M11x now advertised at 1.73Ghz OC

[DR650SE]

FWIW, The Asus also has more voltage. I can't see those pics, but if I remember, CPU-Z had the Asus at 1.07V or something like that. Maybe, if it is running at 1.6, then a future BIOS revision will gain a little more voltage, probably under .2 V, but it would help my benchmarking...

[legoheads]

There is a new version of CPU-Z available for download (1.54).
Anyone here willing to give it a run and see whether or not it shows 1.6 or 1.73?

[unreal25]

Same, 1.6... at least on SU4100

[jsgiv]

Same with the SU7300 as well..

[legoheads]

Thanks for looking into this unreal25 & jsgiv. Maybe an upcoming BIOS will address this under-volting confusion once and for all. Strange for Alienware to market something as 1.73 GHz and have it only perform at 1.6 GHz in reality.

I wonder if this decision was made for thermal reasons, battery life or both?
Maybe Dell is still a little spooked after the whole 8M series Geforce thermal failure train wreck that plagued their XPS line?

[HTWingNut]

No, the point is it *SHOULD* be 1.73GHz, but CPU-z and some other programs show it as 1.6. True speed is 1.73GHz.

[unreal25]

Yeah + the temps are not even close to problematic. Under gaming my CPU gets to max 50-52 C, HD movies on IGP 40-44 C, it's idling at 39 C. When I had it non-oc-ed for like 5 mins when I got the laptop, doing regular tasks in Windows (fixing color theme, setting up backgrounds, etc.) CPU temp was like 32-35 C. (lol!)

[scook9]

run the program tmonitor (by CPUID as well) and see if it properly reports the speed

it is by the same people as cpuz so may have the same problem, but is worth a shot

[unreal25]

Same, 1.6 GHz:

[scook9]

hmmmm

but like I said, that may be due to the same bug that cpu-z has as it is the same programmer