What have you upgraded on your current laptop(s)?

[Reciever]

P750ZM

 

i7 4790 > i7 9700F

16GB DDR3 > 32GB 2666Mhz DDR4

240GB Evo 850 Pro > (Expansion) 1TB SSD + 2TB SSD

GTX 970m > GTX 1080 @ 190w
1080p60 IPS > 1080p144hz

P750ZM board to P750DM

[Azther]

Alienware M18X R2

(started as a parted out ebay purchase and is now my main laptop)

 

Single-pipe CPU heatsink > Dual-Pipe

16GB Mismatched DDR3 > 32GB HyperX DDR3 1600Mhz

mSata 256GB SSD > 1TB Samsung Evo 850 mSata

No HDD Caddy > 2x 1TB Crucial BX500 and 1x 2TB Crucial MX500

Blu-Ray Drive > 4TB Crucial MX500

No GPU > Nvidia Quadro P4000

Added NVMe adapter into 2nd MXM slot with Samsung 970 Evo Plus 2TB

 

Also ordered a Express Card 54 to 2x USB 3.0 to see how that works, tried a startech branded one prior but it would refuse to work from cold boot

[razor0601]

On 2/24/2022 at 3:24 AM, Reciever said:

P750ZM

 

i7 4790 > i7 9700F

16GB DDR3 > 32GB 2666Mhz DDR4

240GB Evo 850 Pro > (Expansion) 1TB SSD + 2TB SSD

GTX 970m > GTX 1080 @ 190w
1080p60 IPS > 1080p144hz

P750ZM board to P750DM

How you get a GTX 1080 working in your P750DM?

[Reciever]

14 minutes ago, razor0601 said:

How you get a GTX 1080 working in your P750DM?

I am using the MSI GTX 1080 version, no supplementary power required but requires extensive heatsink modification since the GPU die is located in a nonstandard layout.

[razor0601]

12 hours ago, Reciever said:

I am using the MSI GTX 1080 version, no supplementary power required but requires extensive heatsink modification since the GPU die is located in a nonstandard layout.

Ah ok. Can you send me some photos? 

[Reciever]

3 minutes ago, razor0601 said:

Ah ok. Can you send me some photos? 

Can do you one better 🙂

 

https://www.nbrchive.net/xfa/hardware-components-and-aftermarket-upgrades.27/Clevo P750FM (aka P750DM) - The Ultimate MSI GTX 1080 FrankenMod Upgrade/

[razor0601]

Thank you for that. Because I want to do the same with an MSI GTX 1070. DaMafiaGamer also had a thread but I can‘t find it.

Do you have also the issue that the P750DM restarts after shutdown?

[Reciever]

It's in the nbrchive but iirc the pictures were broken on nbr. 

 

I believe DaMafiaGamer might have mentioned something like that but I tend to leave my systems running 

[razor0601]

21 hours ago, Reciever said:

It's in the nbrchive but iirc the pictures were broken on nbr. 

 

I believe DaMafiaGamer might have mentioned something like that but I tend to leave my systems running 

Do you know where to find him? 

[Reciever]

He has an account here, you could pm or mention him 

[K4sum1]

Why is such a complex mod needed for a card (1070), which fits just fine in other older laptops like the 8770W?

[Reciever]

41 minutes ago, K4sum1 said:

Why is such a complex mod needed for a card (1070), which fits just fine in other older laptops like the 8770W?

For the MSI 1070 its needed, Zotac or any other MXM 3.0b standard layout its not needed.

 

8770w is a good machine, didnt tame the heat all that well initially, cant remember the rest of the thread all that well. 

 

https://www.nbrchive.net/xfa/hardware-components-and-aftermarket-upgrades.27/GTX 1070 on HP EliteBook 8770W DC - it works!/

[K4sum1]

I want to get a new card for my 8770W eventually (probably either gonna fix my 980m or upgrade to the 1070), but I bought a T430 as something more portable that I can browse the web on and play some lighter games. For now I put the 3630QM and 16GB of RAM that was in my 8770W in the T430, but I'm not sure what else I should do. Probably should have just dealt with my 980m from my 8770W being broken until I could fix it, but I have wanted something a bit more portable.

 

[Reciever]

1 hour ago, K4sum1 said:

I want to get a new card for my 8770W eventually (probably either gonna fix my 980m or upgrade to the 1070), but I bought a T430 as something more portable that I can browse the web on and play some lighter games. For now I put the 3630QM and 16GB of RAM that was in my 8770W in the T430, but I'm not sure what else I should do. Probably should have just dealt with my 980m from my 8770W being broken until I could fix it, but I have wanted something a bit more portable.

 

 

I liked the t430 as well but I went for the t440p since I had all the parts sitting around the house

[jaybee83]

Have been rocking my current P751DM for about 7 years now:

 

CPU - 6700K (Stock) to 7700K (SL bin) to 9900K (SL bin)

Storage 1 - 1TB 850 Pro SATA to 1TB 970 Pro M.2 4x3.0 pcie

Storage 2 - Added 2x4TB 860 Evo SATA

RAM - Upgraded to 4x8GB DDR4-3800 (dont recall stock config lol)

Cooling - Repadded and repasted everything on CPU, GPU, VRMs, PCH with liquid metal, fujipoly pads, kryonaut / Delidded CPU and repasted with liquid metal between die & ihs

Wifi - Intel 8265 to Intel AX200

 

Been thinking about upgrading my 980M to a P5200 for a longer while...

At the same time, ive now been saving up for a monster desktop for about 2 years now and planning to drop the cash once AM5 and RTX 40 series come out 😛 decisions, decisions!

Maybe ill just do both 😁 My Dark Knight is pretty close to my heart, after all....

[K4sum1]

5 hours ago, jaybee83 said:

CPU - 6700K (Stock) to 7700K (SL bin) to 9900K (SL bin)

How hot does the 9900K run?

 

[jaybee83]

2 minutes ago, K4sum1 said:

How hot does the 9900K run?

 

oh boy that depends on like a gazillion factors....

the bin, clocks, voltage, application, ambient temperature, cooling (paste, delid, surrounding thermal pads, etc.)

 

i have mine set up at 42/44/46/47/47/48/48/50x Multis for 8 to 1 cores in use, respectively, with a -100 mV UV applied to it. Idles around 40-50, goes up to 70C with light use (browser, media consumption, games, office, etc.) and up into the 90s under heavy loads (transcoding, benching, etc.)

can go up to 5.2 ghz for benches but yeah, that is definitely not stable for everyday 😄 

[K4sum1]

9900t sounds like a better fit, it performs around a 2700X, but eBay prices are a bit expensive.

[jaybee83]

Just now, K4sum1 said:

9900t sounds like a better fit, it performs around a 2700X, but eBay prices are a bit expensive.

in the end it doesnt matter, since u can just limit the max wattage and turn any 9900 sku into an 9900T, basically. but yeah, its definitely a beast inside a laptop and not straight-forward to tame 😄 

[aldarxt]

I guess this is where I'll start my issue, I upgraded my m17xr4, purchased in Feb 2022, !7-3630qm to I7-3940xm,GTX 660m to Quadro P4000, some mixed up ram to XMP2  Kingston 16GB (4x4GB) SO-DIMM 1866 MHz DDR3 , added 2TB samsung 960 EVO, triple pipe vapor chamber copper CPU heatsink, overclocked in BIOS to 45ghs and adjusted the fans. It does not overheat or throttle. My m18xr2 i7-3610qm to i7-3940xm, GTX 660m to GTX 970m SLI to Quadro P4000, 32g slow ram, 2 3.84TB intel DC S4610 SSD, 2TB barricuda HDD in DVD caddy and triple pipes for CPU and GPU and most recently a fat double pipe extreme for CPU but still overheating and throttling. The next upgrade is beginning to look like the Frankenmod on NBR. I need a vapor chamber copper heatsink for CPU i7-3940xm. I am looking to take the vapor chamber plate for the m17xr4, unsolder it and rout out space for m18xr2 triple pipes and solder them on. The triple pipe copper is $44 so it wont break the bank in case of failure. The soldering gives me the most worry, I may use a torch like when doing copper plumbing pipe, soldering iron wont cut it. But thats where I feel most confident. The difference between the m18xr2 and m17xr4 is enough to get the big beast back as the leader of the pack

[solidus1983]

So far i on Current laptop the X170KM-G, I have upgraded the RAM from 4GB 2133M/Ts to 32GB 4x8GB 2133M/Ts then to 32GB 2x16GB 2933M/Ts.

I have also upgraded the SSD Heastink too, Repasted the GPU/CPU as well as new Thermal Pads.

Tomorrow hopefully i will be Upgrading the 17.3" 144hz 1080p screen to 17.3" 165hz 1440p.

 

Then all thats left is the i5 11400 to be upgraded to an 17 11700KF then the build is completed.

[ColtC7]

I haven't physically upgraded anything on my crappy laptop, but I have installed a modified VBIOS on the K3100M to give it a performance boost(1124MHz core 1.075v, 2600MHz VRAM).

[jaybee83]

2 hours ago, ColtC7 said:

I haven't physically upgraded anything on my crappy laptop, but I have installed a modified VBIOS on the K3100M to give it a performance boost(1124MHz core 1.075v, 2600MHz VRAM).

every little bit helps! besides, its all in the fun and satisfaction to get a little bit more out of ur existing hardware without spending any extra money, just time on your hobby 😛 haha

[Kitje]

It was a long trek for my M4800 (main) and Zbook 15 G2.

 

My M4800 got the most. Initially it had an i5 4200M, got the 4810MQ as a boost. While the AMD FirePro M5100 wasn't a terrible slouch I wanted more VRAM, and I had my WX4150 laying about unused due to partial incompatibility with the Zbook 15 G2.

 

This was where things got a little complicated. Mainboard didn't use eDP but rather LVDS, meaning a swap of the display assembly after getting the mainboard swapped. I guess it's an upgrade, going from LVDS to eDP.

 

When I got that working, I wanted an 8-bit high gamut panel and bought a 120Hz Innolux N156HHE-GA1. After that I bought an MSATA drive, pieced together 32GB RAM and was done.

 

My Zbook wasn't too complicated, but took effort. Went from TN to IPS, K610M to M2000M and put in an SSD for boot, and an HDD in an ODD bay and I was done.

[Vasudev]

Upgraded RAM/SSDs and also added laptop skins. Even replaced LCD cables as well.