Alienware 17 R4 Heatsink Upgrade

Start date jan 18 2020.

Alienware 17 r4 heatsink upgrade.

My alienware 17 r4 gets very hot. The motherboard holds three m 2 pcie nvme enabled ssd slots with one in our unit taken by a toshiba m 2 pcie nvme ssd with 256gb capacity while the 2 5 inch hdd slot is taken by an hgst drive with 1tb capacity. Get parts and accessories upgrades for your dell alienware 17 r4. Alienware 17 r4 heatsink upgrade.

Jan 18 2020 1 hi all. I was wondering if the copper quad heatpipe cpu heatsinks on ebay are worth the expense. Configure the g sync settings. Find compatible hardware hard drives memory batteries and accessories speakers headphones keyboards mice.

Alienware 17 r1 heatsinks upgrade thread starter virax clone. Hi there my fan has been broken so i decided to change the whole heatsink. 1 how can i know that i don t already have the upgraded one. Jump to solution my laptop fan on one side lately has been making an obnoxious loud grinding noise as it spins that can be heard from multiple rooms away.

Joined jan 12 2020 messages 21. Click set up g sync in the left hand side menu. Temperature hits over 95 c an. Alienware 17 r1 r2 r3 r4 r5.

Uncheck the box next to enable g sync. Alienware 13 r3 15 r3 and 17 r4. So far it s been working. 2 are these both are the same.

One 1 year warranty and free tech support on dell alienware 17 r4 heatsinks and dell 17 r4 laptop replacement heatsinks. I think his heatsink is very inefficient. Inside alienware 17 r4 disassembly internal photos and upgrade options says. Why have an i7 8720hk and have to run it at 2 9ghz playing or undervolting.

You can keep your oem 240w psu. I read before that there is upgraded version so i have two questions. Disable the nvidia g sync only applicable on g sync supported models right click on the desktop. I already changed the thermal paste and cleaned it but it improved a little.

The other two m 2 ssd slots are also pcie nvme. Yes the 1080 for aw17 r4. That being said i did buy a 330w which works fine with my 17 r4 because i want to avoid the hybrid ac battery function the system uses when under heavy load. At 4 3ghz overclocking throttling.

Select the nvidia control panel. So the fans don t require extra power neither do the bigger copper heat pipes.