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New BIOS revision for the M17x r3 is out, A08. Incredibly fast update considering that A07 got just released about a week ago...

On the Dell site it only says "Support new CPUs", this indicates that the release of the Sandy Bridge refresh is just about to happen.

That's only a guess, but I think it mainly means the i7 2640M, i7 2760QM, i7 2860QM (and i7 2960XM :) , see also here for more information about these CPUs)

I wonder whether they also already fixed some of the bugs which apparently came with BIOS A07, no further information so far.

Report here about your findings, I'm especially curious whether the 580m throttling issues is still present with this BIOS.

Click here to download BIOS A08

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New BIOS revision for the M17x r3 is out, A08. Incredibly fast update considering that A07 got just released about a week ago...

On the Dell site it only says "Support new CPUs", this indicates that the release of the Sandy Bridge refresh is just about to happen.

That's only a guess, but I think it mainly means the i7 2640M, i7 2760QM, i7 2860QM (and i7 2960XM :) , see also here for more information about these CPUs)

I wonder whether they also already fixed some of the bugs which apparently came with BIOS A07, no further information so far.

Report here about your findings, I'm especially curious whether the 580m throttling issues is still present with this BIOS.

Click here to download BIOS A08

What issues have been reported with A07? I haven't noticed anything more than slight annoyances.

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^ Mainly that the 580m throttles when overclocked. Heard about some minor issues like shutdowns as well, but I can't confirm whether that's true or caused by the user... haven't got an r3.

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