*OFFICIAL* Alienware 15 R3 Owner's Lounge

This thread is a place to discuss all things related to your new Alienware 15 and share information your experience with fellow owners, or a place that prospective owners can read and ask quick questions.

 

About to receive mine by today. Gonna insert one 2280 and one 2242, repaste, reinstall OS, and hackintosh.

 

Check this video out. This will belp bring temps down for New AW 15 with 6820HK 1070GTX



Credits to OWNORDISOWN for this helpful tip.

 

I think aw umar said that there's a defect in early batch machines, dunno if they fixed that or not.

 

Spoiler: You think so?

 

Guess we need to wait and see more temps from people. Go go go @Mobius 1, you should buy one to test.
Seriously though I fear the cooling system on the 15 is borked. Though indeed there have been a couple of AW sources that confirmed and issue with the paste on a batch of the first shipments.
Guess we shall wait and see.

 

How much thermal paste do we need for a repaste of the AW15?


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According to Dell you should use about 4 tubes of paste per die. Maybe a 1 gallon bucket to be safe

 

Unit incoming next week. Probably gonna repaste it, and add copper shims. Heard alot of the 15 having really high temps. I'm gonna need all the cooling I can get if I'm going to OC the 6820.

 

Is there any way to use the tactx buttons as media keys?