SACbomber

Movie coming this year, could be fun!

Had a brief flirt with a Precision so might be able to help. Did you follow this guide? Think the varstores are different for each laptop/BIOS version. Blindly following any one guide means you possibly modified some varstore you didn't mean to. Needed to dump bios and analyze the dump with some custom tools. You remember what varstores you modified?

Thanks! Once I open a new thread over at the MSI board, I'll post some benchmark results (3DMark/Cinebench/AIDA64 and such) and we can go from there. Also, Kobayashi! Nice.

Hi everyone, Rick here, or just SACbomber. A bit about me: I've been using an old ASUS ROG laptop (i7-6700HQ/GTX 980M) for the last decade or so. Old Elitebook with a Sandy Bridge and AMD Caicos before that. Games? Meh, just drop the graphics until things are smooth. Used "3D Analyze" all the way back then to force SW TnL to run STALKER SoC so low graphics are just a throwback for me. Basically checked out of the entire PC hardware scene until that thing could no longer keep up with video upscaling (realtime DVD resolution to 4K using neural-net algorithms). Started researching PC hardware a few months ago and I went "i-NINE? Gen 14? Core Ultra? P-cores and E-cores? Pardon me?" Was waiting for Alienware to blow out their M18 R2 (14900HX/RTX 4090) but Dell just quietly discontinued them instead. So, bought an MSI Titan 18 HX AI (Core Ultra 9-285HX/RTX 5080). Haven't received it yet. You'll see me over at the MSI board once I get it. I'll post photos, system info, benchmark results and such. Why not a desktop at that price? I move too often. Maybe we can have a benchmark competition among machines of this class, such as the Razer Blade 18, AORUS MASTER 18, Alienware New Area 51 and such. Cheers and see y'all around!