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My son received an Alienware X 51 R2 for x-mas two years and he wants to upgrade the video graphics card from the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 to MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Armored 8G. My question is can we update with the current case and power supply, or do we need to need to consider a new case and transfer

(Note: This is a repost of a thread I tried to make over at alienwarearena.com; it was flagged as Spam for no apparent reason so now I'm trying here) Hi, I'm having a bit of trouble identifying an issue with my Aurora R3 and was hoping you guys could help. I have spent most of the last 48 hours l

Hi All, Thought i would reach out to the AW Community as have an AW13 machine with Pro support but after almost 2 weeks and probably 15 hours with tech support and 4 dispatches .... getting to my limit and can't believe the issues i am having trying to load windows 7 via USB. Background Bios A04

I recently bought an Alienware 17R4. I'm not a gamer, but I do a lot of heavy duty image processing. 12,000 RAW images running through Lightroom. I needed all the horsepower that I could get. Anyway, my question is this: Is there a place other than the Power Options in the Control panel where the

Why does it only charge to 60% and stop?

Hi All Simple question. I have bought a graphics amplifier to go with my 17 R3. I am looking to buy the following card off Amazon, so i can run an HTC VIVE. MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING X 8GB GDDR5X Graphics Card - Black by MSI Will this work, it looks like its supported etc. but I have s

I've just bought an aurora R5, with the stock 8GB RAM. I'm planning to up it to 16 GB with a KINGSTON HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 PC4-17000 8GB CL14 (part number HX421C14FB2/8). According to the Kingston website, is compatible with the Aurora, but since this is my first PC (I've always used Mac), I w

I really need to know if anyone has installed a Samsung 960 Evo or Pro in an AW17 R4 or AW15 R3. If so is it recognized by Samsung Magician as a retail "Samsung" drive? Mine is not. Also, if I try to install the Samsung NVME driver, it fails, saying there is no NVME device. My AW17 identifies it as

hello guys how are you? My alienware 15 R3 just arrived home (im from Brazil), and i just started it. First issue: After the notebook loaded the desktop, i tried to connect to my wifi, but the notebook isnt conecting... it says "could not connect to this internet". I tried disconnecting other

Just came home unboxed and right away noticed this big deed gash on top of one the side panels. I'm not picky but this is ridiculous how deep it is. please some one help me on what to do. I don't want to end up sending it back for my money back.

New Aurora R5 with Windows 10 Pro (3 weeks old). Was using the computer with both mouse and keyboard (bluetooth) and then they both stopped functioning.  Tried attaching the wired Alienware wired mouse and keyboard.  Still no function.  Believe the computer is not frozen cause each t

I was restoring the computer and when I restarted it came up no Bootable device found. I entered psa diagnosis and tried to run a test but it's now giving me a cpu thermistor exceeds the thermal limit. Not sure where to go from here. I have a alienware r4 computer with 2 ST500 Seagate drives

What is the highest safe wattage for a cpu in the alpha? Want to make sure I don't burn up anything running a cpu too high

When I use a UHD monitor via display port with M 17 R3 (also UHD) I get sound but no picture if I open the lid I see the video on the laptop but on the monitor I only get sound. I have it set to duplicate screen and have tried extend screen no luck. Now to clarify this this its only a problem

Hi, I want to ask if the RAM with following specification can run on my M14x R2: -Samsung -DDR3 -8GB X 2 = 16gb -204 Pin -1600MHz -Model Number: 2RX8 PC3L-12800S -1.35V Low Voltage Thank you

How can i replace my case HDD to case M.2 Alienware 13 r2? i want to upgrade to SSD M2 but case bay not support M2.

I have a Alienware 15 from 2014 specs as follows i7 4710 HQ NVidia 980 8gb ram 128ssd m.2 1000 hdd sata The battery has been fine for the last two years until the other day when it stoped working. I turn it on and get a critical battery error and asks to press F1 to continue on DC power. 

Why can't I enable action center?

I realize you can only order 16GB of the HyperX Fury DDR4 2400Mhz RAM for an Aurora R5 from Dell. However, if someone added another 32GB (16GB x 2) of this same RAM, would it work (even if only at 2133MHz)? Thanks!

I have an aurora r5 with the 6700k and gtx1080. It came with the standard Toshiba 1TB 7200 rpm hard drive. I added a sandisk x400 m.2 ssd 512gb. I used easeus todo backup to clone the os to the ssd. It worked great no issues. Then I decided to go with a Samsung 850 evo m.2 1TB from dell because it