Gigabyte Aorus 17X AZF using mobile LPDDR5-5600, any ideas whose?

[Restroom]

I've become rather interested in Gigabyte's new high-end Aorus 17X AZF (specs, left column) and until they release new subproduct SKUs it looks like the only available configuration is called AZF-C5US665SP which carries 2×16GB DDR5-5600, and I can't find any retail vendors hawking 262-pin LPDDR5 certified to that rate (PC5-44800), so that means one of two things: either the modules are factory OCed (which would also mean the mobo has an HM770 chipset rather than a WM790) or they're just getting faster-rated modules that haven't hit retail yet. Why do I care? I want to run two 2R×8 (32GB) modules, and I don't know what to buy or how they got there, is XMP 3.0 on the board (it could be, but Intel wants you to ask the laptop mfg) or am I starting with lower-binned modules and manually OCing? I just wish someone had or could borrow one of these machines and run CPU-Z or AIDA64 or something and see what exactly it's working with, before I commit that kind of money (not that it'd be a dealbreaker but I just hate the vendor part opacity in laptops). Anyone have a guess or know anyone with one of these things?

 

[igor_kavinski]

DDR5-5600 will be available in time but since it's only working with i9 Raptor Lake, it will be priced at a premium. Better to buy the laptop configured with 64GB from the factory. It's going to be an expensive laptop anyway so not sure why you are looking to save a few hundred bucks by upgrading it yourself.

AFAIK, no one sells slower RAM overclocked to higher speed in laptops. It would be a stability headache for them to have to run memtest86 and other stress testing software on it for dozens of hours before they could ship it out.

 

[Restroom]

Better to buy the laptop configured with 64GB from the factory. It's going to be an expensive laptop anyway so not sure why you are looking to save a few hundred bucks by upgrading it yourself.

Mainly because GB doesn't have any SKUs of the 17X AZF with 64GB of the DDR5-5600 to offer, and it doesn't look like they're going to. It's still better-specced and quite a bit cheaper than competitive offerings by MSI, ASUS, and (ugg) Razer and right now the price-point for the components it's offering is pretty damn reasonable, all told; $3,600, it's enough to move me away from building another desktop just for the portability, I'm a bit long in the tooth to imagine I'm going to be doing as much gaming or for as long as I would have ten, fifteen years ago but should the spirit move me I could probably run just about anything I want fine, maybe a few adjustments. But the portability right now is going to save my health (long story), and versus a per-part custom "mobile workstation" from such as Lenovo or HP I'm still getting much better parts for two or three grand less. I don't anticipate doing a lot of virtualisation or anything else that's going to strain 32GB but I like overhead and a couple years down the road if I want to max out the memory controller it shouldn't break the bank. I just wish I knew what damn parts GB is putting in the thing, you know, I want to know where exactly I'm getting diddled, and what, if anything, I can do to ameliorate that.

 

[Restroom]

Well, after chewing it over for a while I finally just pulled the trigger and ordered one. I'll update this (and maybe make a new thread if anyone cares) with a full rundown of what components the damn thing ships with and whatever I can figure out from interrogating/examining the LPDDR5-5600 modules. This is too bad a mutha specwise for $1-1.6K less than any competitors not to at least give it its day in the sun, right?

 

[igor_kavinski]

LPDDR5-5600 modules.

DDR5-5600.

If it's LPDDR5, you won't be able to upgrade.