Wait is this on a p870 or a p77 series ? I've tried regular MXM cards in my p870 and I get 0 display . Or the fans go crazy . I tried a quadro p4000 a 980 a quadro rtx 4000 app cards have bioses that are not proprietary . And they worked on my old msi and they all work on my Alienware 18 it was only my p870tm1 they refused and yes the cards all support edp
These will not work without a wire mod . Cisco uses proprietary MXM cards ( the wires I forget which ones are reversed but they are related to power or ground ) that's why your cards don't work . You need two clevo / MSI MXM cards with the power connectors . Be aware 3080s draw up to 125 watt . So make sure your cooking is sufficient m I have a single 3080ti in mine . It's a 200 watt monster of a GPU i have a GTX 1060 in there just for emergency in case the 3080 exercise croaks . The laptop will auto switch to pcie MXM 1
Yeah the big ol vapor chamber that says like 5 pounds helps a lot . I wonder if yours is the earlier model with ihs that needs to be delidded to drop the tenps . Mine is the newer one with the polished mirror finish . I don't need to throttle none down
This machine holds up so well especially with the QTJ1 . Mine at least doesn't instant hit 92 c when over to 4.8 all core with single core 5.2 and dual 5.0 it hits 84 c fully loaded . The only gripe with the p870tm1 even gsync is 75 hz screen limit that has terrible pixel response time
I modded my vapor chamber a different way . I installed a second GPU ( 1060 ) on the other side . Disabled it in the bios m used the mounting pressure from that card . Got a piece of spring steel and tightened it on the 3080 to side and it's been cool . Idles in the 30d and 40s and hits at most 76 c full snot . It's a 200 watt card too lol
the z170 has up to 20 pcie lanes . im not sure how many clevo implemented but clearly you got 16 going through the MXMs and im assuming no issues with nvme so probably has 20 lanes from the pch