Platform choice for 3080 Xvison

[Yarema]

Hi! So i can buy M18X r2 Nebula red for 450 dollars, it is equipped with i7 3840QM and single gtx 770 , 16GB ddr3 1600 ram and 256GB ssd

I also can buy 18 ranger with 4810MQ and 980M (8 gb) also single , with 100% battery, 512GB SSD and 2TB HDD and 32GB ram HyperX

Im planning to buy 3 pipes CPU heatsink ( for m18x r2 its twice more expensive than same for Ranger)

I also plan to use Honeywell PTM 7950 for CPU

What CPU ( i will OC it anyway) will be more bottleneck for 3080Xvision?
Will this 3080 fit in Ranger, or heatsink from Ebay only designed for M18X r2?
I also like design of m18x r2 much more but 18r1 is much better price and better specs, especially HyperX 32 Ram and 2,5TB disc space
I heard also, 3920/40XM can handle 4,7GHZ which im not sure 4930\40 can handle, and i doubt that 4th gen IPC growth will be suficcient to higher clocks of 3920\40

Please, advice!

 

[panda_zzz]

I would not consider alienware laptops on the haswell platform (ranger & viking) because there are possible power limitations of video cards.
so I would choose between m18x r2 (better possible CPU cooling, possible nvme in the second mxm slot, but 8 pcie lines for video card) and m17x r4 (slightly worse CPU cooling, but slightly more compact and mxm slot for 16 pcie lines).

[Yarema]

Yes , sir @ssj92 also adviced m18x r2

I guess im buying it from here 
https://www.olx.pl/d/oferta/dell-alienware-m18x-r2-CID99-ID11wtYI.html

3840QM....means 1 heatpipe.

Means i need also to buy 3 heatpipe heatsink for 3940XM or 3920XM, didnt decide yet what is better, heard 3920XM has better OC potential

[ssj92]

Doesn't matter 3920XM or 3940XM, whichever is better price. 

 

Silicon lottery will make larger difference than CPU model. They OC almost the same, more important is if you get a good clocking cpu or not. 

 

All of them can hit 4.4Ghz, 4.5Ghz+ will depend on your cpu and how much voltage it needs. 

 

I run 4.1Ghz without any additional voltage. Performs just fine for everything. If something really is CPU bottlenecked then I clock to 4.5Ghz with extra voltage. 

[SuperMG3]

On 4/3/2025 at 1:49 PM, Yarema said:

Hi! So i can buy M18X r2 Nebula red for 450 dollars, it is equipped with i7 3840QM and single gtx 770 , 16GB ddr3 1600 ram and 256GB ssd

I also can buy 18 ranger with 4810MQ and 980M (8 gb) also single , with 100% battery, 512GB SSD and 2TB HDD and 32GB ram HyperX

Im planning to buy 3 pipes CPU heatsink ( for m18x r2 its twice more expensive than same for Ranger)

I also plan to use Honeywell PTM 7950 for CPU

What CPU ( i will OC it anyway) will be more bottleneck for 3080Xvision?
Will this 3080 fit in Ranger, or heatsink from Ebay only designed for M18X r2

Hello. The heatsink won't fit because of the screw holes offset from the new card. You have to heavily modify your heatsink.

 

The temps are good with a 3080 if you have a good thermal paste.