Sadly no false alarm Units with the locked vbios already shipped a while ago... all of the new Alienware 2015r2 models with the 970m in them are locked from overclocking regardless of the driver used and I guarantee this Bios is the reason why. I have a longer series of posts on the 17r2 benchmark thread at NBR explaining all the testing I did to confirm this. Sevel other users have confirmed my results at this point and the only possible explanation is a bios level lock. Tried to get The AW reps in over there to give me a response on my finding but they just gave me the run aroud/straight up lied. Was told by AWporras that the 970m in the 17r2 could be Overclocked but only when the laptop was attached to the graphics AMp (no just think about that for a minute who would buy a 300$ graphics amp with no card in it to allow thie mobile gpu to OC.) notihing but a web of lies from Nvidia and dell alike.