Alienware x17 R2 - Performance tweaks?

[Tarvitz]

Hi all,

I have the below rig and been using it a while, seems to handle games nicely but i find that fan noise is pretty high, like annoyingly high. Even in quiet mode i end up sticking my headphones on and ignoring it, i track the CPU and GPU temps and they never seem to get over 70-80 so is it good for this to be pumping out this much noise/air all the time?

Does anyone use the same laptop, notice the same thing and if so what have you done about it please?

Alienware X17 R2
Processor 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-12900HK, 2500 Mhz, 14 Core(s), 20 Logical Processor(s)
Ram 32gb DDR5
GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU
SSD NVMe PC SN810 NVMe WDC 1024GB x 2

 

[Tetras]

The most obvious things I can think of to lower power usage is: 1. turn off (CPU) turbo mode in the BIOS and 2. use v-sync.

I don't know much about this particular laptop, but you have some high-end hardware there in a compact space, so I'm not surprised it runs hot and loud.

 

[jigger]

This level of hardware simply isn’t usable in a laptop without being hot, loud and having a terrible battery life.

I’ve got a Dell XPS with the i7 1165G7 and that chip is boarder line usable.

I’m sitting tight hope for AMD’s next round of APU’s. I think they could open the door for usable high performance laptops with graphics.

The only thing I can think of to help, would be some kind of laptop base with fans.