BIOS A05 vs A03

Taken me a while to post this but this are my recordings on both BIOS after playing the witcher 2 for 1 hour,replaying the same section once i flashed back to A03.
A05 obviously has the lower fan noise but it also increases the temperatures of all cores from my experience,personally i have stayed with A03 now as although it may be louder the fan is obviously doing a better job and cooling much better overall.
This is my first post with screenshots so go easy on me peeps if there are any errors i have made.I could not find a way to insert the images so had to add as attatchments.First attachment is A05 temps and second is A03
Thanks and hope this helps anyone undecided on which BIOS to use

 

Interesting. What would be interesting is to see a similar test performed with something like Prime95 for a set period of time, performed on A03 and A05. This gives a good idea to what conditions are like with the CPU maxed out, unless your test maxed out the CPU or nearly maxed it out?

I've found A05 reaches up to 94C on the hottest CPU core for around a 5 minute run of 1024M, but bear in mind this is with the Turbo Power Limits practically disabled (allowing my i7 2720QM CPU to maintain roughly a x30 multiplier, rather than downclocking to x26 after a short time).

 

Yeah i forgot to say i have the stock i7 processor 2630 and i done this without any overclocking etc,i used CPUID monitor as it gave me a better minimum-maximum temperhature over the period of one hour,also as you can imagine the highest temperatures were experienced towards the end of this period,also apologies if it is a bit small and hard to read the pictures was the best i could do without it getting blurry

 

Screw the A05 bios. I'm staying with the A03 my core temps have not gone over 85C.

 

Hey mate, I'll be reverting back to the A03 bios this weekend to get my laptop cooler, with those tests did you have turbo boost enabled?

As at the moment I'm running A05 with turbo boost disabled and am hitting temps of 89%

Just curious

 

yea turbo boost was enabled when i done the test mate,no OC or other programs running other than CPUID HW monitor

 

guys, aslong as its in warranty upgrade the hell u can.

if the hardware bakes itself into heaven or flashes into seas its a warranty issue. dell gives you the software to use it, if its faulty, its their problem.


unless you love hairdryers. stick with A05

 

i experienced multiple problems across multiple games (FIFA 12, COD black ops, and of course, Witcher 2)

the fan noise was not much of a bother over game sounds anyway, and the overheating after A05 update is causing sound stuttering as well.

I am going back to A03 for now, lets see if i can get my games performing the way they were. will post with results.

 

i went back to A03, and things are back to the wonderful way they were. No unreasonable under-performance anywhere across the board!

 

I had the A05 bios on and turbo boost turned off (as I was getting 100 degrees on all cores with it on in battlefield)

Went back to A03 the other night and turned turbo back on and am 8 - 10 degrees cooler, I really don't mind the fan noise as I crank the sound up to compensate. I wonder what dell would do if I rang them up and said my CPU is hitting 100 degrees...

 

I also flashed to unlocked A03. Will test it for a bit.

***LOL*** cooling when maxed is the same sound/RPM level during BF3 30 min gameplay (in a warm room) as when flashing Bios. This is the cooooler lol
My temps on CPU have not exceeded 80c which I consider PERFECT. GPU was max 66c which is PERFECT. This is 5c lower temperature than when on A05.

The difference? BF3 all maxed except AA and the other AA. No more dips to 20-22, I have stable 30-32 FPS. So my system was throttling before. Very happy I did this.

***keeper***

 

How do A06 go to A03?

 

I flashed from A05 to A03 by downloading A03 and flashing it from Windows. If you mean how they compare I never used A06, but fan&temperature-wise A06 should be similar to A05.