SuperMG

I got the card working. It does 49FPS AVG in FurMark. Normally it should do 79FPS. I guess it's because of the GTX 485M drivers. Fermi and Pascal don't even share a single driver. I need to get a AMD HD 6XXX graphics card to make the Nvidia GPU run with the latest drivers without any conflicts or limits. I did buy an HD 5870M but it was faulty as the laptop would shutdown in windows/bios/dos after one minute from power

Yeah I need an AMD card, because mixing old Fermi GPU with a more recent one will cause this + error 38/10

Oh yeah my bad. On my previous M17X R4 I was sometimes limited by 60fps on dx12 using RTX 3000 MXM

What if you use an other GPU instead of the intel HD 4000? Like Kepler based one for slot 1 and 980m for the second slot?

The system detects 6 slots on CPU-Z but it only has 3 physical. I also sent a link about the W3680/W3690 CPUs supporting up to 48/56GB. Sad that the Alienware M18X R2 doesn't even support 48GB...

I sent my RTX 3080 MXM to repair. I paid for the shipping. I'll probably wait 3-4 weeks until it's on my hand again bruh... I also found a very cheap 16GB SODIMM DDR3L stick for 28€ in China (how) and also 2x8GB DDR3L for 14€...

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/max-ram-in-2009-12-single-core-is-actually-56gb-w-w-xeon-and-64gb-w-x.1732968/ I guess 48GB is the max for me for the same CPU.

I said i7 980X because it's similar to the Xeon W3680. I have a Xeon.

My laptop recognizes 6 RAM slots but only 3 are present. It's DDR3, triple channel. I can somehow get 32-48GB to work on this X58 laptop (first gen i7 980X). 16+8+8 or 16+16+16. No one tried it tho since the dimms go for 60-120€

Okay. So the limit is 32GB then? What about X58/X79 laptops? 16GB Sodimm accepted? Because my Precision T5500 has 16GB dimms times 6 (X5520 chipset something)

Also. I found that 16GB DDR3 SODIMM sticks exist. What would happen if we do 4x16 in the M18X R2? Will it boot? Or is the chipset inside is limited to 32 only?

Hello, yes I bought his card a couple days ago. I'll maybe receive the card in the weekend? I'll test this card as a slave in my Clevo X7200. (HD 5870 Mobility + Quadro P5200 non-UEFI) with unlocked BIOS. It's a X58 chipset laptop.

But overclocking to 75Hz, could make you go from 60 to 75, that's what he meant. Intel HD 4000/4600 are performing the same in terms of Optimus.

Okay. Maybe a Dell vbios would work on the 980M. On the 3080 it won't I guess.

But why it causes freeze? Because of being a GeForce card?

PEG, no SLI. GTX 600M series + RTX 3080? Aren't you the one who made the RTX 5000 Turing work on the Alienware M18X R1?

Oh okay. I'm waiting X-Vsion to reply for my issue. Once my card gets fixed or replaced because I have one year of warranty, I'll try to OC to 70Hz and I'll see. Can't we tell to the Nvidia Panel to run the apps at 75FPS? Also I'm sure the RTX 3080 MXM would work on the Alienware M18X R1 since you can use two different GPUs (master for display and slave for rendering like the RTX 5000 Turing)

So 3080 works on R1 as slave? With master GPU being Nvidia I suppose? Isn't overclocking display dangerous? On 3dmark I was getting max 62fps So you managed to get 11k with 115W bios?

Can you show your GPU-Z screen? And the bios information? You're literally pulling more than my previously working card and Idk how.

Gotcha, any timespy rerun?

Okay thanks. Your PC runs at PCIE 2.0 x16, that's like PCIE 3.0 x8 which is good. I noticed now that your GPU has the "Ray tracing" enabled? Is that true? I sent you a new offer in DMs.

The last website links? I mean you got it to work without a master card and without IGFX

And it still works and boots today? With soldered one? No crashes on 3dmark today?

On GPU-Z, the UEFI isn't ticked/enabled so it's more likely legacy because it booted in your legacy bios laptop. Also you're using the same dell vbios when you had the wires on the SOIC8 VBIOS? I also sent you a DM, can you answer? Thanks.

Can I see a picture of the VBIOS soldered in? I mean your laptop is probably running the same legacy bios type as mine. I'll probably have better chances because there are 2 MXM slots, all of them are 100W