Alienware 17 R4 Heatsink Upgrade

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.

Alienware 17 r4 heatsink upgrade.

I was wondering if the copper quad heatpipe cpu heatsinks on ebay are worth the expense. Alienware 17 r1 heatsinks upgrade thread starter virax clone. Restart the pc and enter the bios by tapping rapidly on the f2 key during post. One 1 year warranty and free tech support on dell alienware 17 r4 heatsinks and dell 17 r4 laptop replacement heatsinks.

Find compatible hardware hard drives memory batteries and accessories speakers headphones keyboards mice. 17 r4 can i replace one fan on the heatsink. At 4 3ghz overclocking throttling. Temperature hits over 95 c an.

I already changed the thermal paste and cleaned it but it improved a little. I read before that there is upgraded version so i have two questions. My alienware 17 r4 gets very hot. Uncheck the box next to enable g sync.

The other two m 2 ssd slots are also pcie nvme. I think his heatsink is very inefficient. Jan 18 2020 1 hi all. Yes the 1080 for aw17 r4.

Click set up g sync in the left hand side menu. 1 of 2 go to page. Select the nvidia control panel. Joined jan 12 2020 messages 21.

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. Alienware 13 r3 15 r3 and 17 r4. Alienware 17 r4 heatsink upgrade. Start date jan 18 2020.

2 are these both are the same. You can keep your oem 240w psu. Hi there my fan has been broken so i decided to change the whole heatsink. So the fans don t require extra power neither do the bigger copper heat pipes.

Get parts and accessories upgrades for your dell alienware 17 r4. Inside alienware 17 r4 disassembly internal photos and upgrade options says. 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. Configure the g sync settings.

Alienware 17 r1 r2 r3 r4 r5. Disable the nvidia g sync only applicable on g sync supported models right click on the desktop.