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    See this folder on @Mr. Fox's google drive. I imagine these mods would help on the X170KM-G as well.
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    That is correct. No throttlestop for me, and I always sit on the highest power limit available unless I know I'm going to be on battery power for a while. I have the power limits maxed out and run the laptop at full throttle. The unified heatsink can handle a combined load of 440 watts indefinitely without ever causing any part to thermal throttle. I can do 5.3 GHz all core on my 10900K in this laptop while gaming, even in very CPU intensive games. The super 10900K I have in my desktop was able to do 5.4 GHz all core in this laptop, but I moved it to my desktop as it has a TEC that is able to get the chip to do 5.6 GHz in games. Having said all that, I also am using liquid metal on the CPUs, so that really helps the heat transfer. The zTecpc version of this laptop has a very high quality heatsink along with the mounting pressure modifications, so all that cumulates in a significant improvement in CPU side cooling over the stock version of this laptop model. I like to max out my machines, so I overclock the crap out of all of them. I didn't have a problem with my unit, but I had to wait 3 months to get it from zTecpc (not their fault, they had trouble sourcing parts from Clevo). It was worth the wait though as this laptop is awesome! If only we had options like this for the newest model laptops.
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    For user friendliness, the Prema BIOS is mainly for advanced users, but I don't think it should be that hard to navigate for more novice users. I have Premamod on my SM-G and I think it's pretty neat, and it also eliminates the need for Clevo Control Center as you can adjust the power profiles directly in the BIOS. I have mine set to hyperperformance. My personal recommendation though is that regardless of if you are using a laptop or desktop, ALWAYS apply settings through Intel XTU first when you want to mess with voltages and overclocking. I know people swear by BIOS overclocking, but I think that's very bad advice as applying bad settings will brick your system, and unbricking it isn't fun no matter the system you're using. Sure it's easy to recover from bad settings on a desktop, but still annoyng nonetheless. On a laptop, it's a nightmare to deal with. Once you've fiddled around a bit and find stable settings through Intel XTU, then you can apply them in the BIOS if you wish. Personally though, I keep performance and power saving profiles on hand and apply them on demand through XTU.
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    @Mr. Fox Would you be ok showing those hardware mods to @Bidelloman if you still have that content?
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    I have my own wireless AC dongle that I got for my desktop before doing my upgrade from a 7700K to my current 10900K. I can reuse that for my laptop as my desktop no longer needs it (built in wi-fi on my current motherboard). Do you know if 4 RAM slots @3200 MHz is possible with the SM-G as well? I have the SM-G model.
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    Whaaa? That's possible? I didn't know that. I thought the motherboard would cap out at 2933 MHz on the RAM when all 4 slots are populated. Nice to know we can technically fit 5 drives into the laptop as well if we want to. Is the Wi-Fi slot compatible with SATA or NVME drives? The keyboard screws are by the fans, denoted by a keyboard icon.
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    Would you say these Windows X Lite builds are better than Windows 10 LTSC 1089?
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    That is correct. The EON17-X is an X170KM-G, so the manual for the X170KM-G will be a good guide for the system. From what I've seen, you cannot run 3200 MHz memory in all 4 slots, only if you populate 2 of them. You'll be capped at 2933 MHz for all 4 slots.
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    The X170KM-G should have the same number of memory slots (4 slots) as the X170SM-G. I don't think any vendor specific models would change this, so you should have the same memory expandability.
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    I see you got the Raider 18 HX with a 240 Hz screen. Supposedly the Titan also has a configuration option with that panel, but I can't find anyone selling either the Titan or Raider 18 in that configuration (with the exception of the Raider 18 with a 240 Hz screen from Amazon). Are those all sold out because they're considered "lower tier" models and people have bought them all up, being the cheaper models?
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    Nice, sounds like a worthy upgrade then. I bet that lower power cost on the GPU side is great if you have it paired with an 11900K as you could really open up both the CPU and GPU at the same time in that case.
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    Have you that article where someone combines Amd Fluid Motion Frames and DLSS for an insane framerate increase? Now that sounds like a fun experiment. I wonder what the latency is and what that would feel like. https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/nvidia-and-amd-gpu-tested-in-the-same-pc/
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    Nice to see ya back man! I'm looking forward to seeing your posts about your high performance computing adventures again.
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    From what I remember hearing, the RTX 3080 is about a 15% performance uplift over the RTX 2080 Super and draws significantly less power. I can't confirm that though as I don't have that GPU on hand. It'd be nice to see someone shunt mod the 3080 and really open it up though.
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    Being an owner of an Optane 905P SSD myself, I can attest that I can notice the difference between that and a Samsung 970 Evo Plus, but not the difference between a 970 Evo Plus and a 990 Pro. Significant gains in random read/write speed things up immensely. Pair an Optane SSD with a fast CPU and high speed, low latency RAM, and you get very fast load times in games, faster than with those gen 5 NVME SSDs. Optane just absolutely smokes everything else except in sequential transfer speeds. It's really good for my software development workflow and great for gaming! Hang in there man! Ignore all the negativity and just enjoy your life. No need to get worked up over things we can't control. If people want to be stupid, let them be stupid in a nice faraway area sequestered away from everyone else so they don't negatively affect anyone else. I've kinda gone the same way regarding having a device for every use case. I've never been able to find that "do it all" machine, so now I have a desktop, a laptop, and a handheld. My Lenovo Legion Go serves me well in situations where it's not practical to pull a laptop out, and then I have my laptop for other mobile use cases. The thing is, I also stay home about 95% of the time nowadays, so going back to desktops made sense. I still like having my mobile devices for that last 5% where I'd actually use their capabilities cause it's better to be prepared for everything.
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    Don't worry, we should be able to acquire and play around with that MSI Titan 18 HX in about a year to a year and a half when it depreciates to about half its current price. It's crazy how fast computers and their parts depreciate in value. Some keep their value over time, but more often than not, I see them depreciate like crazy. This is especially true for ultra high end laptops after the next gen comes out the following year. I've had my X170SM-G for the last 2 and a half years (bought it after the KM-G model came out), and I sometimes see fully decked out X170KM-Gs going for around $1,000 on ebay. That's about 40% of what I put into my system when I first got it, holy moly!
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    Wait what? I thought all AMD CPUs were multiplier unlocked. Is this not the case?
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    Is this the actual microcode version? If so, then my microcode version is E2.
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    SP 136? I'd love to have one of those.
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    Sorry for the super late reply to this message. I completely forgot about it. Better late than never. The CPU microcode version according to CPU-Z is Q0/G1.
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    Benchmark scores go down with the overclock applied. I raised the power limit as high as I could go in the BIOS (54 watts). I even tried that Ryzen Controller application, but that just yielded the same results as using UXTU. @Mr. Fox I think you're correct about there being some sort of limiter being in place. The system was not respecting my set power limits and refused to draw up to the 54 watt limit I set in the BIOS. I did some digging using UXTU and found the amp limits and temperature limits were set really low, so there was no way I was gonna reach my power target. Raising all of those to the maximum value I could set them to resulted in a performance increase. I however still cannot push the GPU clocks past around 2.5 GHz without seeing a performance drop. Looks like some other sort of limiter is in place that I need to find and eliminate. Based on what I see, it looks like there's some really early thermal throttling going on despite temps being nowhere near the thermal throttle point. Thanks for your help guys! Edit: I think I found the culprit. There's a safety feature that will thermal throttle the APU if it reaches 80°C so the device won't burn your hands... except the device never gets hot enough to do that. I'll need to find a way to disable this to get the iGPU overclock working. Supposedly all AMD CPUs are multiplier unlocked, but that doesn't help when the firmware sets stupid thermal limits.
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    I just encountered something very strange when overclocking my Lenovo Legion Go. I decided to try and overclock the iGPU to gain some frames in games where I'm just a little under my 144 fps target, and I discovered that overclocking the iGPU... decreases performance? This makes no sense and I've never encountered this before. I've overclocked both Nvidia and AMD dGPUs and Intel iGPUs and never have I ever seen a performance DECREASE when overclocking a GPU, only increases. Does anyone know why something like this would happen? I'm not temperature or power limited as far as I can tell. There's lots of thermal headroom in this handheld to push it significantly past stock performance. I know there's a voltage limit of 1.2v for this particular iGPU, but I'm not hitting that limit either. Any thoughts? I'm at a loss here. My Steam Deck doesn't do this and I can overclock its iGPU fine for those performance gains.
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    My RX 6950 XT is an Asrock model and it's really good. It's also my first Asrock part ever, so either I got really lucky, or their stuff has improved over the years. Did you see that motherboard they have with 6 m.2 slots? That looks pretty enticing for data hoarders and storage enthusiasts.
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    If you can wait and have access to a Micro Center, I'd say wait for a sale on Mico Center's 2TB config for the Legion Go. It's currently $750 USD but can get cheaper on sale. Otherwise, get the 512GB base config for $650 USD (or wait for a sale) and replace the SSD yourself. Performance wise, the Legion Go is a little faster than the ROG Ally due to the faster RAM, but again, only by a little. However if you manually tune it like I did, you can widen that gap. I overclocked mine, tweaked some BIOS settings, and installed Windows 10 LTSC on it. Games run amazing as a result (144 fps at 800p).
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    It's powered by the Ryzen Z1 Extreme (basically a Ryzen 7840U). The ones powered by the Intel Ultra 7 are the Onexplayer X1 and MSI Claw. Those are the only two I know of.
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