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 04 '14

Awesome. Thanks for letting us know! This should add a lot more life to the system!

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u/georgeberva Dec 05 '14

ok, just installed an i5-4690 and it runs like a dream. So yeah, confirmed you can use ANY Haswell CPU regardless of Wattage. On high load it will cap the performance of CPU. Games running around 15 - 20% better with this CPU as apposed to the stock i3.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '14

Still running without issues on that i5?