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Giff me Wingman

    So I am actually working on it again! This time new ideas and stuff I want to play around with. For those who don't know what I'm talking about:

    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!






    Benchmarks:


    http://3dmark.com/3dm11/11728611
    http://3dmark.com/3dmv/5538028

    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

    Old information: https://www.dotabuff.com/topics/2016-11-09-my-projekt-finally-done

    To do:
    So I already planned out a couple of things I want to play around with on my notebook. Here is the list of things I want to work on:
    - Improve sound quality (building new speakers, software optimizations etc.)
    - Improve cooling (GPU and CPU)
    - Overclock after fixing Cooling (Goal: reach at least 9k points)

    I will keep this updated a couple of times with new pics and shiet. I will also do some gaming benchmarks on the games I have (witcher 3, DOOM, Dota2, Mafia 3 and much much more.)

    I will also log about how I improved performance of games so that people here can try and do that on their own rigs to gain more performance.

    Also:
    Still looking for a name for this project, If u got an idea go ahead tell me.

    New Data and benchmarks:
    Core I7 -4710MQ @ 3.7ghz
    32GB DDR3L RAM @ 1600mhz
    GTX 880M @ 1055 core clock; 2.85ghz memory clock.

    Temperatures:
    CPU Before MAX load: 91
    CPU After MAX load: 84

    GPU Before MAX load: 94
    GPU After MAX load: 83

    Gaming Benchmarks & Settings:
    Mafia III:
    FPS: 45 - 60FPS. It dips rather often to high 40s. Despite being unstable the timing is still really good and stable, which makes the game very smooth, even with low FPS for some reason.

    Settings:
    Resolution: 1920x1080
    Vsync off
    Ambient Occlusion: High
    Motion Blur off (bugged as fuck)
    Geo detail: High
    Shadow Quality: High
    Reflection detail: Medium (High looks exacly like medium)
    Volumetric Effects: Low (High drains FPS but game looks 100% the same)
    Anti Ailising: Off (Turning AA on has same FPS but makes the game VERY blurry for some reason)
    Forced FXAA on in my Nvidia control panel. Game is still pixely tho.

    Witcher 3:
    FPS: 53 - 60FPS. FPS are rather very stable, almost never drops. Still game isn't as fluid as it should be, the frame timings are off sometimes.

    Settings:
    Resolution: 1920x1080
    Vsync On
    Everything on ultra except for foil, that's on high.
    Turned hairworks off, kinda buggy and drains FPS.
    Using a graphicsmod to make witcher 3 look even cleaner with better colors.

    New Keyboard Lightmod (WARNING: SOUND IS TERRIBLE, DO NOT LISTEN AT HIGH VOLUME!):

    Improved Sound

    Sound has been improved way more, but apparently while recording the new sound my micrphone can't record the sound properly anymore. Before it used the tinny sound and focused on it and added the bass in the back, now that the sound is nice and well rounded it tries to record everything and adds noise to the actual music. If anyone knows how to fix this, let me know.

    Final things done: Created new drivers that utilize the subwoofer and speakers way better, also using a completely different sound enhancer. The XFI-mB3 isn't as stable and good as i wished it to be, so i opted for the Dolby Digital V4 Home Theatre, which is very stable and very nice.

    The notebook has now crazy good sound, it's better than MSI's GT 70 series. Which is saying A LOT.

    New PSU needed to power it properly

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    The Medic Guy

      project valkyrie
      lul

      edit : previous comment about broken pic

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      🍩🍪Cookie🍪🍩

        Pics are broken

        evy

          Nice ahhh

          Giff me Wingman

            Pics work fine for me?

            Beks

              fix bws pic xD

              ImagineDodong

                You can actually build your own laptop? I didn't know about that, what cave am I living I'm behind times hahaha

                Player 404335202

                  Is it running good ?

                  Pilot

                    Pretty cool, have you had any problems with it so far?

                    Jacked

                      cani get a tldr pls

                      Giff me Wingman

                        Update:
                        I finally found the issue with my cooling system. Both the CPU and GPU leaked hot air and since the air had a hard time coming out of the case it resulted in high temperatures. It also explained (especially on GPU side) why not a whole lot of air is coming out.

                        The temperatures dropped from MAX 93 to MAX 81. Thats a drop of 12 degrees, which is a LOT.

                        Doing some benchmarks later this evening, gonna post my patchjob and some results.

                        @Innocent:
                        It runs flawlessly.
                        @ImagineDodong, yeah (:
                        @Pilot, quite a lot of problems due to incomtabilble hardware and software that had to be modded to work. But after all fixes it runs flawlessly.

                        Seoulmate

                          weeb wallpaper

                          Giff me Wingman

                            New Benchmarks are up:
                            CPU got OC to 3.7ghz
                            GPU got OC to 1055mhz core clock.

                            And here we go:
                            http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/12003810

                            PogChamp

                            The Vantage also interesting:
                            http://www.3dmark.com/3dmv/5587929

                            So we made some improvement boys!

                            Little Gameplay I recorded:

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                            Giff me Wingman

                              Update:
                              So after the Overclocks I did another benchmark, data will be edited up above. I also made a little program to make my keyboard "breathe". It basiically now switches colors every 5 seconds. Looks kinda flashy. Gonna record it.

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                              basement :)

                                I thought DanishBlunt died.

                                Giff me Wingman

                                  Modded the soundsystem and even tho I'm not entirely done I'm rather happy with the current result.
                                  The bass is way better and the sound isn't as tinny as it used to be (:

                                  arin

                                    how do you have almost the same if not more fps than me on witcher 3 with some notebook gpu
                                    and whats the purpose of 32gb ram

                                    e: nvm i have hairworks on afair

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                                    Giff me Wingman

                                      I have an overdose of ram. Still got quite some around, I thought since i got em around I might as well just build ram into every slot. I'm aware that more than 16GB is pointless.

                                      When i turn on hairworks i drop around 5FPS due to optimizations, but i really want to have 60FPS as stable as possible. What desktop GPU do u have?

                                      Also I'll probably upgrade to GTX 1070 this summer.

                                      arin

                                        gtx 1060 6gb with i5 6600k, although i haven't overclocked yet

                                        D
                                        D

                                          although i haven't overclocked yet

                                          :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm:

                                          Giff me Wingman

                                            New Update:
                                            Speakers got reworked. The sound coming from that thing is incredible now. The bass is really good and the speakers are loud and clear. They aren't as tinny as they used to be.

                                            Due to some changes the old powersupply just doesnt do the job anymore. I had to get myself a bigger one, sadly I already had the maxed 15 inch PSU you could find, so i got myself a 17inch PSU and got myself an adapter to make it fit my 15 inch notebook.

                                            Here is a little screenshot to give u an idea what a fucking brick you need to power that thing :D
                                            Left: 230W PSU
                                            Right: Standard 60W Ultrabook PSU

                                            Lokieleven

                                              I cringed a bit at your desktop screensaver

                                              Giff me Wingman

                                                New modded drivers to improve the usage of the speakers and subwoofer perfecly. Now the sound is crazy good. The notebook is loud, clear, has bass and is pure sex for your ears, especially watching movies is an enjoyment, explosions are being handled by the subwoofer very nicely, music and voice mixed with subwoofer and speakers to give a good feeling of deapth, then things in the background being handles ONLY by the speakers, making it sound very real.

                                                I'm pretty darn proud of these little speakerproject. I made a tinny, unpleasend, ear hurting sound into a full and pleasent sound experience.

                                                ^^
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