*** Official Clevo P870DM/Sager NP9870-G Owner's Lounge - Phoenix has arisen! ***

Always more RGB

 

RGB Buffs:
+25% FPS !
-14% loading time
-50% system power draw
+30% better overclocking
+90% "MOAAAR" FAME

 

+100% wouldn't do it myself but it's his laptop so I don't gaf or judge it

Besides, modding stuff into the aux power ports is good info for other hard mods down the line should others wish to try them ;p

 

So I was typing "p870dm owner lounge" in google to find this thread,
then I found this YouTube video accidentally, it's funny, lol

 

dunno why but green is the best. green seems to go well with me since it's the colour associated with one's birth date.

so somehow i got stuck with green so gonna make use of it lol

 

anyway... back to laptops......

What do you guys consider bench stable for an OC?
I use AIDA64 CPU+FPU+cache+memory stress for temps and TS Bench 1024M for volts as it seems to be the most sensitive for BSOD.

 

A nice stress test wPRIME v1.5 [Run as adm, Select 8 threads in Advanced settings and fire up 1024M].
If you want test with higher cpu temp in Aida64 cpu stress test... Check only the box with stress FPU and uncheck all other boxes (will give a higher load on processor).
Stable is when everything work alright for your use. In bench, work or gaming.

 

sacrilege!

Personally I just use whatever benchmarks I want to benchmark in + whatever games I game in/play. If I can do all those things and it's stable it's stable. If it never BSODs, thermal throttles or gets errors in all my usage scenios then that's perfect. I don't require to run it for 24 hours in a pissing contest
One of the harshest things I occasionally do is real word use in Handbrake.

 

Personally I stress test 5~8 hours in RealBench with maximum system memory selected.
So far it's been good for me, didn't get any CPU related BSOD or power lost during heavy gaming and work.
There is a suggestion list that I like in the Skylake Overclocking Guide on overclock.net:
http://www.overclock.net/t/1570313/skylake-overclocking-guide-with-statistics


It really depends on how you use the machine, and the tolerance that you can have for BSOD or crashes.

 

Hey guys, I'm still having issues with my colors, just wondering if yours is the same? My blue LEDs dont seem to be bright enough and get overwhelmed by any other color. The Sager support guy wanted me to set my colors to 3 parts, from left to right he wanted Blue, Red, Green.

Max brightness with regular room light
https://goo.gl/photos/9AoCJqx75W2YHvTB7

Lowest brightness with regular room light
https://goo.gl/photos/2NXvBQNzK2PQdWak7

Max brightness and no lights on
https://goo.gl/photos/D89rK67godk7By8s5

Lowest brightness and no lights on
https://goo.gl/photos/Sv2GAopcmUiHnDqBA


As you can see it's not very blue and its more a purple which seems like the red is dominating the blue leds, or rather maybe the blue leds are not working correctly it seems. Using the .50 version of the control center. Is that for everyone or is it just me?

 

Have you tried re-seating the keyboard cables?

 

not yet, do you have a service manual so i know how to take the keyboard off and try that?

 

People looking for extra/replacement screws for the P870DM-G / DM2 / DM3 -

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FTI8TM8/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

This has all the screws you will ever need. I just tested the M2 4L / M2 3L / M2.5 4L / M2.5 8L with my DM1 and the DM3. They fit perfectly.

 

boo! they don't ship to Australia

 

When's Amazon coming to Oz? I might be moving back this year. Yay for slow internet and no Amazon

 

NFI but prime video works

 

I believe prema has them listed over at tech inferno, otherwise there is a single screw near the CPU heatsink under the main cover and then a hole next to the CPU heatsink to push through to bring the keyboard up (it's secured with magnets. Gently pop it up (with the screen open) and you can look at the cables.

 

i don't think my P870DM-G is resellable anymore LOL

 

I dunno not *everyone* is scared of mods and it's got power on it's side. People watching the market know they will not get any change from 3000 for desktop i7 + 1070 + 17 inch + your other stuff.

You'd probably get more by selling as much as you can separately (half your ram, the 950s)

But it would be a loss that'd make you cry in any case...

 

i'd keep the SSDs and RAM (if the RAM was still compatible).

 

Are you giving up after all?

 

has the GTX 1180 arrived?

 

You already enjoyed modding/upgrading your P870DM, you have some benefits for yourself, but the resellers got more advantage than you, maybe they should help you to cover some of that cost and support you to get a new machine, I would do that if I was them.

 

Still getting bloody throttling from somewhere.

Throttlestop shows the limit as "EDP OTHER"
HWinfo shows as 'yes' under both
"IA: Electrical Design Point/Other (ICCMax,PL4,SVID,DDR RAPL)" and
"RING: Max VR Voltage, ICCMax, PL4"

If this ICCMax is the problem since it's common to both throttle issues in hwinfo, how do I raise it?

 

If you reset everything to stock and it does it then reflash the BIOS/EC as something might have got confused in the firmware.

 

Try following this from @Phoenix :

 

my GPU heatsink mod is going strong.

 

If you see the BIOS screenshots I posted everything follows those values (except PL3 time window which Phoenix sets below the minimum anyway)

It shows up as "Current Limit Throttling" in XTU... I thought this issue was completely removed by Prema bios? hmmmm

 

So is my development of inter-dimensional travel.

 

Not sure what that means.

Sent from my SM-N910G using Tapatalk

 

Try reset the BIOS, re-flash BIOS and EC, then try your settings again, I faced some unusual behavior with my BIOS, sometimes the settings not applied, sometimes even after reset I got wrong values effecting the laptop whole performance and I need manually set the default values, make sure that you have the latest BIOS version from @Prema

 

Same problem here. Getting "Current Limit Throttling"

 

Disable RSR.

 

Hi, how you got 120Hz QHD TN AUO in your P870DM-G?

 

Magic!

He bought my P870DM3 which had that 3K 120hz/5ms panel, he didn't like it that much, so he put that screen in his older P870DM and used the screen on his P870DM to swap it and put it in his new P870DM3.

Be smart, be like bloodhawk

 

Thank you for answer. Does it mean that FHD IPS display on P870DM nicer than 3K 120hz TN one?

 

He had a 4K display.

 

color wise and clarity, yes, smoothness and gaming overall joy, the 3K 120hz/5ms

What would I choose if I had to pick only one? the IPS 75hz FHD GSYNC one, the colors are more vivid / text appears sharper

 

Anyone knows if that 3K 120hz 5ms display can be installed to P870DM-G?

 

Swapped the QHD for the 4K I had in my DM1. Perfect panel.

 

Uhh.. it IS installed in my P870DM-G.
And working just fine.

 

Really, then the original one which is in my P870DM-G i guess. It's overclocked to 103hz, but what i worry about is response time and blurring since i like fps games like Battlefield.

 

just don't look for it (the ghosting), and you won't see it

I never noticed it until some people mentioned it that I started hunting for it. Just enjoy your IPS screen

 

Good job.

 

Anyone else other than me and @Coolane gonna do a 1070 upgrade?

LOL

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I had the same problem before when I was having my overclocked 970M SLI, I tried out everything within my knowledge still couldn't solve it.
At the end @Prema helped me with a stronger EC to cope with this.
This problem was discussed here before:
https://www.techinferno.com/index.php?/forums/topic/2442-biosvbios-mods-prema-mod™-stock/&page=143
Mr.Fox also made a video about it:

 

I saw that vid - though I disagree with his contention that 'performance isn't affected', my IBT throughput at 4.6 with throttle is lower than what I get at 4.5 with throttle or 4.4 without.

and thanks for the thread link. Maybe the guy I bought this off didn't flash the EC, only prema bios... Anyway Prema made a BIOS+EC for me to try and get this 4K panel flawless - so I'll try that when I can

I'm itching to do a mod to this thing... but time, the rx480 not working, a 1070 non-sli being not a huge amount better than 980m sli, the 1070 sli version not working on the internal panel of the one guy who's tried it, plus a huge backlog of games I still have to churn through (what a chore)...

 

anyone tried steamOS?

 

A pair of 980Ms is still doing fine for FHD/QHD gaming, and they can be overclocked to 1202~1290 MHz for core and 5500 MHz for vram for stable use. That might bring you some extra 10% performance and compensate some SLI scaling inefficiency.
According to rumor, Volta might come earlier. So maybe wait and see what NV will offer next and if MSI will still make the standard board for 1170 or so...
I am dreaming Ryzen 1800X with RX490 crossfire in a Clevo machine.