I bought one on Amazon from Deals4GO for $21.50 USD after tax shipped free by Amazon. Also comes with a thermal pad which seems a little iffy to me quality-wise. Have it installed with a 500Gb WD Black SN750 NVMe SSD. Max temp i've seen is 50 degrees C; will continue to monitor for reliability. Noticed HWMonitor does not log the temps for the M.2 drives though only the 2.5" HDD i have installed.
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Post an AIDA64 screenshot of your motherboard to compare with mine.
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Is it not the case like on the Area 51m (og version) where would would have to flash the sticks to look like the dell ones?
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I'm a new area 51m owner and bought it with 16gb of ram, I guess I was lucky because it has Samsung 3200 in it. Does that mean I should be able to run any 3200 ram as long as I don't go above 32gb ?
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Finally some good luck with my R2!
Ordered in late August through HID, and they finally got a batch without dead pixels seemingly a few days back; I got notification that production has begun with my requested customizations.
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Not a first time the advertising got on a bit of a looser side. It used to be "the world's most upgradable laptop". Sad.
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I doubt that Dell will go into the rabbit hole having two differen't SKUs. + it will cost them more than have same MB for all setups.
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I was looking in the bios and for some reason they set it to raid even thought I only have one drive, I don't think this is correct but can't change it now without reloading everything, is it ok to leave it that way?
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How to switch from RAID to AHCI without formatting:
1. Run MSCONFIG
2. Enable Safe Boot (minimal)
3. Reboot into UEFI/BIOS and change to AHCI
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It used to be stated on their website. I believe their dropped the particular bit of false advertising in the R2, could be wrong though
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Most powerful though? Not really if you need 128GB of RAM. Also the value RAM means the laptop runs 5-10% slower than it could in some cases (nm the - 20% hit in memory benchmarks).
Clevo X170 has the same specs + 128GB support (although to be fair, not sure if cooling is on par)
Most overclockable? I guess they are touting OC support in AWCC which nobody uses.
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Hello, I've just ordered my Area-51M who should arrive on 12-21 October.
Here my config:
i7 10700k, 32Gb ddr4 2933, RTX 2070 super, 144Hz Full HD display and standard 256Gb Nvme ssd (I'll install my Corsair 960Gb Nvme drive from previous pc).
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It certainly won't matter with Dell's RAM, and the fastest RAM that's confirmed as compatible, HyperX Impact - should you wish to upgrade, won't be much faster, if at all, at 3200 vs HyperX at 2933 (of course, either is about max 20% faster than Dell RAM at either speed).Satanello likes this. -
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So what I gather is the popular concensus is buy 32gb 3200 hyperx and at best it runs at full speed at worst it defaults to 2933, or should I buy 64gb 2933 hyperx which will still be faster than dell ram?
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Thank you all. I'm not a pro gamer so 32GB 2933 are ok.
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Does anyone have install image, for some reason the one spartan put up will not download for me.
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Does someone knows the size of the thermal pads around the CPU and GPU?
I would like to change it with Thermal Grizzly Minus Pad 8, but I do not know what size to buy.
Also what software to use to overclock my RAM - HyperX 2933. I successfully overclocked it using XTU, but after the first or second reboot the timings are reset again. I would like to overclock it permanently.
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Alienware Area-51m R2 Latest Drivers 01-Oct-2020
Make sure to right click on the file(s) you just downloaded, go to Properties, then hit Unblock from the bottom right as it may be blocked since it was downloaded from the internet, if you don't do this before you run the file or extract it, then it may not install correctly.
To prevent this automatic blocking of files in the future so you don't have to go unblocking every file you download to ensure it runs properly, follow the guide in this thread:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/are-you-sure-you-want-to-run-this-file-yes-or-no.825668/
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Is it safe to enable XMP Profile 2 from BIOS?
Got my HyperX running at 17-19-19-39 @ 2933MHz
Previously it was at 19-22-22-39.
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Do you remember what the timings were before the AWCC installation?
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