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I did a comprehensive performance scaling analysis! You can tell I had a busy Friday night!

_______|CPU/PCI-E stock_|CPU +20%/PCI-E stock__|CPU+20%/PCI-E+20%_|Vcore+26.6%/Vmem+18.3%/CPU+20%/PCI-E+20%
Vantage|P9684 graphics__|P9844 graphics_________|P10163 graphics_____|P12003 graphics
3DM06_|8639___________|9480_________________|10037______________|10342
DMC4S4|98.92__________|106.34________________|115.24_____________|123.61
RE5____|74.8___________|88.5__________________|89.6_______________|93.0
FF14___|2327_high______|2550_high_____________|2545_high___________|2848 high quality

Performance gain from 20% PCI-E increase:
Vantage| 3.24%
3DM06_| 5.88%
DMC4S4| 8.37%
RE5____| 1.24%
FF14___| nothing

CPU is a 6MB C2D on a 1066 bus with a stock speed of 2.53GHz. Graphics card is a GTX 1GB with 715/900 as stock clocks. Video driver is 260.99, which is quite a bit better than the 258 driver used for optimus.

FF14 results surprised me. When the benchmark was running, the pauses of when the PCI-E connection got bogged down with loading new textures were definitely noticeable, but apparently the 20% extra bandwidth wasn't enough of a performance increase to get beyond the random variation of each run. Vantage, 3DMark06, and DMC4S4 would have the same somewhat frequent slowdowns due to needing new textures, however, they had significant performance increases with more PCI-E bandwidth. RE5 looks smooth the whole time and hardly benefited from more bandwidth.

Other games:
Crysis runs amazingly. The benchmark runs poorly due to the fast movement from place to place, but the game itself is completely GPU limited. SC2 is the same case as crysis. LFD2 runs like butter even with the GPU at stock. WoW is the only game I play that has problems with the bandwidth. The 4.0 patch doubled performance in PCI-E limited scenarios so that in worst case scenarios its in the low 30s fps. It's hard to tell what is and isn't PCI-E limitations though because the game is so CPU limited even on a 3ghz C2D ans sometimes can't get out of the high 20s.

Experimentation with hijacking PCI-E lanes:

Basically you're not going to be able to make a good enough signal if you want to steal a PCI-E lane off of an internal component in your laptop. I played around with cutting mini HDMI cables and soldering them back together to see if I could make the cable faster. To make a good enough reconnection, I had to twist nearly an inch of wire together and crush the wires together with pliers. You are not going to be able to do this off of a tiny aluminum contacts on the motherboard.

I highly doubt this will be useful info for anyone, but I found out what the 4 data wires are in the mini HDMI cables.
Pink aluminum sleeve, white wire inside it.
Pink aluminum sleeve, pink wire inside it.
Gold aluminum sleeve, white wire inside it.
Gold aluminum sleeve, pink wire inside it.
Pins 2,3,5,and 6 are used on the connector for these wires.

SUICIDE VANTAGE RUNS!
3.08GHz CPU, 910MHz Vcore, 1070MHz Vmem
P12228 graphics