Hey everyone! I recently picked up this massive dual GPU Alienware 18. It has an i7, 32gigs of RAM, two AMD GPUs, an SSD and a drive for games. I paid around 140$ for it, just had to add the drives. I could not believe the price for its condition. It looks brand new! Just needed a repaste. Battery's toast but I wouldn't be game on it on battery anyway.

This is my first alienware and honestly I never thought a machine like this would ever get to my hands. I only used to look at pictures of computers like this but here we are :D. After seeing how huge, beautiful and colorful this thing is, most modern gaming laptops look cheap to me even though they will likely be even more powerful xD.

It runs beautifully, been playing some DOOM Eternal on nightmare and it's been a blast. Definitely my favourite piece of hardware.

Thanks for reading and have a nice day, I love this thing!

Recently acquired a working Alienware R2 for $60. Im parting it out and want to throw a 5800XT cpu. I've done hours of research and found this question a few times.

One thing thats common is most people say its not possible. With bits of information between the nonsense I found it is definitely possible to do this on an R2 but was wondering if anyone who has done so can chime in on their builds (those who have updated their motherboards) with some tips.

My biggest concern is getting the front panel connected but heard you can use some jumpers just not sure where to put them or the exact cables.

Thank you.

I’m shocked it works. It gives one more option for those interested in an alternate pathway for their Alienware.

My new Alienware 15 has a slight screen misalignment.Is this normal? Will it cause hinge issues?

Just wanted to put it out there, if anyone is having this issue. I have been experiencing this for a long time, I even bought a new battery which didn’t fix it.

I was having problems with it completely losing power even though the battery had a charge, it loses power just as the windows login is about to appear.

Dell sent me a new ribbon cable which didn’t fix it and they told me to buy a new battery.

It never had issues with turning off if I let the AC stay in till after login, I could take it out afterwards and it’s fine.

I recently just clutching at straws tried different things and I disabled windows hello facial recognition and it has booted up every time since perfectly.

Give it a go if you’ve had this issue.

I have had two mother boards replaced in the last 2 weeks. The last board was swapped 2 days ago, and after it was in, I cannot play netflix, prime, youtube, or game at all. Running a benchmark on the gpu shows 3 to 8 FPS average with a max of 33 FPS. My monitors (1 is a 4K MSI, 1 is a LG 2K - both external) are going black and then coming back over and over when I try to do pretty much anything that uses the GPU. . The PC is BSOD crashing, and I had to do a recovery to even get it to boot this morning when I got up to sit down for work. The reliability monitor shows hardware errors on the GPU, and my Power Brick is getting really hot as well, even at idle. I used my laser thermometer and it is sitting at 140 - 165*F with nothing opened up at all. Dell is telling me to wipe my drive, and do a full recovery as a fix, which makes no sense to me at all. I had other issues with my USB devices going in and out every few seconds before this last MB swap. This laptop is not even 9 months old, and I have Alienware Elite care with "keep your drive" as a warranty. What do you think I should respond with to be able to get a working laptop back? 3rd mother board? New power brick? Replacement? I feel like I am being given the run around and not really being "supported" by my warranty.

I am Alienware m18 R2
I just found a little weird that my CPU zone 2 some how appear to be 0
I haven't look in to it before, I clicked the AWCC randomly to see this.

I think it is not normal, but I want to ask whether anyone has seen this before
thanks