New AW15 r3 with 7820hk overclock

Hello guys, Monday I made a thread saying that my R3 had weird behaviors right out of the box and after the Dell guy changed the cooling system, everything is good, temps are great and I'm ready to overclock!

I looked up guide online, some overclock with bios, others OC with the alienware control center.

But I have a problem; in my bios, under performance, I simply have 2 options; CPU performance and Fan performance that I can enable or disable.

If I enable CPU performance, another option pops out, but it's greyed, the option is called core overclocking level.

If I enable FAN performance, fans are always at 103% according to alienware control center.

Finally, when I try to make a custom profile (Because the 2 premades profile obviously have too much voltage) it simply say that it didn't pass the calibration (or something like that)

I have the latest 1.2.4 bios, everything else is stock.

 

Use intel XTU or Throttlestp for your overclocking for more controls and lower temps. The CPU performance mode in general is just a higher fan curve. Fan performance mode is useless. 100% fan speeds all the time.

 

So, I simply put the value I want, hit apply in XTU and enjoy the fun? Will XTU keep my settings everytimes I boot?

Should I disable the CPU performance mode in the bios then?

 

You can keep performance mode on. But your fan will keep spinning even when your cpu is idling. Even though a low speed.

That would be the case yes but for some users XTU doesnt always applies its settings during boot. There are some work arounds for it. Or use throttlestop and put that jn your task scheduler. The latter is what i do.

 

ThrottleStop doesn’t work properly anymore for OC’ing with the Alienware’s.

 

Oh? Why is that? Curious about that.

 

Thanks again for your help, I will simply return the laptop.

Core differential is all over the place and temps are still horrible.

Since I'm in Canada my options are limited and I saw that on eurocom I could get the same setup (memory/gpu/hdd) except that the cpu would be a 8600k.

Even with the cpu delided, it would cost me less than the alienware.

A real shame because the alienware build quality looked great and the laptop itself is beautiful.

 

There's hidevolution, eurocom, gentechPC, XoticPC etc..
If you're getting a Clevo, just do a research in Sager/Clevo thread about which laptop is perfect for you that fits your budget.

 

Gonna go with eurocom since they are based in Canada, the Sky X4c with a delided cpu. Temps should be a bit under controls then.