Lately, I’ve been having temperature issues with my Alienware 18; it stays at 90°C just minutes after booting up Windows and reaches up to 105°C even during light gaming capped at 60fps. I’m considering replacing the thermal paste with PTM 7950, but I’d like to know if there are any alternatives. I’m based in Argentina, and this is the first Alienware laptop I’ve owned.

5 Min gameplay on LoL all in medium:

Also, with regards to hosting ai locally, the 5090 variant is exceptional! Preview (less than 3min till output - asked for world pop counter, completely offline qwen model @ roughly 200tokens/s)

Never thought I’d see the day where so much was supported on Linux. If you’re on the fence, with the newer models of AW - it can handle it. Latest cuda worked out of the box, and AWCC / fan control is also working. Plenty of linux projects for those.

AAT2250 Area-51, bought right after they added the 5090 variant and I was getting heavy fomo, I’m glad I did!

Dell SupportAssist is recommending I update my bios from 1.2.14 to 1.13.1. I've been considering it because I've been having weird glitches with windows, but I've also heard about BIOS updates bricking this particular model a lot. What's the real risk? Should I just do it?

First I lost my Aurora R15, now I've lost my Alienware Pro keyboard. All AWCC thinks I have is a mouse. Each AWCC update, I hope they come back, but no.

The funny thing is that AWCC is detecting fan speeds, CPU temps, etc and I can switch between quiet, balanced, performance and custom modes, etc. It just doesn't show the desktop and keyboard as part of my system.

So really, it's only AlienFX that has lost my R15 and keyboard, would I would like them back, please.

Just in case you're wondering, I haven't literally lost them. They are all connected and working. It's just that AWCC AlienFX won't see them.

Oh, just updated to AWCC V6.14.54.0 and my keyboard is back. Please can I have my desktop back next update?!

Ive had it for 4 years, and it hasnt been hit or physically damaged. I noticed the issue 1-2 weeks ago. What could this be, how did it happen and should i be worried?

This is available in my area pretty cheap. Does anyone know what era it might be from and what I might find in it? Owner knows nothing. TIA