Just put in an order for the Y740. It was the cheapest full 2080 I could get. Hopefully they ship it out soon.

Ahh the stupid website showed it as a standard version. Nvm, I'll see how it goes, if no good I'll get another.

Yeah it's the 17" model.

I got it from the AU store. With a student discount. Without tax I think it cost me 3200 AUD.

Comes with 1tb HDD and a Samsung 512gb SSD, Windows 10 pro. So not too bad lah all in all. Can't find the same spec anywhere else for the price.

I'm only hoping that the cooling system is good enough to give some overclocking headroom.

Based in AU but I go back for holidays often.

So might as well claim tax.

It really depends on your plans, but buying higher speed memory is good in the case you want to undervolt or unclock the processor and memory subsystems.

Usually such memory is extremely well binned, meaning they while they have great overclock potential, you can get away with undervolting them while still retaining reliability. But I'd have to say, you'd probably only shave power consumption by 4 to 5 watts max on 16gb x2 modules, which isn't much.

Got my machine yesterday and am now putting it though it’s paces. Might redo the thermal paste anyways for better OCing

Screen = Bezel really thick. A lot of light bleed. Definitely didn't like it.
Keyboard = It has pretty lights which I find stupid. I would have rather them taken the keyboard from the Thinkpad X/T line (legendary keyboards on those!)
Audio = Pretty good for a laptop, also has a subwoofer which makes the audio acceptable.
Build Quality = Good all around, except the screen hinges, flimsy.
Thermal Management = Extremely good. Even with OCing, 72 degrees Celsius tops!
Add ons = Not much bloatware which is very good. If you want it you have to DL yourself
Ports = I like the back facing ports, makes cable management easy
Misc = Didn't like the 2.5 inch drive bay, would have rather used the space for extra cooling or batt power and another M2 slot

No nid use tool one. Boot up screen oredi damned obvious.

I've checked my laptop and the Y740 is definitely running on the 80 watt variant of the GTX2080 Max-Q.

Now looking for a 90W VBIOS with the same device ID and rev to flash to the GC.

I can find the 150 watt RTX2080 Mobile VBIOS from Clevo, can't seem to find the 90 watt Max-Q version.

The big issue isn't the thermal limit, which is 87 celsius, and the Y740 is far away from that, but the Power limit wall that keeps getting hit.

So there's tons more headroom even for a 100 watt card plus the VRMs seem beefy enough.