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A4500 also didn't work for me from Aetina. If you know how to mod BIOS you can add this module and see if it helps: https://github.com/xCuri0/ReBarUEFI

I never got tracking for 3080. It just showed up one day

Wow thanks for this. I will study it later and see what he did. Maybe this could also help us solve the 900 series working on M18xR1 as well. They all seem to be BIOS/vBIOS issues during Dell's Sandy Bridge laptops. Any chance you got his info? Looks like his reddit account is deleted.

Do you have a link to the reddit thread on this vBIOS mod? I have 880M 980M RTX 3000 GPUs so I have a few generations I can play with.

Try this registry mod:

Is the laptop booting up fine though? Or it doesn’t even post with nvidia card? I have some ideas if it at least posts

I have a M6800 & M6600 coming next week. Going to try RTX 3000 in M6800, was going to try 880M in M6600 but it sounds like it doesn't like anything newer than fermi? Is that true?

Where did you buy it? Seems like same PCB as RTX 3080 from X-Vision. Wonder if it'll work in M18x lol

I was hoping to get a B580 Intel Arc Limited Edition card not an AIB one but they're sold out. 4090 Founders?

lol when I was asking about the only W790 at Central Computer's they didn't question me one bit. Not even when I asked for Xeon prices LOL Was kinda nice. I am happy I went with W790 over threadripper. Haven't had this much fun on a desktop platform in awhile. These large beasts are indeed easy to cool. Stock clocks the Noctua cools the cpu easily. This platform has been more reliable than my Z790 with both 12700K & 14900K (latter being the obvious why it's unstable lol). And both of those CPUs were brand new. My last stable platform was X299 so it's nice to see W790 has been ironed out because I saw lots of negative reviews regarding the platform.

I would get the SAGE especially since it's cheaper than it's original price right now. They're even still providing BIOS updates for it whereas the ASRock and ASUS W790 ACE haven't had one in awhile. There's a lot of options in BIOS for memory as well. And it gives you the option to get a 34/35xx CPU with octa-channel memory in the future. Okay nvm I see you went with the sage LOL Use a 120mm fan to blow air to the DIMMs Also you're gonna need liquid cooling probably. What are your CPU temps? I couldn't do better than 4.1Ghz all core with the U14S. Now with 2x480mm RADs I can hit 4.6Ghz quite easily. I guess the 24xx chips probably run cooler too than 34xx

Didn't come out as nice as I had envisioned (hard tubing was hard to bend LOL) but still was a fun build: Just a test at 4.6Ghz:

Try changing to AHCI and see if it sees it. Also make sure you are in UEFI only with legacy rom turned off

I've been wondering why my FS test 1 has such low utilization but FS test 2 is good on every GPU I tested. I think this might be why, I am going to try this and hopefully that's it

2920XM/2960XM/3920XM/3940XM are all going to be very close in performance. What will affect you more is the silicon lottery. 2920/2960XM require higher clocks to match 3920XM/3960XM due to IPC increase. I think it was like 4.3Ghz 2920XM = 4.1GHz 3920XM or maybe even less. I have both 2960XM and 3920XM...when I am done putting them back together (probably weeks from now) I will run fresh benchmarks.

Ah now I am debating on buying another 2x480mm rads and another pump since everything is on sale.....gotta sell some stuff lol Also is Firestrike bad at taking advantage of multiple cores? What do people here get in FS physics with their CPU. This is with 3.9Ghz all core, 4.8Ghz single core, and I think 4.6Ghz 6-12 cores multipliers. This is my absolute limit with my air cooler. 4.1Ghz all core, thermal throttle for a bit.

Corsair was having a black friday sale so I bought 2x 480mm radiators pump/res combo fittings hardline tubing EK waterblock should be all coming tomorrow

My M17xR3 is always on PEG mode because I have the 120hz display. I haven't tested PEG using this method in R2 but yes if you don't care for the NVMe adapter this also works. It is a bit more work initially though since you need to configure windows with which gpu is high performance and power savings. Also both GPUs should be still supported in the drivers. For example, when I had 880M, RTX 5000 was a pain to install, I had to use older geforce drivers and install as a rtx 2080. But now with M2000M in primary, which is still supported, I can install one driver. I think for R2/AW18 SG is probably still better.

Price: $OLD Condition: Brand New (sealed) Warranty: I can register the card under my account so I guess it has 3 years? Reason for sale: A pain to find a waterblock for this model. Payment: Paypal, Venmo, Apple Cash, Local Cash Item location: Martinez, CA Shipping: US48 Included International shipping: Maybe, depending on who you are Handling time: Ships within 1-3 days Feedback: https://www.ebay.com/fdbk/feedback_profile/ssj92?filter=feedback_page:All Specification: https://www.zotac.com/us/product/graphics_card/zotac-gaming-geforce-rtx-4080-super-trinity-oc-white-edition-16gb-gddr6x I bought this thinking it wouldn't be hard finding a waterblock for it, but I was wrong. I couldn't buy a FE card (none in stock). Things I am willing to trade for (+/- Paypal): RTX 4090 FE RTX 4080 Super FE 2x RTX Titan 2x RTX 3090/Ti 2x RTX 2080Ti

Anyone interested in a Zotac RTX 4080 Super White GPU? lol I didn't realize finding a water block for it would be this difficult. Too bad all FE cards are sold out. Everything feels snappy and smooth. Things load up instantly. Unzipping a file with hundreds of small files is fast. Restarting, windows update, etc is fast. So yes there is a noticeable difference, but most people probably can't justify the price per GB compared to a PCIe 5.0 or 4.0 NVMe ssd.

I was thinking of going Corsair Hydro XR7 480mm X2 along with their D5 pump/res combo and an EK water block since there's only like 2 water blocks for lga 4677. Looks like HWLabs is good too. Any recommendations for pump/res combo? If i went 2x480mm would a single pump/res combo be enough or would 2 be better? I was going to get the Corsair Hydro X hardline 14mm tubing along with the gold fitting pack but I'm all ears to what is good these days. I think 2x480mm radiators on top and 8 noctua fans should still be quiet enough and cool this thing better than the current air cooler easily. EDIT: Apparently the XR7 from Corsair is built by HWLabs (GTX Nemesis OEM). I'm also debating on whether I want to go hardline tubing this time and or just get soft tubing. This is what I was looking at originally:

Looks like I got the CPU for $1,195 plus tax, not bad considering a 285K is like $600. If you got 34xx/35xx CPU definetely get the sage motherboard. I've never seen so many BIOS options ever in any other board. Also you get octa-channel. If you get the 24xx/25xx CPU then get a ASRock board for like $600. The Sage is $999, I got it for 949, but it was on sale for 899 recently. 24xx/25xx has 64 lanes, 34xx/35xx has 112 lanes. I think it's worth going 34xx/35xx because every pcie slot is 5.0 x16 (except one @ x8 only because you get two M.2 PCIe 5.0 x4 slots). I don't think the wife would let me have a chiller in the living room LOL. But I do want to do a custom loop. I've only done a custom loop once, but I'm assuming having 4x 480mm radiators would still be beneficial over 2 x480mm radiators? Or does it reach a diminishing returns?

I figured since we're having our first baby in February now is the time for me to build my beast before it's too late lol. I bought a Intel Optane P5800X 400GB SSD (U.2 form factor). It has the Dell EMC branding. Got it from eBay, it was brand new. Cost me $450 which is expensive but I'm using it as a boot drive. Thinking of going ASUS Hyper M.2 4x card for 4x NVMe drives RAID0 or RAID0+1 for my secondary drive. Right now I have SK Hynix 2TB P41 and a 16TB HDD + 10TB HDD (WD Red/WD Gold). My motherboard has SlimSAS ports so I bought a SlimSAS to U.2 cable. It shows up in bios/windows as any ordinary NVMe drive. You can even get a M.2 to U.2 adapter as well. The P5800X is a PCIe 4.0 x4 drive, it's the last/fastest Optane drive made as far as I am aware. I only install OS/Apps on the Optane drive. Everything else will go to the other SSD. There's also the P1600X which is essentially the same thing running at PCIe 3.0 x4 instead. It also has the latest Optane memory as well. Did you get the EVGA SR-3 motherboard? I was debating on going that + W-3175X early in the year but figured I'd wait and glad I did. I'm keeping my SR-2 build, the MB is awesome. Yes Sage is Octa-core. I went with Corsair WS DDR5 ECC RDIMM 128GB (8 x 16GB) DDR5 DRAM 5600MT/s CL40 Memory Kit. I'm running the XMP profile @ 5600Mhz for now which seems to be perfectly stable. Haven't really tried going higher than that yet. With 8-channels the bandwidth is already insane. Stock clocks I get around 58C max temps in CB R23 and around 43K score. The 55K score was at all core 4.1Ghz or 4.0Ghz (forgot which one). At 4.0/4.1Ghz I am hitting 82C temps so I'm already reaching the Noctua NH-U14S DX-4677 limit. I'm seeing 548W peak cpu power. This is all on stock voltage with no increases yet. I can probably daily this easily (especially since right now I only have 1 case fan lol). Case is Corsair 9000D and I plan to buy like 16 Noctua fans later to give it some airflow. Also might go water cooling with 2x480mm radiators at least. PSU is Corsair HX1500i. I got the CPU for less than half of its MSRP. That's kind of how it all started. It was used but it works fine. I had a license of Windows Server 2025 Datacenter so I thought, why not? LOL I'm surprised how similar they made it to the LTSC style builds. Audio was already active, didn't need to do too many registry edits. No MS Store either.

Ah what a roller-coaster it's been. Bought Z790 + 14900K to replace 10980XE + X299 Returned 14900K and bought 12700K as stop-gap for Z890. Bought Core Ultra 9 285K on release with no MB. Returned the Core Ultra 9 285K, sold Z790+12700K system. Bought Xeon W7-3465X + W790 ASUS SAGE MB and the money has been draininngggggggggg But so happy I'm back in HEDT land...lol Just a teaser, I'm probably gonna need liquid cooling instead of my Noctua cooler. This is exactly what I am experiencing. Especially with the Optane P5800X drive. Everything feels so smooth.

It is 100% working in PEG. I can use everything even ray tracing. It can keep up with M18xR2. M2000M in primary and RTX 5000 in secondary allows it to use latest drivers too.