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    Alienware 17 R4, i7-7820hk, GTX 1080 overclock and undervolt help needed.

    Discussion in '2015+ Alienware 13 / 15 / 17' started by abhay4sengars, Jul 1, 2017.

  1. abhay4sengars

    abhay4sengars Notebook Enthusiast

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    I searched both reddit and NBR forum's but most of the guides are for skylake chips, can someone help me with achieving good overclocking and stable undervolt.
    I tried OC Lvl 1 in BIOS with undervolt of -100mV but while playing witcher 3 the CPU max temp reached 100 C
    When using stock speeds and undervolting -150 mV the max temps while playing Witcher were 86 C.
     
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    Vasudev Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    You could opt for a repaste or remove/disable unneeded background apps and services.
     
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    You must contact Dell support to change your rad for Sumon rad...
     
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    Wut?

    Way to hot, your overheating and hitting thermal throttling no doubt. Contact support and tell them you need a repaste / replacement heatsink. How were the core differentials? I presume they are probably terrible.

    Overclocking is always going to generate more heat but with a proper paste job most are OCing to 4.1-4.3 and not seeing 90c.
     
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    The core differentials are not that bad around ~3-4 C between cores.
     
    abhay4sengars, Jul 2, 2017
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    Can DELL India do a repaste job properly?
     
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    @iunlock like repasting and quality checking, never. Do you have the top end model with 1 TB SSD?
    Follow @iunlock guide to repaste and repad. Dell are rejecting more cases because of parts issue, I guess,
     
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    Repaste + get a laptop cooling pad.
     
    pdogg93, Jul 2, 2017
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    A weapon to surpass metal gear

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