Yes, but its called a heat sink these days![]()
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Would anyone with a kaby lake 17R4 mind creating a bios backup of k1.0.2 and sending me a copy? (Not the skylake 1.0.2 that's on Dells website). I've had nothing but problems with temperature and power limiting since trying "Skylake 1.0.12 / Kabylake 1.0.5" and "skylake 1.0.9/kabylake 1.0.1". I called dell tech support and said that only the factory has a copy. Pretty ridiculous. Any help would be much appreciated.
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The turbo boost power max and turbo boost short power max. I sent you screen shots before of me running 1024m 8 threaded benchmarks with my 7820hk. It runs 4.3GHz easy with the power limits set to 100W and a temp of 84C max on k1.0.2. I updated to the new bios and now I can't even do OC level 1 without power limit throttling and >95C. If I try to do 4.3GHz it immediately thermal throttles. What crap considering I can't download a copy of the factory bios to revert.
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Have to do something apparently. Just ran 5prime 1024m 8 threads with everything stock and I got power limit throttling galore:
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Hopefully this is better:
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A very nice fix for the uneven core - overheating from Dell's engineers!! Push out new Bios is a easier and cheaper fix than to fix the underlying problem. What with the higher graphics TDP promised by Mr. Azor? He only replacing a problem with another
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Really just sounds like you have the Infamous AW CPU temp problem, and no BIOS in the world can fix that
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Must say that trying to switch from an AW17 to a MSI GT73 turns out to be harder than expected. The good news is that unlike the AW, it actually has working thermals and no throttling. On the other hand, the overall design, bloatware, small unique programs for this and that makes it harder. And add into the equation remapped keys, the worst PSU plug ever and such and I am honestly starting to have second thoughts here...
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I'm aware of the 17r4 issues. I repasted with kyonaut and modded the heat sink so I'm pissed that they still managed to screw my laptop up. Also not thrilled that I had to explain the bios nomenclature to alienware's own tech support while unsuccessfully asking for the old bios. -
I noticed that the latest BIOS for the Sky Lake version seemed to lower the fan curve (or rather raise it) which of course did not help the already bad cooling.
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A properly cooled AW can easily trade blows with MSI!
Evidence is here:
http://www.3dmark.com/search?_ga=1....HK&gpuName=NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Notebook)
Select 1 GPU in the filter and check out who's 21st (mixing it with the very best MSIs). 19k might be possible with the TDP of the AW 1080 increased!
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How would you change the TDP (in a somewhat safe way)?
One interesting thing I've noticed when doing benchmarking is that the fans aren't really all that loud, ie not running as much as they perhaps should. This of course wont fix the problem with uneven core temps etc but it should at least affect the overall temps. Not really sure what this Fan Performance Mode is intended for in the BIOS, sure, it makes the fans run, but who would want them to run max all the times unless you are seriously into OCing? -
This is a historical moment! The impossible has finally happened!
Dell/Alienware Update has found something!!!
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I'd be careful if it's that audio codec!
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And it gets even better, after installing that update...my sound no longer work. Getting the feeling I might be trapped in some horror moviePapusan likes this. -
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So, are the 7820HK anywhere in sight for the AW17R4 with GTX1080? Any hopes that an AW17 with that instead of the 6820HK could have better (acceptable) thermals? Know there isn't much difference between the CPUs but perhaps Dell manage to fix some of the problems finally...
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anyone experiencing some lag in the system ? i remember someone mentioned it and i cant find it now
it like the the windows laggs for a second or the mouse become slow when switching between apps or sometimes just doing regular work .. i am on 7820/4K/bios 1.02 -
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So I just placed an order yesterday for a 6820HK + 1080GTX since I was getting a decent deal on it.
Agent didn't mention abnormalities and said any problems with the QHD panel were resolved by technical and marketing departments.
So far I have a delivery date of March 17th.
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I still don't get why they don't sell it with that one already
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I ordered 2 6820HK + 1080GTX on the 2/2/2017. Have been in production since last week Thursday, EDD is 1st of March...
The additinal specs are: 16 GB DDR4; 256GB M2 SSD; 1TB HDD; QHD screen. One for me and one for the wife...... -
Frankly at this point go with the Dell Outlet, there are 1080GTX equipped ones popping up around 2,5k usd every odd day, its a great price for what you get and they are actually in stock
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Since the GTX1080 in the AW17 is crippled, how much of a difference is it really to a GTX1070?
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http://www.3dmark.com/fs/11749736
Works great for me. Even though it has a slightly lower power limit it's still less than 1,500 graphics points in firestrike from the best MSI scores with a higher power limit!
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