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    Alienware 17 R3 Overclocking CPU?

    Discussion in '2015+ Alienware 13 / 15 / 17' started by mertymen2010, Nov 19, 2015.

  1. mertymen2010

    mertymen2010 Notebook Consultant

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    Hi all. I have been playing with these overclocking settings in bios.
    Overclock level 1 and 2 and fine and stable but level 3 is awful. Crashes within minutes.
    I have been playing with Intel Extreme Tuning Utility and i can make it stable by increasing the voltage and it will then run 4.1ghz on all 4 cores! but is there a way of making it stable within the bios and not having to use Intel Extreme Tuning Utility as the setting reset after restart.
    Thanks for any help
     
    mertymen2010, Nov 19, 2015
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    Mr Pras Hardware and systems

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    mertymen2010 Notebook Consultant

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    I haven't. I will see what its like. Thanks alot :)
     
    mertymen2010, Nov 20, 2015
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    CPU not supported??? 6820hk
     
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    Are you using the latest version from my signature? Skylake support is a work in progress.
     
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    Beta works. Thanks :)
     
    mertymen2010, Nov 21, 2015
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    I've seen a few people complain about this. I must have gotten lucky because my 17 R3 runs just fine on OC Level 3. I let Prime95 run for 48 hours using OC Level 3 after getting my machine and there were no issues. And every day between 1 a.m. and 9 a.m. my machine chews data for Seti@Home.
     
    CJ.Jacobs, Nov 24, 2015
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    Papusan Jokebook's Sucks! Dont waste your $$$ on Filthy

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    How is your Wprime 1024M score? All cores at @4.1Ghz ? Can you give some help in this tread? http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...-yet-i-want-guinea-pig-i-mean-testers.782689/
     
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  9. mertymen2010

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    What is your voltage set at?
     
    mertymen2010, Nov 26, 2015
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    Stock voltage at OC3. I haven't touched anything.

    Sent from my SM-N910T using Tapatalk
     
    CJ.Jacobs, Nov 29, 2015
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    I couldn't tell you. I don't run benchmarks nor do I pay attention to benchmark scores as they hold very little relevance to real world computing. BTW, all cores will never run at 4.1GHz unless you overclock them to such. The 4.1GHz number quoted by Intel/Alienware is for 1 core.

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    CJ.Jacobs, Nov 29, 2015
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