Official Clevo PC70DP /DR /DS Owner's Lounge

Mine is the same variant, 105 W with boost.

 

Hi!
So I guess I am now a proud owner too
I bought a Captiva Highend Gaming I60-984 with a RTX 3080 MaxQ that is based on the PCX0DX barebone. I asked the manufacturer if the BIOS available at https://my.hidrive.com/share/yze8mg-wf8#$/BIOS and EC Firmware/CLEVO/P_Series/PCxxDxx is valid for this model, as well as Clevo directly, awaiting answer.

I am very tempted (not now, but maybe in a few years, after warranty is gone) to flash a higher TDP to the RTX 3080, as it is 95+10W Dynamic Boost. The temps are 60-75C on the GPU while TimeSpy 3DMark. I think the overclocking utility from Clevo for the GPU does not work, as the score is exactly the same even if I add +300 to the core clock. All games run fine, but I know I am leaving performance on the table due to restrictions of power. The i7-10750H of course runs hot, but a -120mv undervolt works fine, and it is the weak link of the laptop I guess, but I got it at a very good price and I am quite happy with it.

Will be tinkering with overclocking and such. I would also like to unlock the advanced BIOS settings but I do not want to mess anything, so I will not while I do not have more info about the BIOS.

I am glad to have found this community and if you have any tips to optimize performance in this model, I would welcome them!

Best,
Tommy

 

The overclocking will set but the power limit will be the over riding factor here, an undervolt using MSI afterburner (Ctrl + F for the frequency/voltage curve) would probably help.

 

Good idea, thanks! I will try it after I get back from work!
I ran TimeSpy also yesterday directly in a external monitor and got slightly better minimum FPS and score, must be Optimus doing its thing hehe A pity it cannot be switched off from what I understand, I had an ASUS where it was possible but I do not know if it is hardwired to display in this model. Will do some more tweaking and share the results.
Thank you all!

 

Some old clevo models could do it too but it was not understood by most people and went unused a lot.

 

Hi there,
Has anybody experience using double sided SSDs like the Corsair MP510 series in this model ? The 4TB model has a thickness of 3,5mm & corsair support confirmed that this series is intended for laptop use as well - but the question is whether it would fit in ?

 

I would think so but you can always check by looking at the height of the support.

 

Thanks for the info! The thing is that I am about to become an owner of this model, I am not one yet And if I am not mistaken, the bios battery is located underneath the SSD slots, so the question is whether it works and does not cause any issues.

 

I would wait and double check when in your hands.

 

Hi guys.
A question: any idea if Resizable BAR will be enabled for this kind of models? Is it up to Clevo or each reseller? (if it is supported in Intel HM470 chipset, I have seen some Gigabyte laptops with the same that support it, but not sure)

BTW, long story short, but I bricked the BIOS when I installed the BIOS from Clevo Center (the link I posted a while back, it is not oficially supported by Clevo.com.tw), it installed fine without any warnings but it sure is NOT compatible, I think it has to do with the iGPU/dGPU switch as the laptop was working but no display, and then stopped working all together. Captiva was kind enough to take care of warranty and I think they had to send it back to Taiwan for repair/BIOS reflash hehe Just to share the information

PD: the Aorus 15G is the same GPU, CPU, chipset and supposedly has resizable BAR.
https://www.gigabyte.com/Laptop/AORUS-15G--RTX-30-Series/sp#sp

 

Hi, thanks for the advice.

I received my laptop and I added a double sided and a single sided SSD to it. Just wanted to share the experiences I made in case someone has similar requirements, i.e. needs more local storage and is trying to figure out whether this model is the right one.

As far as I know, there are at least 3 different slot types available with regards to the height - and on top of it, this model has a rather unique design regarding the SSD-Slot positioning:
The BIOS battery is located right underneath one of the slots on top of a u-shaped metal base.
To my knowledge, those batteries won't take much more than 60 degrees celsius during a longer period of time, else they may blow up, so I wanted to make sure it works.

As the laptop and the SSDs are quite expensive on their own, I did not want to just order everything and try it out. So I got in touch with my laptop vendor and I was lucky that they just had that SSD-model in stock, even though they did not offer it yet in their configurator, and they did a test assembly.

They confirmed that it fits and they allowed the use of one double sided SSD in the slot that does not have the BIOS battery underneath. So I ordered both SSDs. I was also able to use the little thermal pads that have been delivered with the notebook, but I had to use a pencil to flatten the one for the double sided SSD to make it fit without having to use any force or tension.

I had a close look at the NVME-temperature sensors as well: During normal office / programming work, the sensors report around 40- 50 degrees celsius. The transferring of a 2TB partition leads to peak temperatures around 60 - 70 degrees celsius, though.

So far everything runs smoothly. Usually it is quite painful to get linux running on new hardware, let alone laptops, but it worked like a charm with that laptop and linux distri I am running, I only had to fetch the latest kernel & the corresponding firmware files. My laptop vendor specializes in Linux, though and replaces the standard bios firmware with its own.