Hi. I just bought a the Aurora R5. It comes with and I5 - 6400. Wanted to ask if its worth it to upgrade to the I7 - 6700?

it depends on your usage. if it's for gaming mostly, maybe not worth it.

as an example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQVy9rYg1xw

if it's for work, maybe the upgrade helps. just maybe.

Hi, I have an important question to ask.

I have an Alienware Desktop. Recently my PC freeze and restart often, sometimes blue screen, sometimes even by sitting idle, but most of the time when playing games.

I have done all the online recommended measures like update driver, etc but still the same. So I suspect is hardware problem. I have done the diagnostic test, even several times the PC freeze when I tried to run long tests, but I managed to do individual test for each component and found out there is no problem.

So I suspect it's the PSU problem. I kind of feeling the PSU is failing. As the symptoms become more frequent (from once a month, once a week to everyday now).

My questions:

1) Is my diagnosis correct?

2) How to replace PSU for Alienware? I'm out of warranty, can I call Dell and pay them?

Thanks. Help me please.

P/S my pc is Alienware Area51 R2
PSU is Alienware™ 1500 Watt Multi-GPU Approved Power Supply

This post has been edited by Fortunatus: May 10 2017, 07:19 PM

1. you should tell us more about your diagnostics. it could be psu; it could be cpu overheating. i assumed you have run epsa diagnostics and it crashed during the process. have you done a clean install or refresh your windows os?
2. for psu replacement, you can try extend the warranty; or get a replacement psu from the internet and replace it yourself; or ask someone like putochip123 to help.

sigh

my alienware SSD HDD died jor

so bad luck =/

whats the best way?
go 2ru dell or self replace

under warranty or wat? no under warranty buy outside la.. wat model is ur alienware...

hv u restart n press f12? run the onboard diagnosis de? if frequent restart should be overheat.. had ur thermal paste worn out de??

u can request they run the remote diagnosis from dell side.. if hang during the onboard diagnosis.. high chance u can claim both the psu n mobo de

This post has been edited by myway1985: May 11 2017, 01:29 PM

Loving my Alienware 15 R3.

Playing Doom on Ultra on a 120hz display is awesome.

It's fine now after i reset bios. Weird...

epsa was fine all hardware ok (extended test)...so i reset bios now everything seem ok.

Will update again.

yes better observe for a bit. if for some reasons it comes back, try re-apply thermal paste first. (at the same time do some cleanup for the cooler and relevant parts also)

your poison level is too high. im itching to get one.

i send u the OLED aw13 dun see u itchy..T.T

This post has been edited by myway1985: May 17 2017, 12:35 AM

Go ahead bro.

not the right time for me to get.
plus, im actually aiming something....beasty.

oh stop it you...

I don't send u the gtx 1070 dfo meh... Haha

seems like AW15/17 got cash rebate.


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not worth it... we alienware partner can giv u better price.. hehe

Guys I see first page AW 13 have 0 users. Any reason why nobody buy this? It is the only one I can afford, will it be able to play all games at max high setting for the next 5 years???

I'm using the AW13 R3, not the R2 like in the pics. No you cannot play all games at max high setting for next 5 years, that's unrealistic. Not even the AW15 with 1070.

What i can say is that you'll enjoy gaming with it for the next 5 years.