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Temperatures range from "OW!" to "Dayuuuuummm that's hot" Prema plays on his lappy with gloves on now. -- Note: I don't really know where the PCH is so I'm guessing from this thread it's on the top side of the mobo underneath the palmrest? Perhaps you can do something like Prema and cut a little hole. Then use some super glue (I use Loctite Super Glue Gel Control) and some mesh to prevent large things from falling in. I used a kitchen strainer mesh for my fan intake hole.

I asked my friend here, he just has to find his crossfire cables. Will do a test crossfire with both at 16x, then tape off the lanes for 1x on each and see if it still works. Not sure when he'll get around to it. I'll keep pestering him till he does so lol. I'll meet up with him Sunday. We'll do it then. -- Minor update: Going to try Cfire with a 7970 and a 280X (both Tahiti). Shown to work natively in desktops. Will try Cfire at 1x link as well. If it does work, would be neat to try as eGPU as well. I don't have a mPCIe PE4L adapter to attempt that with. Perhaps someone can lend me one if 1x link does work (in the desktop)? If you live in eastern Texas PM, perhaps one of you is near me!

Guessing you removed all the fun adhesive that attached the IHS to the PCB of the CPU. Here was the infos on the spacing issue I was talking about. For the 3770K, might be true for the 4770K as well. Main post: Delidded my i7-3770K, loaded temperatures drop by 20°C at 4.7GHz - AnandTech Forums Post showing how reduction of the spacing (removal of IHS adhesive helps dramatically): AnandTech Forums - View Single Post - Delidded my i7-3770K, loaded temperatures drop by 20°C at 4.7GHz --- 4770K on die cooling differences vs delid+repaste but still with IHS: Haswell Delidded - [H]ard|Forum -- Still might be worth trying to get your on die cooling working. But as others said, OC'ing a Haswell isn't going to work that great. I'm just used to fretting over temperatures; my little volcano of a laptop loves running extremely hot to the point it warped the whole left side of my laptop

Are you running cooler on die? Or delid, repaste, relid? From what I've seen there is a spacing issue with the IHS. Don't forget with Haswell there was a pretty meaty transistor increase so even though it may have a slower clock it is actually faster due to the increased transistor amount. And as Brian said: Hurry up and get dat GPU!

I have a little to add to this since it is kinda, somewhat relevant. My dGPU is a Quadro NVS 4200M. Tech Specs | NVIDIA Look at PhysX capable row. "No" for the 4200M. But with running the eGPU and using the desktop drivers I can select the 4200M in the NCP as a dedicated PhysX device. I showed this in my old DSDT / iGPU+dGPU+eGPU guide here: http://forum.techinferno.com/diy-e-gpu-projects/3539-guide-dsdt-override-simultaneous-igpu-dgpu-egpu.html See pictures at bottom of that post. Normally I don't have that option (pre-eGPU goodness). Kinda odd it still showed no PhysX in GPU-Z (box not checked). But it worked regardless. Shows you can go Quadro -> GeForce as well (kinda). It still shows up as a Quadro card. Food for thought. nom nom nom

So PE4A (PE4Z) would be a ExpressCard 3.0 connection? Essentially a PCIe 3.0 merge of the PE4H and PE4L? Full 16x slot? Perhaps use the 4/6/8 pin ATX power that usually plugs into the motherboard of a desktop computer - unless this is the plug he is talking about, if so then that would be a nice option. I don't see the floppy power too much anymore, so I would not use it. Even just the standard 4pin molex or sata pwr would be better. Perhaps even just the 24pin mobo plug straight to the adapter omitting the need for SWEX. Could have it switch on the PSU when it gets power from the computer (with no delay). Not sure about timing issues about this. Hopefully that made sense, if it didn't I can try to explain a bit better / make a really horrible mockup ;D

I took a look at the N54L and XPEnology. Wow that is superb lookin. Gonna seriously take a look at that. Nice and compact too. Thanks for all the help.

Me! Although it isn't that great for GPUs anymore. I am running dual 5 GH/s ASICs now which runs circles around any GPU. Now with 28nm ASICs coming out my current ones are kinda useless. GPUs aren't overly useful for BTC mining. Still great for LTC and other altcoin mining though (like LTC). Pretty much anything scrypt based is fine for GPUs. No hashrate reduction when mining eGPU or non-eGPU. Which is a nice plus.

For those that delidded, do you run cooler on die or reapply the IHS? --- This is turning into 4770k owners lounge ;D

Heyo e'erybody. So I'm finally getting around to building a desktop for myself (would be my first desktop @@!). Main issue I'm having is finding a solid mobo. 1150 socket. At least 2x PCIe 3.0 x16 slots. I won't be watercooling (so stuff like the Asus Maximus VI Formula would be overkill). Will be using a white case. So would like colors to match-ish Would like to see solid reviews about it. Would like to see a M.2 port on it but not a requirement (might test eGPU adapters or SSD). Colors: I'd rather not have black and red - aka EdgeMaster2000. Believe it or not, there are other color schemes that look good that aren't black+red.... Certainly no black and gold - that's just ugly. Black and blue is okay. Any other schemes you know of? Budget for mobo: $200 I guess, would look at more expensive boards if their features are great. But as always would like to be cheaper Thanks for the input, atn --- EDIT: Wow this is pretty slick http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130690 Might be going with a MSI MPower board.

Didn't so happen to accidentally buy two? ;p Looked into this display today, so very nice. I'unno anything about timings or downsampling so can't help ya there. I'm guessing you agree it's worth the price premium? See a few of them on eBay for decently cheap.

Didn't think of this! I second this idea. mHDMI doesn't work, thus I mentioned DP or some other shielded lane cable (with enough shielded data lanes). Personally don't have an issue with this, but I can see it being valuable for other users. Having the power on the same side as the data would would be superb. I hate having them come out of separate sides. --- Good ideas @@!

For mPCIe implementations mainly. I know ExpressCard is essentially being phased out for (better) things such as TB.

Not sure in that regard. Not out yet (not even in Korea I believe). I agree with the grindfest-ness of Korean games though. Maybe the graphics will be better once ingame / turn them up to max (especially with your hardware). The classes they have seem neat, as well as the mount battles.

I must say that looks absolutely amazing. Even as one that isn't a big fan of MMORPGs, I'm certainly gonna try this one.

Certainly use some form of (a somewhat widespread) cable : DisplayPort might work? PCIe 3.0 support (for future proofing) - guessing this is more based on laptop model / maybe internal mPCIe ports can have a chance of being 3.0 Revised power would be great for wire reduction. -- Honestly, apart from this. There isn't too much to build upon. --- Not PE4L / PE4H related, but a similar adapter for M.2. The current M.2 to PCIe adapter isn't very usable for eGPU solutions, a flexible cable would be needed.

If I had piles of money, I would certainly fund you for your wacky/insane projects.... *goes out to win lottery* Has there been any modern card post-9800 mobility radeon that a hardware mod could essentially upgrade it to a higher model? Or do you think the 680m -> 780m and Titan -> 780Ti being the next best bet? ---- I'd stick with the Titans due to the larger VRAM. Especially since some crazy folk like MikjoA can use over 5GB VRAM in Skyrim. That moment might be coming soon for non-over-the-top modded games.

That's just a self preference thing. Personally I enjoy having things very clean. Usually solid colors (white / grey / black ) or a metal finish (stainless, satin, anodized). Some themed stuff is pretty neat, but once again, a preference thing. I'd work on getting your m15x working again before you start customizing it. No point in going "Look at my pretty paperweight that so happens to look like a computer."

No idea how to flash or anything of the sort, not my area of knowledge. He probably didn't PM you since you were trying a whole bunch of other stuff and didn't seem committed to buying a BIOS chip from him. If you are (now it appears so), then send him a PM. You won't need to flash it when you get the new chip in. It will be already flashed and ready to go.

Did you order a new BIOS chip? This will be more than likely your best option.

I used to run iGPU+dGPU+eGPU with my NVS4200M and GTX 660 Ti. You need to uninstally your dGPU driver, install your eGPU one and hope it covers both your dGPU and eGPU. Honestly, you get much better performance if you just leave your dGPU disabled. Even though I spent a lot of time getting my dGPU to work alongside my eGPU, there really is no reason to do so other than say "Look I did it" So I'd suggest sparing your time and just disable the dGPU so you have iGPU+eGPU instead.

1. Chatbox is not a thread box. 2. svl7 just said that corrupt VBIOS will prevent the system from POSTing at all and no beeps. So that would make it NOT a corrupt VBIOS since you do get beeps and were able to POST (since you were able to flash). Instead this would be a corrupt BIOS probably. Are you able to get into your BIOS menu? As with above, if it's a bad BIOS (which it appears to be), changing out your graphics card isn't going to help none except make your wallet thinner. For those that don't know (if it's what I think it is): NoVA = Northern Virginia. I'm sure there is some up there. As one that actually works in a local repair shop, I'm pretty certain they don't heavily advertise nor have flashy signs. It's just too expensive to do so. Look in the local phone book or on craigslist. Or the smaller yellowpage-type book (akin to Thrifty Nickel - not sure if this is popular elsewhere). --- Essentially, most evidence points toward your BIOS being corrupt. The link you provided earlier is general beep codes. But as svl7 said, a bad VBIOS would give you no beep codes.

Cool build! Look forward to seeing pics of the final product. You don't need a case, just mount it on the wall! http://www.**************/t/1424387/gallery-build-log-ultimate-wall-mount-rig-maxxplanck-v2-completed Edit: didn't know that was an unallowed site.. it's a particular OC site.....

I need to bring attention to this for all that used my benchmarks for comparison. I MADE A MISTAKE. All my benchmarks were done at a Gen1 link. http://forum.techinferno.com/diy-e-gpu-projects/2109-diy-egpu-experiences-%5Bversion-2-0%5D-43.html#post74494 In that post.

Those would probably work. But note those are PCI not PCIe so you would have to use older cards. Can't really help you for suggestions.