Turned off overclocking in AWCC, need help

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I just got the Alienware 18 Area 51 with 5080 last month and everything was good until I turned off overclocking and turned it back on again in AWCC. I've been monitoring temps in HWINFO and after clicking that overclock button I have something happening that wasn't happening before. Under my CPU in HWINFO it says Core Power Limit Exceeded at 100% when before it was 0%. I'm not sure what else has changed but it seems like I have a little more thermal throttling before. I guess pressing that button in AWCC reset my clock speeds back to factory defaults? Not sure what speeds the computer were originally shipped with, but I seemed to have messed it up?

In an attempt to get my computer back to the way it was I reset bios to factory, and even reinstalled OS back to factory image.

If anyone has noticed this happen to them or possibly have an explanation or can help in any way I would much appreciate it! I hate to think I've ruined my laptop that was perfectly fine before I tried to fix minor annoyances.

Thanks in advance.

Posted Jun 3, 2025, 4:12 AM UTC

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