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    m17x-r2 - 920xm upgrade weird cpu-z

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by tb303, Jun 29, 2012.

  1. tb303

    tb303 Notebook Consultant

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    i just upgraded my laptop to 920xm and when i try cpu-z it shows up as 2 cores 4 threads instead of 4 and 8.
    any ideas please?
    i haven't done any overclocking. also it has a temp of 65 Celsius on idle and i have it on high performance through power settings. i used arctic silver 5 for thermal paste.

    cheers
    tio
     
    tb303, Jun 29, 2012
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  2. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Can you screenshot the 920XM? My 920XM idles at like ~53C due to the registry hack for SSDs.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Jun 29, 2012
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  3. moral hazard

    moral hazard Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Try going to msconfig, then go to the "boot" tab. Advanced options, check the box for # of processors, select the max amount. Then reboot. Go back to that setting and uncheck the # of processors box (this step is the important one).
    Then reboot and see how many cores you get in CPUz.

    Also check your bios settings. Reset them if you have to.
     
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  4. The Revelator

    The Revelator Notebook Prophet

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    That 2 core/4 thread issue is probably a leftover setting from your old i7-620M. Go to Run and enter msconfig.exe and run as Administrator. Click on the Boot tab, then Advanced Options and check the box for Number of Processors and select 8 from the dropdown menu. That will fix that problem.
     
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  5. tb303

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    it only shows 4 processors. not 8. :(
     
    tb303, Jun 30, 2012
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    ok! so it was checked though and by unchecking it it fixed it! Thanks a lot guys. So now this is what i get on idle, high performance setting in power options.

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    is there any good hardware monitoring proggie that can help me monitor temps clock speed, of cpu and gpus please? i remember i was using everest years ago..........
     
    tb303, Jun 30, 2012
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  8. radji

    radji Farewell, Solenya...

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    Many people turn to HWiNFO64 for that. I don't need so much info/control so I use Coretemp + AllCPU for my processor, and GPU-Z for my GPU.
     
    radji, Jun 30, 2012
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