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    Still befuddled by those two options

    Discussion in '2015+ Alienware 13 / 15 / 17' started by abdullah_mag, Jan 14, 2016.

  1. abdullah_mag

    abdullah_mag Notebook Evangelist

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    In my 17 R3's BIOS, there's are two settings, called "Fan Performance Mode" and "Processor Performance Mode", both are currently set to disabled, and i do not have any problems with dynamic fan speeds or CPU turbo boost reaching and maintaining its max clock.

    There are only 2 states for both these settings, either enabled or disabled, and when i enable cpu performance mode, no other settings show up or become available, so it's not for OC'ing apparently.

    So what exactly do these two settings do???
     
    abdullah_mag, Jan 14, 2016
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    Hackintoshihope AlienMeetsApple

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    What CPU do you have? Overclocking options should show if the CPU is unlocked. Also Fan Performance mode I have seen it just ramp of the Fans to full speed all of the time.
     
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    i have the 6700HQ which afaik isn't unlocked
     
    abdullah_mag, Jan 14, 2016
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