Will there be a BIOS A07?

Then it's time to test with Prime95 and Heaven together. Waiting for the result . Post image of all power limits in Xtu monitoring.

 

You don't automagically "lower TDP". You sacrifice performance for TDP. How that performance is sacrificed does not matter. The fact that it's sacrificed exists.

 

who make two stress test at the same time ? this is not a real game escenario. with heaven is enought

 

Heaven is not a processor stress test . It barely touches the Processor. The processor is also used for other purposes than just gaming. LOL

 

is a gaming laptop, i just used it to play games and web surf, rarely to use SolidWorks.

 

But i wondered with all the complaining people here. what do you use the cpu for then? benchmarking only?

 

Maybe time to Google what more you can use a computer to than just play games and web surf. Number crunching is fun if you have a proper socket processor in a laptop . Can understand that it it's not as nice to benchmark test/number crunching with BGA TDP-locked crap.

 

hi guyz.. i got bored and been reading forums. LOL.. i was then exploring intel xtu and found out the benchmark test.(by the way the only purpose of my XTU and HWinfo is to monitor temps) so i tried using it and noticed my power limit throttling reached max of 81% and the current limit throttling reached 94%. is this normal? also i have noticed that when the power limit throttling goes high the processor frequency goes down. the lowest was 3.0ghz. is this the throttling problem of alienware 17 r2? oh i didnt change anything on this. no overclocking and undervolting. all default settings.
specs:
i7-4710HQ
8 gigs ram
gtx 970m 3 gigs
bios a06

 

Not only a problem for your Aw17r2 but most laptops with BGAtel. Your BGAtel can't either use turbo boost short power max at 58w. Some nice reading for you. http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/246907-how-mobile-i7-cpus-work/ Give a big thanks to @D2 Ultima

 

Dude, I earn my living with designing, rendering etc stuff. My hardware gets used a lot and is rarely idling. Flying from to Europe to Asia multiple times a year and I need a fairly powerful laptop for that which I have now to keep doing my job there.

As a hobby I also do music production ( have done it professionaly) so also then it is doing real work.

 

thanks for the info.. read abit and since its a bga processor meaning this cant be help.. sad.. anyways did a stress test again and power limit throttling and current limit throttling goes high again and noticed core 3 and 4 is on minimum on 3.0 ghz. as i have read a good HQ processor runs at core3&4 =3.3ghz core2=3.4ghz and core1=3.5 ghz.. meaing my cpu throttles down to 300mhz.. im assuming this is not so bad since because as i have understood from reading that this likely to happen. does getting a 240w psu might solve the problem? or just deal with it and just be glad it doesnt throttle down to 800mhz.. LOL
any suggestions? thanks..

 

Its technically not throttling since Intel states that the CPU is 2.6ghz and can boost up to 3.4ghz. However it is staying stable at 3.4ghz for me on 4 cores. But I have the AW15 with a Geforce 970.

 

No it does not. I have an AW17r2 with 980m/4720HQ running on BIOS A06 w/180W adapter and I still face severe throttling since the day I bought this machine. I can and have proofed it by videos and images.

 

you really need the 240W adapter with this specs

 

I tried the 240 W adapter, didn't help with A00 or A06. Although I think yesterday I've found a soft spot for XTU/Throttlestop settings which let's me run the CPU at a constant 3.2 GHz frequency. So I've got that going for me.

 

Your cpu really seems to be a lemon. I remember I saw your videos and the way it throttles was strange because it did after a some time while the load was staying the same. I would expect thermal throttling but the temps werent bad.

 

Yes that's true. It just starts throttling after a while with the same temps and same load. Quite strange. Although I am now able to get rid of throttling, check out my new thread: http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/what-is-vccin-it-solved-my-throttling.786198/