@@iVETAnsolini AK did new pads and paste on the GPU with no temp improvement. Video is on this channel. I think changing and adding case fans is a must. I will be trying adding a front intake, top radiator suck and blow, and then a low profile fan below the GPU in the back 2.5” cage area to help blow and possibly exhaust some heat from GPU. I don’t get my R10 for a month though, so hopefully you come up with a great solution so I can copy you :)
The R10 I bought last year has its PCIe 3.0 capped at x8... Which I kept hearing was going to "keep me from seeing x16 speeds" and kind of irked me a bit. There was also only ONE M.2 NVME slot on the motherboard, which means I'd have to use a SATA SSD for HD expansion. People told me a SATA SSD would be "slower" than the M.2 which also annoyed me. Oh, and I bought it with 16GB of RAM instead of 32 or 64 because I couldn't believe the balls Dell had charging that much for RAM holy Jesus. Happy to report it's the fastest computer I've ever owned. Startup is near instant, everything is snappy and it screams along with anything I throw at it. Gaming, video conversion, design work - I upgraded the RAM to 64GB through a 3rd party vendor for HALF of Dells prices, so yeah - pleased with it. I did know going in that airflow was an issue with these cases so I've tinkered a bit and achieved decent results at keeping it all cool. I suppose that's my biggest "disappoint" - for such an outwardly large case, the components are really jammed in there - and placed in a way that really screws with air flow. PSU center and right above the CPU and the GPU? Any explaination as to why they did this other than "look: cool new different design"? Cripes. Any how - not the perfect machine by far, but it's still very nice and I expect to get years of enjoyment from it.
The only reason people consider this alienware prebuild is u can't get 3000 series card anywhere at proper price, that's all. Most people won't even buy this prebuild garbage if the 3080 available in market at retail :). Overengineered overprice plastic
You’re not wrong , but there are people who don’t want to build a pc and look at nzxt, Alienware , hp omen , cyber power, and other prebuilts as an easy way to get into pc gaming without the tech know how
I just got mine but I am playing fotnite. it only runs 60fps but when I first hopped into a game it ran at 160 or higher. i may just be new to pc and suck at customization
Do you mean that it runs only at 60fps in the menu and 160+ in the game? I'm not familiar with Fortnite but perhaps the main menu just has an FPS lock on it
I think the single major failure of r11, is the psu , type, location, it's just bad, it sits right on top of the backplate of the 3080 and dell should kill the design team for doing shit like this. I swapped the thermal pad of the 3080 and it's running like a champ now, giving 100mh/s with only 84c on the vram but God with they did that so I don't have to pee in my pants doing the swap
Found this channel about a week ago and loving it. I might buy an aurora as my gaming rig since my current one is a workstation. You’ve been helping me a lot so I thank you for that
dont buy it, get a different pc, its a dell in alien clothes, and its not worth the money, they spent a huge portion of the money on looks, and over engineering it in a bad way
@@SonnyListonStanAccount it’s been awhile but I actually bought the computer, but eventually returned it due to the fact that my cpu would hit temps of 95-102c. I decided to buy a cyberpower prebuilt and just do a bunch of upgrades and a case swap!
It’s funny, these are things I littearly complain about all the time wishing I went with building my own but then again I love my pc and I wouldn’t have a 3080 if I didn’t get one!
@@jlammii2002 it does work I just completed my case mods today. You will need some longer screws because there is a gap between the case brackets and cage screw holes since it was made for the front. I used the #6 x 32 1.5 inch screws I used for the push pull radiator fan config since I had them left over but 3/4" of that screw is enough. There is plenty of space for the excess screw length to disappear under the drive
Also you have to put the 3.5 drive bay in the back if you still want to use the extra GPU support bracket or the power to the HDD will block where it goes
im ordering an r12 and its ariving in a couple months. i was wondering if its worth crypto mining with it (RTX 3080) and if it will damage it in any way.
I'd recommend the R10, now that it has an RTX 3080 option. If you play around with some of the options, you can get either the R12 or R10 in early to mid May. This channel goes over the mining for the RTX 3080 in pretty good detail. Check his other vids out and overall, mining without pushing your temps to the limits, shouldn't shorten the life of your components very much.
bring the power down, those are hungry and run very hot, you'll have to adjust your trimmings too, a simple google search can probably bring up some suggestions. You may also need to make some adjustments to the thermal paste/pads. Make sure you have great airflow and remember mining isn't about the hash rate it's more about your efficiency. If you follow the above steps and research your components will be fine, just pay attention and do your due diligence.
Have a an R11 and bought my wife a R9. Cooling is the main concern which you kind of covered as its related to the case size and lack of fans / quality of fans.
I get my r10 tomorrow. I ordered it 7 days ago and it told me about 2 months to arrive but today it says it's getting delivered tomorrow woo-hoo I can't wait. I did the ryzen 7 5800x with 64gb ram 3400 and rtx 3080. Liquid cooled.
I ordered my r12 on the 30th and well, still sitting on confirmed though they just took the money from my account for it 2 days ago. Paid by ACH online banking. Got the 11600KF 16GB of ram intended to upgrade to 32GB HyperX later and got the 6800XT
ordered my r10 (5900x / 3080) about 2 weeks ago. it is "in production" step right now, and supposed to be shipped around end of april. but thats what they said from the start, so i dont mind
Yea I ordered mine April 1st and within a day status was confirmed then April 5th changed to in production and April 7th changed to shipped. I live in Texas and apparently they have a production facility here because it was built and shipped here in Texas. I thought it was going to come from overseas lol
honestly idk why i'm watching your videos, maybe its your voice or energy because i don't own any Alienware product lmfao i built my gaming pc... but keep up the good content man!
All the awesome RGB stuff and can't slow it down is beyond me! Wonder if they can add that to the program if they wanted to? Wouldn't Hurt to ask the Tech department🤔
Lol nothing. I spent almost 5gs maxing out my R11 and I love it. Even the cooling hasn't been an issue for me with my 3080. Never had Temps above 53c and even though the fans are a little noisy I barely hear them over my speakers
Anyone buying a pre built should stay well away from Dell. These things aren't designed for easy upgrades and come with extremely low end mobos, really bad airflow, cheap aios that can't cool the cpu they are running, extremely loud, pretty sure the RAM they use is also really cheap stuff usually something like 3200 at C20. If you go pre built try literally almost any other company.
Thank you for the video again. The other day I canceled my R12 order. Alienware just updated their R10's to have 3080/3090 GPUs now. So changed from the 11th Gen R12 to the AMD R10 for the PCIe 4.0 and a little bit cheaper processing power. I went with the R12 reluctantly at first, because it still had the PCIe 3.0. So, had to cancel once they updated the available GPU's. Delayed my delivery by an estimated 4 days, but worth it.
Hi, I have just found your channel and already watched few of your videos, I like them very much , I agree with your comments, I would also add that Aurora would look much better If the chassis was painted black as inside and back it looks like standard office desktop Dell, another thing colours of the AW510K keyboard do not much the rest of the FXX, ACC software is not the most user friendly, could be much improved, what else? even few months old R10 cannot be upgraded to newest Ryzen 5000 CPUs, even with newest BIOS(they already sell R10 with Ryzen 5000 since last month), also pci-e is only x8 not x16, also seems that design of the chassis is already 5 years old and PSU sits just next to CPU which does not helps with cooling. Not mucn room inside - I had to move my intake fan into HDD place to be able to fit new GPU - I installed Gigabyte Vision RTX3070( 3 fans GPU) and surprisingly temps are really good(around 65-70 during gaming, and around 40-50 on idle) although I have liquid cooled version and Ryzen 3600 which is only 65W. I love your studio and the lighting controller - what is it?
I dislike that the pci-e slot is x8. Even thou x16 difference is almost nothing I have never ran a video card in x8 since agp days lmaoo!!! I dislike that there are no extra fan headers I have to roll with whatever they put in it and thats it. I dislike the swivel psu design. I thought it was cool at first but now I realize how it really chokes the pc airflow wise and makes such a big case seem even smaller inside. I also dislike the bios options, as someone who has built my own pcs for years this is my first pre built due to lack of supply and prices being inflated I got a really good deal on an r11 at a local best buy and couldn't pass it up, I am used to a much more in depth bios with voltage and clock tuning and advanced features built in. With the negatives aside thou it is a great pc. I am playing all games maxed out at 4k and recording it easily. Runs emulation programs such as yuzu like a breeze. It is def the fastest pc I have ever owned and I love it but like I said this being my first pre built it takes some getting used to that I cant tinker with my pc like my other builds.
I straight hate my R12, it's going bye bye tomorrow. Can't even play apex legends without stuttering, forget about streaming or recording and playing. Never ever again!
LOL, I didn’t have all of that you mentioned about the pre-installed software like ACC, mini craft crap etc. 😂. I got the AMD R10. The only software they have installed was Windows 10, Realtek and 2 of he visual +++++ whatever that is. But I did install the ACC myself. 😀
I am enjoying my R10, Bro... I did have to upgrade fans and cooler tho.... The rub that I have is with the RGB lights missing on the "DARK SIDE OF THE MOON" chassis and some ACC controls not being available.
I ordered my Alienware in November of last year and received it in January. I have an Aurora R10 with a water-cooled Ryzen 9 3900XT with a 3080 and 32Gig ram. For the most part this PC has been excellent especially since this is my first gaming PC. The only thing I hate is fact that I can't upgrade to the new 5000 series Ryzen Cpu due to a bios upgrade that is being held back by Dell. I love my PC but I know my next PC will probably be built by me so I can take full advantage of the customizable options the PC platform has to offer.
Get a USB enclosure for the HDD they are like 15 bucks. it's what I did when I got my second nvme SSD. Also, you wouldn't even notice a difference going to PCIe 4 from PCIe 3. And PCIe 5 is coming out very soon anyway. But it doesn't matter as of right now cause nothing uses that much bandwidth unless you have an insanely expensive NVMe SSD they are almost hitting 7gbps but even then would you really notice a difference in games and on your OS. it's already insanely fast. I remember back when I was on dial-up and AOL was a thing. It blows my mind when people complain about the speed of their internet or hard drives in this day and age.. lol. But I know you had to think of something as there isn't much to not like with the R11. So with that said good video, sir.
The MOBO is the biggest issue, it doesn't seem like it can be upgraded whatsoever, so 30 series graphics cards are the last of the line. Definitely not future proof by any means, something that should be expected from a gaming PC that costs thousands. C'mon it's 2021...My Alienware will eventually go to the wife or kids, and I'll be building my own, won't ever be going intel again either. That being said, still an amazing piece of tech with a 3080 RTX actually available in 01/2021.
I have come to realize that these Alienware desktops are just bad PCs. The parts are just awful. I went with Alienware because I thought that they were the best PC gaming company around. They were when I was younger, but now they are just awful. I will never buy from Alienware again. My R13 was complete junk. It crashed 20 times in two days, overheated, and scored a 2500 on Heaven benchmark. A Compac Presario from 2003 could score better than that. For the amount of money that these computers cost, they are a complete ripoff. I should have listened to everyone saying how bad Alienware has become.
youre gonna be replacing the motherboard and power supply. while you can get both out of the alienware, getting them to properly fit in something else is gonna be a different story altogether
my r11 just upgraded to a 3080ti but bought the card from bestbuy and it doesn't fit without taking my front fan off. I replaced the fans with corsair and removed the left side panel. I have two fans bring air in on the side custom extension I built. I also put a fan on top of the watercooler to help suck the air out. Flight sim on max settings. nothing gets above 80c but the memory for the GPU. Found out the motherboard they use sucks....anyway I can fit a new upgraded motherboard?
I have the same pc what’s a good overclock for my 10700kf I appreciate it if you can help me out I just left it alone at 4.8 I would like to get it to a stable 5ghz just don’t know how to set the voltage great content btw 👍
Just got the 3060 ti with ryzen 7 5800 with a fan cooler and a hard drive not an ssd drive Aurora 10 did I mess up I thought the liquid color came included is there anyway possible when it gets here I can ship it back to get the liquid color and the ssd drive installed into my pc
You didn't bring up some of the bigger issues with the alienware, the one I was looking for was the single channel ram issue. But you missed about 10 major issues.
other than maybe the pcie3 thing, i dont think anything is a real issue. but hey, i come from on 12 year old samsung r560 laptop with a hard drive, so i dont care :D
i taped the housing for the hdd on the bottom of my r10 for now to add the second fan, eventually i'd like to have a bigger gpu and at that point i would have to worry more about the placement but for now it is working just fine
exactly im trying to tell people the r10 is way better and it also has an AMD so if you dont have a pc yet i highly recommend a r10 and if u are starting yt i also recommend it the thing is just a beast
Hey my brother you should look in and getting some fans from Corsair 120 mm magnetic levitation ProSeries fan they're expensive are 27 bucks a piece but they are very good fans they push a lot of air through your case and they're very very super quiet head reduce my temperature by 6 degrees
Great videos you have here, bought the fans, splitters, and tape you suggested, will be a good weekend project. Kind of wondering how did you do the heat pad differently than the first time? If I'm not into mining, is it necessary to do that then?
I'm actually thinking of returning mine. I'm gonna go a diff company get a better ripper and better gpu all water cooled for about a grand more. Dont see spending the 2800 I did and having the card burn out which it will prolly 1 month after warrantee. Love the pc but just to frigging 🔥. I'll decide in the next week.
If you use Noctua A12x25 in both places, it throws a BIOS code. If you only use it for intake or only use it for the AIO, it doesn't throw a code... ...I went through 3 or 4 different fan brands before I finally gave up and shelled out for ML120 Pros
just ordered an R12 because my gtx 970 is dying and buying a new GPU for a decent price is near impossible rn. your videos are a big help and I am going to be doing that fan mod for sure.
I got an R10. Heating has been a major issue plus the GPU sits at way too high of temps while idle. I know you've made videos on how to remedy these cooling situations, but I bought a pre-built solely because I don't trust myself to handle extremely sensitive PC parts. Now in order to fix it without handling everything myself requires me to pay a premium at some PC shop in order to remedy the cooling issues. Also my graphics and FPS hasn't been performing as well as advertised in certain games (Witcher 3, RDR2, Battlefront II). Otherwise, it's been a solid PC.
I decided to purchase an R12 without a Gpu from fleabay. It’s the 11400f version. First, I usually build my own computers and have done for nearly 30 years now. I hate the lack of room for a decent sized cpu cooler! If the cryorig C7 cu doesn’t work in this PC then I think it’s going back on fleabay very soon. I hate water cooling because it doesn’t cool anywhere near as well as it should, especially with a single 120mm fan. The engineer that decided to put the power supply directly over the cpu should be fired immediately! I’ve built mini itx builds in the past that have better airflow than these cases and thats just sad.
Hmmm... You say this PC only has PCIe 3.0, but I believe that's incorrect. I believe it has PCIe 4.0 but ships with PCIe SSD drives, which is perhaps where the disconnect happened?
I was an early R10 buyer and the website configurator led me to believe that A. My R10 would be liquid-cooled (nope, had to immediately upgrade to a Corsair H60), and B: That I could OC the CPU through AWCC (Nope). They finally fixed their website after so many people complained about 95+C CPU temps to offer liquid or air but as of 3/2021 I still couldn't OC my processor (3900 Non-X) through AWCC (or bios). Combine those issues with the fact that it only comes with a single NVME slot, I finally gave up and moved some of the guts over to a Fractal Meshify XL with an Aorus Master X570. So now I have 3 NVME 1tb in Raid 0 and it boots up into a nice all-core OC and the 2080 super is cool as a cucumber. The AW case and mobo are now sitting forlornly in a corner...it's not even worth it to try and sell because no one wants it. This was my 2nd pre-built in 20+ years and will be my last I think.
I hate how loud my R10 is. I replaced the air cooler with a Corsair H60 AIO and Corsair fans and it's still loud. I think I'm going to through some VM's on there and use it as a server. I bought it for the graphics card which I put in my main desktop, a Ryzen 5800X, and I threw a cheap graphics card on my Alienware. I upgraded from a 5700XT to a 3060TI which isn't a huge upgrade but Dell wanted an extra $800 for a 3080 over the 3060TI.
What I HATE is when I was ordering mine I spent hours on the phone talking with multiple Dell people asking repeatedly if the GPU was a true founders edition manufactured by Nvidia because like some people who bought one in the past 6 months I bought it solely for the 3090 FE that turns out is not a f#€king FE.
Really? Not having PCIe gen 4 & because the cycle speeds on the lighting is a bit too fast are 2 of your top 5 beefs with your system? Really? (What on Earth are you doing that you'd have even the potential to notice in any meaningful way the difference between gen 3 & gen 4? I'm not being facetious, it's a serious question, because out of all the possible bottlenecks in the system, gen 3 PCIe is not the one that jumps off the page. To me anyway). Would not much more relevant details like the lack of ability to upgrade the power supply, which is both underpowered and not HE be a bit concerning?, or how about the inability to put in a decent AIO cooler because the case simply doesn't have the room? More generally, that Dell has gone out of their way to ensure doing virtually any upgrade to the system is near impossible because either the motherboard lacks the IO to connect it, and/or the case lacks the space to house it, and/or the power supply lacks the wattage to power it? The RGB cycling a bit too fast is the least of the problems with the system.
Love these videos, question I have around my R12, I've tried to add a 2nd fan, replace the original fan and today swap out the GPU and after each of these I get issues with it not booting up, bios errors, warnings and an infinite loop recovery. Is there some obvious bios setting Im missing or am I getting unlucky with my bios in some way? Any help welcome
The case freaking sucks Am moving the system to a fractal case as soon as it gets here because your cooling does not work without airflow first time buying a prebuilt because 2020\2021 and am not at all impressed with how crammed it is and the lack of a 2nd full size M.2 slot hurt also.
Simple cage install is to remove the case plastic base. install cage then slap that plastic foot back on. or mark the cage and notch out the metal so it slides over the plastic tab sticking up near the mobo. Dislikes hmm AWCC can be a pain if you need to reinstall it. You cant add or change the mobo as its covered in dell only connections for front panel and leds etc etc No chance of moving it to a new case because of the above. Cooling is pretty bad requiring user intervention to correct. Its not hard to correct but if your a warranty sort of person you are stuck with doing push pull on the radiator and 2 intakes. If your not worried.... I have a 240mm aio in my machine with 2 intakes and floor ventilation. That's on my R9 it is almost out of warranty so I'm fine with it.
Wow only 1 M.2 slot. That's a deal-breaker for me for sure. I really just want to upgrade my existing PC but I can't find a 3080/3090 ANYWHERE. I was thinking of bitting this bullet but I'm not spending 3K for a PC with 1 M.2; thanks for the clarification. Back on the hunt: Gotta either find another prebuilt with my needed specs or just wait/hope for a 3080 drop.
This is the situation I found myself in, as well. I ended up buying a $20 PCIe M.2 card from Micro Center and throwing my 970 EVO on it. Benchmarks before and after on the drive show a 4.4% performance loss over plugging it directly into the onboard M.2 slot...I can live with that
Loved my Alienware when it was working. Had a bad ssd during quarantine. Took 2 months for a new one to arrive. Dell has sales a lot so sometimes their pricing is very competitive. Just worried about spending too much on one knowing that future upgrades would be a pain. Wish they’d change their case and use common motherboards. Ended up giving my Alienware to my buddy and buying a lenovo legion that i like much better.
Thanks a lot for your content on this. I ordered my R10 a while ago and got it last week (Ryzen 9, 3080, 32 gig dual channel, and went with the 2 gig M.2 SSD). Your videos helped out a lot. Replaced the 2 fans, added a intake fan and another to make a push pull on the radiator. Planning on redoing the 3080 thermals once my new thermal pads come in. You pointed out a lot of things that definitely deserved attention! Thanks!
I don't really have any gripes about my R11. I replaced my RAM with 64GB (2x32) T-Force DDR4-3200 (running at 3200MHz), setup a perm 5.1GHz OC on my CPU, setup a perm 10% OC on both the GPU and GPU Memory clocks, replaced the intake fan with a Corsair ML120 Pro, replaced the AIO fan with 2x Corsair ML120 Pros in push/pull, added a 1TB 970 EVO NVMe SSD via a PCIe M.2 card, added 2x SanDisk Ultra 3D 2TB SSDs and added a 14TB Seagate Exos 7200RPM drive. 20TB internal storage...yee yee I like the idea of a second intake fan, but since switching the AIO to a dual fan setup, I haven't had any cooling problems to speak of, at all. Your lights are fast, but I'm missing 2 lighting zones because I have the DSotM case. My Rig (R11, DSotM): 10900KF (@ 5.1GHz) 120mm Alienware via Asetek AIO (dual Corsair ML120 Pro fans in push/pull) 64GB 3200MHz T-Force in dual channel configuration (@ 3.2GHz, up from 32GB HyperX Fury (with pretty terrible CAS)) Corsair ML120 Pro intake fan 1KW 80+ Gold Rated PSU Alienware RTX3080 10GB (10% OC on clock and memory, air cooled, toying with the idea of replacing the fans) WD SN730 1TB (included with Alienware, white-label WD Black) Samsung 970 EVO 1TB (on a PCIe M.2 card) (2x) SanDisk Ultra 3D 2TB SATA-III SSD Seagate Exos 14TB 7200RPM SATA-III HDD Logitech G512 Keyboard Logitech G502 Hero Mouse Razer Tartarus V2 Logitech 2.1 Speakers Oculus Rift S HP Omen Gaming Headset Logitech C615 Webcam (also my mic) XBox One Wireless Controller Samsung 7 Series 50" TV in "Game Mode" (1ms response time, 60Hz, HDR10) HP 24" 1080p60Hz Monitor
Hey man, I did the fan swap. I got the same fans you have. I ran into a problem I didn't like. The OEM fans are 4 prong, the cooler master fans are 3 prong. I also got the same splitter cables you purchased. Now, the fans work just fine, that's not the issue, the issue is that ACC will NOT let me change the fan speeds at all with the cooler master fans. I connected them to every fan slot on the MB and it just doesn't let me change the speed. So I threw the OEM fan back down at the bottom but left a CM fan as the second one above it and as long as I have the OEM fan connected to the 4 prong splitter and the CM fan on the 3 prong, I can change the speeds NP. So in the end I just have an extra CM fan where that fat drive was but I'm able to control the 2 front fans at will, which I prefer more than a constant 30% (which is when the fans registered without being able to control them).
I'm still on the fence about getting one. The PCI3 thing though, huh didn't know that. Choosing different lights for different games is a good touch though... didn't know that either. Great vid, earned a sub.
Ok, so how hard would it to change case? What if I got a bigger one? I was acutely thinking about doing that. My R11 should be here is couple weeks. Thanks for the review!!
Not hard at all, probably the best move. The case design is so flawed, you will see, the power supply is right in the middle of the rig, blocking natural airflow. Air flow should be from front to back with no obstruction or bends. The interior design is so stupid. I'm ditching it when I get it in also.
@@GamerHeavenOfficial - nothing bad bro just my 5 thing I do to my R11 but I did say to shitcan that HD spinner or use it as an external drive with the right adapter. But I didn’t say anything I never do and I’ve been YouTubing when it first came to life
I made my Alienware mistake back in 2015.....binned it in 2016 and did what I should have done from the start...build my own. Glad I did as it's not that hard building your own.
@@GamerHeavenOfficial this is from dells website Higher bandwidth: The Aurora Ryzen Edition is the first Alienware machine to feature PCI-Express 4.0 Technology, which doubles the bandwidth available to graphics cards for enhanced overall gaming performance. Additionally, any component on your PCI-Express bus is given more bandwidth so you can experience higher performance while creating, streaming or recording.
I have a r12 but it like being weird like when I turn it on sometimes the monitor doesn’t come on or the pc with freeze. Do you have anything that might help it?
Yeah what I don’t like about is if I order the R12 right now I won’t get it until June 9. That’s more than 2 months. So I am exploring other things now. 2 months is crazy. The shit will be obsolete by the time it gets here (not really). Ha I just wanted to rant.
I built my r10 and purchased it April 1st. It said it would arrive May 26. 2 days ago I got notified it started production and today I got notified its completed production shipped and arriving tomorrow April 8. So it took 7 days instead if 2 months like the website told me too
I am going to make a video about this as you are the 3rd or 4th person to mention a case swap. It's nearly impossible, at least the mother board is staying in that case for sure.
@@GamerHeavenOfficial the only probs I see with case swap is length of PSU cables and dells proprietary cable plugs which you can buy adapters for or you could cut that whole front power button assembly off an somehow put it on whatever aftermarket case you get. Or it might all fit in sell xps case
@@terrellwright7565 took the 3.5inch hdd cage out on front and replaced it like in his video. Replaced the other front fan aswell. And on the liquid cooled CPU, i have the radiator in push/pull with 2 fans
The crappy keyboard and mouse that came with my R11. This is an expensive gaming machine....they should at least come with a decent keyboard and mouse. Alas, maybe I was expecting too much. Still love the R11 as I've been rocking in RD2 and MSFS. Thanks for the videos!
@@hardrckr4983 Just got an email from Dell. My R12 was in Production and was supposed to arrive in a couple days. Now they just delayed it to June 15th! What’s the status of yours?
@@dishsoap1 mine skipped production entirely and straight to shipped but only the label is printed and am still waiting for shipper to pick it up..been since saturday
hate how it’s basically a heater. I’ll be burning up when I play bigger titles. when I check to see if it’s over heating it’s only at 53 - 56. shits blowing that hot ass air all over the place even with liquid cooling and 2 fans installed
My R11 is arriving tomorrow - Been watching all your vids for tips on optimizing the PC --> Managed to snag a 3080. Keep up the solid content mate.
No the r 12 just came up
Return it
I got an r10. Ryzen 5800x wit a 3080. Mining on the 3080.. dear lord the temps are crazy. Still waiting for my new thermal pads to come. 12 W m/*K
@@iVETAnsolini what about replacing the stock fans with better ones? also someone said they put thermal paste instead of thermal pads
@@iVETAnsolini AK did new pads and paste on the GPU with no temp improvement. Video is on this channel. I think changing and adding case fans is a must. I will be trying adding a front intake, top radiator suck and blow, and then a low profile fan below the GPU in the back 2.5” cage area to help blow and possibly exhaust some heat from GPU.
I don’t get my R10 for a month though, so hopefully you come up with a great solution so I can copy you :)
The R10 I bought last year has its PCIe 3.0 capped at x8... Which I kept hearing was going to "keep me from seeing x16 speeds" and kind of irked me a bit. There was also only ONE M.2 NVME slot on the motherboard, which means I'd have to use a SATA SSD for HD expansion. People told me a SATA SSD would be "slower" than the M.2 which also annoyed me. Oh, and I bought it with 16GB of RAM instead of 32 or 64 because I couldn't believe the balls Dell had charging that much for RAM holy Jesus.
Happy to report it's the fastest computer I've ever owned. Startup is near instant, everything is snappy and it screams along with anything I throw at it. Gaming, video conversion, design work - I upgraded the RAM to 64GB through a 3rd party vendor for HALF of Dells prices, so yeah - pleased with it.
I did know going in that airflow was an issue with these cases so I've tinkered a bit and achieved decent results at keeping it all cool. I suppose that's my biggest "disappoint" - for such an outwardly large case, the components are really jammed in there - and placed in a way that really screws with air flow. PSU center and right above the CPU and the GPU? Any explaination as to why they did this other than "look: cool new different design"? Cripes. Any how - not the perfect machine by far, but it's still very nice and I expect to get years of enjoyment from it.
The only reason people consider this alienware prebuild is u can't get 3000 series card anywhere at proper price, that's all. Most people won't even buy this prebuild garbage if the 3080 available in market at retail :). Overengineered overprice plastic
You’re not wrong , but there are people who don’t want to build a pc and look at nzxt, Alienware , hp omen , cyber power, and other prebuilts as an easy way to get into pc gaming without the tech know how
I just got mine but I am playing fotnite. it only runs 60fps but when I first hopped into a game it ran at 160 or higher. i may just be new to pc and suck at customization
Do you mean that it runs only at 60fps in the menu and 160+ in the game? I'm not familiar with Fortnite but perhaps the main menu just has an FPS lock on it
Coolermaster is 53 CFM? Stock is 160CFM
I think the single major failure of r11, is the psu , type, location, it's just bad, it sits right on top of the backplate of the 3080 and dell should kill the design team for doing shit like this. I swapped the thermal pad of the 3080 and it's running like a champ now, giving 100mh/s with only 84c on the vram but God with they did that so I don't have to pee in my pants doing the swap
Found this channel about a week ago and loving it. I might buy an aurora as my gaming rig since my current one is a workstation. You’ve been helping me a lot so I thank you for that
dont buy it, get a different pc, its a dell in alien clothes, and its not worth the money, they spent a huge portion of the money on looks, and over engineering it in a bad way
@@SonnyListonStanAccount it’s been awhile but I actually bought the computer, but eventually returned it due to the fact that my cpu would hit temps of 95-102c. I decided to buy a cyberpower prebuilt and just do a bunch of upgrades and a case swap!
@@Arun-uo7hb ok good
It’s funny, these are things I littearly complain about all the time wishing I went with building my own but then again I love my pc and I wouldn’t have a 3080 if I didn’t get one!
Same
Hey AK I believe you take the 3.5 cage from the front and move it into the spot for one of the 2.5 cages. The screws should line up
does this work? I am trying to do this
@@jlammii2002 it does work I just completed my case mods today. You will need some longer screws because there is a gap between the case brackets and cage screw holes since it was made for the front. I used the #6 x 32 1.5 inch screws I used for the push pull radiator fan config since I had them left over but 3/4" of that screw is enough. There is plenty of space for the excess screw length to disappear under the drive
Also you have to put the 3.5 drive bay in the back if you still want to use the extra GPU support bracket or the power to the HDD will block where it goes
@@oli41770 thanks, I moved it successfully
im ordering an r12 and its ariving in a couple months. i was wondering if its worth crypto mining with it (RTX 3080) and if it will damage it in any way.
Lol mining it’s not even good for playing game when I got my r11 I started cod mw the cpu temperature were hitting 100c
I'd recommend the R10, now that it has an RTX 3080 option. If you play around with some of the options, you can get either the R12 or R10 in early to mid May. This channel goes over the mining for the RTX 3080 in pretty good detail. Check his other vids out and overall, mining without pushing your temps to the limits, shouldn't shorten the life of your components very much.
bring the power down, those are hungry and run very hot, you'll have to adjust your trimmings too, a simple google search can probably bring up some suggestions. You may also need to make some adjustments to the thermal paste/pads. Make sure you have great airflow and remember mining isn't about the hash rate it's more about your efficiency. If you follow the above steps and research your components will be fine, just pay attention and do your due diligence.
Have a an R11 and bought my wife a R9. Cooling is the main concern which you kind of covered as its related to the case size and lack of fans / quality of fans.
I get my r10 tomorrow. I ordered it 7 days ago and it told me about 2 months to arrive but today it says it's getting delivered tomorrow woo-hoo I can't wait. I did the ryzen 7 5800x with 64gb ram 3400 and rtx 3080. Liquid cooled.
I ordered my r12 on the 30th and well, still sitting on confirmed though they just took the money from my account for it 2 days ago. Paid by ACH online banking. Got the 11600KF 16GB of ram intended to upgrade to 32GB HyperX later and got the 6800XT
ordered my r10 (5900x / 3080) about 2 weeks ago. it is "in production" step right now, and supposed to be shipped around end of april. but thats what they said from the start, so i dont mind
Yea I ordered mine April 1st and within a day status was confirmed then April 5th changed to in production and April 7th changed to shipped. I live in Texas and apparently they have a production facility here because it was built and shipped here in Texas. I thought it was going to come from overseas lol
honestly idk why i'm watching your videos, maybe its your voice or energy because i don't own any Alienware product lmfao i built my gaming pc... but keep up the good content man!
😆, well thanks either way
Love all ur tech vids man
Thank you
My HDD fit perfect with the bracket at the bottom... wtf.
So I have an R10 and the PC Latency can get pretty bad
All the awesome RGB stuff and can't slow it down is beyond me! Wonder if they can add that to the program if they wanted to?
Wouldn't Hurt to ask the Tech department🤔
Lol nothing. I spent almost 5gs maxing out my R11 and I love it. Even the cooling hasn't been an issue for me with my 3080. Never had Temps above 53c and even though the fans are a little noisy I barely hear them over my speakers
Also sitting at right under 5k, but I upgraded my cooling. I was having all kinds of thermal issues before I did...regularly hitting 100c in cinebench
There are issues with the AWCC that are hidden but still exist that Dell needs to address. Few people know about it or never even notice it happening.
Anyone buying a pre built should stay well away from Dell. These things aren't designed for easy upgrades and come with extremely low end mobos, really bad airflow, cheap aios that can't cool the cpu they are running, extremely loud, pretty sure the RAM they use is also really cheap stuff usually something like 3200 at C20. If you go pre built try literally almost any other company.
Thank you for the video again. The other day I canceled my R12 order. Alienware just updated their R10's to have 3080/3090 GPUs now. So changed from the 11th Gen R12 to the AMD R10 for the PCIe 4.0 and a little bit cheaper processing power. I went with the R12 reluctantly at first, because it still had the PCIe 3.0. So, had to cancel once they updated the available GPU's. Delayed my delivery by an estimated 4 days, but worth it.
Smart move.
Hi, I have just found your channel and already watched few of your videos, I like them very much , I agree with your comments, I would also add that Aurora would look much better If the chassis was painted black as inside and back it looks like standard office desktop Dell, another thing colours of the AW510K keyboard do not much the rest of the FXX, ACC software is not the most user friendly, could be much improved, what else? even few months old R10 cannot be upgraded to newest Ryzen 5000 CPUs, even with newest BIOS(they already sell R10 with Ryzen 5000 since last month), also pci-e is only x8 not x16, also seems that design of the chassis is already 5 years old and PSU sits just next to CPU which does not helps with cooling. Not mucn room inside - I had to move my intake fan into HDD place to be able to fit new GPU - I installed Gigabyte Vision RTX3070( 3 fans GPU) and surprisingly temps are really good(around 65-70 during gaming, and around 40-50 on idle) although I have liquid cooled version and Ryzen 3600 which is only 65W. I love your studio and the lighting controller - what is it?
I dislike that the pci-e slot is x8. Even thou x16 difference is almost nothing I have never ran a video card in x8 since agp days lmaoo!!! I dislike that there are no extra fan headers I have to roll with whatever they put in it and thats it. I dislike the swivel psu design. I thought it was cool at first but now I realize how it really chokes the pc airflow wise and makes such a big case seem even smaller inside. I also dislike the bios options, as someone who has built my own pcs for years this is my first pre built due to lack of supply and prices being inflated I got a really good deal on an r11 at a local best buy and couldn't pass it up, I am used to a much more in depth bios with voltage and clock tuning and advanced features built in. With the negatives aside thou it is a great pc. I am playing all games maxed out at 4k and recording it easily. Runs emulation programs such as yuzu like a breeze. It is def the fastest pc I have ever owned and I love it but like I said this being my first pre built it takes some getting used to that I cant tinker with my pc like my other builds.
I straight hate my R12, it's going bye bye tomorrow. Can't even play apex legends without stuttering, forget about streaming or recording and playing. Never ever again!
LOL, I didn’t have all of that you mentioned about the pre-installed software like ACC, mini craft crap etc. 😂. I got the AMD R10. The only software they have installed was Windows 10, Realtek and 2 of he visual +++++ whatever that is. But I did install the ACC myself. 😀
I am enjoying my R10, Bro... I did have to upgrade fans and cooler tho.... The rub that I have is with the RGB lights missing on the "DARK SIDE OF THE MOON" chassis and some ACC controls not being available.
I ordered my Alienware in November of last year and received it in January. I have an Aurora R10 with a water-cooled Ryzen 9 3900XT with a 3080 and 32Gig ram. For the most part this PC has been excellent especially since this is my first gaming PC. The only thing I hate is fact that I can't upgrade to the new 5000 series Ryzen Cpu due to a bios upgrade that is being held back by Dell. I love my PC but I know my next PC will probably be built by me so I can take full advantage of the customizable options the PC platform has to offer.
Get a USB enclosure for the HDD they are like 15 bucks. it's what I did when I got my second nvme SSD. Also, you wouldn't even notice a difference going to PCIe 4 from PCIe 3. And PCIe 5 is coming out very soon anyway. But it doesn't matter as of right now cause nothing uses that much bandwidth unless you have an insanely expensive NVMe SSD they are almost hitting 7gbps but even then would you really notice a difference in games and on your OS. it's already insanely fast. I remember back when I was on dial-up and AOL was a thing. It blows my mind when people complain about the speed of their internet or hard drives in this day and age.. lol. But I know you had to think of something as there isn't much to not like with the R11. So with that said good video, sir.
The MOBO is the biggest issue, it doesn't seem like it can be upgraded whatsoever, so 30 series graphics cards are the last of the line. Definitely not future proof by any means, something that should be expected from a gaming PC that costs thousands. C'mon it's 2021...My Alienware will eventually go to the wife or kids, and I'll be building my own, won't ever be going intel again either. That being said, still an amazing piece of tech with a 3080 RTX actually available in 01/2021.
I have come to realize that these Alienware desktops are just bad PCs. The parts are just awful. I went with Alienware because I thought that they were the best PC gaming company around. They were when I was younger, but now they are just awful. I will never buy from Alienware again. My R13 was complete junk. It crashed 20 times in two days, overheated, and scored a 2500 on Heaven benchmark. A Compac Presario from 2003 could score better than that. For the amount of money that these computers cost, they are a complete ripoff. I should have listened to everyone saying how bad Alienware has become.
could you potentially take out most of the parts and put it in your own case? I would be okay buying a better cause if I could just move all the parts
youre gonna be replacing the motherboard and power supply. while you can get both out of the alienware, getting them to properly fit in something else is gonna be a different story altogether
@@jfaristide ty for the reply, I ended up getting a prebuilt cyberpower pc w RTX 3070 so upgrading things should be a breeze
my r11 just upgraded to a 3080ti but bought the card from bestbuy and it doesn't fit without taking my front fan off. I replaced the fans with corsair and removed the left side panel. I have two fans bring air in on the side custom extension I built. I also put a fan on top of the watercooler to help suck the air out. Flight sim on max settings. nothing gets above 80c but the memory for the GPU. Found out the motherboard they use sucks....anyway I can fit a new upgraded motherboard?
I have the same pc what’s a good overclock for my 10700kf I appreciate it if you can help me out I just left it alone at 4.8 I would like to get it to a stable 5ghz just don’t know how to set the voltage great content btw 👍
Just ordered r11 5days ago. And it only has 550w power supply there. KEKW
Just got the 3060 ti with ryzen 7 5800 with a fan cooler and a hard drive not an ssd drive Aurora 10 did I mess up I thought the liquid color came included is there anyway possible when it gets here I can ship it back to get the liquid color and the ssd drive installed into my pc
You didn't bring up some of the bigger issues with the alienware, the one I was looking for was the single channel ram issue. But you missed about 10 major issues.
Yeah I also was thinking the 3.5" hdd is wrong mounted there. Blocks the possible airflow.
other than maybe the pcie3 thing, i dont think anything is a real issue. but hey, i come from on 12 year old samsung r560 laptop with a hard drive, so i dont care :D
lol
Love my 10 year old Alienware aurora r4 but the aio just died and finding a replacement to save the pc is hard af
i taped the housing for the hdd on the bottom of my r10 for now to add the second fan, eventually i'd like to have a bigger gpu and at that point i would have to worry more about the placement but for now it is working just fine
exactly im trying to tell people the r10 is way better and it also has an AMD so if you dont have a pc yet i highly recommend a r10 and if u are starting yt i also recommend it the thing is just a beast
Hey my brother you should look in and getting some fans from Corsair 120 mm magnetic levitation ProSeries fan they're expensive are 27 bucks a piece but they are very good fans they push a lot of air through your case and they're very very super quiet head reduce my temperature by 6 degrees
ml fans are epic
Great videos you have here, bought the fans, splitters, and tape you suggested, will be a good weekend project. Kind of wondering how did you do the heat pad differently than the first time? If I'm not into mining, is it necessary to do that then?
I'm actually thinking of returning mine. I'm gonna go a diff company get a better ripper and better gpu all water cooled for about a grand more. Dont see spending the 2800 I did and having the card burn out which it will prolly 1 month after warrantee. Love the pc but just to frigging 🔥. I'll decide in the next week.
what did u decide
Switch those fans out to Noctua A12x25's and do a before and after video on the results.
If you use Noctua A12x25 in both places, it throws a BIOS code. If you only use it for intake or only use it for the AIO, it doesn't throw a code...
...I went through 3 or 4 different fan brands before I finally gave up and shelled out for ML120 Pros
"here's all the things i hate.".....But I love it!
Pretty much every 5 things I hate video I’ve ever seen lol
I don’t like that the GPU slot is x16 but locked to x8 🙄
Same
just ordered an R12 because my gtx 970 is dying and buying a new GPU for a decent price is near impossible rn. your videos are a big help and I am going to be doing that fan mod for sure.
you wasted your money i fell so bad for you
The HDD is slow if you add a sdd drive your computer will boot faster
pci gen4 isn't available on intel at all. The intake fan is terrible for sure.
First but i'll let you all be first, Mean last here my bad 😭
Only one nvme and cooling problem is the main complaint
I got an R10. Heating has been a major issue plus the GPU sits at way too high of temps while idle. I know you've made videos on how to remedy these cooling situations, but I bought a pre-built solely because I don't trust myself to handle extremely sensitive PC parts. Now in order to fix it without handling everything myself requires me to pay a premium at some PC shop in order to remedy the cooling issues. Also my graphics and FPS hasn't been performing as well as advertised in certain games (Witcher 3, RDR2, Battlefront II). Otherwise, it's been a solid PC.
I decided to purchase an R12 without a Gpu from fleabay. It’s the 11400f version. First, I usually build my own computers and have done for nearly 30 years now. I hate the lack of room for a decent sized cpu cooler! If the cryorig C7 cu doesn’t work in this PC then I think it’s going back on fleabay very soon. I hate water cooling because it doesn’t cool anywhere near as well as it should, especially with a single 120mm fan. The engineer that decided to put the power supply directly over the cpu should be fired immediately! I’ve built mini itx builds in the past that have better airflow than these cases and thats just sad.
Can you make a tutorial on what exactly to remove from bloatware?
Hmmm... You say this PC only has PCIe 3.0, but I believe that's incorrect. I believe it has PCIe 4.0 but ships with PCIe SSD drives, which is perhaps where the disconnect happened?
I was an early R10 buyer and the website configurator led me to believe that A. My R10 would be liquid-cooled (nope, had to immediately upgrade to a Corsair H60), and B: That I could OC the CPU through AWCC (Nope). They finally fixed their website after so many people complained about 95+C CPU temps to offer liquid or air but as of 3/2021 I still couldn't OC my processor (3900 Non-X) through AWCC (or bios). Combine those issues with the fact that it only comes with a single NVME slot, I finally gave up and moved some of the guts over to a Fractal Meshify XL with an Aorus Master X570. So now I have 3 NVME 1tb in Raid 0 and it boots up into a nice all-core OC and the 2080 super is cool as a cucumber. The AW case and mobo are now sitting forlornly in a corner...it's not even worth it to try and sell because no one wants it. This was my 2nd pre-built in 20+ years and will be my last I think.
Why are you people buying this crap
I hate how loud my R10 is. I replaced the air cooler with a Corsair H60 AIO and Corsair fans and it's still loud. I think I'm going to through some VM's on there and use it as a server. I bought it for the graphics card which I put in my main desktop, a Ryzen 5800X, and I threw a cheap graphics card on my Alienware. I upgraded from a 5700XT to a 3060TI which isn't a huge upgrade but Dell wanted an extra $800 for a 3080 over the 3060TI.
What I HATE is when I was ordering mine I spent hours on the phone talking with multiple Dell people asking repeatedly if the GPU was a true founders edition manufactured by Nvidia because like some people who bought one in the past 6 months I bought it solely for the 3090 FE that turns out is not a f#€king FE.
Really? Not having PCIe gen 4 & because the cycle speeds on the lighting is a bit too fast are 2 of your top 5 beefs with your system? Really? (What on Earth are you doing that you'd have even the potential to notice in any meaningful way the difference between gen 3 & gen 4? I'm not being facetious, it's a serious question, because out of all the possible bottlenecks in the system, gen 3 PCIe is not the one that jumps off the page. To me anyway). Would not much more relevant details like the lack of ability to upgrade the power supply, which is both underpowered and not HE be a bit concerning?, or how about the inability to put in a decent AIO cooler because the case simply doesn't have the room? More generally, that Dell has gone out of their way to ensure doing virtually any upgrade to the system is near impossible because either the motherboard lacks the IO to connect it, and/or the case lacks the space to house it, and/or the power supply lacks the wattage to power it? The RGB cycling a bit too fast is the least of the problems with the system.
Love these videos, question I have around my R12, I've tried to add a 2nd fan, replace the original fan and today swap out the GPU and after each of these I get issues with it not booting up, bios errors, warnings and an infinite loop recovery. Is there some obvious bios setting Im missing or am I getting unlucky with my bios in some way? Any help welcome
The case freaking sucks Am moving the system to a fractal case as soon as it gets here because your cooling does not work without airflow first time buying a prebuilt because 2020\2021 and am not at all impressed with how crammed it is and the lack of a 2nd full size M.2 slot hurt also.
Simple cage install is to remove the case plastic base. install cage then slap that plastic foot back on. or mark the cage and notch out the metal so it slides over the plastic tab sticking up near the mobo.
Dislikes hmm AWCC can be a pain if you need to reinstall it.
You cant add or change the mobo as its covered in dell only connections for front panel and leds etc etc
No chance of moving it to a new case because of the above.
Cooling is pretty bad requiring user intervention to correct.
Its not hard to correct but if your a warranty sort of person you are stuck with doing push pull on the radiator and 2 intakes.
If your not worried....
I have a 240mm aio in my machine with 2 intakes and floor ventilation.
That's on my R9 it is almost out of warranty so I'm fine with it.
They updated them to pci4
Wow only 1 M.2 slot. That's a deal-breaker for me for sure. I really just want to upgrade my existing PC but I can't find a 3080/3090 ANYWHERE. I was thinking of bitting this bullet but I'm not spending 3K for a PC with 1 M.2; thanks for the clarification. Back on the hunt: Gotta either find another prebuilt with my needed specs or just wait/hope for a 3080 drop.
Hey man , no problem
This is the situation I found myself in, as well. I ended up buying a $20 PCIe M.2 card from Micro Center and throwing my 970 EVO on it. Benchmarks before and after on the drive show a 4.4% performance loss over plugging it directly into the onboard M.2 slot...I can live with that
I cant find warranty information for Graphic card modification.... if i replace thermal paste and put some extra thermal pads will void the warranty?
Loved my Alienware when it was working. Had a bad ssd during quarantine. Took 2 months for a new one to arrive. Dell has sales a lot so sometimes their pricing is very competitive. Just worried about spending too much on one knowing that future upgrades would be a pain. Wish they’d change their case and use common motherboards. Ended up giving my Alienware to my buddy and buying a lenovo legion that i like much better.
I want one of these and I’m hopefully gonna get one in the future. Watching this makes me wanna get the replacement parts you put in there.
Thanks a lot for your content on this. I ordered my R10 a while ago and got it last week (Ryzen 9, 3080, 32 gig dual channel, and went with the 2 gig M.2 SSD). Your videos helped out a lot. Replaced the 2 fans, added a intake fan and another to make a push pull on the radiator. Planning on redoing the 3080 thermals once my new thermal pads come in. You pointed out a lot of things that definitely deserved attention! Thanks!
just the fans
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Hey bro... good shits! I'm definitely following ur tips when I get mine!
You are extracting this most content possible out of your purchase lol...
SUPER Brain Fart @5:13....😂
lmao
where is the link for the fans and the splitter?
i dropped $3.2k on my R12 it just came in today; 3090 w liquid cooled i7
I don't really have any gripes about my R11. I replaced my RAM with 64GB (2x32) T-Force DDR4-3200 (running at 3200MHz), setup a perm 5.1GHz OC on my CPU, setup a perm 10% OC on both the GPU and GPU Memory clocks, replaced the intake fan with a Corsair ML120 Pro, replaced the AIO fan with 2x Corsair ML120 Pros in push/pull, added a 1TB 970 EVO NVMe SSD via a PCIe M.2 card, added 2x SanDisk Ultra 3D 2TB SSDs and added a 14TB Seagate Exos 7200RPM drive. 20TB internal storage...yee yee
I like the idea of a second intake fan, but since switching the AIO to a dual fan setup, I haven't had any cooling problems to speak of, at all.
Your lights are fast, but I'm missing 2 lighting zones because I have the DSotM case.
My Rig (R11, DSotM):
10900KF (@ 5.1GHz)
120mm Alienware via Asetek AIO (dual Corsair ML120 Pro fans in push/pull)
64GB 3200MHz T-Force in dual channel configuration (@ 3.2GHz, up from 32GB HyperX Fury (with pretty terrible CAS))
Corsair ML120 Pro intake fan
1KW 80+ Gold Rated PSU
Alienware RTX3080 10GB (10% OC on clock and memory, air cooled, toying with the idea of replacing the fans)
WD SN730 1TB (included with Alienware, white-label WD Black)
Samsung 970 EVO 1TB (on a PCIe M.2 card)
(2x) SanDisk Ultra 3D 2TB SATA-III SSD
Seagate Exos 14TB 7200RPM SATA-III HDD
Logitech G512 Keyboard
Logitech G502 Hero Mouse
Razer Tartarus V2
Logitech 2.1 Speakers
Oculus Rift S
HP Omen Gaming Headset
Logitech C615 Webcam (also my mic)
XBox One Wireless Controller
Samsung 7 Series 50" TV in "Game Mode" (1ms response time, 60Hz, HDR10)
HP 24" 1080p60Hz Monitor
Hey man, I did the fan swap. I got the same fans you have. I ran into a problem I didn't like. The OEM fans are 4 prong, the cooler master fans are 3 prong. I also got the same splitter cables you purchased. Now, the fans work just fine, that's not the issue, the issue is that ACC will NOT let me change the fan speeds at all with the cooler master fans. I connected them to every fan slot on the MB and it just doesn't let me change the speed. So I threw the OEM fan back down at the bottom but left a CM fan as the second one above it and as long as I have the OEM fan connected to the 4 prong splitter and the CM fan on the 3 prong, I can change the speeds NP. So in the end I just have an extra CM fan where that fat drive was but I'm able to control the 2 front fans at will, which I prefer more than a constant 30% (which is when the fans registered without being able to control them).
Corsair ML120 Pro fans seem to work the best in the Aurora systems
I'm still on the fence about getting one. The PCI3 thing though, huh didn't know that. Choosing different lights for different games is a good touch though... didn't know that either. Great vid, earned a sub.
They updated the mobo to pci4 in jan 2021
My aurora R11 is turning off by its own and I’m so tired of watching videos and not found the solutions what could it be?
what does event viewer show? sounds like a power issue
my sons r11 is coming this week sometime!
top pick problematic Alienware overclock and command center reinstall . headache .
There was a recent update. The past few days, ACC has been acting up! Mine is freezing up
Ok, so how hard would it to change case? What if I got a bigger one? I was acutely thinking about doing that. My R11 should be here is couple weeks. Thanks for the review!!
Not hard at all, probably the best move. The case design is so flawed, you will see, the power supply is right in the middle of the rig, blocking natural airflow. Air flow should be from front to back with no obstruction or bends. The interior design is so stupid. I'm ditching it when I get it in also.
Huh ! Did you delete my comment???
No, if it was offensive or deemed spam youtube probably did . What did you say ?
@@GamerHeavenOfficial - nothing bad bro just my 5 thing I do to my R11 but I did say to shitcan that HD spinner or use it as an external drive with the right adapter. But I didn’t say anything I never do and I’ve been YouTubing when it first came to life
I made my Alienware mistake back in 2015.....binned it in 2016 and did what I should have done from the start...build my own. Glad I did as it's not that hard building your own.
LOL at not that hard building your own rig now.
@@SgtSlaughtah Ha ha...yeah getting parts lol
I was really looking forward to building my own...then I went looking for graphics cards
the ryzen edition r10 with the 5000 cpus are out now and has PCIe 4.0 as far as i know. Better mobo than the r11.
The R9-R12 have the same mobo to my knowledge.
@@GamerHeavenOfficial this is from dells website
Higher bandwidth: The Aurora Ryzen Edition is the first Alienware machine to feature PCI-Express 4.0 Technology, which doubles the bandwidth available to graphics cards for enhanced overall gaming performance. Additionally, any component on your PCI-Express bus is given more bandwidth so you can experience higher performance while creating, streaming or recording.
I have a r12 but it like being weird like when I turn it on sometimes the monitor doesn’t come on or the pc with freeze. Do you have anything that might help it?
make sure you dont have any overclocks enabled and see if you have the same issue. My R11 didn't like it's default overclock modes very much at all
Ok thanks!!
Yeah what I don’t like about is if I order the R12 right now I won’t get it until June 9. That’s more than 2 months. So I am exploring other things now. 2 months is crazy. The shit will be obsolete by the time it gets here (not really). Ha I just wanted to rant.
Yeah but it’s the only way to get an rtx 30 series card
I built my r10 and purchased it April 1st. It said it would arrive May 26. 2 days ago I got notified it started production and today I got notified its completed production shipped and arriving tomorrow April 8. So it took 7 days instead if 2 months like the website told me too
I walked into Micro Center and bought mine. Walked out with it that day.
Do all of these issues still exist in the R12?
Uh oh
Case swap would fix everything
I am going to make a video about this as you are the 3rd or 4th person to mention a case swap. It's nearly impossible, at least the mother board is staying in that case for sure.
@@GamerHeavenOfficial the only probs I see with case swap is length of PSU cables and dells proprietary cable plugs which you can buy adapters for or you could cut that whole front power button assembly off an somehow put it on whatever aftermarket case you get. Or it might all fit in sell xps case
Can you share a picture of the available connections of the PSU? Interested to know what additional devices I can connect. Thanks!
It's got extra GPU power headers for a second card and enough sata power coming out of it to connect 3 additional sata drives.
They should upgrade the motherboard it’s terrible I can’t even connect a Noctua fan
i have literally 4 noctua af12x25 in my r10
@@Laikon24 4? Where did you put them? Thx
@@Laikon24 f
@@terrellwright7565 took the 3.5inch hdd cage out on front and replaced it like in his video. Replaced the other front fan aswell. And on the liquid cooled CPU, i have the radiator in push/pull with 2 fans
@@Laikon24 That is another option. Thanks!!!! I am pretty happy w temps. I am just addicted to opening my R10 at this point!
The big problem is the GPU max length is 267 mm, there is no any 3080 card that fits in case you upgrade!!!!!! ;(
The big problem is the GPU max length is 267 mm, there is no any 3080 card that fits in case you upgrade!!!!!! ;(
The crappy keyboard and mouse that came with my R11. This is an expensive gaming machine....they should at least come with a decent keyboard and mouse. Alas, maybe I was expecting too much. Still love the R11 as I've been rocking in RD2 and MSFS. Thanks for the videos!
Yeah, I always remove the mouse + keyboard and get $10 removed from the price. No decent gaming combo costs $10 lol.
You need to just custom build your own pc my man. You are smart enough I believe in ya :)
Anyone on here get their R12 yet? I Ordered the day they came out. Mar. 18th I believe. Still says I should receive by the 15th this month.
I ordered mine on March 22nd. Still not in production.
@@hardrckr4983 Mine either.
@@hardrckr4983 Just got an email from Dell. My R12 was in Production and was supposed to arrive in a couple days. Now they just delayed it to June 15th! What’s the status of yours?
@@dishsoap1 mine skipped production entirely and straight to shipped but only the label is printed and am still waiting for shipper to pick it up..been since saturday
@@hardrckr4983 Did you order a 3080?
Can this pc run dayz can you make a vid of playing dayz on this pc please
yes. this pc can run your dated indie game as 'perfectly' as the game was designed.
hate how it’s basically a heater. I’ll be burning up when I play bigger titles. when I check to see if it’s over heating it’s only at 53 - 56. shits blowing that hot ass air all over the place even with liquid cooling and 2 fans installed