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Overclocking alienware m14x


kadaj

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Hello I have had my m14x r2 for 3 years now and I recently opened it and cleaned it and repasted the cpu and GPU. I really want to improve its performance byoverclocking the cpu and gpu.

I am new to the forums and I have been seeing a lor of ways of doing this. But most of the post are old, What is recommended now? What do you guys recommend me?

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From wut i am researching, if your bios is not unlocked, then your max oc limit for core clock speed is +135 MHz, and memory clock speed is 1000 MHz (you can use msi afterbunner or nvidia inspector to do the overclocking, usually try with 5-10 MHz increase everytime and do a stress test to ensure your gpu won't crush), i suggest u can raise your core clock speed to +135 and memory clock speed to +500 as a start, it is pertty stable for my case :].

However if you don't satisfy for the performance increase, you can always do a bios unlock and go over +135 MHz for maximum improvement, but just remember it will dramatically increase your gpu and cpu temp. Hope it will help you to start. :D

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From wut i am researching, if your bios is not unlocked, then your max oc limit for core clock speed is +135 MHz, and memory clock speed is 1000 MHz (you can use msi afterbunner or nvidia inspector to do the overclocking, usually try with 5-10 MHz increase everytime and do a stress test to ensure your gpu won't crush), i suggest u can raise your core clock speed to +135 and memory clock speed to +500 as a start, it is pertty stable for my case :].

However if you don't satisfy for the performance increase, you can always do a bios unlock and go over +135 MHz for maximum improvement, but just remember it will dramatically increase your gpu and cpu temp. Hope it will help you to start. :D

I agree with this. I'm limited to +135 boost on core clock eventhough I have some room as my GPU doesn't go over 61 degrees fully loaded so I'm planning to flash a vbios to get some more performance out of it.

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What CPU do you have? If it's locked multiplier (3610QM) just forget it. I've overclocked mine via FSB to 106mhz, which resulted in close something like 3.5 GHZ but I also killed two A-data Msata SSD's in a row and I suspect it might have been the FSB overclock's fault. I got them replaced under warranty though. Just keep in mind, that na FSB overclock WILL overclock everything else.

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I'm also hoping to oc my m14x r2 but there's no point even doing the +135 boost without unlocking the bios because my computer goes to 67+ after 1 minute of gaming and throttling kicks in. So without being able to change the 67*C limit there's no point in overclocking because it wont do anything. Buying this computer couple years ago was such a huge mistake, will never buy another Dell/Alienware piece of **** again.

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