R9 seems to have better air flow in the case than R8, with new front intake panel desgin. 

I have also ordered one with same specs like yours, ordered on Nov 6, ETA is Nov 22. 

When did you place the order ?

Also ordered S2719DGF monitor and 64gb 2933 memory with it, don't see that that increases delivery so much but who knows?

I ordered 7th November

So that's a huge difference in delivery by one day. 

I’ve had my r9 for over a month now. The PSU fan bearing was defective out of the box. So Dell sent me a new one. 

Recently I’ve run into another issue with the PSU. It’s making a crackling noise when the fan turns on. I noticed it after prolonged gaming. Here’s a video. 

https://youtu.be/C-18pJzZTA0

Other than that the r9 has been great. Adding the extra front fan is indeed necessary to keep case temps down, along with GPU temps. The GPU temps do not exceed 81c. Compared to the r8, which would go up to 87c. 

Be careful when downloading new bios updates. Sometimes they will fail to download/ install. And you’ll need to verify they have been updated. 

I highly recommend the new mouse, and keyboard. They are very high quality. And make the previous generation look, and feel like a cheap waste of $. 

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@Bmwpower603 wrote:

the PSU. It’s making a crackling noise when the fan turns on. I noticed it after prolonged gaming. Here’s a video. 

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Sounds like a bad Power-Supply ... maybe a bad fan-bearing. 

If this is the 850w PS unit, I suggest you request that they send you a (new) Delta-made 850w modular PS this time.

They are sending me a new PSU. 

This time they are actually letting me install it myself. And they are sending it directly to me.. Since I told them last time the guy almost broke the case trying to open it! And didnt even know how to remove it... lol

I try asking them if they could send me the Delta Made  PSU. They said it will be whatever came with the PC

Thanks for the info

I have bought a G513 keyboard and G502 mouse so to save a few £ have opted to not have the mouse. Seems you cannot remove the keyboard from the order though

Will keep an eye out for any PSU issues

What fan did you order?  I know Alienware can be picky when it comes to compatibility.

So did you take out the mechanical drive?  Sry new to computers but I'm unhappy with airflow through the Aurora R7.

I took out the spinner from my R8.

My R9 arrived yesterday. Fitted my replacement M2 and ram. Not had much chance to take it on a real spin yet. Played world of Warcraft for a bit and achieving strong FPS on qhd monitor (160+)

Fan started up and was okay, not the jet engine people have reported so good so far but only been a couple of hours. Once fully installed will do a few runs on 3dmark and see if it remains at an acceptable volume

So, will see how it goes but Already better than my area 51m laptop

Liquid cooled CPU on OC1. RTX 2080 Ti

Mine is liquid cooledand defaulted to OC1 due to the system I bought and is okay. I have set it to running OC2 and balanced fan and isn't quiet, but isn't jet engine levels either. Performance mode or trying to exceed 5GHz does make the fan volume too loud

I am going to try disabling OC To see what difference there isbut pretty happy so far but I was used to a 17r4 laptop which is about same level of noise

Just ended up returning my Aurora R9. It was fan cooled and would sound like a jet was taking off when playing literally any game. Not sure how the liquid cooled versions compare but i would avoid any fan cooled R9 like the plague.  They keep saying that a BIOS update is coming to fix it, but still doesnt make sense why the fan ramps up so much. I think it has to do with the design of the PSU and how close it is to the CPU fan. 

I have the overclocked 19-9900k 4.7 coming with liquid cooled because it defaults to that with overclocking. 32GB ddr4 Fury 2933hz and 2 TB M.2 single drive as I will install another M.2 or 2.5 SSD.  I am hoping it comes with nothing in place where the normal HDD drive would usually sit so I can install another fan.  I might change out the default liquid cooling and move to a corsair dual exhaust.  I have been practicing on my R7 and it's working great.  Super quiet 

My review might seem a bit pedantic, as I don't know much about overclocking or hardcore computer language, but the machine is running, almost, silently... UNLESS...

I was running The Sims 3 and I guess it was drawing massive CPU power or something, but the machine got super noisy and all the fans kicked on; it was extremely loud.  Only when I was in certain screens, but it was massively distracting.  It hasn't happened since (running Fallout 4 on full graphics), so I imagine it was a CPU issue, as The Sims 3 is poorly optimized, from what I've heard.