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I bought a M6600 for parts the seller claimed MB is probably dead. wanted to ask here in case it’s a dumb issue. AC charger doesn’t cause any lights to turn on. Pressing power button does nothing. I checked to make sure ram is installed, cmos battery cpu etc. any other trick I can try before I end up replacing the MB? I have a M6800 coming that has a battery so I’m going to try its battery in here in case the dc port is messed up or something.

These new designs make the old ones look even better. I mean old ones were good but these new ones are meh. M series was peak for precision lineup.

Interesting, I’ll have to take a look to see if I can find out what is different in vBIOS

I’m waiting for my custom heatsink to be made. Once I get my M18xR1 from repair I’ll test in both R2/R1 with some results. Don’t want to use my a4500 heatsink since it doesn’t fit properly

Have you tried adding ReBar to M18xR2 BIOS? It's a module. If you have a programmer and backup of BIOS I can try making custom BIOS with this. Then you can test newer GPUs in the system. https://github.com/xCuri0/ReBarUEFI

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.