Alienware 17 R3 Overclocking

Just got the alienware 17 R3 with the 3820 Skylake processor.

I understand they can be overclocked quite easily. Should i select OC LV 1,2 or 3 from the bios to get a stable and good overclock? I think running around 4.0Ghz for every day use is good.

Or is there a better way to do it please?

 

Good work! It's a mighty processor and there is the following thread that you should have a read through - http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...-settings-for-4-0ghz-to-4-3ghz-stable.787791/

Just don't use the presets, Dell has no idea what they are doing when it come to overclocking....... and some other things now I come to think about it!!

You'll probably need to re-paste your machine if you're going to be running a daily OC, the stock job is just hilarious and I would not recommend OCing for any length of time on the stock paste.

 

Hey man I just saw that 10K firestrike score on your signature. Good job on that! I wanted to ask you if you could use your laptop that much OC'd for several hours of gaming. Also what was your GPU voltage for that OC? I have the 17r2 with 4720HQ/980m and I want to do some overclocking too but I am kind of new to this thing. I managed to get 9600 firestrike but that OC was not stable.

 

Regarding the GPU OC, at that kind of overclock it made no difference to actual game play. @iunlock will tell you, the biggest performance increase is found within the limits of the stock voltage. Yes you can crank it up a lot further but it only makes any difference to benchmark numbers and generates considerably more heat for negligible gains.

I think I was running +75mv for that benchmark, I also had the CPU cranked to 4.1GHz and my RAM running @2400MHz.

9600 firestrike is decent, especially as your CPU is locked and you're running DDR3

 

I understand, that is very interesting. Thank you very much I'll try to find a sweet spot where I get around 11k graphics score (stock clocks: 10k) and 9000+ FS score (stock clocks: 8400).

 

Your physics score in your Firestrike bench is very low for a 4.1 Ghz overclock on processor. Either throttling or all 4 cores isn't 4.1 GHz.

 

Funny you mention that, I was comparing my desktop runs with my AW15 runs and my desktop is only 20% better!!

You're right though, I'll take another look.........

 

I know I have right You should higher your power limits. Max out everything because the processor need all the power it can get for the task

 

I chuckle to myself when people on other forums (g***faqs) still scream "gaming laptop? lol, laptops can't game". They must've stopped shopping laptops since 2001 or something.