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September 15th, 2010 17:00
Problems with m11x R2 (overclocking)
Hello all,
I'm having problems with my m11x R2 (i7). When I boot the bios and change the values for overclock, the highest speed that I can achieve is 1.5 even if I'm selecting 1.66 (with turbo boost enabled).
This was pretty strange, so I downloaded the Turbo Boost utility from Intel and guess what? It said that my processor wasn't turbo boost enabled (!) even though we all know it is, maybe I'm missing some processor drivers. As this was one of the reasons that I bought this laptop I would appreciate your help regarding this issue.
Thanks!
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Posted September 16th, 2010 19:00
Go back into the Bios.
Intel SpeedStep = Enabled
CPU Turbo Mode = Enabled
CPU Over-clock (Try all of the settings and report back to me which ones do not work)
134MHz
136MHz
138MHz
140MHz
142MHz
144MHz
146MHz
148MHz
150MHz
152MHz
154MHz
156MHz
158MHz
160MHz
162MHz
164MHz
166MHz
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Posted September 16th, 2010 20:00
Strictly speaking none of them work...
I tried with all the speeds and windows always showed 120.
However, I also used wcpuid on the speeds showed below and the results
BIOS - ICPUID
134 - 120
150 - 134
166- 150
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Posted September 17th, 2010 07:00
Checking...
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Posted September 17th, 2010 09:00
Here goes a more detalied table
134 1209 136 1227 138 1245 140 1263 142 1281 144 1299 146 1317 148 1335 150 1353 152 1371 154 1389 156 1407 158 1425 160 1443 162 1461 164 1479 166 1497 Avalon One
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Posted September 17th, 2010 10:00
Hello Chris
1) the CPU is running at a rate that is actually slower than the selected in the bios.
2) Windows system properties is not reporting CPU speed correctly
I'm also concerned with the fact that my processor doesn't have turbo boost, as the intel utility said.
Thanks for your help
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Posted September 17th, 2010 10:00
Help me understand this. If wcpuid is showing those settings, doesn't that mean that the CPU is running at that chosen rate? Is Windows System Properties just not reporting things correctly?
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Posted September 17th, 2010 14:00
Still awaiting a response from engineering.
These are all of the default M11x-R2 CPU speeds -
Intel Core i7-640UM, 1.20GHz, 4MB L2 Cache
Intel Core i5-520UM, 1.06GHz, 3MB L2 Cache
Intel Core i3-330UM, 1.20GHz, 3MB L2 Cache
Intel Pentium U5400, 1.20GHz, 3MB L2 CacheI know on the Alienware Desktops that Windows System Properties will not report an overclocked state. All those guys use CPU-Z. I do not see anything in our Alienware Laptop documentation about "Turbo Boost"? On the Alienware Desktops they have a thing called Turbomode.
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Posted September 17th, 2010 15:00
Hi Chris, I'm talking about this:
http://content.dell.com/us/en/corp/d/press-releases/2010-06-08-alienware-m11x.aspx
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Posted September 20th, 2010 16:00
In this sentence on that page, click the 1 -
All the Alienware M11x processors are also over-clockable 1 beyond the standard specification to help maximize performance.
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Posted September 16th, 2010 06:00
Send me the service tag number in a private message.
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