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July 28th, 2014 03:00
Alienware Aurora R4 not showing correct CPU & RAM speed?
Hi,
A month ago I bought an Alienware Aurora R4. It has an i7-4820K 3,70GHz CPU and 16GB quad channel 1600MHz RAM.
I have 2 questions :
1) On my order sheet it said that the CPU would be factory overclocked to 4,2Ghz, however when I look in the bios, in windows 8.1 or in the Speccy tool, the CPU shows it's running at 3,70GHz! I have turbo boost enabled in the bios, but I haven't touched any CPU clock settings in the bios. Does this mean that Dell did not overclock my CPU to 4,2Ghz? And if so does anybody know the bios settings to change so I can run it at 4,2GHz?
2) The RAM : When I look into the Speccy tool, it shows 16GB DDR3 RAM @ 799MHz. I thought this was 1600MHz RAM so why is Speccy showing me 799MHz?
shesagordie
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July 28th, 2014 07:00
Please read the following:
http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/desktop/f/3514/t/19593213.aspx
Bev.
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July 28th, 2014 07:00
Dell does not support CPU-Z or Speccy and is not responsible for Errors in reporting from those programs. Ram speed is based on the chipset and processor and bios. Putting faster ram into a system does not speed up the FSB of the CPU or the Ram access.
240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)