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    1. That BIOS you speak of is called Dsanke BIOS (courtesy of brother Dsanke). I think some of the members from NBR who have flashed it onto their own laptops have joined NBT (this community), but I still haven't done a head count of everyone I knew from NBR who has joined this forum. The thread from NBR you're thinking of is this one: https://web.archive.org/web/20220125230413/http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/x170sm-unlocked-bios-here-plus-all-drivers.834740/. One of the direct download links for the BIOS is this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GYY2EqzkIX_beeYs9L9bT8efRsWk4ObD/view (courtesy of brother JCordero31 from NBR, I don't think he's joined this forum yet) The instructions for flashing the BIOS are included in the thread archive link I mentioned, but I'll post them here anyway. 1. Run the Unlock.bat file with administrative rights 2. Answer the one question it ask with yes 3. Let it fully run its course it will take a few be patient. When its done it will notify you 4. Restart go into bios and reload defaults go back into bios after restart again 5. Unlock everything (whatever options you need) and boom enjoy (also courtesy of brother JCordero31) 2. I couldn't get Sound Blaster Atlas to work on my machine either. I ended up using this awesome tool called EqualizerAPO to manually tune the audio myself. You can create your own equalizer profiles using the configurator. 3. I think those unknown devices have something to do with Intel's dynamic platform power management framework. I made a digital copy of the driver disk that zTecpc gave me with this laptop. This should contain every driver you need. I have uploaded the driver suite to google drive and you can access them here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v78phYDqCq5vTxhHbmmrmIYonU9cBv8B/view?usp=sharing
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    Yep, otherwise they'll never learn and just continue selling the same crappy products. The best way to stimulate innovation is for us to vote with our wallets. For thin devices, the max dGPU spec should really be an xx60 GPU. That's all they can reasonably accommodate. For higher end SKUs, a thicker chassis is needed to properly cool them. Limiting maximum power and forcing the GPU and CPU to share it is not a solution. Both should be allowed to draw as much power as they want for us to get the performance we want. These are called performance systems for a reason.
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    I never understood this either. The thinning of regular laptops makes sense since they wouldn't utilize all the space in a thick chassis anyway. The fact that performance laptops continue to get thinner is very annoying and is holding them back from performing (heh heh) the task they were meant to fulfill, which is to provide as much performance to the user as possible in an ultraportable package. We have long passed the time where performance laptops should've stopped getting thinner. The unrelenting trend to thinner and lighter performance laptops is causing them to hit a performance wall because of this artificial design constraint. Eventually you're gonna thermal throttle on stock settings because there's no getting around physics. Just to be clear, I have no problem with thin and light laptops in of themselves, I just have a problem with an artificial design constraint gimping performance in performance laptops. An artificial design contraint that interferes with a device's ability to function properly is stupid at best, and malicious at worst. Unless innovations in cooling tech allow the same cooling in thin and light laptops that we have now in desktops, performance laptops should stay thick. I personally prefer thick anyways since that gives the laptop a very solidly built, tough chassis that can take a beating. On a happier note, I am excited for the eluktronics liquid propulsion package though since other companies might create a similar solution if this one is successful. External water cooling is pretty much the only solution we have for properly cooling performance laptops in a market that is crazed for thin and light laptops, regardless of performance class. Imagine a thin and light DTR with a desktop CPU inside and an external 420mm radiator. Man would that be a dream.
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    If you want to clean the fans, the only way I know of to get access to them is to remove the heatsink, as the fans are screwed into the heatsink. The bottom fan covers are part of the heatsink themselves. Once you remove the heatsink, you can unscrew the fan cover screws, which will allow you to detach the actual fans from the heatsink. The fan cover screws are the smaller screws located on the edges of the fan shrouds. The fans are self cleaning, so it shouldn't be necessary to clean them yourself. Upon booting, the system revs the fans in reverse at max speed to shake out and blow out dust that has accumulated on the fans. Obviously this doesn't get everything, but it should be good enough. If you would still like to clean out the fans yourself to get them squeaky clean, the above instructions will help you achieve that.
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    I'm thinking of trying my hand at memory overclocking. Where would be a good place to start? I have 2 sticks of Crucial Ballistix 3200 MHz CL 16 RAM in my Clevo X170 and would like to finish the tuning to yield absolute max performance.
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    Depends on if you have the top end config or not and what your use case is. If you have a i9 10900K and RTX 2080 Super, then not really. It won't be a worthy upgrade unless you're doing something that requires significantly higher single core performance. If you have one of the lower end configs, then yes it could be a worthy upgrade.
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    Assuming you only use the performance cores, I think 150-180 watts is enough for 100% p-core performance across all p-cores. @win32asmguy Is there any option in the BIOS to disable the e-cores?
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    Thanks for taking the plunge for us! We really appreciate this information! Is that a 2.5 inch drive bay I see next to the RAM? (On the opposite side of the battery) That sucks that there's no MUX option. Hopefully someone can unlock that because some games run into a significant bottleneck in optimus mode, such as Watch Dogs 2 or anything else that is CPU bound. The framerate gains from switching to dGPU only mode are significant in those cases. Adding an option to switch between iGPU only, optimus, and dGPU only modes would be awesome. You could get amazing battery life when you need it, and maximum processing power when you need it. The CPU really needs another heatpipe, and the CPU fan should've been a dual vent design like the GPU fan. I hope this means we'll have a proper successor to the X170 series. It looks like we may have that happen given Clevo has made another 15 inch Intel LGA laptop. Is there any option to disable the e-cores in the BIOS?
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    Yeah I used to be part of that crowd before I became a proficient programmer. Once I started my master's in software engineering, I realized that multithreading isn't the holy grail of performance like it was being hyped to be. While more cores certainly helps and multithreading certainly helps a lot, they help with specific types of tasks; ones that can be parallelized. It's one of a myriad of ways to increase performance. Since some tasks are serial by nature, so we run into limits posed by Amdahl's law. This is why I put such an emphasis on single core performance when looking for a new CPU. In practice, 8 cores is where the performance gains stop for most games. Above that, you get performance regressions. Fortunately for me, I do have workloads that would benefit from more than 8 cores since I sometimes have to do video editing in addition to developing software, so the 10900K isn't wasted on me. I would definitely fall into the prosumer demographic. Intel's approach to appease the "MOAR CORES!" crowd with increasing the e-core count on their new CPUs is a bit disappointing. Amdahl's law will catch up with them very quickly. I wish instead they'd just keep improving the p-cores and leave it at that, because that's what really matters for most consumers. It'd be nice if they'd offer something like the 12900K, but without any e-cores, and with the same silicon quality on the p-cores that you'd get from the 12900K.
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    For me, the only part that really makes sense to splurge on is the CPU. As a high framerate gamer, the CPU's performance (both single core and multi-core) is the most major factor that will make or break the experience for me, which is why I got my 10900K in the first place. The overclocking headroom allowed by the very good quality silicon has allowed me to brute force my way to 144 fps in all but the most unoptimized of games. Modern mid range GPUs are powerful enough to satisfy my needs now with a bit of settings tuning in games since I play at 1080p and plan to stay there. I got my Clevo X170 6 months ago to satisfy my high framerate (144 fps) requirement in ALL games and I don't need gaming ruined for me again by moving to higher resolutions. Heh heh, I should've stayed away from high framerate gaming. That cost me.🤣 Oh well. I just need to make sure my requirements don't increase again.
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    For me, there is a major difference between 60 fps and 144 fps. The difference in smoothness is insane. 60 fps is laggy and pisses me off, so I always gun for 144 fps. However, yeah I do agree people are being freaking idiots. I wouldn't pay an extra $1000 for a GPU. I wouldn't even spend $1000 on a GPU period. More like $200-$500. These idiots are the main cause of rising prices. They keep overpaying for GPUs, which in turn causes AMD and Nvidia to charge more. It must be really nice having infinite disposable income, I wish I had that.🤣 As for settings in games, like you said, ultra is usually a waste since it gives minimal improvement to graphics at a significant performance cost. Personally, I go with a mix of ultra, high, medium, and low depending on the setting. Textures are the only setting I ever set to ultra. Everything else is a mix of high, medium, and low. It's surprising how little of a difference there is between low settings and ultra settings in modern games. It used to be that there was a major difference. Not anymore. Pretty soon, it won't be necessary to go any higher than low settings since low will look like ultra from today.
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    Oh yeah I first heard about the eBlaztr portable gaming PC about a year ago while looking for the perfect case for my custom laptop build. It's pretty sweet, but I really needed a case that could support an extremely beefy cooling system, which the eBlaztr is not capable of housing. If they modified the case layout so it was similar to Sliger's new upcoming Trego case, it would be perfect.
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    Wait, you can do that with Z490 boards? How would I set the TjMax temperature to over 100°C? I want to see how far I can push my 10900K in my Clevo X170SM-G with that extra thermal headroom. Yeah yeah I know, not a good idea for prolonged use, but I don't plan to subject my CPU to temperatures over 100°C for an extended period of time. Even if I did, the CPU would still outlive it's useful lifespan for me since electronics are really robust.
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    I find the X170SM-G runs pretty quiet until put under a heavy sustained load. For me, the only tasks the fans ramp up for are benchmarks and games. They run pretty quiet at all other times.
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    This device you are talking about is called a lapdock. Unfortunately nobody makes a 17 inch version with a high refresh rate display. I wish one existed since that would be very useful for backpackable SFF builds.
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    This backpack is essentially like having a suitcase strapped to your back: https://www.amazon.com/Vancropak-Weekender-Expandable-Backpacks-Resistant/dp/B07QLKFP8D/ref=pd_day0fbt_sccl_2/146-7479626-0879512?pd_rd_w=Lo1Wc&pf_rd_p=bcb8482a-3db5-4b0b-9f15-b86e24acdb00&pf_rd_r=VBZERDQWJV8AA9F9Z2TQ&pd_rd_r=4fba678b-6cd7-46f0-837c-cdbfb4481d52&pd_rd_wg=iPqiD&pd_rd_i=B07QLKFP8D&th=1 It should fit pretty much all console style SFF cases with room to spare for everything else. It'll easily fit in an overhead compartment, and I believe it is the maximum size that will fit under the seat too (probably with very little foot room left). Regarding the strength of SFF cases, they're generally about as solid as the cases of true DTRs. You don't have to worry about that. The point of worry here is the GPU, since the GPU will be held in place by the screws on the exterior of the case, and the GPU riser in the console style cases. There is no support directly under the GPU, so you'd want to be careful to avoid the GPU snapping off the riser board. I imagine this would take an extreme amount of mishandling though, as the screws that hold the GPU in along with the riser board are sturdy enough to keep this from happening with shock and vibrations you would encounter during travel.
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    This is diverging from the topic a little, but regarding the portable desktop build I'm planning out, Sliger is releasing a new sff case around mid-May that can fit an ATX motherboard, full length GPU, and a 360mm AIO: https://imgur.com/gallery/pT7GUFc The dimensions on the link are wrong, except for the thickness. The actual dimensions are 18.775 in x 17.43 in x 4.20 in (477mm x 443mm x 107mm). I think this case will be perfect for building the ultimate portable powerhouse. Now to find a bag it can fit in.🤣
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    Another thing for future DTRs, I really hope we can disable the efficiency cores on the new Intel CPUs in the BIOS. I only care about the performance cores, and disabling the E-Cores gives you additional overclocking headroom on the P-Cores.
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    Like I said in the Official Desktop Benchmark Thread, this seems promising for future DTRs. Unfortunately it's a 15 inch laptop, the chipset is not Z690, so no overclocking, and the GPU is BGA, but at least the effort in this class of laptops is continuing. This means we should probably see a successor to the X170SM-G and X170KM-G, hopefully in the same chassis. I am hoping one of these days we'll get a 17 inch laptop with just a desktop CPU and no discrete graphics, but with a Zxxx chipset for overclocking and an oculink port or something similar for eGPUs. When gaming, you're already plugged in anyway, and the laptop could get extremely good battery life when unplugged.
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    This seems promising for future DTRs. Unfortunately it's a 15 inch laptop, the chipset is not Z690, so no overclocking, and the GPU is BGA, but at least the effort in this class of laptops is continuing. This means we should probably see a successor to the X170SM-G and X170KM-G, hopefully in the same chassis.
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    That bit about the 5.8 GHz turbo sounds awesome! I've found it's typically possible to overclock a CPU's all core speed to it's single core boost speed and hold that clock if you have good cooling capabilities. I don't know about you guys, but I've never been able to get my CPUs to run at different speeds based on the number of active cores. The max core clock is always what my all core speed is, regardless of how many active cores there are, so I just set the all core speed to the single core boost speed, and all is well. If the 13900K has the typical amount of additional overclocking headroom above the 5.8 GHz boost, then we could see 6 GHz all core. That would be super duper awesome for gaming. Disable the E-Cores, and you get additional overclocking headroom. This CPU should be able to brute force its way to 144 fps in any game! As we all know, this is all speculation for now, but that doesn't stop me from getting excited. I was planning on upgrading my desktop to compliment my X170SM-G, but haven't really found anything enticing yet. I promised myself I would not get another CPU unless it was capable of 6 GHz and up. The 13900K seems it may do just that.
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    This past week has been extremely busy for me, but looks like I finally got to relax a little. I took this chance to do a Time Spy run as you requested @electrosoft. My runs were done at all stock settings (so 4.9 GHz all core on the CPU) with max fans and a 90mv undervolt on the CPU. Here are my results with some HwInfo64 screens: Results with CPU voltages and clocks: Results with CPU core temperatures: Results with CPU statistics: Results with GPU statistics: Lemme know if you need anything else! I hope this helps give a point of reference!
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    Borderlands 3 is adequately multithreaded when run in DX 12 mode. That removes the single core performance bottleneck present when running the game in DX 11 mode and massively boosts performance. The significant jump in framerate in Far Cry 5 is a bit confusing to me as that game is single core performance bound. It's probably a game that responds well to cache size increases.
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    Dang that is one beefy heatsink. Imagine hooking up a water chiller to our laptops with this.
  25. Clamibot
    Sure thing buddy! I'm sorry I didn't reply earlier. I never got a notification that I was mentioned in this thread.
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