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With the pace that Microcenter is building new locations, I'm truly shocked that Phoenix area hasn't gotten one yet. I think Miami is next?

Yes I had an Omen 16 11800H/3070 laptop similar to yours. Had same motherboard I believe. I managed to overclock the RAM to Gear 1 and set 3200MHz CL17 through use of a USB drive and setting the variables myself. No BIOS screen or advanced BIOS unfortunately. Just typing in what I wanted, and pointing it to the addresses essentially. Kinda annoying to do have to it that way, but it works and isn't particularly difficult once you figure it out. At a minimum setting Gear 1 will help greatly. You're already at 3200 CL22 by default, but by default it's using Gear 2 which is terribly slow. Point me to your current BIOS download/file. Let me dump the BIOS file and take a look. Then I'll PM you instructions on how to make the USB file, and how to type the commands. When you get in and get it to do what you want you feel like you hacked your machine lol. Also loved this show, was a shame when they got rid of it.

Sorry to hear about your father, I hope you still enjoy your day and the good food and the great weather!

They very likely modded their card and added the missing VRAM modules. I've seen a few do that, some modded their 3070 laptops to use 16gb VRAM. Easier to do as the density of the GDDR6 modules has gotten higher. The test seems to also really like CPU/memory speed. Have you considered getting that HP into Gear 1? Gear 2 is terrible on laptops. Can shave off an easy 20ns of latency just by switching to Gear 1.

Force ReBar and you should easily be #1.

I have to close out of MSI Afterburner and Riva in order to run the benchmark. So I can't watch clocks in real-time. I set my clock, close out and run the benchmark and it runs fine. Others have reported the same issue so hopefully it gets fixed soon.

Have you forced ReBar through NvInspector for 3dmark? There isn't exactly a profile for SolarBar, but I found forcing for general 3dmark profile it helped a bit. Forced with Battlefield V profile for all 3 toggles in NVINspector.

Absolutely. In case any of us have to RMA a card, were sure to get a castrated version back which is BS. Thankfully this legend took card of that issue. https://www.3dmark.com/search#advanced?test=sb P&cpuId=&gpuId=1520&gpuCount=0&gpuType=ALL&deviceType=ALL&storageModel=ALL&memoryChannels=0&country=&scoreType=overallScore&hofMode=false&showInvalidResults=false&freeParams=&minGpuCoreClock=&maxGpuCoreClock=&minGpuMemClock=&maxGpuMemClock=&minCpuClock=&maxCpuClock= Not sure any of you have tried out this new free benchmark. With my new voltage headroom I've been able to extend my lead. Newest 3dMark is buggy AF. It validated fine, then went back to grab screenshot and shows not. Then launching a benchmark it will show a different benchmark but then launch the correct one. Very buggy behavior lately. O well.

You can now use this patched Nvflash to flash the old vBIOS to get full 1.1v back on any 4090 card. This also works on 4080 as I just flashed my volts limited 4080 back to full 1.11v. github.com/notfromstatefarm/nvflash Credits to this guy.

https://www.ea.com/games/immortals-of-aveum/immortals-of-aveum/news/technology We've now gotten to the point in PC gaming where DEVs have to include a "performance budget" tool to help the kiddo xbox gamers that got their first PC during COVID. The tool helps them adjust their settings so they don't whine and cry post launch it's not running at 400 fps on 4K Ultra. 🤡🤡🤡🤡

Aye whats up GQ!

Looking forward to tinkering with a new chip. Honestly just hoping for another big IMC jump. Also that chip is running at 1.51v IMC LOL. Here, take my heavily abused 13900KS for $2500 that is going to quickly shown up by a 14900K in a couple months lol. Sorry they missed the boat on selling that IMO. Might have been a different story if they had sold it on launch or if it was the last chip for the socket, but luckily were getting some improved silicon.

If you want another 13900KS provantage has over 500 tray 13900KS in stock since a few days ago. https://www.provantage.com/service/searchsvcs?QUERY=13900ks&SUBMIT.x=0&SUBMIT.y=0 I think Central Computers also got a few retail units in stock as well and they don't charge sales tax so it almost works out to the same price as a tray. Nevermind just checked, CC is out of stock of retail but has OEM/Tray in stock. https://www.centralcomputer.com/intel-core-i9-13900ks-13th-gen-processor-24-core-processor-tray-cm8071504820503.html Personally I'll be waiting for 14900K that will drop in 2-3 months.

Nice!! What did it set you back?

I've got 30 days to mess around with it and decide but I'll likely be sticking with this card, pretty happy with it. Can't run Cyberpunk 2077 with path tracing on the XTX.

https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/97072626 I realize this card gets a lot of hate, but for me it's my favorite 40 series card if you don't care about the highest performance. It's matching/beating my 3090 Ti FTW3, using far less power and has better encodes/decoders. It also smashes it to bits with Frame Gen. If Nvidia had given this card 256-bit and 16gb it would have been the card to own for mainstream, but unfortunately were stuck with 12gb which is sort of lack luster in 2023. Price should have been $699 too. Yesterday my 13900KS went to silicon heaven during a stress test. RIP. It's stock VROUT 1.27-1.28v with a lower thank stock LLC finally gave up on me. It was for the best, the chip sucked down an insane 366w at STOCK and that lowered LLC. It should have never been a "KS". Luckily I had a MC warranty on the chip. Ran over to MC with full intention of just getting my gift card and leaving. But I did need a GPU for my spare rig as I was using a 7850 HD 2gb as a placeholder. I tried to convince the MC manager to match the Newegg deal and would have grabbed the AMD Asrock Phantom Gaming 7900 XTX for $799 but they would only do $899. I thought about it, and I realize it's a far more powerful card for normal raster, but AMD's recent moves with DLSS just left a terrible sour taste in my mouth. I decided they can go shove it, and turned around to the Nvidia shelf. I found the TUF 4070 Ti OC for $819 on Newegg and they matched that price. Almost MSRP and it has dual BIOS so I could flash the Strix 366w vBIOS. Anyways I got an OK card. The core seems decent but unfortunately my VRAM is kinda trash. +1100Mhz seems to be my limit, while I've seen other cards doing +2000Mhz. Realistically outside of benching this isn't a big deal so I'm happy. I flashed the Strix vBIOS 366w limit and it will hit that in benchmarks when you unleash the voltage a bit. Ironically this card can pull 1150mV when you max the slider. It does 1100mV at stock. Why the hell can a 4070 Ti use 1150mV but the 4090 is limited to 1100mV or 1070mV on the "new" Nvidia gimped 4090s. All in all pretty happy with this card.

Sort of a blast from the past. 2010 markings on the brand new factory sealed box. Bought off eBay, been looking for awhile and someone over at OC.net linked some. Keeps my dual rank 64gb kit in check. Max temps 45c after 10min Karhu test. This thing moves some serious air, 2 60mm fans. Unfortunately doesn't look like it would fit some Noctua upgrades.

It's Cyberpunk 2077 and Far Cry 6.

150w! Wow that’s insane. The efficiency is quite a bit better. I think it takes around 170w for just 33-34K range on my chip but I’ll double check. Might be worse. I wonder why AMD doesn’t just release an X3D laptop gaming chip and be done with it. I’m using 6000 CL36 38 38 87 TREFI is 20000 and trfc 480. At stock 1.1v Looking at yours, I need to tighten down my tRAS. And I wish I could run DR 6000. I think something in the Legion BIOS blocks or prevents it.

@seanwee Nice scores! Ya it's crazy how much TS seems to hate AMD CPUs. I saw a 13950HX posted the other day over 37K CB23 and I think a 13980HX is 38K territory. I'd be more curious how well the power limit and temps look for that score. My non-shunted 4090 in Far Cry 6 bench with your settings, a lowly 13900HX and single rank DDR5. Curious how much better I'd do if I was shunted too. There just isn't much in it for shunting it seems.

I'll sell you one. Barely used, in my second rig, has a MC warranty.

Yes I’m aware of the combined/crossload power limits on these laptops. I have one. Got a link to that whooping you’re talking about? I’d be curious to see it. 1080p low settings to drive FPS in BF2042 I was seeing over 300fps on my 13900HX and 4080 laptop. My 4090 likely does the same given it’s almost entirely CPU limited in that situation with the GPU pulling nowhere near max TGP. The crossload is under 240w CPU/GPU. Swap to 4K and you’ll be GPU TGP limited and nowhere near CPU limited.

If you have a MC nearby, your best bet is to go into the store, grab a kit or ask the sales rep to see the kit your interested in and look at the model number on the box. GSkill identifies A-Die or M-Die or Samsung Dies right on the box.

No that GPU score is so high because it's shunt modded. It has absolutely nothing to do with stock power at all. All 4090 laptop will happily sit at 175w TGP which is the max allowed through any vendor (except tongfang chassis that use a built in shunt). All 4090 laptops will happily sit at 175w in games/benchmarks. This is the BEST RTX 4090 Laptop (shunted of course) and i9 13900HX. It curb stomps that score. Legion 7i Pro Gen 8 beast mode. https://www.3dmark.com/spy/38610285

Nice! Anyway to get that CPU score up? Seems pretty low and holding back your overall hard.