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My 780M came with "80.04.92.00.02 (P2053-0001)". It was sold as an Alienware 780M.

Thanks for the correction. If they were like me, they probably never actually tested AS5's resistance.I guess it's one of those lies that's been repeated so many times, people think it's true. I found MX-2 to be slightly better temperature-wise than AS5, plus it seemed easier to apply; so I never looked back after switching from AS5 to MX-2.

I installed a 780M into my 16F3, without issue. However, there seemed to be some form of incompatibility with the 30R BIOS; it was extremely unstable with the 780M. I had to roll back to 30P. The odd thing is that the same BIOS had not problems with the 680M I had before getting the 780M.

I use IC Diamond. It's pretty viscous, so you may have to heat up the tube to spread it easily. I avoid AS5 since it's conductive. Before IC diamond, I used Arctic cooling.

I tried pretty much every combination of options for disabling the iGPU in the 16F3's BIOS, all of them led to the display not working. Definitely think the port is muxed.