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It's more of the sandwich it would create, the middle drive wont breathe at all SATA II or III (both generate similar amounts of heat really especially for hard drives).

 

we dont got that problem with m18x r 2 though, and HDDs are further away from the fan unlike this lappy.

 

So....I pulled my other board out today to have a look at what went wrong with yours...
And this is the part im not understanding.....








There is one screw and a thermal pad with adhesive on it on the opposite end of the screw. Right across from the thermal pad.
This thing looks to be made of aluminum, very flexible metal, that's for sure.

So before the board even got placed into your case you would have seen that and been able to fix it in all of 25 seconds or had them replace the board.

So, when the board got placed in the case the aluminum heat sink got moved and bent when you screwed the board in place, Thus bending the aluminum upward at the point it was either pinched between the post and the motherboard or you tried screwing a screw in the hole from the wrong side....I'm pretty sure it was the first part.

Looking at your pictures....I would make sure that thing is not still sitting on any of those black chips on the board since that is where your cpu heat sink is suppose to sit flush.

 

Does Sager ever replace anything under warranty for free? Seems like every time something fails or has a problem you end up having to pay for the parts. Even when you bought your first P570WM and had never even removed the bottom cover it was somehow your fault, LOL. I remember they said you scratched the CPU or CPU heat sink, or something like that. They did not believe you about not even having taken off the bottom cover. And, wasn't that when the machine was less than a month old? That's not a good precedent.

 

See if you can see them now.

And 350.bucks is a steal!

But....You really do not need another board unless you fried the one you are on now. Just take it apart and fix the tin. Even on a bad day...10 minutes. Even if it's in two pieces, it's still fixable. Even if it's bent crazy, it's still fixable.

 

I would just not accept the package and let it get sent back to sender. Or have them cancel the order if you just purchased it and they haven't shipped it yet.
My next question is... Does your board actually work right now as is?

 

It should at least post even without that heatsink, sounds like you got a dud board....

 

Best to go with plan B.

 

hey John, how do you get the voltage to stay lower than 1.3? iirc meaker mentioned this can't be undervolted due to bios restriction.

 

I never mentioned anything about undervolting. I'm only going by the chip I have in my machine and in my possession.

 

I'm looking to upgrade my SLI 880m to SLI 980m and I understand it isn't merely plug and play. Can anyone please provide me with a quick tutorial so I won't brick my laptop? Thanks!

 

That's correct, I have a P570WM that's purchased from Mythlogic.

 

I have 880m in SLI right now.

 

Sometimes there's nothing like a nice video to show you the way:


Hmmm...they may have left out a step or two...
EDIT...YUP, they did...

Perhaps, you should consider this procedure by a resident expert, although for a different machine. Taken together, you should get the gist:

 

Ok, got it. Thank you so much guys

 

Did you plug in all 4 adapters at the same time or was it just the normal two?

 

That totally sucks.

 

That's rotten luck

 

Wow, what a bummer Brother @Kpaxx. Sorry to hear this.

 

Not yet. Still running 780M SLI for the time being. If all was planning to do with the Panther is play games, I would not even bother with the upgrade. 780M SLI is more than enough for smooth performance with everything I've played. Gotta have the 980M SLI for vanity/benching.

Ran Witcher 3 for a little while last night for testing purposes with Ultra settings and maxed out post-processing and 780M SLI had no problem holding 50-60 FPS with that piece of boring bloatware. With more realistic graphic settings it looks pretty much the same to me and is over 60 FPS.

I've preordered this... can hardly wait for it to get here. That's my kind of gaming fun right there.
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980M SLI is great for those with high resolution external displays or if your inbuilt panel can reach high refresh rates.

 

It can reach 2560x1440P@100 to 120hz, but the dpi is what kills running that 24/7. The higher refresh rate helps, but still a bit fuzzy.

 

Yeah, I think that's pretty important. Running a display at non-native resolution has seldom produced nice results for me. Running a 4K display at a lower resolution looks crappy as well. I don't think it matters whether you are going up or down, native resolution seems to produce the best results in terms of appearance quality.

 

Games looked great (depending on one's point of view - To me they all looked ok. And that is pretty much with every single game i have tested or played in the last 20+ years.), but desktop looked a bit fuzzy.

 

Yes, that's the problem for me also. Running the Sky X9 4K screen at 1440p or 1080p desktop text and text in web pages is fuzzy looking, and the experience is about the same as running 1080p on the Panther at 1440p. Games look really good and so do photos and videos, it's really only text that looks bad.

 

i run 60hz 900p on my 18xr2, dislike small text/icon, hands down. even on 24" display i do max 1080p only.

 

Mine rocked the 1440p 144hz asus swift I have, should work really well for VR too.

 

sorry for offtop... can you please help me? i have sent PM

 

I prefer to answer questions on the forum rather than PM otherwise I would spend all day answering those. Check my reply to the post you put on the forum.

 

Plus it might help more than one person if it is posted in the thread. The PM can only help one person. We can always move posts to another thread or create a new thread if it turns into a lengthy off-topic discussion. Only takes a few mouse clicks to do that.

 

Also I am not the font of all knowledge, others may be able to give a better answer

 

so i read so far about EC for fan control in his laptop is quite poor, fn + 1 would max fan any way to have it bind to a regular keyboard key? laptop keys would have the fn key however regular keyboard doesnt.

 

polaris and pascal gpu mid this yr or end of the yr, still possible mxm 3.0? i feel bad for the peep that have the laptop 980 cause with a die shrink improvement with same clock/ cores w new tech will see 30-50% boost over the old 980m. possibly HBM on mobile gpu no? but i wonder how laptop heatsink would work with HBM lol.

 

AMD have confirmed a mobile high end gpu in their AMA but no further details at this time.

 

likely polaris 14nm ff with hbm lol

 

Yes with twice the perf/watt of current chips.

 

imagine that you get same performance of a 980m but only as a 70w card lol

 

If it's better than 980M's then im all over this....maybe....haha

 

If AMD fail to get a significant lead over current maxwell then something has gone horribly wrong, they need a generational improvement, not an increment.

They need to be aiming for 980 desktop class performance at 970M power consumption levels.

 

More like 980 ti or titan x. 980 has been done already.

 

i'd be all for it, waited forever tbh for a GPU upgrade. what are the chances of it coming in more than 8GB of vram.

HBM2 would help lol

 

I remember 99 percent of the forum said 8gb of vram was a waste, now everyone looking for more. lol

 

it was, until i need to run 3 games on 3 display all at the same time with decent resolution and fps lol.

 

It was needed before that.
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Later we changed a few things and maxed at 3999....

 

4GB is fine for 980M class chips, however when you move the core power up it can run at higher frame rates/resolutions so needs more.

Also while you jacked the ram use up to that you also got the frame rate down to 11 fps

 

You are quite the funny guy. At the time we were only showing that the game could in fact use the 4 gbs of ram, nothing more. No one said anything about being playable at the time. And that was a 780M at stock.
The argument at the time was that 2gb was king and 4gb was a waste.

 

since im not a gpu person and i run games at 900p or less at medium settings 4gb is overkill for me. now if i try to get them to 60fps all on 900p with high settings im sure i'll need more than just 4gb, even 8gb is questionable.

but yea a 14nm/16nm gpu that runs much cooler, much more efficient and at 100w we can get almost double the performance sounds amazing. pair that up with HBM or HBM2 is hard to turn down.

 

Yeah, I'm not a gamer...I play casual. Stock clocks at 1080P.

 

so why do u hardcore oc gpu lol.

 

Is the game or gpu really "able" to use more than 4gb if the frame rate is already tanked before you get a hit from the lack of ram?

Technically yes but it's like saying an Intel gpu can game at 4K.

Also tweakers do it because they enjoy pushing the hardware I'm a bit of both, I game and tweak so i also get the benefit of that, but you always have to scale back the clocks from the bleeding edge.

My titan-x clocks to 1550/8200 but I run it at 1485/8000 to keep things sane.