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  1. Update on this. Looks like external power is still needed. The adapter doesn't seem to draw any power from laptop. Sad to say I have got no use of the adapter now. So now I am looking to sell this adapter. It's a revision 2 of gerald's adapter. Message me if anyone's interested.
  2. Hey @gerald. I have your ultrabay adapter and have one very specific query related to it. I want to run an ethernet pcie card with ultrabay adapter. To my knowledge the card requires 3v from pcie slot and takes around 4-5w power. Does your ultrabay adapter take any form of power (3v, 5v etc.) from pcie slot? If i intend to run a 4-5W pcie lan card, will i need external power supply? I am trying to get hands on a physical card only to test but seems not possible at the moment as they are non-returnable.
  3. I have one and i am looking to sell it. Please let me know if you are interested.
  4. Have you tried using the USB 2.0 port? I know a lot of people had success with USB 2.0 port and a pen drive that only supports USB 2.0. Might give it a try.
  5. I have been using DevManView (by Nirsoft) to disable dGPU for years now and it doesn't re-enable after reboot. Using this method is way easier than blocking the install. Command: devmanview.exe /disable "NVIDIA GeForce GT 755M"
  6. Hello. I assume you have a HDD caddy to use additional HDD in the ultrabay port (not the ultrabay HDD that lenovo advertised but never sold?). I use a HDD caddy myself and used to be in the same situation as you where I wanted to be able to use HDD with or without eGPU and to be able to go mobile quickly whenever needed. Hence I thought of a solution. I bought a simple SlimSATA cable and created a enclosure for both slimsata and the ultrabay adapter (I have gerald's final design ultrabay adapter). SlimSATA is the port where the HDD is connected to with HDD caddy. You can see that the HDD Caddy is attached to laptop through ultrabay as is, meaning, if I wanted to go mobile all I have to do is: 1. remove ultrabay adapter from laptop 2. remove HDD Caddy from ultrabay adapter 3. Insert HDD Caddy to ultrabay slot in the laptop and that's it. Doens't matter which design of ultrabay you get you can modify it to something like explained above. All you'll need is some sata/slimsata cable. I hope that is what you wanted to know! EDIT: I forgot to mention that this is not the final iteration of the modification I made. I moved the cable to the back side so that I can put the HDD Caddy behind the laptop and it would'nt get in way while I use my mouse Do you have 8 GB RAM or 16 GB? Are you still using RX580? I tried running Warzone using 1070 but it ran very poorly.
  7. It is throttling due to power limit. PL2 = Power limit. I do not own Y50-70 but i do own the predecessor Y510p and there is a way to bypass this limit but it'll not help in your case as your temps are already very high. Even a slight increase in power limit will push temps to 100 degrees easily. Let's assume you have improved the cooling and bypassed power limit, still you might get limited by current throttling (EDP). There is no way to bypass EDP in your system. In short, you can improve cooling a bit and get a bit more performance but you cannot bypass the throttling limits. Blame lenovo.
  8. I have used the default sd card tray as a switch in my case. Ejecting the tray disconnects the connection and full fan. EDIT: Earlier i was using kensington lock port with a switch but it was not feasible since ultrabay always got in the way. Hence the switch to sd card tray.
  9. Here's the screenshot of SOTR bench i've done a long time ago. You can also check other bench stats of my setup on egpu site.
  10. I really do not think that the cpu would bottleneck a RX 580. I am yet to see a bottleneck with my 1070 gpu via ultrabay. It is possible that i may have missed some games which could show a potential bottleneck. If you have any particular games in mind (that can bottleneck the cpu) i'd gladly check with my ultrabay pci-e 1070 card.
  11. You can connect both desktop or a laptop HDD to a "slim SATA" port only the power delivery changes. A SATA HDD has 2 connectors, 1 for DATA and 1 for power. The DATA port is standard i.e., uses same cable for all SATA hard disks. Below is an example of DATA port of laptop and desktop HDD: Only the power port changes. For example, Slim SATA has a different power connector, laptop HDD has a different power connector, desktop HDD has a different power connector etc. tl;dr You can use any standard SATA cable for data transfer.
  12. Try inspecting the board (traces, pins, connector etc.). There must be some kind of damage to the board.
  13. I'd also suggest to try windows 10. It performs better for eGPU solutions. Might fix your issue.
  14. Welcome to the world of CPU throttling and not able to reach advertised speeds. Now, there can be many reasons to throttle. You have not given any info or screenshot on what exactly is happening. Use cpu monitoring programs to figure it out (search, there are plenty of guides out there). Lastly, if your CPU is throttling (which it is) and it cannot even run at stock turbo speeds, then this guide won't help you at all. PS. I have managed to to stay at 4.2 GHz at 90C (cinebench R15 with cooling mods). It is not worth it in my case as there are other throttling mechanisms (current limit) which reduces the speed independent of temperature/power. I use 36x for daily tasks/games (no throttle) and 42x only for benching.
  15. I'd prefer a desktop for more performance everytime but since i travel around a lot, eGPU makes sense for me. If you can manage thermals then you can do all sorts of OC and convert it into a beast of a CPU but of course it will decrease the lifetime of the cpu/motherboard. My current setup is very high OC to 4.3GHz only for benchmarks and 3.4-3.5GHz all cores for daily tasks/games 24/7. I'm staying away from high CPU OC (more than default 3.6Ghz) for longer durations since it makes the cpu go power hungry (if you unlock power limits), I am pretty sure the motherboard won't be able to withstand that much power (already had two cases of power connector burn signs). TL;DR even controlling thermals won't be of much help if you're looking to OC and want long life of your laptop. AFAIK, x8 PCI-E vs x16 PCI-E won't make much (any?) of a difference when it comes to single GPU. https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/2488-pci-e-3-x8-vs-x16-performance-impact-on-gpus
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