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The average score of 15.5K on notebookcheck is largely from gaming laptops/mobile workstations that can sustain 60W+ CPU power, whereas your XPS is probably able to sustain 45-55W CPU power at most. However, you can improve the score somewhat by putting some higher quality paste on, and if Dell lets you, undervolting and/or fiddling with the PL2 to sacrifice burst performance for sustained.

Delete is the correct key for your board, make sure you press it before the windows loading wheel shows up. You can also make it go into the bios by holding shift while hitting restart in windows and choosing the appropriate options once it restarts

Your need for a GPU depends on what you're going to be doing. Most engineering programs with 3D graphics will ask for and benefit from discrete graphics. Regardless, I'd personally knock out the Surface Studio 1 immediately because it's still using quad core CPUs when the market has moved on to 8 or more, especially at the high end.

It does have a basic IGP, baked into the IOD.

Maybe try reseating the CPU? AMD has also introduce onboard graphics this gen so you could probably use the onboard outputs to eliminate a layer of troubleshooting.

I'm trying to run XP era benchmarks on a (more or less working) 760 Mars I picked up for dirt cheap. However, there is no option to enable Multi GPU in the NV control panel. The motherboard is explicitly SLI capable (Z68XP-UD3), and the card has run Heaven and 3DMark11 with SLI enabled in Windows 10. When I try to have the GPU that was not active while installing the driver output an image, it just outputs a black screen or nothing, though both show up in device manager. The system should not be upset about there being 4GB of VRAM to address as prior to the Mars I had a 680 4GB installed and ran 3Dmarks 2001-05 without issue. Am I trying to do something NV never bothered to support? EDIT: card has been sold.

I've moved a boot drive from a 2017 Dell to a Clevo of the same age without issue so it maybe fine, though that was on Windows 10

My Indian friend's laptop (MSI GF63 Tiger Lake) has abruptly ceased to power on, and he needs to retrieve his notes for exams next week. We would like to know if a USB to NVME adapter like this will work in the USB 3 5GBit/s ports of the computers in his school's computer lab so he can extract the notes and deal with the laptop itself after the exams.

I remember the fact that MS could no longer include the P3 in W10 with any workaround at all it into the news cycle about 5 years ago

What does "No BIOS whatsoever" mean in this case? Are you sure that the bios on the board supports the IGP-less Renoir CPUs like you have?

Bleh, thank you. Guess I'll be finding the Cedar Mill version of this CPU since most of the benchmarks I wanted to run are 64 bit only.

Does your board have any diagnostic LEDs? Those might at least point to the general vicinity of the issue

Yes, I specifically made sure the Rufus was MBR. The Ventoy should be fine since I installed 7 off of it. I can try the in-OS upgrade option later, I'd just prefer a clean install because I prefer a clean OS for benchmarking, however imprecise it may be in this case.

I have tried booting from both a drive flashed with rufus and one with Ventoy set up on it. Typically, it will flash the Windows logo then just a blinking terminal cursor. Booting with a Quadro K420 just to rule out the board's GMA950 not cooperating with Windows has proven the mGPU not to be the problem. I'm trying to get 10 running on a Pentium 4 because Prescott CPUs can nominally run Cinebench R23 and I'm in a masochistic mood. I currently have 7 installed on the system, so that may be a valid starting point though I'd prefer it to be a clean install. On a final note, is there a trustworthy place to grab a older 10 image, like the ones that still could work with a Pentium III? System involved: CPU: Pentium 4 531 3.0GHz RAM: 4GB DDR2-667 MB: Asus P5LP-LE Storage: Leven JS600 128GB

Hello. I've recently picked up a MSI GTX 970 Gaming for $10 (worse case I get a cool looking decoration). The seller emphasized that it was working last time he checked, but he hadn't in a while. It was stored in an ESD safe bag. I attempted to verify its functionality but even with both power connectors in, it gives the "Please power down and connect PCIe power cables" error. I have tried it with 2 different PSUs that are confirmed fine in both my main AM4 system and a random 1156 system with enough space to fit it. I've disassembled it to look for any craters on the off chance they're there but the PCB looks pristine. Is there any additional troubleshooting to do? I'm not afraid to poke it with a multimeter if that's necessary.