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July 20th, 2024 14:07

Hello. I have alienware 17r4 how to enable Resizable BAR

Alienware 17 R4

Alienware 17 R4

I'm using alienware amplifire with rtx 3070 and the latest games lack the performance of the i7 7700hq processor. I read about Resizable BAR which can solve my problem. but I can't enable it in the BIOS. Does anyone have a modified BIOS with this feature?

There is also a problem that the laptop uses little RAM all the time. in the game it uses a maximum of 10 GB with 24 available. Does anyone know how to fix this

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July 20th, 2024 14:14

Resizable BAR is only an option on a few Alienware desktops -- it's not available on Alienware notebooks (and certainly not on a 7 year old notebook of any manufacturer).

Whether or not there's a RAM issue is open to question  -- though 24 G RAM means at least part of your memory is running in single channel mode rather than dual channel.  That can be solved by making sure you have matched pairs of memory modules.

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July 20th, 2024 16:33

@ejn63

I don’t agree that laptops don’t have Resizable BAR. 
 I bought alinware m16 r2 with rtx 4070 where it was active. 
but it was sent back, the fps turned out to be lower than on my old laptop with rtx 3070, 
and the video card also shut down for about 3-5 minutes. Apparently there was a defect.  
Well, space temperatures are at 100+ degrees. Overall I was left disappointed.
But as for RAM, both 16 and 24 GB behave the same. 
I tried rolling back the bios and it didn't help.

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July 20th, 2024 16:51

You can run a memory diagnostic to verify the system RAM (F12 at powerup to access).

As for resizable BAR, it apparently is enabled by default on the new m16 R1 and R2 notebooks, but everything older than that in the notebook realm does not have it.  Dell has supported resizable BAR only on desktop systems previously released.

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000189668/support-for-the-resizable-bar-pci-express-interface-technology

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