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Batch 5 AMD 7840u Mushkin DDR5 5600 96GB 4TB Samsung 990 PRO](https://imgur.com/a/CmutkW2 ) (alien.top)
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Just got my AMD 7840u batch 5 delivered today, out-of-box experience was so nice. Took less than 30 mins to assemble.

I replaced the thermal paste with a Thermal Grizzly Kryosheet graphene pad after taping off the capacitors with kapton tape.

Swapped the Wi-Fi card for the Intel AX210 just in case to prevent any funny wifi or driver issues with the mediatek.

Installed Linux Mint and switched to the 6.6.1 mainline kernel, so far so good.

96GB RAM works fine out of the box at 5600.

Ran "stress -c 16" for 30 minutes, CPU temp didn't go above 80c.

Laptop feels super premium, trackpad and keyboard feel better than I was expecting. There's a little screen wobble as expected but it's not too bad.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Wow! Almost 100GB of RAM! (We're certainly living in the future now...) ๐Ÿ˜ฒ

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What's wrong with the provided wi-fi card? And does the fingerprint reader work with mint?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The fingerprint reader took a little fiddling to get to work, I'm on Linux Mint XFCE.

When I tried to use fprintd-enroll I got the error that the firmware needed to be updated, but when I ran fwupd it said there was no new firmware so I had to follow this thread to fix it: https://knowledgebase.frame.work/en_us/updating-fingerprint-reader-firmware-on-linux-for-13th-gen-and-amd-ryzen-7040-series-laptops-HJrvxv_za

Then once I was able to use fprintd-enroll to add my fingerprints, I had to do apt install libpam-fprintd and follow these instructions to get the lightDM login and su and sudo to use fingerprint: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fprint#Login_configuration

Now it's working properly.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I'm very curious about repasting mine as well and what kind of difference in performance it could make.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Thank you so much for this read. I'm batch 8 amd and am jumping into Linux blind when it gets here. Mint Cinnamon specifically. You're also I believe only the 2nd person to mention using those 48gb x2 sticks so that was neat to see again. I'm tempted for the silliness aspect.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Was the network card swap easy to do? Where did you buy it? How is the battery life?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

This is the exact build Iโ€™m going with when mine gets here. Can you link that RAM and the guide you used to install the newest kernel on Mint?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Just want to say thank you for your write up.

I got the fingerprint reader working with your Framework link.

Also ordered the AX210 card on your suggestion. Works flawlessly.

Currently on Debian 12 and would like to upgrade the kernel to 6.6.1 mainline kernel.

Could you provide a quick reference/ instruction on how to do this?