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    XTU M18x R1?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 18 and M18x' started by Raidriar, Feb 7, 2016.

  1. Raidriar

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    Has anybody been able to get a version of XTU to work past version 2.1 on the M18x R1? All the newer versions seems to lock out multipliers and voltage, giving me BCLK frequency option only.
     
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    I have an M17xR3 which is from the same generation as your M18x I believe, and XTU 2.1 is the only one that exposes certain CPU options for me (but I've found that using it to set CPU max power options seemed to cause issues with Windows 10 & the BIOS - I think it messed up my BIOS and I had to reset everything because I was just getting beeps on POST, I no longer use XTU).
     
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    Yes only XTU 2.1 works. I've tried many versions and only that one works.
     
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    Mr. Fox BGA Filth-Hating Elitist®

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    Yup, same here. 2.1 only... but, 2.1 works fine. No reason to use the crappy newer versions of XTU with the added fluff. Other than setting long and short duration power limits higher than the BIOS allows, I don't really see any need for it on the M18xR1. And, I can use ThrottleStop for that instead of XTU.

    I don't even use XTU on the Sky X9 because the @Prema BIOS does everything I need to do.

    Maybe the updated Intel ME firmware would allow the use of a newer version of XTU.

     
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    Already tested the ME, no effect. Doesn't really matter, I have it set to 4.2ghz 4 cores in the BIOS, just sad I don't get all the graph options I could get in the newer versions of XTU I guess
     
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