Falinov

Someone in China already beat ya to it. The same guy who made the Nvme raptor buffer cards. He's been trying to get a 4k screen to work. With unfortunately not a ton of success he's gone as far to send me one of his prototype PCBs he's developing to make it work. He modified the MXM slot directly and is using a light controller for the backlight it's all manual. I haven't checked on him in a while.

Also I checked your last post. If your intentions is to do what I did. NVME 8tb should be fine just make sure you run the nvme bios. I have one specific for A15 unlocked ive been running. 8tb is a hot SSD. A few things I want you to be absolutely aware of. Good luck.

You absolutely must modify the heatsink. If it is the HP RTX 5000 I would not use a stock heatsink. The ram chips will not line up. 2 of them will be hanging out uncooled. My suggestion- Use the one that came with the card and modify that to fit. I bought multiple from HP directly for this purpose. The 5000 is a hot running card. You're also gonna have issues with power spikes. You will have intermittent fps and a lot of spikes. Just know what you're getting into.

No idea who that is but more the merrier ^_^ Good luck on the mod man. My best wishes to ya. Post back to me when you do. Ofc DM me. I'm curious to see if it will. @Maxware79 @ssj92 dude has literally the same m17xr4 as me only difference is he painted the front grills lol! That's hilarious.

Thank you. 🙂 I wanted to make absolutely sure I was ready to post first. ^_^ Oh cool! Didn't know that. I'll send a message. Thanks! SSG92 mentioned to someone about a resistance mod. He got that information from me. The slot power can be modified through resistor mod on the motherboard to allow more power through the slot. A small job but greatly stabilizes the power delivery. Once you do that and provide external power to a card (if it needs it) it runs as it should.

Hello! Good evening to all of notebook talk! Hopefully I'm posting this to the correct area. Sorry in advance if it isn't! If at all possible it isn't I hope it will let relocated to the correct spot . Ive long since been a long time old school Alienware modder, since the GTX 1070 was first found to work in the old M17xr4, you could say ive been a long time supporter and daily driver of that combination. It wasn't the best but it did well for me and my wallet for a young strapping lad. I am 26 years old, a long time electronics buff. I love working on soldering, repairing tech, drones, it's all cool to me. But I absolutely love Alienware. Specifically the m1.x-R series. Ask me anything! Well; it used to anyways- as of the last couple years now fortunes have turned for me in my favor and now a lot of capital to experiment and broaden my "aspirations" for the platform. This post is for those who are crazy like me or just morbidly curious. Some of you may also notice this is my first post yet I have a collaborator badge already. I am generally a person who isn't good with interacting with people so ice refrained from posting until I was good and ready. I think I'm ready and I hope this post is warmly accepted. @ssj92 thanks for your consistent DMs! Full Disclaimer: A lot of Alienware motherboards were harmed in the making of these experiments- including one of my two RTX 2080 MXMs. Trust me I know it hurt me too emotionally and financially. However their sacrifice produced a ton of fantastic results in the long run for others. So come along with me get to know me and the depths of my depravity- I will maybe share my experiences and get to know all those who still daily these fantastic old girls! 😜 M17Xr4: - an oldie but a goodie. Well let's start off with my first laptop- ever, being my first mobile setup! I'd surely take the time to to through everything Ive done. Well to start off the MSI 1070 was a good chip it was actually defective for nearly 4 years. I knew this after I sent it to Woodstock (yes that Woodstock if he's still around! Ive since deleted my old discord with him on it I should've re-added him; oops) Anyways! I'd say a couple years ago I stumbled across a rare Aetina GTX 1080 on ebay- skeptically I purchased it and it sat in my inventory for a year before I got to work making it fit. Well eventually in spring 2022' I rebuilt the old girl and with some difficulty and some help from another wizard with these laptops (the creator of the MXM NVME raptor card, (yes I know him personally from China!) I modified the motherboard of my 17xr4 and with some external power and a fully copper heatsink and more powerful fans the 1080 was and still is pumping frames combined with a i7-3940Xm running stock voltage and 32 gb 1866 MHz g. Skill ram. I couldn't find another stick of 2133 (if anyone has a set let me know we can negotiate;) ) The result was a pretty stable set of scores I'm sure I'll get scrutiny but let me know your thoughts. She did pretty respectable in my opinion, As you can expect even with all that the 1080 is still a haaaawt card. Now I can already feel in the force some of you are going to be very quick to point out. "But falinov! There's no way you can run that card at full wattage -" Normally you'd be correct yes- There's physical ways around it. From all the research ive done and in collaboration with a ton of other folk across the distant ocean it's widely accepted our aliens have a encrypted list of GPUs the laptop will recognize it's from this list the GPU slot knows how much power to feed off the board to the card. Well since the 1080 and beyond is well after these laptops we have to do INF mods but we also must physically modify the motherboard to allow ANY of the cards I'm displaying today to run at their near peak. You must also provide it external power for the best possible chance of stability. @ssj92 hello again, buddy! 🤗 Nonetheless still happy with it and I still daily it. Add a fresh coat of paint and new covers. Ta-da! Oh and it goes without saying every laptop I own is heavily modified - custom heatsinks, resistance mods, fan mods, NVME raid cards to quad NVME-, and obviously a RTX 2080. Still with me? Wonderful thanks for following through the first I have a couple more of my laptops to share! Next up in this menagerie of laptops is the Alien M17x r5! The ranger. I bought this laptop for dirt cheap - literally pennies on the dollar compared to the value this once proud laptop once sold for (35 bucks or something to that effect.) Screen was broken, GPU was outdated, cpu I'm pretty sure had original thermal paste.- you get the point. Well while I was sourcing the GTX 1080 I had bought 3 HP RTX 4000 cards and a RTX 5000. I'm a gluten... I know. What luck I got them for cheap. (Cheap by comparison to current prices. Much like my r4 it also has motherboard modifications and features a i7 4940 / 30 - this one was perplexing. The card ran the benchmarks it's definitely an RTX 4000 yet 3d mark was absolutely confused opting to identify this card as a generic VGA of all things- also interesting is that the CPU always overheats on the timespy cpu bench regardless of the cpu 4940 or a pedestrian one running at 2.7 ghz- with some forced cooling I forced it past the time spy CPU bench- despite those issues it scores quite well I had to re-run a couple of the tests ^_^ I don't have any pictures of the build but if there's enough demand I'd be happy to show the insides off. Now then onto the elephant of the post. RTX 2080 MXM, a super rare - and expensive card- I have 2... Unfortunately one is definitely dead. That being said I love my Alienware m18 r3. It's a PITA but I love the aesthetics. Fantastic machine. I started this adventure roughly 1 and a half years ago. I started out with the RTX 5000 Which started off as abysmally. Inconsistent power issues, bios problems, and so much more. My oneXplayer 2 P literally pulled in better scores. I later figured that card out- thoroughly i might add and ended up putting it in the m18x r2. Put simply I wasn't satisfied with the 5000. I wanted more. I wanted to push the envelope further. I wanted to take on something I was fairly certain no one else had attempted. A MSI RTX 2080 an "up-to" 200 W card. Well I can tell you after multiple cuts- bruises- and blood everywhere and burns. -the burns... - it was successfully executed. (Blood was from a machining accident...) How far was I to go to make this work? How would I know how good it performed? Hell how did I determine if the card even worked? I bought the laptop the 2080 comes from just to find that out. The MSI GT75VR. I ran the benchmarks of that system with the card in question and these were the results and served as my warmed up baselines. Here were my results of my insanity- the Alienware M18x R3. With that I hope this inspires some folk. I waited so long to make sure I had everything to post and back up my claims. Nothing better than introducing myself and showing off what ive been working on in the background. It is an honor to be among others who love these old machines. And clearly they can still kick some booty. It's a pleasure to make all of your acquaintances. P.S I did add a m18xr2 tag. I have one it's running my RTX 5000 and a rare quad slot NVME it's not done yet. Still waiting to test a few more things before I post it and make sure it's good and ready. With that. Nighty night all! 🙂