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Posted by simone pascucci
 - October 08, 2021, 20:30:08
I've been looking around, there's no x17 with the 3080 currently available, do you know why?
Posted by Arvin
 - September 28, 2021, 22:02:16
Was the ram (DDR4 XMP bei 3.466 MHz) ir16 or ir8 ?
There was some test that showed a significant difference between them
Ps. Ty for great review
Posted by Ricky D
 - September 28, 2021, 15:22:00
Hmm...I had the same model and had a different experience with some features.

The right sided main fan made a loud whistle all the time (other reviewers had this problem too), worse with higher fan activity. Very annoying.

The cherryMX keyboard sounded like a broken xylophone tapping on the heat pipes. That wasn't mentioned in the article.

It was also fairly unstable, causing game freezes on loading/quiting games (might be fixed with updates drivers and such).
Posted by Timothy Wilson
 - September 27, 2021, 22:12:46
I bought a Dell gaming laptop in Dec 2020. Died in July 2021...its September 2021? No refund yet and Dell support is a huge run around....Don't buy Dell! They don't care
Posted by Kuria
 - September 26, 2021, 15:49:27
It's interesting to see how inefficient the Tiger Lake design is. It takes 100W to beat zen 3 at 65W. Imagine an X17 with a zen 3 chip. It would be even cooler and quieter!
Posted by ZODD
 - September 26, 2021, 14:01:21
How does this score so high when competing laptops mostly outperform this AW at times by a pretty significant margin.
I don't get it and something is very fishy about the score like NBC is inflating the score for reasons only known to them.
Posted by PHVM
 - September 26, 2021, 02:07:11
Allen,
I have some doubts:
1- the tests were done with the dGPU mode selected in the BIOS?
2- the tests (CPU and GPU) were made with the fans at maximum?
3- The stress test screenshots show PL1 dropping down to 30W even during testing with The Witcher 3. This was a system bug that was fixed as of BIOS version 1.2.1. What BIOS version during testing?
Thanks for the great review!
Posted by Redaktion
 - September 25, 2021, 20:52:10
After only a year with the older Alienware m17 R2, R3, and R4 design, Dell is ready to hit the reset button with the Alienware x17 R1. Does the full-on makeover address all the issues we had with the previous general model?

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Alienware-x17-R1-RTX-3080-laptop-review-A-new-beginning.563108.0.html