Alienware 18 with MSI GTX 1070 issues

Hello at all. I have an MSI GTX 1070 Running in my AW18. VBIos is 86.04.26.00.06
In any Benchmark The 1070 throttles between 1000-1600MHz. I tried many various settings in the Driver and Bios. Nothing helps.
Does anyone have an idea what I can do to get the card fully working?

 

I had a similar issue in my m18x, it seems the only thing that has reliably helped thus far is the sleep and wake trick that Mr.Fox told me about.

So you put the baby to sleep, wait a couple minutes, and wake it. Simple right

You have to sever any links to either Dell EC or Compal EC in Hwinfo64 if you are using it, I.e. disable monitoring them (and remove the tick in settings). The trick never worked for me whilst that was on.

It may take a few attempts too.

Hope this helps!

 

Ok, I will try it.

Doesn‘t work for me. Put into sleep for 15 minutes. I don‘t use HWInfo64.
Also switched to IGFX and back to SG. No changes
Any other solution?

 

Start using hwinfo64 and get the limit reasons.

 

Try this although it only worked for me once:

* right click on desktop and go into Nvidia settings
* then into 3d settings
* then find power management and change to prefer maximum power from whatever the default is

 

That was the first thing I tried.

 

Now I have HWInfo64. Card goes up to 113W and fell down to 50/60w. And says sometimes performance power limit

 

Definitely throttles, mine goes up to 135W in TimeSpy. Have you tried uninstalling AWCC?

 

Alienware command center?

Which GTX 1070 with which VBios do you have?

 

Yes.

My vbios is 86.04.25.00.41

 

AW CC also didn‘t work. Do you have a No GSync card?

 

Not sure how I would check that? It's an MSI card.

 

In gpu-z. 1BA1 is non GSync. 1BE1 is Gsync

 

Ok, mine is non gsync then as it's a 1ba1.

 

So maybe that’s the fault?
Because you have the same AW18 with the same unlocked Bios?

 

Mine is a m18x r2 but the throttling issues occur in both cases.

I feel for you, really, I have gone through so many "fixes" I was beginning to think i would never get to the bottom of it, i thought about going dual psu mod, i have must have repasted / reseated the gpu about a dozen times thinking I might have modded something incorrectly but in the end what worked was the sleep wake fix and raising the rear of the tablet up to optimize air intake...

I am still pondering the dual psu mod as I am curious what effect it will have but I ain't spending 780 euros on a new one...

Good luck bro, hope you get to the bottom of it.

 

Did you manage to sort out the throttling issues?

 

No, I sold the AW18 with a 980M.

 

was it working fine with a 980m or was that throttled too? the tdp's are similar. i'm thinking of upgrading to a 970m or 980m.

 

With one 980m it works fine