Alienware 17 R4 Heatsink Upgrade

I was wondering if the copper quad heatpipe cpu heatsinks on ebay are worth the expense.

Alienware 17 r4 heatsink upgrade.

1 of 2 go to page. 2 are these both are the same. So the fans don t require extra power neither do the bigger copper heat pipes. Temperature hits over 95 c an.

Joined jan 12 2020 messages 21. 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. You can keep your oem 240w psu. Yes the 1080 for aw17 r4.

Restart the pc and enter the bios by tapping rapidly on the f2 key during post. Hi there my fan has been broken so i decided to change the whole heatsink. One 1 year warranty and free tech support on dell alienware 17 r4 heatsinks and dell 17 r4 laptop replacement heatsinks. 1 how can i know that i don t already have the upgraded one.

Configure the g sync settings. Jan 18 2020 1 hi all. Uncheck the box next to enable g sync. Alienware 17 r1 heatsinks upgrade thread starter virax clone.

At 4 3ghz overclocking throttling. I already changed the thermal paste and cleaned it but it improved a little. Alienware 17 r1 r2 r3 r4 r5. 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.

I read before that there is upgraded version so i have two questions. Get parts and accessories upgrades for your dell alienware 17 r4. Disable the nvidia g sync only applicable on g sync supported models right click on the desktop. Alienware 17 r4 heatsink upgrade.

Alienware 13 r3 15 r3 and 17 r4. Click set up g sync in the left hand side menu. Why have an i7 8720hk and have to run it at 2 9ghz playing or undervolting. The other two m 2 ssd slots are also pcie nvme.

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. Start date jan 18 2020. Select the nvidia control panel. My alienware 17 r4 gets very hot.

I think his heatsink is very inefficient. So far it s been working.