Yes and the worst part of this is that by hiding things, many people are buying the cheapest configuration and then they go ahead and upgrade a cpu to i5K thinking they will be able to fly at over 4ghtz
And surprise surprise it wont work because is lucked on the bios, oviusly for safety reason HEAT, but they should inform the client of what they can an cant do
And I will still will like to know if the i5-2320 can rich 3.3 yes or no before i passe my order !!!!!!
Yes that may be the reason why in Dell USA they have lower the price of the x51 with i72600 to match almost the price of the x51 i5-2320 configuration and of-course the i5 configuration has no discount at all in USA
Unfortunaly here where i am china the price haven't been lower at all, even that the Rmb keeps raising, so buying the i7 configuration comes to over 170 usd compare to the i5
I would say call Dell and ask but it seems like they are under the impression that the i7 in the x51 will turbo to 3.8 which it clearly will not do.
I can't see the heat or volts on the i5 at 3.3 being more then the i7 at 3.4/3.5 but who knows. Then again who would buy the i7 if you could get the i5 with the same or almost same clock. I bet it wont turbo more then .1ghz just like the i7.
It won't be locked but I bet it wont go over 3.1ghz.
If I recall right this is something like what happened with the x58 CPU's. The 920 was the one to buy but Dell didn't allow OC'ing it at first and when they did they kept it low. I think, not 100% sure, but I think someone from Dell stated that if they allowed the 920 to be fully overclockable then they wouldn't be able to sell the extreme editions.
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April 3rd, 2012 23:00
Any one here with an Intel quad i5-2320?
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April 4th, 2012 00:00
Alienware has always listed the turbo values for the Aurora and Area 51 under the spec tab but it's not listed for the x51.
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April 4th, 2012 01:00
Yes and the worst part of this is that by hiding things, many people are buying the cheapest configuration and then they go ahead and upgrade a cpu to i5K thinking they will be able to fly at over 4ghtz
And surprise surprise it wont work because is lucked on the bios, oviusly for safety reason HEAT, but they should inform the client of what they can an cant do
And I will still will like to know if the i5-2320 can rich 3.3 yes or no before i passe my order !!!!!!
solrac135
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April 4th, 2012 02:00
Yes that may be the reason why in Dell USA they have lower the price of the x51 with i72600 to match almost the price of the x51 i5-2320 configuration and of-course the i5 configuration has no discount at all in USA
Unfortunaly here where i am china the price haven't been lower at all, even that the Rmb keeps raising, so buying the i7 configuration comes to over 170 usd compare to the i5
morblore
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April 4th, 2012 02:00
I would say call Dell and ask but it seems like they are under the impression that the i7 in the x51 will turbo to 3.8 which it clearly will not do.
I can't see the heat or volts on the i5 at 3.3 being more then the i7 at 3.4/3.5 but who knows. Then again who would buy the i7 if you could get the i5 with the same or almost same clock. I bet it wont turbo more then .1ghz just like the i7.
It won't be locked but I bet it wont go over 3.1ghz.
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April 4th, 2012 02:00
If I recall right this is something like what happened with the x58 CPU's. The 920 was the one to buy but Dell didn't allow OC'ing it at first and when they did they kept it low. I think, not 100% sure, but I think someone from Dell stated that if they allowed the 920 to be fully overclockable then they wouldn't be able to sell the extreme editions.
Something like that.