 AMD FirePro M6100 --> NV GTX 880M 8GB(just waiting for the NV heatsink, 880M i already had bcs was planned for a imac upgrade) 2x SATA 500GB HDD --> mPCIe/mSATA 1TB SSD no WIFI --> WIFI 6/AX Maxwell upgrades? without any Bios mods works? just mod the .inf? someone tried the big maxwell(GTX 980 Mobile not 980M) with N16E-GXX-A1? i seen they r as normal MXM-B 3.0 form factor ava so would fit without modding the heatsink(except the lil cut where all maxwell cards need) etc.. speed would be like an GTX 1060 desktop. pascal(P5000 / P5200) seems doesnt work well? when checked the service tag, show me eDP display, when seen right will cause trouble with pascal GPUs on windows? RTX 3000 seen something? or same issues like pascal? seen on ebay a flat-cable which bridge the pins on RTX cards so they work with eDP displays?

Hi, I have a zbook 17 g5 that has an identical chassis to the g6 version. I'll quickly list pros and cons that matter to me (you can ask me other stuff too): PROS : - Last worstation laptop to have a bluray player, can be swapped out for a HDD, not available on the 15 inch version. - Last worstation laptop to have MXM 3.0 standard connector, not available on the 15 inch version. Meaning upgrade up to MXM 4090 is possible - All metal chassis, feels very solid, rounded edges, 0 flexing. - Screwless maintenance hatch gives access to 2x ram slots, 2x sata/nvme m.2, 1x2.5inch sata drive, dvd player, wifi + wwan. CONS : - Big screen bezels - Other 2 ram slots + 3rd nvme slot is behind the motherboard meaning you need to remove the entire motherboard to access them (dumbest workstation design I know) - okay keyboard, kinda shallow compared to my precision 7720. - ram limited to 2400mhz by BIOS, no option to change it - undervolting only possible with v1.12 bios from 2019, downgrading is a pain. - best cpu option is 9980H (non K) also the 8950HK is possible but it's 6 cores Currently running the 8850H undervolted -140mv, unlocked boost to 4.4ghz 60w power limit, 75°c in games

Thanks for the link. That is an impressive selection of models. AMD seems to be an option across the new product range (worries about Intel producing sufficient Panther Lake parts?). There are plenty of 16Z90U (Intel) and 16Z95U (AMD) but, so far, zero 2026 17" models with more 17Z90TR (2025 models with NVIDIA graphics) still in the pipeline. Are they clogging up the 17" production line?