Sniffy
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Nice. Does it work from complete shutdown? The manual says from Sleep or Hibernate only but it had me wondering. I'm guessing their was no BIOS setting and you just enabled it through device manager?
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Thanks that's interesting. I will probably pass as I don't think it needs to be warmer at idle, and things are working well on 3.55
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How would you describe it? I noticed the auto curve is set too low at idle so I had to set an offset to stop the temperature creeping up. But once it hits a certain temperature (mid 60s?) it's quite loud. My go to at the moment is auto+5% offset at idle (to maintain decent idle temps while web browsing etc), then I switch to manual curve when booting a game.
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Do you mean they adjusted the automatic fan curve?
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Seems great on latest BIOS and EC, not a single uncontrolled shutdown. OS is enabled in my BIOS, but I haven't touched clocks or voltages yet as I wanted to make sure it was stable at stock. If you do get it, I'd recommend maybe taking a week or two to confirm the machine behaves at stock as well. Troubleshooting stability is problematic if your stuff is overclocked or undervolted as I've noticed that idle is often the first thing that becomes unstable, and sometimes there are games that expose instability even with minor undervolting (so it's not actually a stable undervolt). If it crashes at stock, then you know it's something with the machine. Also maybe run 2 sticks given the problems it has had in the past with 4. Intel only officially supports 2133MHz when using 4 SODIMMs with Rocket Lake, as per the datasheet (page 19). Another forum member believes the crashing is related to bad EC values. But an unstable system could still be the root cause (writing corrupt data to the EC).
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Yep they really need watts to stretch their legs. If they try and ship 8+16 Raptor Lake HX parts with 55W power limits, performance is going to nosedive and it will be a purely marketing ploy to advertise 24 cores. E-cores don't use a lot of power under load but they do have a decent static power cost just by being turned on.
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Could be TDP. We already saw the 8+8 Alder Lake HX needed more power to outperform 6+8 Alder Lake. 8+16 is a huge amount of cores and it will need an appropriately large power budget to perform. 55W for 8+16 is going to cause problems.
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Meaker have you filled in your 3070s VRMs? I am wondering how you're moving 180W through your board with 4 MOSFETs for the GPU. Take away memory and aux power and you're looking at at least 130-140W which would push these components above 25A continuous which is their rating. The datasheet suggests there is current protection, is it allowing this limit to be exceeded if temps are fine?
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The Beast Returns - Alienware m18 - i9 13980HK 24c/RTX 4090 Mobile
Sniffy replied to ssj92's topic in Alienware 18 and M18x
What's the What's that tiny 4th fan for in this render? Memory cooling? -
I don't think it has been reviewed yet. Similar height (25mm) to other "DTR" notebooks this gen and slightly heavier or lighter at 3.3kg depending on what you're comparing to (Scar 18 is 3.1kg and m18 is 4.04kg). I doubt it will be any better than the 18" notebooks offered by others.
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Got Sound Blaster working thanks to great advice earlier in this thread. What's the best way to stop Windows from ruining this again in the future? Also, no crashes at all so far 6 days in.
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I'd recommend StartAllBack to fix the start menu. It has Win 7 and Win 10 defaults you can work off of and lots of flexibility to tweak the start menu how you want it. It does a better job than Start11 in my experience. Win 11 is just awful without it.
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To be fair to your point I was using the GT77 pricing, which is way above most other models both in this gen and last gen. It makes the perf/$ metric look worse than for other laptops like the Scar which seems to be by far the most properly priced. GT77 (13980HX, 4090) - $9599AUD Scar 18 (13980HX, 4090) - $5999AUD Not sure what MSI are smoking. They are charging $6999AUD for their 4080 GE78HX as well. Maybe their pricing in the US is more reasonable.
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Yeah. I won't deny the performance increase is huge and I'm actually quite surprised by how big it is. But last gen was priced very high and they've now taken it up another (huge) notch. It's not really sustainable. Didn't it used to be that performance increases would just come and you'd pay the previous gen price + a little more (inflation and what not)? Now they're trying to make you pay for these technological leaps. Perf is way up but perf/$ is close to the same. I'm going to guess Nvidia is the main culprit.
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double post please delete
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Huge price increase this gen. GT77 12900HX 3080Ti = $7899AUD, discounted as low as $6499AUD GT77 13980HX 4090 32GB RAM = $9599AUD
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Probably better than the Windows ones. I'm kinda joking but also not. My 5700 XT was a pain back in the day (due to the Windows drivers at the time), and I did have a better time in Linux for those games that were working. And Linux is way more beastly for gaming now than it was even in 2020. I'd be using it still except the main sim I play only half works. One of the peripherals I use also doesn't work at all, even with hacky open source drivers. It'll be a great day when Windows is completely unnecessary.
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Geez what is going on over at Samsung? I will have to check my drives firmware tomorrow, though supposedly it is mostly 2TB drives that are affected. I wonder if the PM9A1 is also affected?
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It's here! The display is 1440p. Win 11 Pro installed with StartAllBack to make it usable. I've been through all the driver installs and still have two USB devices that won't start, but unsure what they are as everything appears working. OC was enabled in the BIOS by default, we'll see if I get any crashing. BIOS: 1.07.08TMB EC: 1.07.04
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True. It is a bit contradictory - I just copy pasted what they said. I'll see when it gets here
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Supposedly it's a 17.3" QHD (3K) IPS-Grade Edge-to-Edge Matte 165Hz LED - G-Sync 100% SRGB
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My X170 is finally coming tomorrow. There are delays with 144Hz 1080p screens from China and so they upgraded it to a 3K 165Hz monitor free of charge. I'll be using with external monitors anyway but nice of them to do that. I noticed the X370 has been listed for March shipping under separate branding to the X170 (at least for Metabox). 13900HX and up to 175W 4090 with MUX.
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That's great news. May I ask, did you use any custom settings (e.g., custom curve) or was this also with the defaults in the fan app?
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Wow that is frequent. Any crashing since removal of the fan control app?
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Interesting. Improper usage of the EC causing it to power the system down? Could be why Windows doesn't know the cause. Do you have OC enabled in the bios?
