*OFFICIAL* Alienware 15 R3 Owner's Lounge

I have the 1st gen 15 R3 i7-6700HQ GTX1070. It's still going and plays all the latest games.

I'm needing to repaste once a year but I believe my heatsink has warped as the temps on the GPU have increased.

Has anyone replaced the whole heatsink before and where can I buy? I'm not sure if I trust most of the ebay offers.

This one is an expensive heatsink replacement and looks like a different design:
https://tinyurl.com/wutm4w9

 

Hi there!

Same config and I must say I that i too am enjoying the latest games at high settings with 60+ FPS. I did re paste mine this pas summer using Liquid Metal and I was very impressed by the temps.

Curious to see your results (and any responses related to the heatsink). Hope it all gets sorted out for you.

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...ble-dust-build-up.813509/page-4#post-10771364

@rnneh. You're a loser !
"When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser."

NB "The images are from a brand new heatsink so it isn't brittle after Months in high temperature"
Therefore I did not "wrongly take it apart" as you'd imagined, it does NOT make logical sense to attempt opening/disassemble something which is #BrandNew.

No matter how many attempts to twist it around, we as owners of DELL Alienware devices now know for a fact that it's diabolical crap.

 

Hello all,

I have the first gen 15 r3 with i7 6700hq and GTX 1070. Soon I will get the Area 51M R2 if it is enough good for the price.
I need to upgrade the ram (currently at 16GB stock dell ram) because I work on this station and it is not enough for the work I do.
I am looking at G.Skill Ripjaws 32GB DDR4 3200MHz SODIMM memory.

The thing is that I want to use that RAM (G.Skill) on the Area 51M after I buy it. I know that my system is not supporting more than 2400mhz, but the question is - Will this ram (G.Skill) would run on my system even capped at 2400mhz?

I don't want to buy something that I am not sure it is working.

Thank you in advance!

 

I don't think 3200MHz is possible but Dell lists 15r3 running at 2667MHz, dunno if its Kabylake only or skylake/kabylake.

 

Yeah, I know the ram will not be running on 3200 Mhz. The thing that concerns me is that - if the system will boot with that ram - even on 2400 or 2667 Mhz.

I just want to use that RAM on my current laptop until I buy my future laptop even on lower speed :/

 

With Dell BIOS I can't promise. You might run it today, at some point later when you have urgent work to do on laptop, suddenly it gives 7 beeps of death or 3 beeps for no reason, then you come to conclusion its higher MHz RAM.