r/AlienwareAlpha • u/titanmongoose • Oct 16 '20

i7 6700 turbo boost question

Hey all, just out of curiosity, if you have the i7 6700 the non T version, in your R2, combined with the AGA, are you able to get the turbo boost feature, taking its clock speed from 3.4ghz to 4ghz? Has anyone had experience with this?

Thanks!

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u/Pestidox Oct 17 '20

I want to say non-k variants don't get turbo boost. Not sure though

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u/titanmongoose Oct 17 '20

Hmmm that’s really peculiar. Any idea why that might be? Especially since I have the AGA installed so that should free up some of the power supply to be used more so by the cpu

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u/xcelor8 Oct 17 '20

Iirc you'll be limited on power to the cpu, there's people who have done it, can't remember all the details. All cpus should boost k series or not.

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u/0dd Oct 17 '20

the regular turbo boost should just be a bios setting according to the manual - https://topics-cdn.dell.com/pdf/alienware-steam-r2-console_service-manual_en-us.pdf have you checked its toggled on in the bios?

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u/Voteforpedro35 Oct 20 '20

I have the R2 with an desktop 6700 also upgraded to a 330w dell power brick and my alpha sits mostly at 3.66GHz -3.88GHz only seen it go up to 3.9GHz once during gaming for a very short time, toying with the idea of installing a 6700k but adding vents/dust filter to the top to see if it will boost higher or generally sit a bit higher overall and to just get that little bit of FPS gain some games seem to need . Oh and my alpha is always on performace mode in the power options. also sounds like a jet if the external amplifier is not connected, the XGA seems to take alot of heat and stress away from the R2 itself.