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Well that woud explain why I can't get wifi working with my Asus Maximus Z790 Apex Encore no matter what I do. That's been making me feel like an idiot, but that would make total sense as the reason why it isn't working for me. Fortunately that is also the only component that doesn't work, and I have a few USB wifi adapters laying around, so I'm just using my wireless AC one. It works well enough.

Clevo is going back to making modular laptops again? Awesome! Or is that a Tongfang model? Laptops just keep pulling me back in. I can't get away from them because the allure of portability is impossible to resist. Having said that, I also don't have a tolerance for laptops that are not modular, so I wouldn't buy such machines anyway. It takes something special like this to pique my interest, and it piques my interest HARD! Let's hope we get a proper 18-19 inch DTR with that modularity + external water cooling. That'll be fun for benchmarks and awesome for max performance in an ultraportable form factor (yes I consider 18 inch laptops ultraportable). Speaking of which, I'll need that special water cooling heatsink for my X170 to perform an upgrade to the RTX 3080. That should be interesting.

I would say if you're going to replace the Flex ATX PSU with a Pico PSU, then being able to house 2 of those HDPlex 500W PicoSPUs would be awesome as that would allow for very high power builds using a dual PSU config.

If the 5070 truly shifted performance up by 2 performance classes vs the previous generation, then the pricing seems a bit better to swallow, but I'm still not going to allow them to condition me to higher prices. A 70 class card should still not be that expensive, but I digress. I'm conditioned to Pascal era prices.

Now just gotta wait for the Clevo X580 reveal, whenever that is.

Happy new year my friends!

Looks like Clevo is starting to pull their heads out of their butts. Still soldered crap, but it's a massive upgrade over the X370 abomination that is completely undeserving of the Xx70 moniker: https://videocardz.com/newz/clevos-x580-next-gen-laptop-specs-leaked-arrow-lake-hx-cpu-and-geforce-rtx-50-gpu This is a nice 18 inch Clevo DTR, so it's good to see them starting to go back to what they once made. It doesn't have an upgradable CPU or GPU, but they increased the drive slots from 3 back to 4 and also increased the RAM slots back to 4. Gives me hope that Clevo may return to full socketed models one day.

Merry Christmas everyone! This is my most favorite holiday of the year! Bummer it only lasts one day, but we still have about a good 6 hours left (at least where I'm at)!

I just swapped my 144 Hz screen on my X170SM-G with a 300 Hz one. It was a pain in the butt to find the display cable for it, but it was worth it. I ended up finding the part on Aliexpress and then waited around for the cable to arrive. I just did the panel and cable swap today. I also modded the screen to make it glossy. It looks amazing! I have a nice glossy 300 Hz screen for my X170SM-G now! The colors are better than on the 144 Hz screen and everything looks so much smoother on the 300 Hz screen (as it should). I think I'm going to keep going higher and higher with my screen refresh rates as time goes by. My ultimate goal regarding screens is to acquire one where motion on it looks like real life (super duper ultra smooth). The 220 Hz screen I have for my desktop pushed me to get this 300 Hz one for my laptop. I'm very happy I got it!

This is awesome! Now we just need a version of this for Clevo laptops. The upgradeability of my SM-G is begging to be utilized.

Also if anyone needs extra cotton swabs for applying liquid metal, they're these Japanese ones: https://www.amazon.com/Tifanso-Cruelty-Free-Biodegradable-Chlorine-Free-Hypoallergenic/dp/B07R8B93GL/ref=asc_df_B07R8B93GL?mcid=e042f9f5c5c2392481644c9da3b526ea&tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=693127596188&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=14693873930929850647&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9026808&hvtargid=pla-757827286496&th=1 Don't waste your money on ordering extra swabs from Thermal Grizzly. They're just doing an insane upcharge on the swabs I mentioned above. The swabs are "special" in the sense that they're more densely packed than q-tips, which helps a lot with spreading the liquid metal, but they're just regular cotton swabs otherwise.

I'm very interested in your end results! I just bought some Conductonaut extreme since I used the rest of my Conductonaut on the build I did for my buddy over the weekend. This liquid metal here looks like it has even better thermal conductivity.

Pull the cable straight up using the black tab that's attached to it. This is the eDP cable. You'll need to pinch that black tab with your thumb and index finger. It should lift off pretty easily once you pull straight up.

I love seeing people being passionate about the things they love and enjoy. This is quite the collection you have! I used to be super into alienware laptops as a kid and it was my dream to own one. I finally got an Alienware 17 R1/M17X R5 when I was in high school and really enjoyed it. I upgraded the GPU to a GTX 1060 and I still use it to this day alongside my Clevo X170. The old Alienwares were built to last! My most favorite backpack ever is my Alienware Vindicator backpack I got in 2015. I've used the crap out of it and the rubberized face is peeling off, and my mom snapped one of the zippers by accident since the rubberized zipper tips have become quite brittle, but the rest of the backpack itself is still in really good shape.

Yep, high binned 10900Ks can do some pretty amazing all core speeds if they're kept cold enough. The cold also significantly reduces their voltage requirements and power draw, further increasing your overclocking headroom. You saw the results that just a TEC is capable of getting out of this chip. I was able to do 5.5 Ghz on mine in games initially but could never keep the chip cold enough to keep it 100% stable. Any temperature spike too high and the machine crashed. One thing I really like about my current 14900KF system I just built last weekend is that the system doesn't crash if I overclock just a little too high. Programs crash instead, which makes the trial and error a lot quicker of a process now that I don't have to wait for system shutoffs and reboots every time now. I do want to get the V2 of the MasterLiquid ML 360 Sub Zero, called the MasterLiquid ML 360 Sub Zero Evo, as that will enable me to continue my sub ambient overclocking adventures with the 14900KF. Funnily enough, Skatterbencher did some overclocking using a TEC on almost my exact same setup (he used a 14900KS instead of the KF) and got really good results out of it. He was able to easily do 6.2 GHz all core in Shadow Of The Tomb Raider. Video if anyone is interested:

I'm using Windows 10 22H2. I'm specifically using the WindowsXLite version for maximum performance. Cinebench R15 is able to use the E cores, just not at the same time as the P cores. I can make it use either core types, just not at the same time.

Yes, the cooler sucks until you enable the TEC. There are 2 different control center applications you can use for it. You can either use the Intel official Cryo Cooling software: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/715177/intel-cryo-cooling-technology-gen-2.html Or you can download the open source modded version that doesn't contain the stupid artificial CPU model check, which allows the TEC to work with any CPU: https://github.com/juvgrfunex/cryo-cooler-controller I prefer the open source version. Once you get either one of these applications set up along with the required drivers to make them work, just enable the TEC and watch your CPU go brrrrr (literally, the CPU can get pretty cold). If you use the Intel official version, I'd recommend setting it to Cryo mode for daily driving, and enable unlimited mode only when benchmarking in short bursts. If you use the open source version, setting the Offset parameter to positive 2 is equivalent to running Cryo mode on the Intel official software, and setting that Offset parameter to a negative number is equivalent to running Unlimited mode on the Intel official software. Once you enable the TEC, the cooler is good for a CPU power draw up to about 200 watts before you start thermal throttling. I also used liquid metal between the CPU die and IHS, and also between the IHS and the cooler coldplate nozzle. Note, DO NOT use liquid metal between the IHS and coldplate on the MasterLiquid ML 360 Sub Zero if your IHS is pure copper, use nickel plated IHSes only! If you use a pure copper one like I did, the liquid metal will weld both copper surfaces together over time with the TEC active as the colder temperatures from the TEC coldplate and the heat from the CPU accelerate the absorption of the gallium from the liquid metal into both copper surfaces, and eventually bonds the copper surfaces together. Alternatively, you can pre treat both copper surfaces with liquid metal to prevent this from happening. Stupid me, now I can't get the cooler off my golden 10900K. It really needs a repaste.😭 I was able to do 5.4 GHz all core in games on this thing using the TEC, 5.6 GHz single core boost on my particular chip. It can hold all core speeds over 5.4 GHz indefinitely as long as the temperature is kept below 140°F (60°C).

5.8 GHz P Core only all core run in Cinebench R15: 6 GHz P core only single core run in Cinebench R15: Shadow Of The Tomb Raider Benchmark with the 14900Kf at 5.8 GHz all core: I can do 240 fps raw on this system, mwahaha!

I'm using the BIOS profile that was on the motherboard when I received the parts. Also I'm benchmarking using Cinebench R15. Also funnily enough, my system feels significantly more responsive and snappy with the E cores disabled. I haven't done any official benchmarks for this, but it just feels faster. Looks like it'll still serve as a good stability test for me then. I've always used Cinebench R15 to test my overclocks. If they pass a benchmark, they're pretty much always stable in games.

I'm using the BIOS profile that was on the motherboard when I received the parts. Also I'm benchmarking using Cinebench R15. Looks like it'll still serve as a good stability test for me then. I've always used Cinebench R15 to test my overclocks. If they pass a benchmark, they're pretty much always stable in games.

I just tried that and got the same behavior. Cinebench R15 was adamant that it only ran on one set of cores. I can get it to run on either P cores or E cores, but not both types at the same time.

Since oddly Cinebench R15 refuses to use both the P cores and E cores on my 14900KF at the same time, I ended up doing a P core only run and an E core only run by manually setting processor affinity each time to those respective core groups. The P core only run is the one in orange and the E core run is the one in brown. Looks like 8 P cores is more powerful than 16 E cores.

Solid proof of why high speed, low latency RAM does in fact matter a lot in gaming. Even with the amount of 3D vcache these X3D CPUs have, it's still possible to exhaust that cache many times over in some games. This is exactly the reason Intel CPUs scale so well with fast memory; it helps mititgate the shortcomings of the cache on Intel's CPUs vs AMD's X3D CPUs (in regards to cache size that is).

Uhh, well I'm really glad my house and everything within a few miles didn't vaporize. Apparently my new super 14900KF consumed more than a quadrillion watts of power for a fraction of a second. @Mr. Fox This is some seriously powerful hardware you sold me. I don't know if this is better or worse than someone's laptop CPU running at 90,000,000°C. I'm surprised nuclear fusion didn't occur inside their laptop.

Dual GPU is back in style my dudes! I did some testing with heterogeneous multi GPU in games with an RX 6950 XT and an RTX 2080 TI, and the results are really good. Using Lossless Scaling, I used the 6950 XT as my render GPU and the 2080 TI as my framegen GPU. This is the resulting usage graph for both GPUs at ultrawide 1080p (2560x1080) at a mix of high and medium settings tuned to my liking for an optimized but still very good looking list of settings. I'm currently at the Mission of San Juan location and my usage on the 6950 XT is 70%, while it is 41% on the 2080 TI. My raw framerate s 110 fps, interpolated to 220 fps. One thing that I really like aboout this approach is the lack of microstuttering. I did not notice any microstuttering using this multi GPU setup to render a game in this manner. Unlike SLI or Crossfire, this rendering pipeline is not to split the frame and have each GPU work on a portion of it. Instead, we render the game on one GPU, then do frame interpolation, upscaling, or a combination of both using the second GPU. This bypasses any timing issues from having multiple GPUs work on the same frame, which eliminates microstuttering. We also get perfect scaling relative to the amount of processing power needed for the interpolation or upscaling as there is no previous frame dependency, only the current frame is needed for either process (plus motion vectors for interpolation, which are already provided). No more wasting processing power! Basically this is SLI/Crossfire without any of the downsides, the only caveat being that you need your raw framerate to be sufficiently high (preferably 100 fps or higher) to get optimal results. Otherwise, your input latency is going to suck and will ruin the experience. I recommend this kind of setup only on ultra high refresh rate monitors where you'll still get good input latency at half the max refresh rate (mine being a 200 Hz monitor, so I have my raw framerate capped at 110 fps). To get this working, install any 2 GPUs of your choice in your system. Make sure you have Windows 10 22H1 or higher installed or this process may not work. Microsoft decided to allow MsHybrid mode to work on desktops since 22H1, but you'll need to perform some registry edits to make it work: Open up Regedit to Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}. Identify the four digit subfolders that contain your desired GPUs (e.g. by the key DriverDesc inside since this contains the model name, making it really easy to identify). In my case, these happened to be 0001 fo the 6950 XT and 0003 for the 2080 TI (not sure why as I only have 2 GPUs, not 4) Create a new DWORD key inside both four digit folders. Name this key: EnableMsHybrid.Set the value of the key 1 to assign it as the high performance GPU, or set it to a value of 2 to assign it as the power saving GPU. Once you finish step 3, open up Graphics Settings in the Windows Settings app Once you navigate to this panel, you can manually configure the performance GPU (your rendering GPU) and the power saving GPU (your frame interpolation and upsclaing GPU) per program. I think that the performance GPU is always used by default, so configuration is not required, but helps with forcing the system to behave how you want. It's more of a reassurance than anything else. Make sure your monitor is plugged into the power saving GPU and launch Lossless Scaling. Make sure your preferred frame gen GPU is set to the desired GPU Profit! You now have super duper awesome performance from your dual GPU rig with no microstuttering! How does that feel? This approach to dual GPU rendering in games works regardless of if you have a homogeneous (like required by SLI or Crossfire) or heterogeneous multi GPU setup. Do note that this approach only scales to 2 GPUs under normal circumstances, maybe 3 if you have an SLI/Crossfire setup being used to render your game. SLI/Crossfire will not help with Lossless Scaling as far as I'm aware, but if it does, say hello to quad GPU rendering again! The downside is that you get microstuttering again however. I prefer the heterogeneous dual GPU approach as it allows me to reuse my old hardware to increase performance and has no microstuttering.