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Does your chassis have fans in the bottom blowing directly on the cable and GPU? I also wonder if the width and frequency of the temperature delta between room temperature (cold) and maximum sustained load temperature affects anything, even when the high is totally fine, how often it experiences that range from low to high to low. The frequency of that delta shift might be causing fatigue of these incredibly fragile turds? It is unusual how fast your system chews through these crappy cables. But as you said, thank God for the WVP2. It is a reasonable expectation for PSU cables to last beyond the lifespan of anything in the system, including the PSU. But, these are such $hitty examples of engineering incompetence that it is not the case. There is no reason anyone should ever have to replace any PSU cable due to any reason except for accidental physical damage (cuts, pinches, etc.).

your guess is as good as any. whatever the case may be, environmental conditions inside "normal" values shouldnt have such an immense impact. i mean, its not like were in the tropics / desert / arctic circle here...

I wonder if ambient conditions such as humidity come into play with the connection integrity? I don't think I've ever seen or heard that mentioned anywhere and I can't help but wonder if it has any effect.

nope thats with the matrix 800W vbios, although in BMW the wattage barely breaks 600W, maybe goes to max. 620-630 at most. seen much higher wattages in other titles or benchmarks. duuude im SO happy i got the WVPII, bringing those "invisible" failure points to my attention! edit: aight, ordered 5 different cables from 3 different sources, lets get our cable binning ON! lulz at least im glad to see that the variable really seems to be the cable and not the GPU, the WVPII or the PSU, that would suck even more. wish me luck guys!

I bought 40 pin cable for upgrade, I'm thinking about making another separate thread for documenting upgrades 🙂 I want to upgrade GPU, too.

Sorry to hear about the 2080. You might be able to see if Tony at Northwest Repair could fix it for you. Worth a shot asking. Probably much cheaper than a replacement or upgrade if he can. I suspect the problem is failed memory chip(s). I think Rockitcool are still in business... https://rockitcool.myshopify.com/

Thank you, I really appreciate that. I will happily pay for the shipping. I haven't tried contacting Rockitcool yet as I've hear they've gone out of business, but it never hurts to try. I'll try messaging them. Also thanks for the heatsink link. I almost bought the wrong one, claiming it was the right part. Pay attention to pictures guys.

Thanks! Definitely want to give it a whirl. I agree about ZT. I'm so used to having it on AM5 I wouldn't mind an equally competent version on Intel. Is that at stock 600w vBIOS? That replacement MSI MEG 1600T is still trucking along and even with a 600w+ stock OC and those wonderful bars lit up almost to their tops, it is really balanced and nice even when pulling 615-623w on the WV2P. But yeah, the connector is atrocious. Imagine if you didn't have the WV2P and were just merrily skipping along playing till one day you're like: "Is that smoke I smell?" Yikes mine only lasted less than two years and they ended up replacing the MB and 2080 Super but it was under warranty at least during that time. As for the watercooled HS, only place I found them before was AB and TB but I just checked my own launch page info on this here and they are long gone. For the normal HSF combo for the KM, found one left on eBay I dug through my heatsink bin and I did find this custom copper IHS I had made from BartX I know is from 9th gen I think but could be modded as needed potentially (sanded down for z-height issues on die). I had already soaked and reheat cycle treated it for gallium then sanded it down so it's smooth and saturated already. If you want it, let me know and I'll pop it in the mail for you to see if you can get it working with your 10900k no charge. Just inbox me your address. My last, custom made 10th/11th gen IHS from BartX I sent off to @win32asmguy some time ago. That thing was awesome. Have you messaged Rockitcool to see if maybe they have one floating around in the back somewhere? 🤣 Looking forward to your updates over in the SM thread!

Hey guys, so unfortunately it looks like the RTX 2080 Super in my Clevo X170SM-G is dying (pink screen artifacts, GPU-Z can no longer read most of the stats of the card). I was going to go a GPU upgrade at some point to an RTX 3080, but looks like I'm being forced to do it now. 😅 I wasn't planning on an upgrade just yet as everything still runs fine for me, but oh well. It's not often a GPU remains useful to me for over 4 years (and I've had this laptop for 4 and a half at this point), so I suppose I should be grateful the 2080 Super lasted me as long as it did. I got an extra 6 months, yay! 🤣 I've already sourced a replacement/upgrade to an RTX 3080. For any of you who did this upgrade, did you also need to buy the KM-G heatsink? Supposedly the SM-G heatsink is incompatible with the 3080. Also, does anyone still sell the water cooling heatsink? I figured I'd upgrade this laptop to the max while I was replacing the GPU. Additionally, I'd like to ask if anyone has some spare 10th gen copper IHSes as I can't find a place that sells those anymore. The Rockitcool one I have got welded to one of my desktops' AIO coldplates during some sub zero overclocking experimentation and I can't get it off. Were there any extra steps required for the 3080 upgrade on the SM-G other than the usual INF modding? I already have Premamod on this machine, so the BIOS shouldn't be an issue. How's everyone doing here? I haven't visited the forum in the past few weeks.

Here are the SPD tabs in cpu-z of my memory modules!

welp FML, the WVP II alarms have returned while playing BMW, back with a vengeance! still current imbalance issues. so i swapped out the cable i had been using on my 4090 before and now on the 5090, installed the WVPII and the backup cable anew, and guess what?! THE BACKUP CABLE IS EVEN WORSE! installed it twice and pushed in so hard i thought id break through the case back panel lol. so now the plan is to go all out and order like 5 cables and bin them.....this connector is SO trash, unbelieveable. but yeah, the WVPII has already paid for itself! both cable connectors and gpu power socket are still in mint condition btw, so all is well. u guys got any recommendations other than seasonic stock cables and cablemod?

The developer has a thread at overclock.net and you can download it from the opening post (or his web site). It is a great program. You can export your memory settings as an XML from HWiNFO64 and import it, click the analyze button, and it will tell you want timings are non-compliant with JEDEC. If you run the stability test if it can determine what setting is off it will identify it for you. Unless the price is crazy, I plan to buy it when the free beta access expires. [BETA] Memory Foundry Pro – RAM Stability Tester & Benchmark | Free Beta Access Now all we need is a clone of ZenTimings that works for Intel. The ASUS MemTweakIt and ASROCK Timing Configurator crapware tools are buggy junk. The ASUS tool is missing too much stuff and the AROCK tool misreports some values.

That is damn good for a D2D driver IMHO. I'm going to have to dive back in for some comparison work. Where did you download Memory Foundry Pro? lol, you forgot the power of the 5090! 🤣 Especially now that you're running a real AIB card and not the 5090 FE adds that nice bit of "oomph" on top. I said it before and I'll say it again, if price was no object I would have stuck with the Astral. I liked EVERYTHING about it and I do mean EVERYTHING except the price. Aesthetics were great, cooling lights out for an air cooled card, good build quality, tons of QOL touches. Basically zero coil whine. I know it wasn't a deal breaker, but I know you have to be loving not having that screeching of the 5090 FE in pockets. I knew you would dive in head first and have a blast @Mr. Fox! Give it another month or so then you'll be able to see who rises to the top: AM5 or AL......

I hate Meta/Facepoot and only want the worst for them. However, I am not sure I agree with them being accountable for the irresponsible behavior, poor judgment, etc. of people that use the platform. I would blame the irresponsible parents and schools for not having control of their children and raising them the right way. Blaming Meta seems as misguided as blaming guns for crimes commited with guns, blaming the keyboard for misspelled words and silverware for the obesity problem some people have. I look at this as a state cash grab/robinhood mentality by states that are failing financially due to their idiotic, incompetent leadership. Three of the four states are run by overtly leftist imbeciles (CA, CO and NJ).

Hello All, crazy stuff on this thread and tremendous work by everybody, insane amount of informations, so a big thank you first! Second, i'm very new (n00b) to modding, and i got a 8570w also (gift) since 2-3 years, and from what i read, we can do a lot of upgrade with this elitebook, and since day one, i really wanted to push this beast to a build with a lot of potential. For now, i just updated the stockage to a SSD kingston, replace the heatsink (the laptop was overheating everytime with slightiest use) by the a spare one, and still dealing with the original cpu and gpu (quadro k2000m). I will definitly upgrade the CPU with the Core i7-3940XM (pretty simple task) but then come the gpu part, and all the mods il will have to do. I saw that @Daedalus had the same desire regarding his 8570w, did you manage to finally install a 980m on it ?

Let them get what they deserve... Meta receives a $1.4 billion fine from 4 US states for creating social media addiction among young people Meta, formerly known as Facebook, is Mark Zuckerberg's company that went from focusing solely on a social network to venturing into the Metaverse by changing its name, only to find it was a failure and return to its roots.

There wasn't any testing performed, I simply made the drivers and then packaged them.

Nice "Country Metal" tune dropped 2 hours ago.

So, did a little bit of digging for elusive information online and found a solution that works with my TeamGroup CUDIMM kit. Forcing the clock driver to work for manual tuning without using an XMP profile allows me to keep the NGU, Ring and D2D values the same and still boot at 9000+ (example in above post). It will not work with my G.SKILL 8400 kit (non-CUDIMM). With the CUDIMMs installed after POST there is a new menu under the Skew Control menu in memory configuration. CKD Configuration and manually set Single PLL mode forces the CUDIMM clock driver to take over and do the heavy lifting on manual tuning. If you have not booted at least once with a CUDIMM kit installed or have normal DIMM installed the CKD Configuration menu does not exist.

I have the Alienware Area-51m with i7-9700k and RTX 2080. I'm trying to overclock my memory to 2666 or 2933mhz, not sure if it's possible with my ram though. The picture I sent is from a user from reddit. I did all your steps up to the point, where I can find the variables. I did extract my PE32 text in the form of a text document. But it does not show me the hex values like above picture. Is that important or not?!

This picture shows the hex values for the memory frequencies that are used when inserting them. The highest frequency you can get on the Area-51m is 3200 MHz. If you tell me exactly what you’re trying to do, I can help you out. Also let me know your laptop model, what RAM you’re using, and its stock frequency.

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Definitely not a daily driver like this, but worth a few giggles... https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/memory_frequency/submissions/6044182 https://valid.x86.fr/qiv4lc https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/aida64_-_memory_read/submissions/6044183

Congrats on the free P775DM3-G! The FAT32 format is correct, but the USB usually needs to be made bootable (Rufus + FreeDOS is the easiest method) and the BIOS files must be placed exactly as the flashing guide specifies. Flashing the dsanke BIOS before installing the QTJ1 is normal, even if the current CPU isn’t officially supported. The CH341A programmer is also a good safety net in case the USB method fails.

Man, I’m shocked on 5090 power…. I popped in the 5080 Astral to check things on the 9950X3D2 and grab some rendering video of it, since it’s being sold. Playing Crimson desert 4K leverages the 5090 to a new level completely… CRIMSON DESERT 4K, Cinematic graphics, DLSS Quality, Ray Reconstruction ON. RTX 5080 Astral fully MAX stable OC: 83-84 fps W/ 2X Frame Gen. RTX 5090 Astral fully MAX stable OC: 80-81 fps W/ 0X Frame Gen. (Frame Gen is off) 💀💀💀 PS: GPU Tweak III has a cool GPU hour counter that I actually use. Probably the coolest thing in the app.