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Looks beastly, and this is a SuperMicro Saphire Rapids board. The ones from ASUS/EVGA(hopefully) should be nice. Let me know if you find a spare 3-way sli bridge. Also let me know what exact model the x58 board is.

tempted to build ANOTHER x58 system. Just need MB & case, got everything else lol

The thing about Sapphire Rapids is, the 24-core config is coming March 15th I think and higher cores aren't until April (HEDT chips at least) The SP variants are coming tomorrow.

Guys, I have a question. So I have 3x 980Ti and I am trying to do 3-way SLI. I only have a 2-way and 4-way bridge. I tried using the 4-way bridge but it says SLI connector missing and only SLI's the first two GPUs. I tried flipping the bridge and also tried skipping the first connector and trying connectors 2, 3, 4 instead and same thing. Can the 4-way really not be used for 3-way SLI? I don't have a 3-way SLI bridge lol

My flagship 880M from 2014 has 8GB VRAM 980M had 8GB 1080 had 8GB 2080 had 8GB 2080S had 8GB 3080 has 16GB It took what 7 years to get an increase? Now they're going lower again lol 4080 has 12GB nVidia is going crazy

I personally have not been able to re-use them once I remove heatsink from the cpu or gpu so yes @Etern4l make sure you bought enough. BTW https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/89123922? What's up with the time inconsistency error?

I have a lot...been testing for months. I have tried in: Alienware M18xR2 (i7 3920XM CPU & RTX 3000 GPU) Alienware 18 R1 (i7 4930MX CPU & RTX 3000 GPU) Alienware Area-51m R1 (i9 9900K Desktop CPU & RTX 2080 200w GPU) I have several other computers I will be testing in shortly. From my tests: These are very good for laptop chips (mobile cpus/gpus with the die exposed) my 9900k in area-51m r1 unfortunately didn't receive the same treatment. It reaches 100c. It is a desktop chip so I think for desktop chips that have an IHS, paste will be better. This is of course a single desktop cpu I have tested so far, but for laptops it works well. Several months later and they're still one piece and cooling fine. I didn't order mine from eBay, got it from some site I think it was ebuy7 or something.

Hard to imagine, just a year ago I was asking about the X14 release date here on the forums lol. I bought a X14 on black friday from best buy for $1299 (even cheaper thanks to a gift card) I gotta say I'm impressed. Of course no laptop is perfect so my personal complaints: 1) CPU reaches 100c instantly on load (despite AW claiming liquid metal on CPU or maybe mine is just crap) 2) No subwoofer so audio sounds tiny 3) 75w 3060 instead of 115w or even 80/90w models. I can probably flash vBIOS with 115w model but the usb-c ac adapter is 130w 4) Only USB-C for charging. If AW still kept the old port as well, it would allow much higher power support But overall it's a nice laptop. I bought it knowing well enough the R2 would come out months after I got it. Some benches: TS: https://www.3dmark.com/spy/35694779 FS: https://www.3dmark.com/fs/29515835 I don't feel like writing an essay on the rest so here's my review video for anyone who cares:

He mentioned he installed xtu and saw it said 55w TDP. he changed something in bios and now it shows 157w. At this point we're better off waiting for @win32asmguy to get his m16 to do all the tests since he's a member of this forum and it's easy to communicate with him. There does seem to be performance issue with 13th gen though right now on mobile. Someone from UL (3dmark employee) said they released an update recently to help with 13th gen performance issues on mobile. I also heard from someone at AW that they are aware of performance problems and it's apparently affecting not just AW but all OEMs right now (sounds like an Intel issue). I decided to run TS on my X14 with 12700H, even with it's throttling cpu (due to temps( it gets 13k cpu score: https://www.3dmark.com/spy/35694779 These new cpus should be getting over 20k then

Slowly improving

This is why I always bought the Titan series GPUs. Maxwell Titan X had 12GB VRAM Pascal Titan 12GB Titan V 12GB (I have this one right now) RTX Titan 24GB I bet if RTX Titan Ada comes out it'll be 48GB I knew 3080 was a bad choice for 4K when I saw 10GB VRAM. It's why I went with 3090 instead. It's normally better to buy a GPU with more VRAM (especially 4K). AMD did it right last gen with 16GB cards for top three.

Actually if you had the Alienware Area-51m R1/R2 you had a 200w 2080 that matches/beats desktop 2080: https://www.3dmark.com/fs/19316903 Clevo X170SM-G/TM-G also had 2080/2080S with 150w vBIOS that were neck to neck with desktop 2080. You could also flash it with 200w AW vBIOS to get the full performance too 3000 series was when no laptop was even close

Wow I wish I had even a new one available let alone open box at my local best buy. I heard it will be a few weeks until 4090 config comes out but we'll see

While this is nice, it is useless without current limit support. hopefully we can increase current limit

330w which is correct. No idea on cpu power draw he hasn't mentioned it. If a m16 with 13900hx/4080 shows up at my best buy locally, I may snag one to play with until my m18 with 4090/13980hx is ready lol one issue with reviewers, they probably just ran tests without checking to see if there's any issues. these cpus should perform very close to 13900k (without all core turbo boost enhancement turned on) as long as temps are in check. could also be some bug affecting them, who knows, too early they should be able to beat a 7700x at least easily: https://www.3dmark.com/spy/35559314

What’s interesting is, the guy said his cpu peaked 88c but ran in high 70s for most of the run. I really am wondering if something like AWCC is messing things up or some other software he has on the computer. I’ve seen on passmark these cpus get close to desktop chips so they have the potential. hopefully someone here gets one. I’m waiting for 4090 so I won’t have one anytime soon. btw @win32asmguy on the m18 bios you can turn on dgpu only mode apparently so theoretically those tb4 should output from dgpu in that mode but i’ll give it a test whenever I end up with mine. Also as far as I can tell, 4080/4090 will get the full vapor chamber cooler, not sure on lower tier gpus

No idea, it’s not my computer. All they did was update drivers. They didn’t provide me with any other info. until someone from the forums gets one of the new laptops we’re at the mercy of whatever we find online

Better but still not performing full power yet. Surprisingly the gpu score is exactly the same as before (thought I'd fluctuate at least a little but consistency is good I guess lol) Unfortunately AW didn't release 4090 model so for now I have to wait to order.

It's official. 2x 2280 2x 2230 https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-us/alienware-m18-r1-laptop/alienware-m18-r1-setup-and-specifications/storage?guid=guid-a00459e0-2a64-449c-9f02-581bf2e3c2cf&lang=en-us Perhaps if I get rid of that fan on the side, I can install 2280s in the 2230 slots lol Don't cry @1610ftw looks like there's two ways to install 2280 inside the 2230 slot. Either remove that size fan or get a m.2 extension cable and stick the ssds somewhere else lol

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/5201vs5022/Intel-i9-13980HX-vs-Intel-i9-13900K Not bad! We will see sustained load though since this is just a benchmark.

Wow you really have no idea about benchmarking. Your CPU isn't doing much work at all during the gpu test. That's the point of the gpu test and cpu test being separate, to isolate a bottleneck. Unless you are comparing CPUs 10 generations from each other, the gpu score will hardly be different with CPUs within a few gens of each other. Especially with time spy (a 2560x1440 bench) vs fire strike. 13th gen isn't a magical leap in performance. That 13th gen is performing less than your 12th gen, by your logic if he fixes his cpu score his gpu score will increase, making the gap even further, but it won't change his gpu score because he isn't being bottlenecked by a 10 year old cpu in the gpu test. My Titan V is 9.8% faster on my 10th gen i9 10980XE system in timespy over my 1st gen Xeon X5675s. 18-cores vs 12-cores and an insane amount of IPC increase and clock speed difference between these CPUs. Yet the GPU score is only 9.8% faster and some of this may be due to me doing 110% power vs 100% power in the run. https://www.3dmark.com/compare/spy/30263826/spy/25577703 Anyways enjoy your 3080Ti but don't spread false info. If we are comparing gpus to gpus, you check gpu score vs gpu score.

Let's see.... 18,427 / 13,256 = 1.390087507543754 therefore based on your 3080Ti result vs this persons stock 4080 Mobile result, the 4080 is 39% faster than your 3080Ti from the number above. Oh and that result is out of the box using stock dell paste as well. and yes their cpu score is way too low, they're working on seeing what the problem is.

\\Random TS result I found of the m16 with 4080. 39% faster than the 3080Ti laptop score someone posted of their laptop on page 3. 4090 is an additional 25-30% faster.

Sorry, it's already installed in my system. There's a post on page 1 of this thread with the pic

It's BGA. ALL laptops in 2023 (even Clevo) is full bga now. That should be possible. I did that with Area-51m R1 and that was my plan with m18