Welp, I got my new M17 R3 in. We were going to disassemble it, and install liquid metal, but we figured we'd do a benchmark before-and-after sorta deal. So I set up the system, and ran a benchmark. Here's our 'before' benchmarks with Superposition/HWiNFO64!

https://imgur.com/a/BWWZ6Wt

I'd give you an 'after', but the unit's trackpad stopped responding immediately after saving the screenshots; within seconds. I went to complete a restart using keyboard commands (windows R / shutdown -s -t 1), and the unit hung on shutdown. After giving it about 5 minutes to ensure it wasn't a Windows update acting ass-y, I gave it a hard shutdown. Upon restart, the trackpad still does not function. Already loving this $3,000 purchase. Guess they haven't managed to cram a top-model GPU in a laptop successfully yet after all, a la Area 51m R1 heat issues. So, no disassembly here.

I'm gonna give this a 2/10 because it's pretty, assuming you don't try to use it. If you're the sort that would buy a 2020 Camaro that will start rod-knocking if you ever try to drive it, this is the machine for you! Otherwise... Hm. Seems odd that the first benchmark would kill a unit, and I highly doubt it was unable to obtain those temperatures at Dell. This unit is NOT overclocked, either in BIOS or software means, for the record. I have had it running approximately 2-3 hours, to complete setup. This is the first load I have put on it.

Edit: Oh, I got some lovely artifacting to complement it, as I was uploading the pictures! Glad I still have my 17R4, and didn't trust it enough to transfer files over.

https://imgur.com/a/kbo6jSD