Alienware 18 R1 gpu options.

[nicholas1020]

Hello everyone it’s been a while since I’ve been on the forum I had unfortunately got tangled up in a string of unfortunate circumstances this year but it’s finally looking like this are starting to let up so last week I hit the eBay listings and found me another Alienware 18 for a pretty good deal on eBay and thought I’d try to install another gpu and rig up a heatsink for it if need be. I did a little bit of research and thought I’d install one of these 3 cards rtx 3080 mxm, rtx 4080 or lastly rtx 4090 all of them being from X-Vision. However before I make any buying decisions on any of these guys I wanted to get input from you guys and see what yall might recommend between the 3 or if you want to throw more suggestions at me I’m all open to new ideas. Lastly one problem I encounter during my rtx 5000 install that seemed to hinder performance greatly was the power fluctuations I’d experience. The power draw outputted didn’t  seem to hold any level of consistency but I was wondering if that could also be expected when installing any of these 3 gpus or if that is a issue isolated to that gpu alone or if the mxm slot in this model is unable to deliver enough power all together even with a shunt mod. I hear a lot of people saying they can pull around 200w off of an m18x r2 and am halfway trying to contemplate if getting another Alienware 18 r1 might be an oversight. If so I very well may try to find an m18x r2. Thank y’all for for taking the time to read this if you made it this far and I’m happy to be back on the forum with y’all pushing the boundaries on the performance we can get out of these majestic relics of the past, it is true what they say they rly don’t make things like they used to.(;

[zerokool]

2 hours ago, nicholas1020 said:

Hello everyone it’s been a while since I’ve been on the forum I had unfortunately got tangled up in a string of unfortunate circumstances this year but it’s finally looking like this are starting to let up so last week I hit the eBay listings and found me another Alienware 18 for a pretty good deal on eBay and thought I’d try to install another gpu and rig up a heatsink for it if need be. I did a little bit of research and thought I’d install one of these 3 cards rtx 3080 mxm, rtx 4080 or lastly rtx 4090 all of them being from X-Vision. However before I make any buying decisions on any of these guys I wanted to get input from you guys and see what yall might recommend between the 3 or if you want to throw more suggestions at me I’m all open to new ideas. Lastly one problem I encounter during my rtx 5000 install that seemed to hinder performance greatly was the power fluctuations I’d experience. The power draw outputted didn’t  seem to hold any level of consistency but I was wondering if that could also be expected when installing any of these 3 gpus or if that is a issue isolated to that gpu alone or if the mxm slot in this model is unable to deliver enough power all together even with a shunt mod. I hear a lot of people saying they can pull around 200w off of an m18x r2 and am halfway trying to contemplate if getting another Alienware 18 r1 might be an oversight. If so I very well may try to find an m18x r2. Thank y’all for for taking the time to read this if you made it this far and I’m happy to be back on the forum with y’all pushing the boundaries on the performance we can get out of these majestic relics of the past, it is true what they say they rly don’t make things like they used to.(;

https://notebooktalk.net/topic/2501-alienware-18-r1-rtx-a3000-12gb-mxm/page/5/#comment-60997 check this forum thread . We are discussing what seems to be a bug with the bios with new GPUs pulling over 90watt getting power throttled to 55 watt . My Alienware 18 shipped with two 970s in sli and never throttled . So I want to test a new rtx or even rx 6650xt card and see if there are any  throttling . At any rate the bug*seems* to have to do with the PCI Express power management which there is a setting you can change in bios with specific settings to bypass bug . Follow this thread and we might have answers ')