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    New SXPS 16 i7 Q820 Undervolting help.

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Gsenator, Apr 28, 2010.

  1. Gsenator

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    Hi guys. After 2 years of hell with my old XPS 1530, Dell finally replaced it with a factory new sxps 16 i7 Q820 , etc laptop. I looks really nice and I am fairly happy with it, but I do want to undervolt it. After thoroughly reading the "Undervolting Guide", I have come to one small problem. It seems the guide is geared about undervolting a dual-core or a core-2-duo processor.... I understand computers well enough to follow the guide, but I wanted to know if there are any kind of different procedures I must take because my new laptop has 4 cores instead of two; or because the i7 has a "turbo mode".... or is the process exactly the same as described on that post? Thanks for the help.
     
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    Update: I just downloaded CPUgenie, and tried to run the undervolting program. it BSOD me twice, and failed to do anything. I quickly uninstalled it. Next I installed the signed version of the vista x64 program, but I am running windows 7 on this machine. But before I ran the vista x64 i couldn't get RMclock to open. Can anyone help me get RMclock to open in windows 7 ????????

    When i installed rmclock using the x64 vista version i was able to run it, but i could not find "advanced CPU settings" and also when I looked at the "performance on demand tab", it was all blank and i was unable to see any of the index, FID, or VID, voltages? whats the deal?
     
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    There is currently no known way to undervolt any i series cpu.
     
    JKleiss, Apr 28, 2010
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