My R4 OVERCLOCK is blank in CPU Management Configeration

Question

To someone who knows what they are talking about .

Iv had this system for just under a year now and never really needed the overclock until now as im playing crysis 3 and the game seems to use 95% of the cpu and thought ok nows the time to use the overclock that i paid for .

now i go into bios to set the load level 1 overclock or the level 2 setting and then go into the CPU management configuration this is where im shocked to see that this page is totally BLANK !!! what the hell is this ??

I will say that the motherboard was replaced a few months ago and this could be the reason i have no overclock .

The CPU is a 3930k @4.1ghz

my cpu is only running at 3.2ghz

please help if i can actually manually overclock and put the settings in without seeking legal advice .

morblore · Accepted Answer

To someone who knows what they are talking about .

Iv had this system for just under a year now and never really needed the overclock until now as im playing crysis 3 and the game seems to use 95% of the cpu and thought ok nows the time to use the overclock that i paid for .

now i go into bios to set the load level 1 overclock or the level 2 setting and then go into the CPU management configuration this is where im shocked to see that this page is totally BLANK !!! what the hell is this ??

I will say that the motherboard was replaced a few months ago and this could be the reason i have no overclock .

The CPU is a 3930k @4.1ghz

my cpu is only running at 3.2ghz

please help if i can actually manually overclock and put the settings in without seeking legal advice .

Hello

That's odd. Are you sure you are looking in the right place inside the BIOS? If it's not there then try following the steps in this link to set the BIOS back to default and then check again if it's there. Make sure you put your settings back into the BIOS such as the RAID setting. When you default the BIOS it will turn it off so go over all your settings and write them down if need be so you can put them back in.

Overclocking on the Alienware Aurora R4
http://www.dell.com/support/troubleshooting/my/en/mydhs1/KCS/KcsArticles/ArticleView?c=my&l=en&s=dhs&docid=457874

Reboot the computer.
When prompted during POST, press the key to enter the setup screen.
On the System Setup screen, press the key to move to the Advanced menu.
Press the key until Frequency/Voltage Control is highlighted, then press the key.
On the Frequency/Voltage Control screen, press the key to highlight Load Level X OC setting (where X is the overclock level as received from the factory) and press the key.
On the Load Level X OC setting? screen, press the key on [Yes].
Repeat for every Load Level X OC setting (where X is the overclock level as received from the factory) listed.
Press the key to return to the the Frequency/Voltage Control screen.
On the Frequency/Voltage Control screen, use the key until the Exit screen is shown, then press the key.
On the Save configuration changes and exit setup? screen, press the key on Yes to save the changes and restart the computer.

morblore · Accepted Answer

Oh , I'm sorry, I didn't see your post when I put mine, I apologize, for some reason this thing didn't show it...and yes, the A06 blocked the manual OC...

It's cool

I just figured you forgot your coffee

AuroraALX · Answer

Its and A07 bios too .

NataliaatAW · Answer

Hi,

If you are running BIOS version A06, update it to A07, here's the link:

www.dell.com/.../alienware-aurora-r4

And then, follow the steps in this article to overclock your system properly:

Overclocking on the Alienware Aurora R4

morblore · Answer

Hi,&#xa0;If you are running BIOS version A06, update it to A07, here's the link:&#xa0;www.dell.com/.../alienware-aurora-r4&#xa0;&#xa0;And then, follow the steps in this article to overclock your system properly:&#xa0;Overclocking on the Alienware Aurora R4&#xa0;&#xa0;&#xa0;&#xa0; His 2nd post said he is on A07 and didn't A06 just prevent manual overclocking anyway? A06 still has the presets if I recall right and could not be the issue even if he was running it. You reposted the same link I did by the way Its and A07 bios too .&#xa0;

NataliaatAW · Answer

Oh , I'm sorry, I didn't see your post when I put mine, I apologize, for some reason this thing didn't show it...and yes, the A06 blocked the manual OC...

AuroraALX · Answer

thank you guys so much for the help.

resetting back to default cured it and now i got my overclock settings back and i can manually overclock to what ever i want over all the cores.

Crysis 3 is not bottled necked by the CPU no more and happily seeing only 60% CPU usage on EVGA precision X, instead of 95% and now getting a very smoth 70fps on max settings with AA off..what a game though ..pure Eye candy...

Thanks guys .

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