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Hey sorry for the late reply, your driver page is the exact same as mine. I think I just had to use CRU to add higher refresh rates. You can see my panel is identified as LGD0690 in this software. Also, I don't have a display calibrator but I found the display to be too warm by default, I manually calibrated it by trying to match the colors and white point of an iPhone 12 pro display, I would recommend doing that. My long term thoughts are that this panel has been absolutely great despite the mid contrast ratio. Did you manage to close the gaps on the sides of the bezel?

Nice find, my T1000 is Adlink 🤔 good to see that there's a fix for it having basically unlocked power/clocks (mine sometimes even goes above 1900MHz clock and is always at 99c hotspot). Does this also unlock undervolting/msi afterburner controls too? Guessing that's still locked

Anyone want to trade an MXM-A RTX 2000 Ada for the rare "golden T1000" 🤣 in all serious though I wonder why it's doing this, the same occurs in the 7520 so it must be the card The power draw is reported as 3w maybe that has something to do with it or perhaps my VBIOS is bugged/unrestricted? And yeah, I manually overclocked the 7920HQ in ThrottleStop after doing those EFI variable unlocks, I usually just run it on 3.1GHz all core though as it allows the GPU to throttle less and I'm rarely CPU bound in anything. If I need more CPU power I switch to my TS config for 4GHz all core with an -77mv undervolt

I used TPFanControl for this on my T440p, you can set a custom fan curve for smart mode in the ini file TPFanControl – ThinkPad-Wiki (thinkwiki.de)

Been a while but do you think you'd be able to drop a version with NVAPI disabled completely? Don't really need graphics temperature monitoring anyway, just fan control

Nice results and yea maybe it could be worth attaching another pipe between the GPU heatsink and CPU fan. I asked cicichen if they'd sell an improved 7520 heatsink and they said "so sorry. Precision 7520 can not upgrade, There are not enough places to upgrade". Not sure if they meant not enough demand or if there's not enough room inside the laptop but I think its the former For some reason my T1000 has held the top spot on time spy and firestrike for a while. Not sure why the clock speed goes so high in the M4800, beyond what Adlink say I should check if it does the same in the 7520, it would explain why both laptops reach their thermal limit with this GPU

Epic build and post thanks for sharing. Would be nice if we could get undervolting enabled on the GPU too. Don't think it's possible with my T1000 as there's not much to crossflash to, and the Adlink vbios I've got appears to be the best one. Maybe possible with your 1650 though? Curious to see what your geekbench results are if you have them, these are my best: Geekbench 5 (7920HQ) Dell Inc. Precision 7520 - Geekbench Geekbench 5 CUDA compute Dell Inc. Precision 7520 - Geekbench

Just realized Aetina also announced Ada MXM GPUs Embedded MXM | AI Accelerator Module and GPGPU Solution || Aetina Corporation

Says LVDS/eDP are not supported though, no? 4.0 is backwards compatible, I know that having 8x PCIe 3.0 on the RTX 4060 does not result in any performance loss so the MXM-A card should be fine. IIRC even the fastest cards (4090 etc) don't lose any performance with PCIe 3.0 x16

Don't think this has been mentioned yet but MXM still going strong, pic attached is a 60w RTX 4060 mxm type A module & there's type B modules too PCP Solutions

I tried that with my M4800 and the LP156QHG 40pin display, it did not work The QHD+ model only works in discrete GPU mode which is unsupported by my T1000 I guess it would work for you if you are able to use discrete mode

Nope it's too much hassle for me Assuming the screen would even fit once things are trimmed down, there also needs to be a pcb created to hijack DP and allow 40pin edp screens to be used I made the decision to switch to Precision 7520 instead as it has MXM and 40pin edp

Not sure if the 7510 AMD heatsink will fit as I have no experience with it. My T1000 was previously installed in an M4800 that has an Nvidia heatsink (before the T1000, I used the AMD FirePro M5100 on that same heatsink). My 7520 that currently has the T1000 had a Quadro M1200 before this, so it also has the Nvidia heatsink. You don't have to flash the T1000 with a Dell BIOS, you just need to install the card and follow these instructions from another member of this forum: https://youtu.be/DgUCE_K69H4 DisplayPort should work fine, I think I've only tested HDMI but I heard from someone else that they both work. Cheapest place would probably be finding one on Taobao or Xianyu, they are Chinese markets so require a shipping forwarder to get it to your country. That's where I got mine from quite a while ago. I paid around 980 yuan ($110 usd~) at the time for the card but I think I got pretty lucky with the listing to be honest. It'd probably be much easier to get them from one of the Aliexpress sellers, I believe @MELOCODIbought his from K-Tech Laptop Accessories store (second link) Original T1000 4GB N19P Q1 A1 VGA Video Graphics Card Working Perfectly for Dell M4800| | - AliExpress Original T1000 4gb N19p-q1-a1 Vga Video Graphics Card Fast Shipping - Add On Cards & Controller Panels - AliExpress 😀

Do you know if there are instability issues? My T1000 would be a bit more useful with 8GB vram 🤔

Forgot to update this but ill leave some thoughts after all this time The 7520 can handle the quadro T1000 better than the M4800 because of the joined heatsink, I'm pretty much always GPU limited at 1440p so it's better to run the CPU at 3.10GHz to improve GPU temps, imo this makes it a better choice in the niche of mxm 15 inch workstation laptops I'm stable with -125mv undervolt on the 7920HQ, far better than the -20mv I could get on the 4810MQ so I can now do 4GHz all core within the stock power limit just need to get my hands on a future Ada A2000 8GB for the 7520 😈