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    Clevo W150ERQ CPU undervolt?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by buckeyestargazer, Nov 17, 2015.

  1. buckeyestargazer

    buckeyestargazer Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have searched for hours and can NOT find how to do this. I would like to undervolt my CPU. I have a Clevo W150ERQ with i7-3940XM running Prema bios. The IntelXTU doesn't give me the option to adjust voltage or to adjust multipliers for that matter. Going into bios I can increase the multiplier, but I don't see any option to undervolt. It's probably there I just don't know the terminology, but there's nothing related to CPU voltage that I can see.

    Does the Clevo W150 motherboard support undervolting?

    Any help would be much appreciated.
     
    buckeyestargazer, Nov 17, 2015
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    It's not so much a matter of the board supporting it. Have you contacted Prema directly about doing it through his BIOS?
     
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    I have not contacted Prema directly, I've bothered him enough lately. :D
    It puzzles me that Intel XTU will not allow a lot of the overclocking functions, which is what prompted my question about the mother board. I thought the 3940XM cpu was supposed to be fully unlocked.
     
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    Prema just told me that this generation cpu does not allow undervolting, so I'm stuck with stock speeds in my system.
     
    buckeyestargazer, Nov 17, 2015
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    ipwn3r456 Notebook Evangelist

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    I think undervolting only applies to haswell or later CPUs, if I am not wrong.

    Sent from my potato running on Android 5.0.1
     
    ipwn3r456, Nov 17, 2015
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