well that's really weird?
Did you tweak anything?? Cause every other person that tried PNY RTX3k on AW 17/18 reported heavy throttling
Same happens with RTX 3060 12GB, but to a lesser extent (reduces core & mem frequency accordingly and not only mem frequency as the PNY RTX3k)
I've never seen any Pascal card (1060 / 1070 /p3k /p4k/p5k) throttle on AW18 / 17. Don't know about 1080 / Px200
there's no point using SLI / Crossfire cards anymore.
One is more than enough.
Fan control can be tricked on dell / alienware via hwinfo or speedfan.
Unlocked bios is not necessary but I strongly advise to flash it as it will give you hidden possibilities
Will most probably work on:
- Alienware M17x r4 and 17 R1 with edp screens
- dell m4/6700, m4/6800, precision 7710 / 20
- all Clevo lineup ranging from p771zm to P775tm (X170 may work too)
- msi gt72, gt73 series
- Hp zbook g1 to g6, elitebooks 8770, 8570
- other whitebooks or derived laptops with mxm
We all thought that RTX cards only worked with optimus enabled laptops.
With a bit of digging (thanks @SuperMG) and testing, we can definity assume cards such as RTX (Turing, ada...) do work with edp only laptops provided they have DP_D or EDP lanes on the MXM port.
Baseline:
concept (thank you SuperMG):
https://notebooktalk.net/topic/2195-rtx-3080-in-m18xr2-should-i-do-it-lol/page/9/
How to:
On clevo P870, solder MXM lanes 23 25 27 (PNL PW et BL) to 3.3V_RUN (via mxm lanes or directly on motherboard)
https://ibb.co/QjD3p5pQ
We tested on 3.3VS and it did not work perfect (sometimes random black screen)
https://ibb.co/sJQ8D5Hs
Proof of work:
Test with SuperMG RTX4070 MXM
https://ibb.co/zT1FTxQZ
Test with my Quadro RTX 3000 PNY (Adlink):
https://ibb.co/zVjrWmgp
https://ibb.co/mVBfdVnc
Drawbacks:
- brightness control donβt work (stays in full brightness)
- requires soldering skills.
But SuperMG is working on a flat ribbon that would do the wire trick without any solder skills.
- drivers still need modding (nvidia at least) thus secure boot might fail.