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Would be nice to know what they did one way or the other. Im no serious OCer but still nice none the less. Ive often wondered why on the 17 vs the 18 the vid cards and such are flipped to the other side of the board.

I spoke with one of the guys I work with discussing power and the adapters and such. His theory is that inside the laptop there is a shunt that is keeping it from have the ability to take more than the 330w of power. The rectifier inside the adapter can so the same thing but that wouldn't stop it from taking more than one adapter like precious editions of the 18.

Guess we need someone that knows power and the schematics of the board to figure it out. The board itself should be able to handle more power just like the older 18s did. There has to be a physical limiter there somewhere that is keeping it from taking more. If someone figure out what we could add more power. Seems like a lot of the power issues was bad design and cutting corners thinking it will only need what they always needed.

What exactly would have to be soldered to make the AW18 be able to go beyond the 330W PSU?

Is there no way at all to increase the power to the AW18? If Dell locked it down some knowledgeable person should be able to unlock it.