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@Mr. FoxYou went with full AMD build which is a first after 7970M on AW. RBE doesn't work anymore. You can use 1usmus tuning tool or Igors lab Been searching for new laptop to replace 15r2 since video editing and OS slipstreaming w/ testing with taking more than 8 hrs. Soldered DRAM/Wifi/SSD are priced lower but repair costs is too high on out of warranty. I don't know if Radeon RDNA2/3 iGPU is sufficient for davinci resolve.

How did you do that? Been using prema vbios for long time but nvinspector reverts the voltage to default every time I set it to 0.98V or 1.00V

Added it to OP under notes section. Also subbed to your YT channel.

Solved the issue after testing with one drive attached to NVMe and it has reached advertised speeds.

As the title suggests I went with a sweet deal SN570 1TB for game/videos and tested with Orico NVMe enclosure and transferred the data just fine from old M.2 SATA 850 EVO 256GB. I decided to bench using CrystalDiskMark and it was barely reaching rated speeds of a PCIe3 x4 and tried it in a different slot which caps the lanes to x2 and speeds difference was almost indistinguishable. I checked WD warranty using the serial number and seems to be genuine. The current speeds are similar to SN550 which had lanes capped to x2 and isn't sold anymore in India. Should I return the drive? I was really amazed at 600TBW endurance from BiCs5 NAND but experience is not great. Also the firmware is up-to-date. The SSDs I'm using P1 1TB on Alienware 15r2 6700HQ. SN570 might be moved to new business/gaming laptop which will replace 15r2. Any inputs will be much appreciated. PCIe3 x4 1GB sample size: PCIe3 x4 8GB sample size: PCIe3 x2 speed: Crucial P1 in x2 and x4 lane: SN570 x2 lane Versus SN570 x4 lane: Sn570 x4 lane against various sample sizes:

You could use tools made by bel. I use privatezilla on win 10 and thisiswin11(might be deprecated and merged into debloos app). All are portables and very small. Built by bel repo Debloos for Win 11 ThisIsWin11 Privatezilla(Debloat Win 10)

I think you might want to try TG carbonaut or even ICD High Compressible graphite pad. For me both of them are lasting quite long on laptops. I'm unsure about the performance or reliability with 300W+ and those pads quickly fall out of line from LM and traditional pastes. I thought Linus Tech tips kept a stock of Honeywell Phase change pads but I couldn't find it on their store page.

The OEM vendor only has Win 11 drivers so naturally I went with Win 11. There are hiccups in start menu and overall desktop usage from Win 10 but nothing can be done. I tried few tweaks or start menu replacements with classic start menu and it made the entire OS buggy and stutter.

Sorry for the late reply! I didn't have an internet connection at that time besides the high ram usage and usual Vaio bloatware everything was fine. I played Ck 2007 WC edition, NFS PS, nfsMW w/o any issue. It used to thermal throttle at 97C and still played games fine. Didn't know much about PC repair and Vaio was always in service depot with screen and mobo replacement.

Got a thinkpad E14 with win 11 was unbearable to use after updating to latest version with buggy start menu and explorer patcher made it worse wherein all items were empty in start menu, win key not working etc. I think Vista was alot better.

In fact my AW BGA made my room so hot even though a heavy rainfall was forecasted. Ambients shot up to 35C at night. @Rofa1234Let me know if new paste must be added to OP. i think PCT should be standard paste on all devices and normal paste can't get these mini-Sun/star.

Wasn't available in India and I went CM Maker Gel paste. If you want a longer lifetime w/o repaste I'd suggest TG Carbonaut or ICD Graphite HC version (new material like carbonaut). Though I have seen 1-2c higher peaks with ICD Graphite HC version but operating temps with ICD HC was better and fans were not spinning most of the time. Carbonaut is fragile and perfect for warped heatsink and conforms better which I use on alienware even after lapping my heatsink surrounded with insulation tapes. ICD HC is a 5 pack version and costs similar to 1 package of TG carbonaut and 2-3x cheaper on amazon even after imported to India.

Upgraded RAM/SSDs and also added laptop skins. Even replaced LCD cables as well.

Thanks @JeanLegi for explaining @jaybee83. I totally forgot to check my email notification. Actually OCAT(Dx9/10/11/12/Vulkan) and Frameview(Dx10/11/12/Vulkan) will have least resource usage when comparing RTSS.

I'd suggest looking at this defenderUI https://www.defenderui.com/ You can use one click to disable defender and improve security. Since TS comes with WD boost tweak bench and gaming are rarely affected

@JeanLegiToday I decided to retry Nvidia frameview and its overlay is sufficient since it display CPU clocks, usage, perf per Watt, CPU/GPU temps etc.

Tried that and didn't work and it also broke overlay fields and customisations and did a full uninstall and restored the profiles and didn't fix a thing. So, I moved to minimal overlay and profile tool which uses Intel's presentMon library called AMD OCAT which is open source.

@JeanLegiCan you try closing MSI Ab/RTSS overlay, in some nvidia driver versions 511.x MSI AB overlay caused CPU temps to reach 90C+ and I tried reinstall/complete uninstall w/o any fixes. Removed MSI AB and temps spiking stopped. I tried with older driver and MSI AB overlay was working properly.

Post continued: Package content: Basic test using stress-ng --cpu (threads/cpu count) --timeout (2mins) @Rofa1234 Let me know if Honeywell PT7590 PCM needs to be added as Phase Change Material which is different from traditional paste.

@Papusan@Mr. Fox@Rofa1234 Just got IC diamond graphite pad high compression version (5 pack). Not seeing much difference between carbonaut and IC HC pad. IC HC had initial 2C worse temp than carbonaut but stabilized after few days. Operating temps for IC HC pad seems 2-3C cooler than carbonaut. Old carbonaut: IC HC pad:

That pricing is not affordable and huge monster trucks won't fit in mini-case or eGPU enclosure. There is an alternative from Intel called XeSS but unsure if it will pave the way for FSR and merged with DX and other graphics APIs. I think SLI on 4090 or Ti version would be monsterous unless nvidia felt it didn't scale well and creating SLI profiles will be a pain.

You can use GPU caps viewer's RainForest Test from OpenGL 4.x along with OpenCL CPU Julia4D or any others to stress both CPU and GPU. Temps might spike to 90C on GPU or CPU depending on fan curve responsiveness. Or use AIDA64 FPU test and Rain Forest OpenGL which can be put as baseline since AIDA64 can stress the CPU/GPU quickly.

I didn't know that replacing thermal paste and undervolt is seen as voiding the warranty policy. Even I haven't heard a court case for this. Maybe Steve from GN or Roman from TG or others can shed some light.

Hmmm. It seems I'm outdated on warranty info when using PBO and OC on AMD. Even AMD doesn't honor warranty. I think maybe *ALL* OC'able CPU,GPU,RAM might not honor OC warranty.

That's sad to hear since you, Johnkss Papusan and other have been OC'ing LGA in PC/laptops for decades. Intel should never sell K chips if warranty is void since there are lot of variable such as mobo defaults set to Auto OC w/ adaptive voltage contols and many users will not be aware of those. I think they should have given a new CPU considering it costs a lot and 12th gen are near EOL once 13th gen are relased officially in shelves and online stores. Now, Intel considers LGA or socketed hardware as BGA and extra cost/warranty swaps is none of their business. Well, next time we will need to re-consider who gets our money.