Hope you recieve one from a good batch and not a faulty batch like so many on here. Myself included. *Finger crossed*
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I don't like to stress my Alienware too much, it is just nonsense to use your computer on high performance, because of the core clock is being maxed out all the time. If you put it on balanced, it stays idle at 800mhz instead of a constant ~3.3ghz.
Edit: Balanced vs high performance plan
CPU speed and utilization are two different things. A processor can run at full speed and have no load. There is no danger with keeping the processor up. If it AFFECTED the lifetime of the CPU, it would only be because there was a defect in the chip or poor cooling as far as I know.
There is high load, temperature, and poor cooling that stress the processor and not high clock speed in idle or with a small load.Last edited: Jun 29, 2015 -
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Here we go - this is something different for me
Running Furmark in the background stressing the GPU fully, and running an XTU Stress test (I know its not Prime 95), the monitors showed me the following results. It appears that the GPU is throttling back and forth at a millisecond pace, going from 99% to 15% to 50% and back and forth. While the CPU showed 0 throttling issues overclocked running hard.
Has anyone seen this? I know the CPU is a common throttle mark, and folks are having issues with the CPU dropping to 800 mhz. Maybe I'm interpeting this wrong. When you see the 99% holds on the graph for GPU usage, this is when the CPU stress test is not running. I ran it twice, for 5 minutes, and 1 minute to plot this graph. The GPU is currently running at 1261 mhz OC the CPU is at 3.757 ghz OC
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Earlier, I posted my CPU getting up to 95°C during Prime95 2 threads and Heaven benchmark. I'm going to try a repaste tonight and post results on here. I only have some Arctic silver 5 but it should be fine.
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I chickened out once I got to the keyboard power cable. couldn't figure out the latch for it.Last edited: Jun 29, 2015 -
Just for future reference, artic silver is pretty bad nowadays and in some instances has performed worse than stock tim. So probably saved yourself some grief.
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MQ and QM CPUs without BIOS locks = free TDP control. MX and XM CPUs behave in this way too.
HQ chips are locked to 57W for ~2.5 minutes and then 47W indefinitely. Some machines are a little varied in this way. Some won't pass 47W. I've even seen one that locks itself to 36W and its short power boost is 47W. That one confused me.
Please note that any CPU in a machine with BIOS locks can be terrible. TDP throttle in the MSI GT models is annoying in particular; no matter what you set, it acts like a HQ chip and goes to 47W. Of course this was likely due to MSI shoving 120W GPUs and 57W CPUs into a 180W brick system >_>... but you know. -
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I've got Dell to send me my 240 watt power brick, it should be in my hands tomorrow.
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Alienware 17 R2 A05 bios is released;
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There was an issue where after the laptop was awakened after sleep mode, the CPU will not go above a certain frequency. Throttled, to be more specific. Read this:
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Oh I know, but damn that is some screwed up English.
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Yes it is. Makes you wonder what the heck is going on over there at Dell doesn't it?
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It doesn't inspire the greatest confidence in them.
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Hi guys, I've read most of the posts and I feel disappointed by Dell, my expectations were high, now, I found that out of the box the machine is flawed.
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I run benchmark again with new A05, and the temp report around 85C. I read everywhere that dell team suggest using Fan Control to decrease heat. I love doing it, but when controlling the fan, it causes sound lagging because of high latency each time the fan is spining in period of custom fan control.
Why don't we who using alienware make a request and sign there, asking them (Dell engineer) to make fan control inside alienware command center or bios settings? with fan control I can make speed to maximum like 5200 rpm, without it, I see it only at 4000 rpm.
Edit: here is the link to vote, please someone update it in first post or sticky thing, asking people to vote for this, at least. They don't listen, they want to see vote.
http://www.ideastorm.com/idea2ReadIdea?v=1432006980935&Id=087700000009mDXAAYLast edited: Jul 4, 2015 -
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I see everybody focus on psu issue...what about the m.2.... Is it raid possible? What is the best m.2 for this monster?
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I would like to see a better fan profile but other than that I guess it is alright for now.
The laptop fans are mostly silent & useless when I have my 3 external USB fans plugged in. The entire laptop is constantly cooled by the external fans & only in rare cases (under heavy load) the laptop fans actually start winding up.
When I don't use the 3 external USB fans, the CPU reaches 90+ & the fans have trouble cooling it down to 70 & keeping it there. When the CPU dies in a few years because of heat, they have to replace it for free because of their god awful fan profiles.
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Today I'm playing GTA V with BIOS A05, the temperature is awful, the maximum I get is 96C. I think I will stick to Hwinfo fan control for better heating. Deal with the heat, another problem rise, sound issue when using fan control. SO SUPER AWFUL!!! -
I'm pretty disappointed to continue to hear how bad these new Alienwares are performing. I was all set on getting the 17" since I have almost 30% off in coupons and incentives but I just can't bring myself to deal with the throttling and overheating issues. I'm torn on the Sager 9773 or 9752 since they are obviously superior machines, but I can't afford to be without them for a month if I had to send them in. Alienware has just such superior service that I am tempted to say screw it and just buy one, but their lack of upgrades is also very disconcerting.
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The 9752 fully loaded is about $2300 and the 9733 with g-sync is about $2400. The 17 r2 with 980m, 256gb s2, and 16gb would be about $1650.
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I surf around here long enough and have some stupid questions. I see many other laptop from Dell has the modded BIOS which enable a lot of things. Is it possible for us making one for Alienware here? We might find a solution for a lot of things that dell engineer denied to help us?
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I just ordered a new 17 R2 this weekend (with the 970M though, not the 980M), and I verified that they are still shipping with the 180w psu.
1 450-AAGU Power Supply : Alienware 180W AC Adapter
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1 800-BBKV FREE game with purchase of a GeForce GTX 700 GPU-powered desktop
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I would have thought the same thing, Robbo, except the quantity shows as "1" and if I didn't qualify for it, there would be no reason to put it on the invoice. Guess I'll find out soon enough though.
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