i7 6820HK thermal throttling

Hi everybody,

I have an Alienware 17 R3 (shipped during October of 2015), with a i7 6820HK and a 980M.
And for the past two months I encountered a lot of thermal throttling with the CPU.
The weird things being:

• I'm using the computer in a room with AC, so the temps of the environment did not change because of summer.
• The throttling starts when the CPU package temp reach only 75°C. I've been using a lot of different gaming laptop for the past years and 75°C doesn't hit as a high temperature.
• The thermal throttling mainly consist of a lowering of the CPU frequency to 0.79GHz (resulting in a lower power consumption and then temperature, of course) and seems to resume regular behavior when reaching 50 degrees.

Needless to say that any games I could be playing will suffer very low FPS during the two minutes this thermal throttling is happening.

I tried to see if some overclocking parameters could allow me to increase the temperature threshold without success, but to be honest, I never overclocked a CPU before, only the GPUs.

Does someone have any idea about this situation, is it the normal behavior, is it possible to alter it?

Thank you for reading!

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i7 6820HK thermal throttling