Ordered a Eurocom Sky X9 through HIDevolution

After my excellent experience with HIDevolution's service and great warranty service, after selling my previous P870DM-G today because I don't want anything to do with SLI anymore (thanks to nVIDIA's crappy drivers and support for SLI), I ordered a Eurocom Sky X9 with the Prema BIOS BUT through HIDevolution since they have good relations with Eurocom, this way, I get the beast from Eurocom and the great Prema BIOS BUT with HIDevolution's great service. Heck, they even started processing the order without me paying a penny since they know me as I told them the cheque that I got from my previous laptop's buyer needs two days to get cleared.

Here are the specs I ordered this time:

Eurocom Sky X9 17.3" Custom Built to Order Desktop Replacement Laptop

CPU: Intel Skylake i7 6700K
Thermal Paste: IC Diamond on CPU + GPU
RAM: Samsung 64GB 2133MHz RAM
Screen: 17.3" 1920x1080 IPS FHD (16:9) LED Antiglare Matte Type Display w/ NVIDIA G-Sync Technology
Screen Warranty: 30 Days Zero Defective Pixel Warranty (perfect panel guarantee)
GPU: nVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 8GB GDDR5 (Desktop version) - NVIDIA G-Sync Enabled
Storage: 1024GB Dual SSD (2 x Samsung 950 Pro 512GB M.2 NVMe PCIe x4 3D-VNAND SSD) + 2x Samsung Spinpoint 2TB 5400RPM HDDs
Power Adapter: 2x 330W (660W) adapters
Wireless Card: Killer™ Wireless-AC N1535 ac/a/g/n 2x2 NGFF w/ Bluetooth 4.1
Warranty: 3 Year HIDevolution Limited Global Warranty + LIFETIME HIDevolution Technical Support

Price: $5184 USD

 

Nice! I see you went with the single GPU after all

I would attempt to order from a USA reseller but import fees make the whole thing just too much:/

 

I see

 

you can always cut down a bit on the specs and upgrade later

 

if the product is in stock, then 2-3 business days.

 

Also if you don't mind waiting 2 more business days, ask them to get you a Eurocom branded one with the Prema Mod BIOS preinstalled instead of just getting a barebone Clevo with the standard crappy BIOS

 

Hmm sounds promising!

I got in touch with Ted via e-mail and sent him a build I made so he can give me a price. I'll see how it goes
600$ Just for warranty will kill my budget at the moment xD

 

the standard 1 year warranty is still there, the only thing is you have to pay shipping if the laptop needs shipping but they are very very helpful. Like when I needed a new keyboard coz my old one had flimsy keys, they just sent me a new keyboard free of charge.

If your CPU goes bad during the first year, you can ship the CPU only to them and not the whole system if you are comfortable to change it by yourself. It's all up to you but you don't HAVE to buy the extra warranty bro

 

Yeah I get it.. Il most def add it later if I end up ordering

Why didn't you go for the other thermal paste option? Or you don't plan on OC'ing?

 

With the previous P870DM-G I had, I saw no difference really, maybe I didn't have a thick enough layer of Liquid Ultra so it didn't make good contact with the heatsink Either way, I think IC Diamond is pretty good so no need for me to pay extra for Liquid Ultra now as I wasn't impressed by it the last time despite how everyone swears by it. I couldn't go 100% stable on all cores more than a 4.2 GHz. I was able to get a 4.5 GHz OC thanks to Mr. Fox but I had a problem where the system wouldn't restart so I had to manually do a forced shutdown each time. I don't like that. I am happy with a 42x4 OC to be honest as I value stability more than anything.

 

Oh I see, I see... And no extra heatsink for the same reasons I guess?

 

Yup I learned that from @jaybee83 she/he told me that all those extra heatsinks do is delay the time the CPU reaches a certain temp but since they have no fan blowing on them its of no use since they will just hold the heat.

 

Nice good to know
Also, you think I should go with the dual power adapters for the 980M SLI?
If I wasn't to change stock voltages or do over the top oc'ing?

 

Didnt make one bit of a difference on stock settings. The moment you enable SLI,the CPU starts throttling all the way down to 3.6 GHz on stock settings. Another reason to avoid SLI. It is one big pain in the butt

 

Ugh:/
So that means I'll have to use Prema to stop the throttling.. Even so im not sure if i should order the second adapter or not..

 

Doesn't hurt, I would if I were you. As Mr. Fox says, 2 are better than one

 

Alright, it sounds sensible to do so...
What did you do regarding the OS? did you have a key from last time?

 

With my xtu settings the CPU clock never went under 4.5ghz when I had the profile. I run it at 4.5ghz with a -100mv and 2 GPUs on +220mhz/+400mhz fine on single adapter.

 

That's interesting, I'm running -200mV @ 4.2Ghz and GPUs on stock but my laptop and AC adapter still shut down. I found out in Universe Sandbox 2 during a certain simulation the laptop shuts off. It did this twice now so I'm about to attach a Kill-A-Watt meter and see what's going on. It can't be temps either since I monitored those the second time before it shut off again.

Edit: Alright so using hwinfo/RTSS, only one GPU was being taxed @ 99% usage since it doesn't support SLI. The CPU usage was maybe 20% on all cores.

Kill-A-Watt read I believe 276W total before the laptop shut down, then the PSU light shut off a few seconds after.

 

Thats very interesting. laptop probably is drawing less the 276 since PSU efficency. Do you have anther 330w PSU to test?


By the way whats your stock gpu voltage. I was running my cards on 1.062v. It seems like I really did had a pair of golden cards.

 

I'll test my secondary PSU right now

My cards both run at 1.062v on full load.

 

Then that really shouldnt be an issue in terms of load. 276*0.85 gives me 235. Thats make sense for a single 980m.

 

Heh. That shouldnt be the case. More surface area means higher rate of heat transfer. Even with no fan blowing on them, things dont "hold" heat if there is a temperature difference between the surround medium and the object. And if the gpu/cpu keep generating heat, the copper heatsink will always be hotter.

 

Tried PSU 2, shut down @ 264Watts, but wait it gets better! Upon restarting I was greeted to this:



I had a feeling something was wrong with GPU2 since day 1 but from what I can tell both cards are bad or GPU1 is bad. I'm going to try them one by one.

 

^Do the same test with single gpu see if the same thing happens. You either have 2 bad psu or something is fishy with laptop.

 

Tried GPU1 by itself, nothing but lines/artifacts like in the picture.

Tried GPU2 in slot 1 by itself, first boot saw artifacts during BIOS screen then went away. Windows device manager had error code 43. Rebooted, didn't see artifacts this time, no more error 43. I've been in game for about 5 minutes now so far.

GPU2 just crashed as well..

 

Using that much under volt could be causing some instability. What is the voltage and load at what speed?

FYI I saw instability after -120 during gaming before the Prema bios at stock speeds so I switched to static voltage with throttle stop at higher speeds and a lower under volt for max perf at lower clocks, -60 to -90 seemed to perform the very best and was stable with all gameplay for me.

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So both gpu's are faulty then?


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Not that the GPUs aren't probably bad but after reading your description it sounds like possibly something else has lead to the failure hardware related since both cards went bad in the Master slot. It will be interesting to see what components pass and fail. Keep us posted.