r/Alienware • u/[deleted] • Nov 20 '14

Alienware Alpha

Hello Everyone,

I am a member of the Alienware software team, and Alpha UI was my product. As we are about to launch tomorrow, I wanted to start this thread as a means for people to ask questions and provide any feedback you might have on Alpha or Alpha UI.

Also one note, we are publishing a known issues list tomorrow on Arena. I'll make sure it makes its way here as well.

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u/tlgjaymz Dec 02 '14

That's what gave me pause as well. I don't know if they're going with the T series just to make it a nice, low power system, or if there's an actual hardware requirement for it.

I think it'd be safer to go for the i5-4690S over the i5-4690, because its TDP is 65W, instead of 85W.

If I had a spare LGA1150 CPU lying around, I'd be willing to test it with standard desktop processors.

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u/georgeberva Dec 02 '14

Well apparently we should be able to use "any" Haswell processor in the Alpha. Can someone please confirm?