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hi, did you try to clear CMOS? Worst case scenario you need CH341A to reflash the main bios chip

cool! what was the problem? What did you do to get it working?

As far as I know, RTX3k will only work with optimus as the edp channel on the card is not the right one... So you need LVDS screen and SG mode. Then it will work.

well, that's weird indeed for the 980m. You should try dell vbios on it. Fortunately maxwell gen can crossflash vbios easily. Silly question: did you try throttlestop & uncheck BD_PROCHOT? Sometimes it's the solution to strange throttling behaviour... For the tesla m6, I'm pretty confident that unlocked BIOS & SG parameter should do the trick. Tesla m6 is a really good card but needs to be driven via OPTIMUS.

I don't remember if it was p3000 or p4000 that I tried, and IIRC it was with some O/C vbios I got from macrumors... I don't have any quadro car atm, nor any working AW laptop... I should get an m17x r4 so I'm gonna try a 1060 6GB with it, along with O/C vbios & edp screens (144hz & 300hz I have)

hi, your 980m is throttling, most probably due to heat / power. Look on gpuz sensors and see the perf cap reason, that should give you a clue about what's going wrong. You might try some other vbios, IIRC you can get unlocked vbios on on techinferno About the tesla m6, it works but SG must be set on in BIOS (optimus mode on). It will not work at all with 120hz screen. If it does not show, either card is defective, or you need to do a full bios reset (take the coin cell out).

If you stick with 60Hz screen, then yes, RTX3k is definitely THE better choice

Hi mate, If you wanna stick with 120hz, screen, you may cross RTX as they won't work on internal screen. P3200/4200/5200 need soldered bios chip & I'm not sure whether they would work in PEG so I'd stay away from them. I'd definitely go for 1070, which ha in my opinion a much better price/perf ratio than the p5000. You might also find some cheap p4000, and I found once an overclocked vbios for it (maybe coming from @TheQuentincc IIRC), that was nearly on par with stock 1070

hi SapphiraTriX298, do you live in the US / Canada or in Europe? I'd be interested in the 4TB ssd if you live in Europe (to avoid customs taxes). Thank you

do you have the unlocked BIOS in it? Have you tried to reset CMOS? I definitely think it's a vbios issue.

Pascal cards do work with edp screen on R4: https://www.nbrchive.net/xfa/alienware-17-and-m17x.1079/Alienware m17x R4 GTX1070 mxm successful upgrade/

The second connector on the MB is for edp. The cable is 40pin 0.5mm pitch so most edp screens should work (except the narrow 0.4mm ones that may need an adapter). But the problem is the fitting as the 3D screen has same layout as LVDS (big metal frame with side mountings) whereas new edp screens are all slim type with top/bottom mounting tabs (or without any tabs at all). In any case it has to be DIY mounting with 3M rubber tape. But it works 🙂

On the R4, the edp cable for the 3d screen is 40pin. So basically you can put any edp screen with that câble, including 4 lanes 2k/165hz screen.

Hi, I'm pretty sure that quadro pascal & geforce 1060 / 1070 work in PEG mode. But it may vary if you have a wrong vbios... Some pascal geforce have gsync vbios that may prevent screen from working in PEG. Same goes for pascal quadros. You might wanna ask @TheQuentincc about it

Hi. PNY/Aetina RTX3000 works perfectly fine in m6700/m6800. Your rx6600xt May work in m6700 but only on external screen as m6700 disable hybrid graphics with any AMD card. Unless you have edp screen & your rx6600 has edp registers enabled, it will not work on internal screen.

Hi mate, alienware/dell don't have native fan control for AMD cards except for firepro m6000/6100 or 7970m. You may use hwinfo64 to use alternate EC control and force the GPU fan to work (you can even create automatic profile). It's not perfect, but it works OK (done this with my R4 & rx480 mxm) AMD mxm cards are pain in the arse, ie my rx480 showed code 43 or driver install errors until I found a good vbios. Then it worked flawlessly. Good luck

@ÊtaPegasus: Hi, It's been awhile already and I did not take notes on my mounting, as it was just a quick test... - SG mode? Yes - driver version and driver installation method : I don't remember exactly but it was either last geforce mobile driver / quadro mobile, I did the inf mod myself - heatsink model (oem or 5 pipe copper) and pad placement : OEM nvidia 100W IIRC - testing methodolgy: nvidia kombustor --> I did not notice any TDP drop - vBios version: 90.06.53.00.7D - sBios version: A14+ or A16 by Remek002, UNLOCKED of course. I did not tamper with bios settings, except force SG mode. Sorry I cannot help you more. As I told you before it was a quick test on the 17 R1 but I did not notice any TDP drop. That's why I was so surprised when I encountered that on my friend's AW18... Just to compare, screenshot on AW18 R1 was done with HP RTX 3000, the one from m17x r4 was with PNY RTX 3000. As you can see, with HP variant, there's no TDP drop on the AW18. PS: es-tu Francais par hasard?

Hi, I tested the PNY Quadro RTX 3000 (standard mxm 3.0 type B) -> 1F76 hardware id Card is working with: MSI GT60 / GT70 Ivy bridge & Haswell (with optimus ON) DELL M6800 Alienware m17x r4 & 17 r1, m18x r2 & 18 r1 (on AW18 I had strange 40W performance cap) HP Zbook 17 G1 & G2

Hi, Quadros are LOCKED unfortunately. And usually they have lower memory frequency than the geforce counterpart, that explains your lower scores.

most probably! But I tested the exact same card with the same heatsink in m18x R2 after I tested it the AW18. Both laptops have unlocked BIOS obvisously with same BIOS settings --> it worked flawlessly with the R2 but the AW18 showed some strange 40W TDP limit (due to RAM throttle at 200Mhz). Either it's a strange bug from HASWELL AW motherboard or it's something with the vbios of the card, as the HP RTX3K worked alright on the AW18

Hi mate, Sorry it also happens on your AW 17. I could not find any solution for my friend's 18 so I installed his 1060 back. I installed a year ago an HP RTX3k in an AW18 and it worked flawlessly. Maybe key is to crossflash this RTX 3K with HP vbios. TDP is 90W for HP & 80W for PNY but I'm pretty sure PNY one can handle the extra 10W without a hiccup

Hi mate. Exact same issue... That's really weird because hp rtx 3k works well in Aw18...

At 80w RTX3000 is the same as 150w GeForce 1070. But it runs cooler and gives you RT and DLSS. IMO it's much better

Wow man! I'd not recommand Radeon for your alienware as the fan will not work unless you auto start hwinfo (or some other fan profile software). But RTX 3060 for 285$?? The price is totally crazy 😀 If the site is legit, that's a gold mine you found us!