thermal compound like Coollaboratory Liquid Ultra between the shim and heatsink will good enough.
I don't think the tapes will do the heat conduction job as good as thermal compound.

oh. that's easy. i think i will try gc-extreme out also.

I suggest IC diamond. Quite a good thermal compound.

Here you go.

The reason that we add cooper shim is because we have various of GPU core height and xbracket height.

If you found there are gaps between the GPU core and the heatsink, two way to go.

1) Shorten the xbracket screw thread
2) Add a cooper shim between to filled up the gap

I read a lot of review told that add cooper shim is a bad idea. Base on what I've tested, it was not much difference compare with the mod without cooper shim (shorten xbracket screw thread). Provided you need to use a good thermal compound. The test I've done is I used IC Diamond.

well from my experience for some reasons ic.diamond didn't work well. clu and gc-extreme are far better. i am talking about at much as 10c drop.

oh i am looking at different heatsink mods.



i have no issues with this one. in my case, there is no need for copper shim. with stock configurations running heavy game sessions, the temperatures are good for cpu and gpu. for gpu especially, it's around high sides of 75c but seldom reach 80c.

Your GPU too cold la. seldom reach 80c is very good already. TmI never tried the small heatsink mod before. maybe will try to do one and see. Haha

yes lol! not yet in air-cond room some more. that's why that triple-heatpipe heatsink is a must-have.

however if can go further down lagi syok ma

Guys what is this means? Why got 3 same i7 processor choices for upgrade but with different prices?


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I'm sure it's an error on Dell MY's site.
Better make a call or online chat with the representatives.

The processor selection comes with different graphic card.

Tried choose the most expensive Processor and you will notice the Graphic card has changed to GTX980m.

Check on the graphics card there.
When you choose different option. the graphics card there will change.

Oh i see, there's three options. Which is from cheapest upgrade to i7 proc, that gpu will chg from R9 295X, GTX 970M and 980M

Is it OK if I use AW 17 with 180w adapter? I heard there is an issue on the adapter for AW 17 which is not powerful enough. Should I buy the 240w with the alienware 17 or just use the 180w?

Which graphics card are you using? Only use 240w if you are using GTX780M/980M

This post has been edited by raymondtong94: Feb 17 2015, 11:10 AM

I am using GTX970, so should I use the 240w adapter? I just talk to the chat in the dell website, he said that 240w adapter will harm the hardware inside the laptop


This post has been edited by ZainRain: Feb 17 2015, 10:49 AM

Maybe we make it this way. You said "you heard not ok", but do you feel not ok?

First thing first, if you feel everything is ok. Then 180w is good enough for you.
If you feel not ok, you need to tell us how and what is the "not ok".

Yes, 180w facing some problem that can't deliver full power to the graphics card. GTX 970m is 100watt graphics card. It need 240w to deliver full power.

But like I said, if and only if you feel not ok. Coz the difference might neglectable for you.

But if you insist want to change it to 240w adapter. I can say is good to go. No problem for you. But you don't end up have the feeling that "meh~ no difference at all~" and feel wasted money for the changes.

I see, as long as it will not harm the hardware inside then it would be OK for me. So im gonna buy with the 240w adapter if they can give me that. Thanks for the clarification

It will never harm bro. No need to be afraid of. Even you put a 1000w adapter also won't harm
It only harm when you put lower power adaper. Like if you put a 90w power adapter, your system might unstable, your adapter might get very hot.
Coz your system try to draw more power from the adapter.

Image your system have a pipe, and adapter is a tangki. If your pipe is small, you give big tangki no problem. if your pipe is big, you give small tangki will have big problem

yeah. as long as the voltage is the same, you should run higher-wattage ac adapters. your ac adapter gets longer life span because of less stress, and it's less hot. with time you might change hardware to cope with your requirements (more ram, more disks, etc.) the power requirements might also change accordingly.

for m17x r4 and 17 r1, they are good to run with a 330W ac adapter. however i haven't found anything concrete about its compatibilities with newer models.

Planning to get 15, but seems like I can't find any review for this new beast. Any owner reviews here? Will do upgrade to i7 instead of i5.