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  1. 1610ftw
    @Snowleopard and others who want to maximize storage and did not know what to do with that 4th slot that would only go up to 2TB Sata this one may be for you: I have kept looking for this for a long time and finally Transcend stepped up the plate and now has a 4TB m2 form factor SATA drive with very good pricing and specs: https://www.transcend-info.com/product/internal-ssd/mts830s It will probably not be as good as the best SATA drives but in general Transcend produces solid products with a 5 year warranty.
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    That sounds rather dangerous and swapping a motherboard is a pita and a new GPU is very expensive so you may not want to do that anymore😄 Do you still run at 5.0 GHz all cores for the CPU? As an immediate measure you could get that fan profile changed and go down by 0.1 or 0.2 GHz - that will cost you 2 to 4% CPU performance at most (less if it is throttling anyway) and you will surely need 10 to 20% less power which will help a lot with temps. Recently got to play with a nice SL 10900K and X170SM-G that I got from brother @electrosoft and for a single CB R23 run it goes from 77°C 4.9 all cores 165W to 91°C 5.1 all cores with some appropriate undervolt. That is a lot more power for relatively little gain in performance, about 25% more power and less than 4% performance increase in this case so I will probably dial it down to 4.9 all cores as a daily driver, no need to overdo things.
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    Those GPUs can have a lot of thermal headroom with good cooling as they only need 175W - the MSI GT77 had a GPU temp of around 60 degrees without any additional cooling and I thought that was very low. The Asus numbers from you and others are really puzzling - it almost seems as if some of the much better numbers we see from reviewers are from special hand picked samples while some if not most of the regular units get a lot hotter than we see in reviews.
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    Come on guys, are you serious? 😄 I would love to get back MXM or preferably a better solution with more power and more bandwidth but I am pretty sure that even back in the MXM days reviewers did not get a package with a barebone and a bunch of GPUs - or CPUs for that matter. If I was a reviewer I would also not be keen to have bad review results explained by me supposedly being too stupid to properly install the hardware or to change something else before everything is working as it should - too many variables for this to make sense imo. What is evident though is that Clevo and at some point Alienware and MSI used to be in a position where they only had one single chassis for their barebones with screen options being the other variable whereas manufacturers like Asus and MSI these days have 4, 5 or even 6 presoldered models with a variety of CPUs and GPUs and then they may also have screen opions that would further complicate things. For the G18 I have seen in different territories: 13650HX with 4050 and 4060 13980HX with 4050,4060,4070,4080 and 4090 That would be at least 7 base models and they also seem to have at least two screens (1920x1200 and 2560x1600) so those are a lot of variations - no fun to manage the warehouse where all of those are stored.... Having worked with the last three Clevo chassis the only thing that is rather difficult to swap is the screen but the keyboard, CP'U and GPU are reasonably easy to swap, down- or upgrade.
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    Just have a look at this: Problems with TongFang / Uniwill based XMG laptops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc2DDklgiJU I still think they have pretty good laptop designs but quality seems to be an issue to a higher degree than with other maufacturers.
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    Don't do it - it will be too wide for the m18 and it may also void your warranty. Of course if you are still crazy enough to do it we will all cheer you on 😄
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    I think it is more for having the best of both worlds - water cooling when at your desk and a regular laptop on the go. OK, scratch that - not a regular laptop but a monstrous 17+ lbs package with about twice as much weight as most of todays "behemoths" 😁
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    Obviously the X370 chassis. I think this has already been shown at CES as the upcoming XMG Ultra 17? At ca. 7.5lbs it seems second in weight only to the Alienware M18 and it will probably have cooling that is about on par with the other BGA books and maybe a little better.
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    The Clevo laptops draw a lot of power anyway, up to about 10 times of what the CPU alone needs in a test I did with the X170KM-G to check battery life. So not very concerned with a few watt more, I would prefer that instead of having an unstable system. I also doubt that the electric bill would go up by more than a few bucks per year because of that especially when it allows for a more aggressive undervolt that in turn will decrease consumption in situations with high power draw.
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    Cursed by design while pricing still seems to be based on the assumption that the 4070 sits right between the 4060 and the 4080 when in fact it is closer to a performance increase that one would expect with a TI card.
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    AMD lists it as W10 compatible but with support varying by manufacturer: Only 64GB (and probably soon 96GB) memory though which is a complete and utter joke for this kind of CPU: Just made me lose all interest and it probably also means that it will not be seen in top of the line workstations. With AMD being AMD I would not be surprised if Alienware will only have it in AMD only laptops. AMD page: https://www.amd.com/en/product/13016 And sorry to hear about your Mech 17. It looked like you were quite happy with it apart from the issue you are having now?
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    Is this with the new heat sink? The 775 already is a laptop that is quite heavy already so it would be interesting to know how much weight gets added by the new heat sink.
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    PassMark demolition of the 13980HX: https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Ryzen-9-7945HX-gets-ridiculous-on-PassMark-by-brushing-aside-the-Intel-Core-i9-13980HX-and-squaring-off-against-the-i9-13900KS-instead.700308.0.html Quite the powerhouse with 16 equally strong cores while Intel continues to only have 8 P-cores. Looking forward to see what it can do in some workstations but I doubt we will see much of it in the higher end versions that usually have some kind of Intel / Thunderbolt combo.
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    And now back to the most disappointing card in this generation: In early leaks it looked like it would be the best bang for the bucks as it supposedly was pretty close to the 4080 mobile but somebody at Nvidia possibly did not like it and changed its fate from best to worst - a roughly 50% increase in Time Spy score going from a 70 to an 80 card must be a first: At least people with a laptop with the 2080 or better do not have to worry about upgrading - not worth it for this kind of performance.
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    Looking at the current generation it looks like the goal is to have a TDP that is low enough to allow the GPU to be adequately cooled in a 6 to 6.5 lbs laptop and with 175W this does not seem to be much of an issue so now all manufacturers can deal with more important things like who has the most garish design and the most RGB bling. The Alienware m18 will be an interesting test case as it is substantially bigger and heavier than the competition so if it sells well we may again see GPU and total system TDP lifted and with it an increase in weight and size across the board.
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    Good choice on behalf of your friend. I would also believe that warranty options and sound will be better on the m18. Also it has better connectivity and there are two additional m2 slots although due to their size they are of limited use.
  17. 1610ftw
    Without taxes the 4080 in its cheapest config comes out to $2251,65 with your 15% coupon and with the mechanical keyboard and an upgrade to W11 Pro we are looking at $2375,74. Not too bad for a much more solid chassis than the Asus G18.
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    I feel a bit dumb - looked like a normal picture to me 😄 That screen may indeed be bigger but not sure I like the way this was done - it is not really an elegant solution to say the least. So kudos for the other stuff but not a fan of the screen that I would like to see in the original case.
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    You are a very impatient person, I would have bet that you were going for the 13980HX just because 🙂 Not that it would make much of a difference outside of benchmarks. And you are right about the pricing, with the 15%off the 4080 / 13900HX version is a pretty good value by the way, should come out to something between 2.2 and 2.4K I believe.
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    I was expecting more of an information about a screen or should I say panel mod but I only see two GPUs?
  21. 1610ftw
    nice price point...
  22. 1610ftw
    Thanks for doing that and with 85°C at max stress testing it does not look like 5GHz all core is all that much with your water cooling setup - those are excellent temps!
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    Excellent temperatures, looks like you could run that CPU at 4.9 or 5.0 GHz all cores 🙂 How easy is it to connect and disconnect and does the fluid have to be drained out of the heat sink for mobile use?
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    93 degree does not look too bad - how many watts can it sustain in the end? I just checked a P775 that I have here at the moment and it can do about 110W and 96°C with a 10 minute run, no cooling pad or bottom cover modifications. That is with the separate heat sinks for GPU and CPU.
  25. 1610ftw
    Thanks to you - my pleasure 🙂
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