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I saw a listing for a Clevo RTX 2080 on Ebay for $1,900 and you can also get the heat sink and screws to fit for an extra $100. I have a Zotac mini that uses an MXM card, but it hardly get enough power and cooling as is for the 2070 in it. My question is, is ray tracing even worth it for laptop or mini pc gamers? To me, I feel like even with the correct cooling to keep the beast quenched, it would still not perform as efficient and you would be going out of your way for a mobile card that could easily be an full external thunderbolt card in the mindset of mobility type systems. Thoughts?

No dice. The gsync version flashed, but the card is still not being recognized.

Does anybody have a Zotac E-Series EN1070K that can save the vbios from gpu-z and share it with me. I accidentally flashed a bad custom and it's not recognizing the 1070 anymore.

Yeah, it seems like that was that issue. Thank you for your support through this frustrating experience. My GPU sits at 1835Mhz around 60% max usage on my current settings. I'm gonna try to tweak it a bit more so I can maybe step up a couple more levels in core speed and cross my fingers that it stays stable. No clipping where I'm at. It's pretty clean being able to play with no stutter and freezing. Thank you again!

I ran many different benchmarks. Temps didn't get over 72°C for either CPU or GPU, but the GPU was at 93-99% during the whole bench mark. Nothing froze though. I decided to try out the Battlefield 1 Incursions Alpha and there's a 5+ minute wait to get into a server but I can only make it to about 3&1/2-4&1/2 minutes into the wait before the whole computer freezes and I have to force reboot(and I'm in the lobby!) CPU was idling at 25% and GPU at 50% while in the lobby. After crashing twice, I decided to try BF1 public version, but first I had the idea of changing Nvidia settings to use adaptive power. I played for the next 2 hours straight without any slow downs. I really still think this is a power issue and wish I could use a more powerful 320w power brick instead to help ease some of the demand because what's the point in having a 1070 if you can't even use it to it's full potential?

What am I looking at in afterburner to determine if there is a bottleneck? The power board is attached to the board, so I guess if that's true, I'm stuck. I'm almost positive that's the issue and what causes me to believe this is that the hardware demands a lot more power than what my 230w ac adapter can handle. It's a full 1070, slightly underclocked, a 35w CPU, two SSDs, and the peripherals. I'm sure that's more than 230w.

So I've upgraded everything I can on this prebuilt. It now has a 7700t CPU and 16GB of Kingston 2400 CL-14 Ram, GTX 1070(stock), an AC-7265 Wireless Chipset, an extra 500Gb Crucial MX300 SSD and all the latest drivers/BIOS. The problem is that my system is still freezing during AAA titles like Battlefield. The only thing left that I've determined can be causing this freeze right in the middle of a game is the board is hitting it's power limit. Right now I have the stock power brick 19.5v/11.8a or 230w ac adapter, but I was curious as to if it would be possible to buy an adapter rated for more power. I was looking at maybe the Alienware M18x Aftermarket ac adapter that supplies 19.5v/16.9a or 330w. Is this even possible? Would it fry my board? Are there other solutions to supply more power, or maybe change some settings to not draw as much power? I'd really like to Max the system out, so if at all possible, please recommend an alternative to the power supply. The thermals are tremendous. I applied IC Diamond to the GPU and CPU when I did the processor upgrade and temps at idle are usually 45-48°C Max and 68-74°C under full load for both the CPU and GPU.

Not at all. Its pretty much a clean install besides origin and steam. I make sure to close all instances of chrome before starting a game. The only thing running is system tasks, and they take up less than 3% of the CPU at idle.

Well, I'm at 100% load on CPU and it looks like my 1070 is only reaching about 25-50% load and I've only seen it reach around 66C max on BF4. BF1 doesn't even function, I assume because it's so CPU intensive. I was under the impression that I shouldn't push my equipment far beyond 60C, but if it's not a major issue until around 80, then do you think the main issue here is my CPU(i5-7500T) being a bottleneck? The only thing I could upgrade to is a 7700T, or maybe just a 7700, but I'll be pushing the power limits. Would that cause a significant increase in heat where I would need to consider a new cooler?

I just recently bought a Zotac ZBOX Magnus 1070 because I was tired of trying to game on my 940m laptop and while I am extremely happy to(finally) be playing games at 144+ FPS, I'm having trouble keeping everything cool. I am constantly pushing 60°C on both the CPU and GPU. The stock cooler is very elaborate, tying both the GPU and CPU into one large chunk of copper pipes and fins. I am considering adding an i7-7700T to include multi-threading into the mix, but I know that will only further my heat issues. It looks like I could easily mount a standard LGA1151 cooler onto the CPU bracket, but because the current cooler is tied together, I need help determining whether or not I could find a cooler to mount to the GPU as well. BF4 is reaching 100% CPU usage in-game and does cause crashes every so often because the cooler can't keep up, that's why I'm considering the 7700T in the first place. Any ideas/options that anyone has is very much appreciated.