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frzen | 3 years ago

Is it an Alienware? From experience they have an unstable overclock from the factory which is applied by software not in the bios.

I was pulling my hair out trying to diagnose crashes on a laptop for someone else. A bonus is if you install docker or WSL, the alienware control software could no longer turn off the overclock. So that whole time I thought there was no way it was overclocked because the option to overclock wasn't even visible in their software. it was a 2022 Alienware with a 12900k 64GB ddr5 and a 3080ti

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darthrupert|3 years ago

>Is it an Alienware?

Asus Zephyr G14 with AMD insides. Could be that they are indeed overclocking it for some reason. I didn't seem to get it to be 100% stable even with removing some boosts et al.

But that doesn't matter. On Linux I don't have to tweak anything, it just works. Which is amusing.