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Imglidinhere
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$2000~
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Quite bland for all intents and purposes, no overclock here! Largely due to my lack of need for anything. It's all done automatically these days (which is quite lame imo) which eliminates the need to overclock to any serious degree. Also worth noting that I don't need to tune my memory past the default XMP profile due to how the X3D chip performs and whatnot.
TL;DR: Am lame. No OC. *sad computer enthusiast noises*
Reason for the total price being rather high for this rig is largely due to the inefficiency when I bought the various parts. I paid almost the full launch retail price for the X3D chip ($430), as well as a hyper-inflated mining price for the 6700XT back in late March 2022 (my 1080 died suddenly so I "upgraded" to a far better option for waaay too much) which amounted to around $700, and between those two parts alone that makes up for over half the total cost of this rig. If I had paid for the CPU and GPU at market prices today, the total rig would have been closer to around $1500 all in all!
$900
Owned
The laptop has three distinct power modes that can be toggled between, each limiting the CPU and GPU power values and boost potential.
(Mode: CPU | GPU)
Office: 35w | 115w
Game: 45w | 130w
Beast: 105w | 130w
The interesting thing to note about Game and Beast modes are that the GPU power limits are nominally set to 115w for the 2070 Mobile, as per Nvidia spec, but Eluktronics sort of... "tricks" the hardware to allow more power into the GPU and the boards are slightly overbuilt to handle the extra wattage. It's reflected in the end-scores for games and benchmarks, but is not reported in any software so you'll have to take my word for it. (Worth noting that there isn't a mobile 2070 that scores higher than this machine.)
I never use "Beast" mode because the CPU sitting at 105w draw makes this thing essentially the locked i7-10700 in the most literal sense, and temps regularly sit at 98-100C, so you can imagine that's more for show rather than use... or benchmarking if you want to pour power into the CPU. Improves scores by around 40% across the board; Cinebench R23 scores around 7700 at 45w and around 10,500 at 105w. Not the most efficient gain, but when you need a little more oomph for a project, these old i7s can still chooch.
I hope to be able to upgrade to a newer unit soon. This chassis is impossibly good. It's also particularly lightweight for a 17.3" device (<5 pounds) which is doubly amazing.