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The P751TM1 is the same as P775TM1 when it comes to ease of access. I don't know what you were told, but to get under the keyboard you only need to unscrew two more screws then accessing the other RAM. You will have the underside cover removed anyways for the 2 RAM sticks you already installed, make sure the two screws marked by the "KB" (keyboard) are removed, then use a thin screwdriver to push through one of the wholes and pop the keyboard up, it is mostly held in place with magnets. I think once you do it a couple times it will take less than 1 minute to get access to the other two RAM slots.

@Csupati what chassis do you have the 1080 in? I am surprised you had to go all the way down to 120w to manage temps - good that the performance is still so relevant though! - With my P750DM2 I was able to keep temps in check with a 180w bios, but that may have been a fluke . . . since now I that I think about it I have trouble with only 150w in the 2080 that is currently int he P750DM2. Congrats though! Welcome back to Clevo land!

And here I was hoping no one would notice it... 🙄

@Meaker Nice! You got the 3080! Can you run a timespy benchmark or something and how it scores?!

@Raven Then dumb question, but you have gone through all the normal steps to unlock the voltage control? : https://steemit.com/gpu/@icryptomedianews/how-to-unlock-core-voltage-in-msi-afterburner The traditional way was to do the ".inf" mod. Laptopvideo2go used to have premade drivers that were modded, and it looks still active so maybe they might have something? https://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/ This is also a pretty good guide how to do the .inf mod yourself: https://null-src.com/posts/nvidia-notebook-driver-inf-mod/post.php I have done it myself back with a 970m in a p150em but it has been a long time. Good luck

I think you are misunderstanding what @Meaker is saying. With MSI afterburner you don't use the power control or Mhz frequency adjuster, you hit ctrl+f (I think? when I get home I can check) and you will get the full curve that you can adjust to overclock+undervolt or whatever you want to do. If you have never tried it, then play with it, as it will give you better results then just applying the "-500Mhz". You can probably get similar performance to normal while still have it undervolted.

Update: https://steamcommunity.com/app/223850/discussions/0/4288061719899146606/?ctp=2 End of the post #27 says: "Right now the test is in theory locked down (we have a "Release Candidate") and we're waiting for final round of feedback from our partners while Windows UI is being finalized (things like localization for new bits, for example). We won't quite make the indicated April target, but it won't be long now. " Looks like we won't see it this month, but hopefully soon.

So I got my llano cooler and man! What a difference it makes for the temps! With a little more tweaking I was able to get #31 overall in TimeSpy for a 8700k & 2080 combo: https://www.3dmark.com/spy/47553404 Overall: 10,089 CPU: 8,180 GPU: 10,523 It also happens to be right above the "Budget Gaming PC (2023)" mark that has an overall score of: 10,069. . . making a gaming laptop from 2016 still relevant in 2024, 8 years later. This is why socketed laptops rule! Edit: Forgot to mention this is all with a 150w bios for the 2080, if I tried higher watt bios, 180w or 200w I am sure I could score higher. I had to dial it back a little as it crashed when opening Cyberpunk and had artifacts with Metro. So I dialed it back to something that would work daily: CPU: -140.6mV on cache and core @ 4.4Ghz all core, 4.6Ghz 4 Core, 4.8Ghz 2 Core. F\ GPU: +162mhz @ 0.868mV +500 RAM The IIano cooler set at at 1k RPM (Max is 2.8k RPM). It stays mid ~70s very comfortably at full load. Even with it dialed back it was #74 on the overall score: https://www.3dmark.com/spy/47554240 For real world this meant: Cyberpunk 2077 (Ultra Preset, with no DLSS/FSR on, native 1080p resolution): 89.5FPS avg with a low of 75.33FPS Metro Exodus REDUX (Quality: Very High / SSA - On / Texture filtering AF 16x / Motion blur - Off / Tesselation - Very High / Vsync - Off / Advanced PhysX - On) native 1080p resolution: 98.33FPS avg with a low of 21.29 Seeing easily above 60fps at native resolution with ultra preset on a game that in 2024 is still considered nice looking just shows how relevant a simple setup like this can be.

I decided to go with the llano cooler, seems to have similar performance, some minor cons vs the IETS, but better controls. Honestly - if we had some kind of heatsink / paste that would lower temps by 10~15C for ~$100 I think many people would jump at it. The problem with the cooler is physical space + sound - but if it delivers the promised performance it may be a decent exchange. We will see. Nice! As a whole I am pretty happy that the P750DM2 - a 15.6" laptop can cool the 150w GPU + 70w CPU (undervolted) ~ 220w total, but it does get up to mid/high 80s and 90% fan speed. So not something I want to keep for long periods of time. But if with the cooler on lower fan settings can bring it down to 70s, even high 70s I think that would be pretty darn good.

Took off the heatsink this weekend, contact actually looked good. This time tried carbonaut - first time trying a non-paste conductor between the IHS and heatsink. Scores are really similar to before, maybe a little worse on the temps. Undervolt + overclock gets the 2080 to 10.2k GPU score. This chip seems to be a good chip because I have only really hit thermal + power limits. It has the undervolt curve + 125mhz core and +450 ram without any issues and I feel like it can do more. I think the problem is just the heatsoak, the giant aliexpress copper heatsink can absorb more heat than the fins + fan combo can dissipate, so after multiple runs of timespy/cinebench/cyberpunk etc again and again it just heatsoaks. And I want to find a overclock/undervolt that can handle multiple runs. I think a cooling pad like a IETS cooling pad will make a big difference and allow for some more thermal headroom to mitigate the heatsoak. It is time I get a laptop cooling pad.

Sent you the link - yes it does exists!

If you check my build link in the signature I try Metro and Cyberpunk ingame benchmarks to see how the gpu swap/ and tweaking the OC actually makes a difference, I am trying to build up more clevo specific data to compare scores vs game improvement.

@1610ftw Thanks! Wait, so your MSI GT75 with a 150w 2080 gets 11.2k vs the P775 10.2k at 150w also? So 1k difference just by platform? Ya I was surprised the 9900k only had a CPU score of 9.4k, is yours delidded? You also have been able to run the 9900k at 4.8ghz all core? Consistently? I was pretty happy to get the 8700k at 4.5ghz all core for multiple runs and keep it stable at mid80s. I am going to swap in a 9900k eventually but am curious what kind of settings/setup you use to get that 4.8ghz without getting too hot I will check the thermal pads/repaste this weekend and see how it goes.

Do you know what it did without any tweaks? Just stock 2080 in the P775? 11k would be nice, but I got ~9.6k without any adjustments so a 1.5k increase with overclocking would be a lot. Unless of course I got the thermal headroom then I can use a higher TDP vbios, the one I have now is stock 150w one. I am the opposite of you lol, more of a GPU guy, if CPU matches the stock desktop performance with maybe a good undervolt that is fine, usually limiting factor for anything "intensive" I do is just games, and that is usually GPU bound.

Great work! In my old P150EM I was able to get 3,813 CPU score with 3920xm, but had a 1070 and got 5742 GPU score. Way to push the limits!