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Sorry, I figured someone else with more hands on knowledge with the 2015 AW15 would reply. No, your current power supply is plenty for overclocking what you have in there. If you research complete benchmarks for people using any rig with a 980m, even AW laptops (17 included), nobody ever needs more than between 150 and 190W total with their machine. The 980 and 970 are both very power efficient, you'll likely create heat damage on your board before you top out your power supply.

I solved my own problem by just copy & pasting the manufacturer hardware strings from one of the older nv_dispi.inf's into J95's new one.

Hi J95, The driver install keeps failing with the new modded INFs. I'm installing for a 970m, win7, m15x. Not sure why it's failing.EDIT: Tried a DDU before hand too. Still getting a fail on the install status.EDIT 2: From my setupapi.dev log: " {DRIVERSTORE_IMPORT_NOTIFY_VALIDATE} 20:55:39.376!!! sto: INF hash is not present in the catalog. Driver package appears to be tampered. Filename = C:WindowsSystem32DriverStoreTemp{50db7426-51c3-168f-cdfa-d5682d36ca0f} v_dispi.inf, Error = 0xE000024B ! sto: Driver package appears to be tampered but user wants to install it anyway. "EDIT 3: Has anyone had a successful 970m install with the new .inf(s) for 358.50?

Download ThrottleStop.

http://forum.techinferno.com/alienware/9548-alienware-15-17-r2-2015-vbios-mod.html Go to url follow Prema's links.

Nobody is responding because with the slightest research you can find regularly updated sources for both of these things.

Yeah, that happens. The definite cause is beyond anyone. Some people seem to solve it by pulling the middle pin, for others that doesn't fix it. I personally had this issue with my original 150 PSU and I continued to have it with my 240 PSU which makes me believe in my case it is not the PSU that is acting up. I've resigned to simply pressing the F1 prompt every time I boot up, because it takes less time to do that 1-second long action over the remaining lifetime of your computer than it does trying to find a solution to the issue. I guess it all depends on how much it annoys you.

Thank you @J95.

First post of this thread covers the install process. Link to the most recent AW INF is usually posted in J95's signature. This is currently v350.12. Although with the universe hopefully on our lazyside, @J95 is already working on 352.86. (Insert insurmountable gratitude for J95 here) You'll need 5 hopefully decent posts before you can DL anything from TechInferno. Information on flashing vbios can be found in the General Notebook Discussion.

Seems like Geforce 352.86 WHQL drivers are out today in anticipation of The Witcher 3.

If it is the 970m 6gb for clevo from rjtech, yes it is compatible. Yes you should probably upgrade your power block to a 240W.

This is why I'm currently upgrading my M15x. It'll be dust before I move onto an MXM based unit.

You probably wouldn't notice the difference yourself but you would see it if you benchmarked. My rule with ram is to buy the biggest, fastest, best RAM I can afford (<<<keyword) that will still run in my machine. If my machine ever dies and I buy a new one, chances are i can then buy a machine without upgraded ram and switch in my old ram.

Use the Nvidia Drivers. OEM drivers are often behind and eventually they'll stop certifying the drivers for your device. The only downside is that some features within OEM drivers might not be available in Nvidia Drivers. An example of this is on my M15x. OEM and older Nvidia drivers allowed audio-out via display port, newer Nvidia drivers have that specific audio-out via displayport on my card disabled. However i can always use the regular headphone jack for audio out. The upside is that the drivers are optimized for new release games and other graphical needs. Whichever way you go, Dell will eventually stop releasing drivers for whatever card you have and you'll have to start using Nvidia drivers if you want to stay with the times. If anything ever goes wrong, you can always roll-back to an older driver.

It might be due to Windows 8. Are you sure you don't have another system setting overriding the performance state? Windows 8 has a few extra power management (and other setting) convolutions than Win 7 did. Do you have CC installed? Do you have AlienFusion active? Have you monitored the temperature of the GPU while under stress?