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    Question! Regarding Alienware 17

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Hackintoshihope, Aug 10, 2013.

  1. Hackintoshihope

    Hackintoshihope AlienMeetsApple

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    How many users still experience performance problems with the 780m of your system. Also what are the possible fixes?

    - Example being the throttling problem?

    Edit* I will be receiving mine soon and I want to know what I have to do "out of the box" to get it running tip top. As seen in my sig.
     
    Hackintoshihope, Aug 10, 2013
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  2. DMoore03

    DMoore03 Notebook Consultant

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    If you read the alienware 17 owners lounge thread, there oodles of information in there, lately seems like a lot of people have the issue fix with downloading nvidia precision(?) and raising the GPU throttling temp limit. I'm patiently waiting my arrival.....ETA is tuesday but says its still in production :(. I ordered mine on July 25th.
     
    DMoore03, Aug 10, 2013
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  3. Hackintoshihope

    Hackintoshihope AlienMeetsApple

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    Yeah they are on backorder. And yes I've read there I was just seeing if I could get quick fixes. Also I thought it was evga precision x that was used to raise the throttle limit? Am I correct
     
    Hackintoshihope, Aug 10, 2013
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    Alienware-L_Porras Company Representative

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    I've seen that solution to the throttle problems. The lounge will have way more info for you on this and many other things.
     
    Alienware-L_Porras, Aug 14, 2013
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  5. Hackintoshihope

    Hackintoshihope AlienMeetsApple

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    As said, I've read up on some. I just wanted a mash up or a simple guide to what other users had found.
     
    Hackintoshihope, Aug 16, 2013
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    tgotovac Notebook Consultant

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    I've found using nvidia inspector and just hitting apply defaults works to remove the throttle. Max temp I saw on my 780m so far after about 2 hours of bf3 and tomb raider was 78c. Seems pretty stable no throttling
     
    tgotovac, Aug 16, 2013
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    Hackintoshihope AlienMeetsApple

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    Perfect! Thanks for the continued information :)
     
    Hackintoshihope, Aug 16, 2013
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    No problem!!
     
    tgotovac, Aug 16, 2013
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