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Alienware Area 51 R4 - Command Center Overclocking?
According to the Dell web site configuration/features page:
“(1) Super-powered and stable: Your machine is built to support two Alienware-defined overclocking modes available in the BIOS and has been tested by our engineers to ensure quality and stability.
(2) Personalize profiles: You get five slots of user-created-profiles, and the ability to modify CPU and RAM or dial in specific MHz, offsets and voltage. Plus a one-time validation process is built-in to ensure stability and ease-of-use.”
The first item is available in the BIOS.
From the pictures on the Area 51 R4 Features Page, the second item appears to be included as a tab in the Alienware Command Center. Neither the Alienware Command Center 4.8.9.0 which came with the machine nor the Alienware Command Center 4.8.23.0 available on the Drivers and Download page support any type of overclocking feature.
Does anyone who has received an Alienware Area 51 R4 have this feature available in their Alienware Command Center?
My Alienware Area 51 R4 configuration:
Intel® Core™ i9 7980XE (18-core, 24.75MB Cache, up to 4.4GHz with Intel® Turbo Boost Max 3.0)
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
Alienware™ 1500 Watt Multi-GPU Approved Power Supply with modular cabling [80 Gold Silver Efficiency]
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1080 Ti with 11GB GDDR5X
32GB Quad Channel HyperX™ DDR4 XMP at 2933MHz; up to 64GB
1TB M.2 PCIe SSD
Killer 1535 802.11ac 2x2 WiFi and Bluetooth 4.2
BIOS 1.1.2 (Originally 1.0.7)
Command Center 4.8.23.0 (Originally 4.8.9.0)
davidmoore
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December 20th, 2017 07:00
My Area51 R4 did not come with overclocking enabled and it is not available from Command Center.
According to this page:
Alienware Overclocking | Dell UK
jdsmock
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December 20th, 2017 08:00
If true, then this is the ultimate case of false advertising. There is no check mark on the purchase configuration page to enable overclocking. The attached picture extracted from the web page implies that overclocking is standard and shows an Alienware Command Center that supports it. No where does it say that this is an option.
And the knowledge base article identified on the Dell UK site is not present on the Dell US site.