SACbomber

Review for this thing is out: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Medion-Erazer-Beast-18-X1-laptop-review-How-does-the-RTX-5080-perform-in-the-gaming-giant.1022307.0.html Disappointing Cinebench R23 score of 31.5K. That XMG Neo 16/Tongfang with identical 275HX processor nearly hit 41K.

New nVidia driver (576.52) includes a [Notebook] GeForce RTX 50 series TGP limit may be clipped earlier [5170771] fix and may - MAY - have fixed my "3D applications would sometimes not make the GPU draw full power" bug.

Briefly used a Precision 7560 before. Hope the new "Precisions" have better thermal/power options other than selecting "Cool" or "Ultimate performance" in the BIOS. 280 W power adapter doesn't bode well for total system performance, however. A few gaming laptops have the CPU + GPU alone pulling that number.

Hope so, even though my previous -50 mV undervolt passed all the 30-minute OCCT runs I threw at it.

Reality is that outside of serious tweakers and enthusiasts like us, few (gaming) laptop buyers care about socketed (desktop) processors and MXM GPUs. MXM is supposed to be a standard yet there are a bunch of generations and variations with generations. Even with the same generation and variation, a given heatsink design might not work with another MXM card. Read the Clevo threads right here on this board. That said, would love to see another P870-type machine myself.

Yep, standard ten-minute run.

Conditions: -30 mV on all cores and cache, 30x D2D, 30x NGU/SA fabric, +25 mV SA fabric voltage offset -50 mV on all cores and cache crashed the system immediately. Same with -45 mV. -40 mV crashed a few minutes in. Decided to go back to -30 mV. Funny, because -50 mV on all cores and cache passed every stress test and benchmark previously thrown at it (Linpack Xtreme, OCCT, CB 2024, XTU stress test).

Not much of a laptop without a battery. Waterloop aside, this seems no different than carrying an SFF PC along with a portable monitor.

Will see when I get there. Experienced massive gains in Cyberpunk 2077 v1.63 after overclocking D2D and NGU. 1% lows went from 33 to over 40.

Neat. Enjoy your laptop! Will try CineBench R23 on mine at some point.

Same chassis as this one, the XMG Neo 16 E25, right? Looks like the waterblock/chamber is between the CPU/GPU dies and the heatpipes. Is it empty or filled with water at the factory? If it's empty then the pure air cooling can't be the best.

Are you undervolting at all? Think I'm OK with RAM downclocking. Also that's not much of an improvement. 98 ns down to 94, right? Might be because my RAM has such loose timings.

MSi Center will have fan and power level (Extreme Performance/Balanced/Eco-silent) settings. Should come preinstalled with the machine. Also, watch the hinges. Cyborg is a low-end MSi machine and probably has weak hinges.

Will certainly be faster than other laptops when it's on water cooling. Curious about pure air cooling performance, however. Nice, only got there by increasing both D2D and NGU to 30x on my Titan. Did you OC your RAM? Wonder why CSODIMM sticks all have such loose timings. Waiting for this monster RAM kit to become available. Expecting significant performance gains combined with NGU and D2D overclocking.

Set D2D to 30 (for 3.0 GHz) in the BIOS. Passed stress testing. Almost too easy. Will try pushing it further later. Saw a reduction in RAM latency in AIDA64: (Ignore the Memory Bus value. It's reporting the instantaneous value right as the test began.) Compare with stock D2D and NGU values: A nice 13 ns reduction.