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Whats sad is i have the vapor chamber with the added cpu part to assist in cooling the cpu . i really wanted the one from aliexpress but now you cant get it LOL wont go into reason why . political .... but still the one with the included part for the cpu is doing very well. i just need to mod it so it can actually mount onto my 3080 ti mxm 180 watt

It's so sad my Alienware 18 r1 viking died ;( lol I'm now rocking a p870tm1 but I miss my Alienware a bit . Nice to see the 3080 standard MXM cards work in these old beasts . If I get another viking or ranger I know what I'm doing also the MXM slots are limited to 115 watt unless you resister mod

Fair enough I'll message him I hope he's not to cagey about what he did as cash is tight . ATM I have a foam block pressing again the inside of the chassis and the heatsink and the highest I'm getting now is 70s on hotspot and core

My heatsink looks very similar to this but has the added mount for the CPU as well (4 Screw on top of CPU heatsink ) otherwise identical

So I have the vapor chamber heatsink myself ( dual 1070 version I think ) what I did with mine was get a copper shims from an old Dell e6400 heatsink . Sanded it down flat then applied thermal paste on both sides . Then the two tabs ( one on the left and right that you screw down ) I bent them upward a bit to apply more pressure . Used all my pads and puddy and my 3080 ti ( apparently according to gpuz and CPU z ) is pretty cool . The hot spot does hit 92c but the core never exceed 80 ish . And the clocks are 1880mhz and pulls near 180 watt... It was modded by someone and a seller on eBay sold it . She's a spicy card . If I could see how developer modified the heatsink is appreciate it 🙂

I have one of these and I it has an rtx 3080 in it 16gb card . Really nice notebook I'm using the sli heatsink ( the big black heavy one ) lol and aside from not being able to directly mount it to the GPU it works fine . GPU is cooled ok ( isles at 39 c ) but will spike to 80 plus . Need to figure out how to mount it without paying a bunch at shy rate . Lovely notebook

oo thia ia nice . going to do this to my p4000 in my alienware 18

Furthermore . I'm in talks with xvision s out the Rx 6600 . They have the xt and non . They are 130 watts so they will be a bit power limited at 110 until resister 004 is soldered . But I'm not sure if they will work on haswell

Yeah we need a hero to patch the bios . Since at least on haswell you can use the sleep bug to flash modded bios . Rebar would be a big win for haswell based Alienware units

Weird that only 2 memory channels work . Hmm that's odd funny thing is I do have some rather rare 16gb ddr3l 1600 sodimms . They were released with Siemens tablet PCs . And yes they do work and I've tested more ram in my old 6800 when I had it . Had 64gb ram in it and it booted and ran fine . Even though the Intel website lists 32gb max it's because at the time of release 8gb sticks were pretty much the norm and max ..the 16gb ddr3l sticks cake out right at broad well so ddr4 was the go to

Hey where can I get one of those mutant i7 4980hqs at ? I want one for my aw 18 Viking lol my 4930mx is a hot mess that can't do 4.2 to save it's life

Hey look up a program called custom resolution utility . When you run it you can add 75 Hz and then hit export ..select .exe and name the app/ did to 75hz and save somewhere . Then double click it under admin and select install edid then reboot and you will have 75hz added to your list of refresh rates under Windows display settings . My Vikings screen is at 120hz and it's beautiful

I just thought I'd chime in , I have a Viking myself and for a while I did have the issue with the GPU 1 fan not spinning . I was in windows 10 at the time then upgraded to 11 . Had the issue still but did a fresh install and both my fans spin now when the gpus are under load . I have the stock 970 in slot 0 and the p4000 in slot 1 both fans spin up . Now I will say batteries for these laptops are hit and miss as every battery I've bought including an ifixit one has died or acted weird after a whole . I'm curious about the resister mod . I have a vague idea where it is but I need to know what resister to add .

where are people grabbing the i7 4980hq mutants ? i need one for my alienware 18 atm i have a 4930mx fine cpu but the 128mb l4 cache really helps with a lot of games plus the iris being as fast as a gt740 will make things feel less sluggish since you have to use IGPU in windows also for those wanting 4050s in these i think we need above 4g decoding

I have an Alienware 18 with a 4930mx . I'm on a15 . Is there an unlocked version of that bios ?

Oh this is nice to see im glad we have a new forum to chat on 🙂 im still running a rtx 4000 in my alienware 17 r1 . got it during the mning craze . its a good gpu but will not boost at all.

I'd be curious to see the performance with that card

Mrfox is awesome helped me out a few times when I needed a m4000m modded :) ATM I'm looking at unlocking my bios . Since I have the ranger and I have a very odd screen the is edp but 60 hz yet Optimus works .??? Very odd plus opening up my laptop both display cables lvds and edp are plugged into the screen . Idk how bit they are . I got my ranger used the guy bought a screen replacement I've tried u plugging either cable thinking maybe he made an error but with either cable unplugged results in the 8 beeps or so . So it's a weird configuration but it works and the screen looks great . Anyway point I'd I'll keep an eye out for an rtx . I did find a rtx 5000 for 600 hp but I'll then need a bios chip and programmer . Long story short of anyone can provide a tutorial on flashing the a17 unlocked bios od appreciate it

really cool to see a new forum about our alienwares since tech inferno and notebook check both went away i have a ranger r 1 . i see a bunch of hp quadro 3 4 and 5 k cards i thgought the hp ones lacked a vbios as the informations was loaded into the zbook v bios . am i incorrect ?