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Nope, as far as I know it only has 1 vbios . . . https://www.evga.com/products/Specs/GPU.aspx?pn=7a4e8c36-a4eb-4be1-b097-0b4cb97807da

Precision X did not seem to have a vbios update. So the only other vbios I could find for my card EVGA RTX 2080Ti XC Hybrid (11G-P4-2384-KR) was this one: https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/208564/208564. I flashed this one (90.02.17.00.C4) with nvflash . . . same story, stuck at 4x. I flashed back to the vbios that was on the card (90.02.30.40.1A) . . . still 4x. GPU-Z screenshot below . . . any more ideas? Is it worth it trying a vbios from a different version RTX 2080Ti - is that safe? Worst case I can break out my eeprom programmer but I'd rather avoid that.

Would you happen to know where I could find the latest vbios? EVGA doesn't seem to host them.

Yep, I also updated the bios to the latest from Asus. I bought the card separately, used. It is the EVGA RTX 2080Ti Hybrid XC variant. Also, I should add, updating the bios/etc was done before trying my friend's RTX 2080Ti. I didn't have to do any fiddling with that one. Plugged it in and boom, 16x without messing with bios setting or anything.

I have an RTX 2080Ti that I had been using in an E-Gpu enclosure for about a year. I originally had bought the card used just before the GPU shortage hit. The enclosure only supports PCI-e 3.0 4x so obviously that is what the card ran and reported at. Now I built a desktop and reused the RTX 2080TI. The motherboard is a Asus ROG Strix Z590-e wifi and the cpu is an i9 11900k. The card is in the top slot. For some reason, both the bios, and Gpu-z are reporting that the GPU is only running at PCI-e 3.0 4x. This does not change with load. I've reseated the card multiple times, cleaned the edge connector, inspected for damage, and tried it in the other PCI-E slots on the motherboard. No matter what, it still reports PCI-e 3.0 4x. Luckily I was able to borrow another RTX 2080TI from a friend to troubleshoot. This card reports PCI-e 3.0 16x when installed in my motherboard, which eliminates it being a cpu or motherboard issue. This is actually an impactful issue because at 4x bandwidth versus 16x the RTX 2080TI looses about 6-10% performance in most games. Does anyone have any insight or further troubleshooting ideas? It seems like too much of a coincidence to me to suggest that the card had always been defective/damaged and the only reason it went unnoticed was because I installed it originally in an E-gpu enclosure whose hardware limitations just happened to coincide perfectly with the Gpu's inability to run wider than 4x and mask the issue . . . Other than this the card functions fine. I have a decent overclock on it, it runs cool, never hangs or crashes, no other signs of an issue. Help!

You also need to keep in mind the GTX 1080 and 1070 are GP104. The majority of NVIDIA's R&D budget went into designing GP100 (with HBM2) which general consumers will probably never see according to their previous statements. That chip has been reserved for supercomputing markets focused on machine learning and other research and due to the high demand for the fastest processors possible in that market and the prices people are willing to pay for it, NVIDIA will make up their R&D investment quite quickly. GP104, compared to GP100 was relatively cheap for NVIDIA to R&D. It's basically a spinoff of GP100 and has a much smaller die meaning yields are higher and also chips per wafer are higher driving down individual cost. Considering all that, there's no real reason to be surprised at the "cheap" MSRP's of GP104. The reason GP100 will probably never see the consumer market is because the cost per chip would be prohibitively high to consumers and would not be worth NVIDIA's time and money to recoup costs for the development of that chip by selling it to general consumers.

I wouldn't say Clevo cooling is inherently good out of the box. They use beefy fans and heatsinks to compensate for other design flaws. Lots of units ship with warped heat sinks that need to be lapped and on many models, the bottom case vents are extremely restrictive. Cutting mine out literally reduced temps by 10C across the board. If you fix these issues, then the cooling systems in Clevos are beastly. Can't comment on newer alienwares, but older ones had fantastic cooling systems too. Definitely stay far away from Razer. . . .

You're definitely not gonna be getting 4+ hours of battery life while gaming, probably about 1 hour at best. And the 970m clocks down to 540mhz while on battery. That doesn't sound like a great gaming experience. If I disable SLI in my Clevo p377sm-a and go through a gaming session on battery, I get about 55 minutes with a battery at 92% wear - and performance is horrible due to the downclock. My friend with a Clevo p870dm has about the same battery life when running a single 980m and a desktop 6700k.

Gaming laptop with good battery life. Doesn't work that way. Pick one. If a gaming laptop has good battery life, then that means the internal components are probably not very powerful because they aren't consuming much power, which means the laptop probably isn't a gaming laptop. The battery is meant to just get you from outlet to outlet in a true gaming laptop.

Honestly, from the screenshots, this looks like a SSAO or HBAO issue and not an aliasing problem. If it was an aliasing issue, it looks like anti-aliasing is being applied with WAY to high a filter size which is definitely not happening. Back in the day (8 series) Burnout Paradise had broken SSAO which was inherent to the game and it resulted in eerily similar results.

Rig name: Clevo p377sm-aCpu: i7 4800mq (3.9ghz OC)Gpu: SLI GTX 970m 6gb + 6gb (1238mhz core, 1458mhz mem)Ram: 4x4gb (16gb) DDR3 1600mhzScore: 7.8