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I'm sure @kenny27will be interested in your results since he also bought a MXM NVMe adapter like you

Wait how did intel kill MXM with alder lake? MXM is just PCIe so as long as the machine is either hooked up to the dGPU directly to the display or if there's a intel iGPU there should be Optimus support.

P4000 is a great GPU indeed especially at $200. Even now it can be found on eBay for $280. 1060 can surpass it since 1060 can be overclocked however. P4000 is locked otherwise it would have good potential. https://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/26323934/fs/25466379/fs/16862474/fs/19775399/fs/4002945

AW 17 R1 can also run P4000 in SG (Optimus) mode using unlocked BIOS. Just wanted to clarify this. Congrats on the M17xR4, one of my favorite designs.

I don't see a "custom builds" section so I guess I'll just post this here. Sorry I don't have many pics on this one. They're old and I've changed a few things around. Specs: Corsair 900D CaseEVGA SR-2 Motherboard2x Intel Xeon X5675 CPUs48GB DDR3 1600Mhz RAM2 x 120GB SSD RAID02x Titan V1x Titan Xp1x RTX 3090 KINGPINEVGA 1600w G+ PSUWindows 11 The SR-2 was released in 2010: https://www.evga.com/articles/00537/ I was in high school at the time and dreamed of owning this motherboard. Truly one of EVGA's best design. I bought it last year actually. I looked everywhere for one and found someone on reddit local who was selling it since 2020. It was posted 9 months ago from my PM to the seller. Turns out he still had it and we made a deal on the SR-2, RAM, CPUs, Heatsinks and 900D case. GPUs are a bit overkill but for a system like this I couldn't resist. I use it remotely and wanted to find a way to allocate each GPU to a different VM and be able to game anywhere in the house using multiple computers. Unfortunately I don't game much so it was all more for fun lol. And to be honest all my laptops besides my mac has a gaming gpu lol.

I think A17+ is the latest one and should work well.

Internal panel. I don't use external on any of my laptops.

$2,184.23 after tax. I was only able to get $41 savings lol. Was hoping to get it at $2,000 after tax max. Might wait for now. My config is the i7 32gb ram, 512gb ssd, rtx 3060. Maybe I'll try another rep. I got $400 off on my Area-51m. Dude said laptop was just released but my Area-51m was also just released. Funny you mention this. I cannot perceive any input lag on my M18xR2 or AW 18 in Optimus mode. I think this was something more unique to that generation of laptops or the 13 itself. 13 did have input lag for sure.

Shoot I didn't see the threads until today. I wanted to submit notebookenthusiasts.com 😔 Are these the only names that were submitted?

My favorite GPU design 😍 I had two in SLI and then tried a third one back in the day. Maybe one of these days I'll pick two up for cheap and put them in a old rig for fun

I think the size is smaller than AW 13 R3. bezels are very thin. I agree on soldered RAM and LCD options but 1080p 400nits dolby vision and 99% P3 gamut is very good. It might be a mini led panel

Here's some of my pics. Ignore the "milky way" one. I somehow added the wrong pic a long time ago and never noticed. My current gear: Celestron C11 on Celestron CGEM DX Mount Nikon 600mm F4E Lens ASI120MC for Planets Nikon D500/D700/D800/D850 for DSO Gear used in pics: Celestron C11 Celestron C9.25 Celestron C6 Newtonian Orion ED80 CF ASI120MC Canon T2i Nikon D800 Celestrn CGEM DX Mount Celestron Advanced VX Mount Unfortunately my CGEM DX mount is having issues right now. The firmware flashed failed and right now one of the motor firmware is corrupted. Trying to see if there's any chips on the board I can flash with programmer or if I need whole new board.

iPhone 13 Pro Max. Have literally owned every single Note series (except 7 for obvious reasons) and iPhone (except 5) series so now I am debating whether I want to try Android again with S22 Ultra.

Anyone know when the X14 will be released or when it can be ordered? Not sure if I'll be able to get one or want one depending on price but it's the most interesting one to me for now.

I have no HDDs in any of my computers except my main desktop. That computer also acts as a server for the others in a way. It has 2x Western Digital Red 8TB HDDs using Microsoft Storage Spaces mirror mode. If 8TB SSDs were cheaper I'd probably have all SSD only computers.

I have Windows 11 on a few computers now: Alienware M14xR2 (unsupported by microsoft but you know how much more that makes me want to run it =D everything working fine) SR-2 desktop (2x Xeon 5675 CPUs, 48GB RAM, 4 GPUs, 2 PSUs, 2xSSD RAID0, no UEFI support, but everything works well LOL) Alienware Area-51m R1 (officially supported, all runs well) Alienware Aurora R4 desktop (officially supported [ see sig for specs] and it works well) My other laptops are still running 10. I use startisback on 10 and startallback on 11. No other way I'd use either OS. I'd love to dual boot 7 on some of these computers but most of them have ax200/ax210 wi-fi cards so I'd have to wi-fi.

I'm sure @kenny27 also wants this too but just to make sure, I wouldn't want to modify the chassis in any way to get new heatsinks to fit. One that fits right in without any mods to chassis would be my preferred one. Since you are getting the nvme raptor card it will be interesting to see if we can extend cpu heatsink and also cover raptor card or keep everything separate and get a heatsink to cover the raptor card itself

Donkey Kong 64 Pokemon Gold Version by far these are probably my fav and I have re-played them too many times

Alienware M18xR2: Intel Core i7 3920XM CPU 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3L 2133Mhz RAM NVMe MXM Adapter with 1TB Samsung 980 PRO SSD 2x Samsung 860 Evo RAID0 nVidia RTX 3000 MXM GPU Intel AX210 Wi-Fi 6E + BT 5.2 Mini PCIe Card 18.4" Display OC to 80Hz Alienware 18: Intel Core i7 4930MX 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3L 1600Mhz RAM NVMe MXM Adapter with 1TB SK Hynix SSD 2x 512GB SK Hynix SSD RAID0 80GB mSATA SSD nVidia RTX 3000 MXM GPU Intel AX210 Wi-Fi 6E + BT 5.2 Mini PCIe Card 18.4" Display OC to 90Hz Alienware Area-51m R1: RAM is upgraded to 64GB DDR4 2400Mhz Wi-FI is upgraded to Intel AX200 Wi-Fi 6 + BT 5 Alienware M14xR2: Wi-Fi upgraded to Intel AX210 Wi-FI 6E + BT 5.2 Alienware Aurora R4 Desktop: Intel Core i9 10980XE 18-Core CPU EVGA X299 Micro Motherboard EVGA 1200w P+ Power Supply nVidia RTX 3090 (currently swapped out for Titan V) Noctua Dual Tower Cooler 1TB SK Hynix NVMe SSD 2 x 8TB Western Digital Red Raid1

I don't use liquid metal anymore. But I think there may be some here that still do.

You can find unlocked bios for aw laptops here:

Here is a list of all of the Alienware unlocked BIOS' for laptops that I had saved. All credit goes to their original owners. Flash at your own risk. Do NOT post these links elsewhere. If you want to share this publicly, upload the file yourself to your preferred sharing site. I'm missing AW14 A09 unlocked BIOS so if you have it let me know. Otherwise I believe I got the major ones here. Alienware M18xR2 A11 Unlocked: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GZ2NztBkAp_Xro1qtxWTIcjDH7CSgb8H/view?usp=sharing Alienware M18xR1 A05 Unlocked: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lyjZZ-MfHLx2tA4g_X9HYOSQ7plGoLtB/view?usp=sharing A05 Swick Updated: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15hcq2MfaAzIDGlualq35v-MBnji9MXB4/view?usp=sharing Alienware 18: A12 Unlocked: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-mxq9kECuoMW-OwcGxrgIvaguoVWE1xG/view?usp=sharing Alienware M17xR4: A11 Unlocked: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LCiA4JsSHq56tqxnAAznTja9gxQsZ4A_/view?usp=sharing A15 Unlocked: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X3lA4FtpY1hy7lywelJMNQgjORUQT4Gm/view?usp=sharing Alienware M17xR3: A12 Unlocked + SATA Fix: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HIJe7_lgBQaQGBJUFZK2vuxYBOy7b8gL/view?usp=sharing Alienware M17xR2: A10 Unlocked V1F: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i_soj-5xFMsJLsv2TC3Hk1ffWaGTW8kP/view?usp=sharing Alienware 17 R1: A14+ Unlocked: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M6QfFKTVQsFWgZTOE_StJNVd5BRwLBi-/view?usp=sharing A17+ Unlocked: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15M4yxIoIT3_vmBd3m_MkDeic7ozO4mzi/view?usp=sharing Alienware M15x (i3/i5/i7): A09 Unlocked: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13GKcKBiOR8D8OQ8NAj9SMGpKaxbDghk0/view?usp=sharing Alienware M14xR2: A13 Unlocked: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EnbZVcqxiwqlcAxla94Nf2tt62dNvPw0/view?usp=sharing A03 Unlocked: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Pb4XVTPZVURzJfW9fVZItanyRkK2a-tE/view?usp=sharing Alienware M14xR1: A08 Unlocked + SATA Fix: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eeh0sduSnWba6is8OGXkDc2m9zKapPvV/view?usp=sharing Alienware M11xR3: A05 Unlocked: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D2fWHD7KS1b6tVpiVdl_bGvYYv4KYHh9/view?usp=sharing

No performance loss from what i can see. My AW18 has only the RTX 3000 and has the newer 4930MX CPU. They perform about the same.

I'm still interested @kenny27 I am still waiting to see if A4500 has offset core or not. the pics are still not finalized. If the whitepaper reveals the core is not offset we may be able to get away without having to have one support offset cores.

I use SK Hynix 1TB in AW 18 and 980 PRO in M18xR2 so it should not matter. The Raptor card is built well in that any SSD should work even 8TB in theory