Sorry but I have to be the first posting something
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Kappa Keepo Meepo
E: Alison too fast for me, gg no re
very good work Blunt, I see a future more as a PC builder than a pizza eater (like myself lol)
I'm not gonna lie, I watched the whole cheetah video, that shit was interesting as fuck xD
Then you get me with 2gb ram 4mb line and i nothing, living in South Africa playing on Europe servers with 260 ping. Sadlife
Would like to know a few things:
~where did you attached your m2 SSD since MB doesn't support it
~Care to show the impressive 32GB of RAM?
~A CPU-Z ScreenShoot, GPU-Z ScreenShoot and A ScreenShoot of your three SSD's(You can use HDD Sentinel for this purpose)
~Care to share some benchmarks with me? I'm interested in older versions of 3D Marks:
Vantage and 3D Mark 2006
~ A CPU Score of "CPU Queen" from AIDA64 Utility program
~ How you moded your nVidia drivers and what did you had to modify with the GPU?
Since I care and would like to know more, would be good if you could answer my quuestions..
Shouldn't take you more than 5 mins to show ScreenShoots at least. Leave aside 3D Marks for now if you don't have the time.
Peace!
Post system configuration pics and whole tests pics from various programs and a verified CPU-Z or it didnt happened, all I can see are some pinch black pictures in dark of some notebook which dont prove anything unfortunately...
@Vertoity:
I won't do 3dmark 06,since that is WAY to outdated. I willmake screens and show u the rest :) gonna update my post. Also i said i had 2 SSDs and 1 HDD
EDIT:
Here is my HDD and SSD side by side:
You can see the HDD clearly and the SSD is under the Stoage thingie holder. I didn't bother to take it out completely since its kinda annoying to get in and out with all the screws.
Here is the pic from the M.2 SSD, it's right under the battery and over the CPU Fan, also you can see there, 2x 8GB DD3L RAM which i pulled from the MSI i talked about earlier.
And here:
Another 2x 8GB DD3L Ram which i pulled from Clevo, which are located under the keyboard on the other side of the mainboard.
I had to mod the drivers and VBIOS on the card since the board didn't really support it. I had to find hardware IDS and write down the hardware in a .inf file named "nvciv.inf" and pretty much guess which sector would work. Well maybe not entirely, I was smart enough to look after my hardware ID in the .inf file and found out that the sectors of my mainboard combined with a highend Geforce would be sector 13 or 14. I won't go in detail with how I EXACLY did write my own BIOS but i will tell you the gist of it. You basciially download GPU-Z and make a copy of your VBIOS, then you mod it with an extern program. That's also why my GFX doesn't throttle at all (stable 1k core clock) which you can see on the screenshot here not to mention, GPU-Z thinks that the standard core clock is 993mhz, but in reality it's around 950mhz.
Some Screens and Benchmarks:
System Screenshot:
3DMark Vantage:
http://3dmark.com/3dmv/5538028
3DMark2011:
http://3dmark.com/3dm11/11728611
I am IMPRESSED man! :O
Well fuckin played.
That notebook is now on a level of good desktop, if not better than half of them, which is pretty ridiculous to see... Great job! O.O
Good work.
Investment cost and investment on time vs returns? What is the contingency if something goes wrong, you will have to individually RMA individual parts no? Decent build.
@Yoshi saying you see a future in him being a PC builder is like telling someone you see them being great at flipping burgers, kinda a backhanded compliment.
@EmotionalDrift:
Thanks :3 <3
@: Banana the parts don't have warranty anymore, telling people the product ID's doesn't hurt anyone.
@ Havoc:
Investment cost was almost nothing, i only had to pay for the adapter and the IPS which i also have warranty on, the rest was basicially me buying a lot of broken notebooks. Except for the GTX 880m, that one i had to buy for a decent amount. So if something goes wrong i'd have to individually RMA it, since this laptop is something i build on my own and doesn't exist in a shop :)
It does run witcher on ultra with 40-50fps, so yeah, I'd call it Decent :)
^Amazing, amazings
EDIT:
@Havoc
true. Wasen't meant as an insult tho, its really nice that he is capable of such a thing, to me it is already too difficult :)
Ok I decided I wanted to give my laptop a name :D
Everyone gives their project a name and I wanna do that too.
Same idea behind it like those guys:
Any suggestions? :D
კომენტარის დასაწერად გაიარეთ ავტორიზაცია.
I know I will probably get flamed and a lot won't really care, yet I still feel like posting this.
I finally finished my little projekt, it took a lot of time and effort but it's finally here! My little 15.6" Gaming laptop is finally up and running.
So lets get started with some pretty pictures and what the hell have I been doing and the history behind it.
So i have a lot of notebooks and party laying around. I had some notebooks which were broken and there was 1 which had a complete meltdown but I kinda felt in love with its case. I really liked that case and wanted a notebook with it, so I finally started to get the idea to build my own little 15 inch gaming laptop!
The case was from sharkgaming and XMG. Now i didn't like the screen that much since it was a TN panel. It had decent brightness but meh colors and viewing angle so I did get myself a LP156WFSLC1 panel (actually bought this one). The panel itself wasn't 100% compatible so i got myself an 40pin extender caple to make it work. Now for the mainboard I pulled a P157SM board from a broken sager Notebook. The reason i decided to take an older board is simply because I could actually get 3 harddrives into it without giving up on the optical drive which I took from the sager as well, I got 256GB M.2 SSD, 512GB SSD and 1TB SSHDD into it. I fit perfecly with the case since the P157SM-A and P157SM Boards are identical in terms of placement of inputs. I also found ram in an MSI mashine and the Sager. Since i had 4 slots to work with I got a total of sexy 32GB RAM DD3L RAM (low voltage to save some Watt). I also pulled a I7-4010 CPU from the broken clevo where the Case came from, luckily that one survived. I also got my hands on a Subwoofer from a Clevo notebook based on the 150HM Board and got that into the notebook as well. I knew that the keplar card likes to get REALLY warm, so i got the best heatsink with 3 heatpipes and added another heatpipe to it, so I would be sure that the temperatures of the card would stay "low".
Now the real interesting stuff! I got myself a GTX 880M, which caused quite some issues with my notebook. Apparently my board didn't really support it and to make things worse, the card itself is a complete mess. It simply wouldn't turn on with the card, so i updated the BIOS to a modded one from the clevo guru himself prema. So after it finally accepted the card i got it running and installed windows. I had insane issues getting this thing working, I had to mod nvdia drivers and turn windows 10 driver enforcement off in order to install the card, not only that but i had to find the right sector in order to use the card properly (ended up being sector 13, yes 13 installs and restarts). After that I STILL faced issues, it would randmly drop in frames and simply breakdown whenever it felt like it. I figured that I had to mod the VBIOS of the graphicscard as well. I downloaded a OC VBios for the GTX 880m and made some adjustments i tested with Nvidia inspector and Nvidia kepler BIOS editor. After all the trouble I finally got it working, but the trouble aint over. My performance was still not that good, because the standard 180watt PSU from clevo simply wasn't enough,so I took a 230Watt PSU from an Alienware notebook and modded it so it would fit my little devil. After installing drivers I faced more issues, windows would freeze randomly and a lotof things simply won't work, like the broken WLAN card and so on, after a lot of different drivers, swapping small stuff like WLAN card etc. I finally got it working.
So It finally works. It's not my most powerful notebook, but it is the only notebook that I didn't simply buy. I build this thing from scratch, which really made me happy. This is something I build myself and finished just today. This is by far my favorite notebook, even tho not remotely my strongest, I won't sell this one and will keep this little darling since I really got attached to it. I did some benchmarks with it (scored 8.821 pts in 3dMark and ran games with it) and did a stresstest, all worked without crashes or any other issue, so I am now happy as you can be ^.^
TL:DR: I made myself a Gaming notebook, It's my little baby, and I wanted to share the experience I had making it.
Specs:
15.6" IPS 1920x1080 Screen
Core I7 - 4710 @ 3.5ghz turbo
32GB DD3L RAM
P157SM Board with modded BIOS
GTX 880M 8GB Custom VBIOS
256GB M.2 SSD, 512GB SSD, 1TB SSHDD
Link to all pictures:
http://imgur.com/a/dmzP5