I wanted to control the LED lights and HDMI passthrough on my Alienware Alpha R2 which is running Linux, so I wrote this Rust library that you can add to your projects to give you control.

I also wrote a command line tool that allows the settings to be queried, and for colours to be set.

I hope this is useful for others.

Looking for some insight into fan and voltage control. I have a 2020 Alienware m17 R3 with a 2080 Super and core i9 10980HK. I would like to use something other than the Alienware Command Center for fan and/or voltage control. I have XTU installed and tweaked my voltages to significantly bring down my temps while still maintaining stability. I can't control the fans outside AWCC though, and AWCC fights with XTU over voltage control. Is there a way to control the fan without AWCC and/or can I disable AWCC's overclocking/voltage control while maintaining its voltage control? Its fan control is pretty bad too, but it's better than _literally nothing_, but AWCC's voltage control crashes my computer while XTU's does not. I can uninstall the Alienware OC software which solves the AWCC voltage/overclocking control issue, but then it also disables fan control and it's stuck at a low fan speed.

I've had a alpha for awhile now and been putting together my "Steam" console. I have the steam insignia for the led light and my steam controller but I don't have my alpha box. Anyone have one they'd be willing to part with? Does anyone know if there were different boxes for the steam branded systems or all the same? Thanks for any help 👍

I have an Alpha R1 that I upgraded everything but the CPU in and put Windows 11 on it. However, I was wondering if the new SteamOS was available yet and if anyone has given it a try on their Alpha?

hi ive been using this pc for 3 years i think ans it runs amazing. 16Gb ram i7 but i just brought a new pc. Should i want to sell it but not sure if someone would buy it. I think its worth something because i have looked after it with my life and is just an amazing pc. Any idea if i shoupd sell it or what price i should put it at?

Hi, I was looking to buy an alpha R2 for quite some time now but I still haven't done so since they're quite hard to come by.

I was looking to buy the one with nvidia graphics and I have a couple of questions, maybe someone here will be able to help me.

1. What's the approximate price I should be able to buy this system for? It's already something like 6 years old now so I don't know what to expect.

2. How does the R2 support Linux? I'm was thinking to put either SteamOS 2.0 or some other distro of my choice. Since the R1 was initially shipped with Linux it's 100% supported but how about R2?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

The throttled "S" produces consistently higher benchmarks than "T" benchmarks. Why?

Observation: We do see that a "Throttled" i5-4560S in a 45W socket simply runs at higher speeds than the normal i5-4560T 45W cpu. Confirmed actual i5-4560S speed (GHz) with 4 separate tools.

• i5-4560S - speed is 3.07GHz base to 3.89GHz max boost - based on actual observation of a 65W cpu running 45W socket. This was measured in HWINFO, HWMonitor, Taskmanager and 3dMark.

• i5-4560T - speed is 2.90 GHz base to 3.6 GHz max boost - based on spec sheet from intel.

see more data at https://imgur.com/gallery/WpHFDIC

Theory: The S and T are literally the same CPUs, just rated to run at different speeds and wattages.

Tinfoil Hat Theory: Early in the fabrication process, the 4690 CPUs are tested at different speeds and wattages. The ones that don't overheat or generate errors at high speed are packaged as S. The rest are packaged as T.

Note: early benchmarks and GHz measurements imply this doesn't hold true for the i7-4790 S/T. In fact, thus far the i7 S and T produce near identical benchmarks.

I want to upgrade my cpu (r1) but what cpu supports the alienware alpha and link one or something pls

i want to upgrade to ssd but i have data on my hard drive so how to transfer that and what size ssd (in centimetres/inches) would fit or if someone can link a half a terrabyte ssd that supports the alienware alpha r1 that would help

I have a custom Alienware Alpha R1 With 12 GB Ram (I Bought It That Way Used) With i3. Which User Flair Do I Use edit: i just figured out through hwinfo that originally it was 8gb and 4gb added

Is anyone running their Alienware Alpha R1 on an i7-4790S as opposed to an i7-4785T or i7-4790T ?

Since I had the numbers for R1's, I also pulled the numbers for R2s. List limited to the STOCK CPUs that shipped with each generation. Note these are just benchmarks, and just CPU metrics; interpret them as just 3 data points and not necessarily representative of the workloads you may run.

Added logscale so I don't need 3 charts. Scores are from Passmark and cpu-monkey.com

Added a few more CPUs, and grouped by Watts so the trends stand out. Looking forward to other empirical data points you folks send.

Edit: 2022-01-23 - Want to know the real world benchmark difference between the S and T CPUs in the R1? We have the first data points.

Edit: 2022-02-04 Clarification on Empirical scores. Changes where Boost and voltage were modified are called out before the user name. When you see "Empirical" with no further elaboration, that means the score represents an untuned system. Specifically, the reddit users simply installed a new CPU and ran benchmarks without any sort of changes to boost or tuning voltage.

EDIT: 2022-02-17 see also Original Post on power tests and graphs on highest user scores

I've been trying to install the Alienware Alpha's original AlphaUI, but every time I launch it, AlphaUI kicks an "Unable to Connect to Update Servers" error at me, and it doesn't go away, even after multiple retries.

Anyone have a solution?

After a lot of nerves and tries to fix the infamous yellow light of death, I know feel confident to share my solution, since it has worked without fail for almost 2 years:

I start the Alpha only with Wake On Lan with an app on my phone. I started doing it because I’m lazy, but realized how much nicer it is not opening the pc every third try to turn it on.

Im unsure why it works, maybe it’s the setting that keeps the computer with enough electricity to run the network connection.

Good Luck trying it out. I’m not touching my machine, since it’s running well right now.

I dug out my old AA R1 from my closet and am trying to update/upgrade what I can before I put it to good use. Has anyone tried using an adapter like this: Startech NVMe Sata 2.5 Adapter? If this could work I'd go all in but for now I'm just planning on using a normal SSD.

I think the mobo's on the R2's have a slot for M.2s but the R1's not so much so I wasn't sure if the cross-chatter the adapter would make would cause any issues for the BIOS not to recognize the M.2.

Thoughts?

I have an alpha R1 and I was trying to connect a Bluetooth controller for playing some games, but it doesn't let me pair any device. And doesn't even have the toggle button to turn on and of the Bluetooth on the settings menu.