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Ahhh, so it IS a custom one then? There's no stock ones? No wonder why I couldn't find anything. I figured I would have to go to the legend himself for one. Just bought a custom cpu heatsink for my m18x r2 from this cicichen lol. Thank you for answering my inquiry. Happy Holidays!

I have an Alienware m17x r4 and want to upgrade the cpu to a used 3940xm from my m18x r2. I seen a past post on here where some users had a triple copper pipe heatsink for this specific cpu in their m17x 4's. I cannot seem to find those particular heatsinks ANYWHERE. Like, even google images doesn't come up with any images of such a heatsink. Not saying they dont exist, but like, i would at least see an old image of one on google at least from past sales or w/e. Are they THAT rare? Do i have to go to cicichen594 for a custom one?

So I recently got 3rd r2 (Ik, ik, i have a problem, but it was mad cheap 😞) and this one didn't come with a modded BIOS. After checking to see if it works on the spare SSD i have, It seems like the screen seems brighter than the modded bios r2's that I have. Also the Command Center color schemes also seem to work better (ex: the white scheme is actually white and not off in some spots on the modded ones, specifically where the volume/eject/wifi button area is on the bezel sometimes seems to not match everything else). Also, always meant to bring this up in past posts but always forgot and its sort of relevant to this, but the button on the bezel area that opens the Command Center doesnt seem to work on the modded r2's either. Is there any way I can change the brightness via BIOS? Keyboard color scheme via BIOS? CC Button?

I have m18x r2's and recently i got a open boxed 3940 for my most recent r2. The older r2 had the older 3940 passed down from a broken r2 and i had gotten that cpu for that machine around 2021 (That r2 broke Oct 2023). Lately the fan on the older r2 has been acting up (as in being more active and louder) and its been hitting temps around 90, though very rarely. Mostly its still hitting 70s and occasionally 80s (lately). The newer one hasnt even hit 80 yet and the fans much more silent. They both have Llano cooling pads, which do help. Both r2's also have PTM7950 applied to them, with the older one having applied around January this year and the newer one half way through March. Both CPUs are OC'd to 4.5, which is of coarse is why they're hitting those temps, but my issue is when i got the ptm for the older one, it was nice and silent like this new one for like three months, but like this passed month it seems to be getting higher temps with the fan going more often. Could it be because the CPU is older and more worn from being OC'd? I REALLY hope it isnt the ptm because that stuff is (was) working like god tier. I mean, if i have to, ill just keep replacing it but i had seen from numerous sources that this stuff lasts way longer than anything else and that it gets better overtime, even when OC'd, Unless those sources weren't reliable? I mean it was ALOT of people swearing by this lol. Edit: Forgot to mention that the performance has been relatively the same when i applied that PTM-now even and had done a stress test and the highest it hit was 103 but passed every test. No BSOD either unless installing Nvidia Driver or transferring files to external drive or mSata. But thats been happening since ive gotten this machine. The new r2 one however doesnt do that at all. The only BSOD that one has gotten was from me accidently OC'ing it wrong.

Im using "debate" for lack of a better word as im not looing for an actual debate lol. Its more of a debate in my head on which GPU to get? Anyway, I have an Alienware m18x r2 and originally wanted to upgrade to a RTX 5000, but then seen ssj92's post about getting a Geforce RTX 3080. Now I dont know what to get. Is that 3080 stable enough to run or on an Alienware m18x r2? The benchmarks are better than the 5000 after all but would the 3080 still be better for 3D modeling too since the 5000 is literally made for stuff like that? Plus theres already a custom heatsink for that card and i cant seem to find one for the RTX 5000 for my machine. Im assuming i cannot use the standard heatsink for the 5000 since the core is slightly offset. Also that 3080 seems to be cheaper than any RTX 5000 ive seen, with the cheapest being some green card that looks like a standard MXM card that says Adlink on it on Ebay. Im leaning towards getting that 3080 for the reasons i listed and its much newer. Just unsure of its stability, though im unsure of the 5000's as well lol.

Hello. I have an Alienware m15x with a GTX 980 already installed. Everytime i start this machine I have a post screen that says: ***Powered by premamod.com*** Version 84.04.88.00.C1 Prema Mod - Personal - NOT FOR SALE! It happens before splash and seems to hinder its start up time. Is there a way to remove that? I understand that the Premamod is the vbios for the card itself but ive never installed a vbios before, so idk how to disable that screen. Im just looking to disable that screen not the vbios itself. Unless its supposed to do that and ill just have to deal with it?

Thats what im thinking about reflashing because today i just booted windows 10 via mSata to USB and it worked. Obviously Im not going to do it that way permanently though. I just wanted to see if Command Center would work because some of the lights werent on when i got the rig, so it had me worried. Thats why i made a big deal about getting windows to work right away. All lights worked btw thank god lol. Now, when you say "Clear CMOS" im assuming you mean unplug the CMOS battery and then plug it back in? If so i already did that and still nothing. Im assuming im going to have to reflash this machine. Ive never flashed before so would i be able to reflash a modded bios? or would i have to reflash to vanilla A11 and then reflash again to modded A11?

So i enabled UEFI mode and still nothing. Not even showing up in the UEFI boot list. *Update: I even tried using HDD caddie and still nothing.

So i bought a cheap bios modded R2 (had no clue it was modded actually, seller didnt even mention, so i was sure id have to do it myself) from Ebay and went to see how it ran with my vanilla windows 10 mSata and its not showing up as bootable nor is it even being detected in BIOS. I even tried using the stupid default cable it gives you for booting and used a regular Kingston SSD (Which also has a vanilla Windows 10). Even that didnt show up. I have the setting on RAID and Legacy. The mSata shows up fine on my other R2 but not this new one. Also the modded bios seems to be a little different than the one i have in my main R2. They are both A11 but this new one says Swicks mod and sv17. My main one just says sv17. Ive never flashed a bios before as ive always (luckily) got ones already modded. Do i have to reflash or?

lmao, idky i got this reply now even though it says June lol. I swear, i even checked the next day and the day after and it still didnt show any replies. Strange lol. Anyway, a little update on the whole thing as its been a minute. Its still doing the BSOD, though ive come to find out that turning off Blenders autosave feature doesnt give me nearly as much BSOD as it did with autosave on. Thats all i have for an update. So i did try what you said, it was OC, so i turn it off and it still did BSOD. So i try adding small voltage and its still doing it. Only way i know how to set off the BSOD is to transfer files. it seemed to handle transferring file from folder to desktop with no BSOD. Transferring files from msata to desktop or vice versa however, thats what set it off. I did a CPU health test and it passed everything. Should i put windows on my msata and see if it does it also? I really dont want to as i want to use it for storage but if i have to test it out. Unless theres another way to find out if its the CPU for sure. CPU is a Intel i7 3940xm extreme edition and its about 3 yrs old. i got it before i flashed to unlock bios.

So this is my 6th month i think having a NVME drive and it was going good until the passed 2 weeks. Ever since last week i've been getting a BSOD with error: Whea Uncorrectable Error. Idky this keeps happening, but it happens when i transfer files from my main drive, the nvme, to either my msata or my external HDD. It also seems to happen randomly when i use Blender. Like ill be Blending and ill be going on for a half hour and then BSOD or Ill be blending 5 mins, itll BSOD. All saying the same error too. When this first started happening, i thought it was my Quadro P5000, but a couple of days ago i noticed it did this when transferring files too when i did a reinstall of Windows 10 since i just thought it was an issue with Windows. Its still doing this even with the fresh Install. It even did it when i uninstalled the Quadro driver. Ive tried sfcscannow and the other DISM commands and nothing seems to work. It also seems to do this, though more rarely, when i download something from Chrome. Like, right when its done downloading. Anyone have any ideas? I really hope it isnt the Quadro. It didnt do this when i first got it which was 3 months ago i think? Just started this last week-ish.

Recently installed a P5000 in my m18x R2. Everything went well with physical and software installation and is working very well except the fact that for some reason Windows 10 keeps setting the Intel HD Graphics as the default for gaming. I even have the P5000 as default on the Nvidia Control Panel and Windows still uses the Intel. Its very odd because i didnt have this issue with the P4000. I know you can change the default via Windows Graphics Settings, which did work, but i REALLY dont want to have to do this to each individual program. The only program so far that defaults automatically to it is Blender. Any way i can change this to where the P5000 is the the default? Like as in not having select this card for every program? I already reinstalled the driver twice and still have this issue. I also talked to TheDinka since they have this card for the same rig and they did not have this issue.

Maybe i'll get an 880m then. But for now that will have to be put on the back burner because I just snagged a good deal for a p5000 for my R2 🙂. Ahhh the stuff you can find on Ebay at 4am before bed lol.

Thats what it turnnd out to be lol. The primary one. Had to switch. For now its working. After i had to reinstall windows because after i switched them and put the machine back together windows wouldnt boot. No clue why. I actually didnt have to install the driver after reinstalling windows. The windows update did the driver for me. I dont even know why one of them was even bad. It looked good! I guess something internally. Or perhaps maybe it ran its course. I dont know how long the seller had it for, sorta implied it was ahwile so. Sufficed to say im probably never getting an AMD again after this lol. I heard the 880m's arent good though? That the 780s are better?

Alright, so I restarted because i didnt know what else to do and when it booted to windows i still got that black screen. So then I shutdown and then did the Fn+Powerkey for the disgnostic test and it showed that there was a video card error: 2000-0332 Video Memory Discrepency test. Everyhting else was fine. There was also a band of vertical yellow lines 3/4 of the way to the left of the screen from top to bottom during that whole test. BIOS says that there is ATI GFX cards now. Not sure what that means lol.