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    Anyone thermal throttling at 83º after latest updates?

    Discussion in '2015+ Alienware 13 / 15 / 17' started by arladeveze, Jan 17, 2018.

  1. arladeveze

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    Before I could game at 90º, but now it already thermal throttles at 83 :/
     
    arladeveze, Jan 17, 2018
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    could be ur other components, check Throttlestop Alert box.. use HWinfo.. and see if shows thermal throttle as yes in red
     
    VICKYGAMEBOY, Jan 17, 2018
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    Funny enough when hitting 94º (USING HWINFO) I start to have these one second freezes but it doesn't say its ThermalThrotling. What could it be?
     
    arladeveze, Jan 18, 2018
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    What with PCH temp?
     
    Papusan, Jan 19, 2018
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    bios 1.2.3? Do you mind testing which heatsink is blowing more air? After the bios update, my cpu fan was reversed, now the left heatsink blowing more air than the back heatsink.
     
    JUNAN CHEN, Feb 2, 2018
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    YES I AM. Exact same gpu temp of 83. I don't know what is going on. I've been reading on reddit people having the same issue.

    Never had this issue before.

    They messed up the bios or something.

    hwinfo says NO on thermal limit and thermal throttling for both CPU and GPU.

    Can't even downgrade because they thought it was a good idea to lock 1.2.3 and then take it off their site telling everyone not to download it.
     
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    After downgrading my BIOS, GPU temps touched 76C which is a first time for me on older AWs. I think rollback did something to EC, even fans aren't spinning correctly. Had to use Perf mode to bring down temps quite a bit.
     
    Vasudev, Feb 3, 2018
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    Can you see if you still have same EC Firmware revision in Bios? Or is this info locked?
     
    Papusan, Feb 3, 2018
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