Aurora R4 a06 BIOS Overclocking

I.e. What you see here is no longer possible:

forum.desktopreview.com/.../243447-overclock-i7-2600k-stable-h24-24-aurora-r3.html

youtu.be/W2hQeL6k8Ms

Thanks for the response.

I agree, it is lousy of Alienware to completely remove these overclocking abilities. This decision seems to go to the fact that Alienware offers "overclocking" as service. It probably made business sense to someone to stop affording users the ability to overclock their CPUs on their own.

I am using an SSD as a boot drive and have had no problems with it.

Hopefully Alienware/Dell might have a response to some of the questions/claims in this thread.

Hi Roundlay, I also have same problem with you where even i have the K series CPU I now cannot do any oc besides slecting the bios defaut profile. It   me off because i have invest for my upgrade CPU cooler since i overclock my 3930K with all six core to 4.5Ghz without any problem and temp is below 70 degC at full load on Bios A05. Suddenly Dell without any warning remove this at bios A06. This is not fair dell doing this to all Aurora R4 owner. If i know this is disable on A06 I will not update the bios. Also, now my system have cannot detect my SSD during bios POST and caused my system unable to boot. I need to run the diagnostics until complete and then the bios will detect and able to boot. Do you use SSD as boot drive. Can Dell do something about this? I have complaint about this since last week. Not sure is Dell listening to their customer at all?

The BIOS update may have reset the defaults. Make sure overclocking is enabled, the multipliers should be available.

The multipliers are available but are not editable. Each edit immediately reverts back to the default value. That is, nothing is configurable in the CPU Power Managment Configuration menu.

Is there any way to configure each clock ratio limit under a06 as has been possible in the past? If not, is it possible to rollback to a previous BIOS that includes this functionality?

Sorry I missed this part:

I do not have a "K" processor, but it should be theoretically possible to overclock my i7 3820 to 4.3GHz by adjusting CPU multipliers on each core.

You won't be able to OC it if it's not "K".

Sorry, not trying to hijack this thread, but I have a question on the i7- 3820. When I ordered my Aurora R4 with the 3820, it said "Overclocked up to 4.1 GHz". Just what does that mean? When I look at the CPU in BIOS it says 3.6 GHz. CPU-Z says the same thing. What do I look for to see if there is any overclocking at all? Thanks

Wayne

Hi Luis, I have 3930K but i still not able to OC by adjusting the clock multipliers as what i did on previous Bios A05. I have reset the bios but also the same..

if you would both please send us an email at AWsocialmedia@dell.com with your service tags and phone numbers I'll get in touch with you as soon as possible to figure this out. Also, include a link to this thread that way I'll dig up your case quickly.

Hi Luis,

I have just send email to the provided email address that ypu gave earlier. Hoping to hear from you soon.

thanks

Overclocking multipliers may easily lead to overheating, therefore we do not support the manual configuration.

You can however load level 1 OC setting or level 2 OC setting.

Hello DELL / ALIENWARE ...

Any solutions ???

Is it O.K for dell to remove function that already there in the system when i purchase and use this Aurora? Meaning anytime later if you decide other, dell just remove it like that??

Meaning, when i purchase, i need to bear in mind that some time later, there is a possibility dell will remove any function that they think they do not want the customer to have?

What is this? Is this how Dell / Alienware operates?

What happened to customer needs?