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Hi guys, The time to separate with my beloved HP DreamColor 8770W has come. I managed to get for a reasonable price of 1150€ Clevo P775TM1-G with 9900K, RTX 2080, 32GB 2400 DDR4 and 144Hz IPS screen. As it is a new field for me (outside my comfort zone:) I have several questions to you and would be very grateful if you could give me some hand on some, why not all?:) 1. Do I need unlocked sbios in case to control the DDR4s timings and would be wise if I upgrade the RAM to 3200MHz CL16 Crucial Ballistics? 2. Which system bios is the best for this machine? 3. I found a spare Clevo RTX 3070 MXM, but the guy asks for 1200€ incl. modded heatsink. Is there a big difference between RTX 2080 and RTX 3070? Is it worth such an upgrade? 4. Which NVME ssd would you recommend? I would like something very speedy😊 For now I can’t think of other questions, if you can help me with those I would really appreciate it! thanks! and Happy New Year to all!

Hmm.. I‘ve tried with two different 3940XM and one 3840QM…all failed to boot at 2133Mhz…

iPhone 13 Mini. Would never go bigger. Too pity they won't make it in this form factor anymore.

I tried with RAM modules rated at 2133MHz, doesn't boot unfortunately. The CPU is bios-level locked, so no room for O/C with XTU either...

HP 8770W DC here. Upgrades until now: CPU: i7 3940XM RAM: 32GB DDR3L 12800 Kingston HyperX @1866MHz/CL9 UV@1.2V GPU: MSI GTX1070 8GB DDR5 (@1924/4400) 17’3 DreamColor IPS 10bit FullHD Display @75Hz SSD: 512GB Samsung 860 PRO SSD + 1TB Samsung 860 EVO mSata SSD + 2TB Samsung 870 EVO SSD + 2TB HDD Toshiba L200 WiFi Modul: Intel WiFi 6 AX200 WWAN Modul: Huawei ME909s-120p v2 LTE/4G 150Mbps WWAN GPU custom heatsink: I don't believe there is something left to be upgraded besides eventually GTX 1080 MSi (ver. without power connector) with heavy cooling mod.