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Alienware x51 R2 Power issues, Performance issues, overall lots and lots of issues
I just very recently received my Alienware x51 and I am so far very unimpressed and upset over what I have received. My specs are:
- Motherboard - Alienware 0PGRP5 A02
- CPU -4th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-4790K Processor (Quad Core, 8MB Cache, up to 4.4GHz w/ Turbo Boost)
- GPU - NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 960 with 2GB GDDR5
- Memory RAM - 16GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 1600Mhz
- Im running Windows 8.1 64bit
- Hard Drive - 2TB SATA 6Gb/s (7,200RPM) 64MB Cache
Those are my specs and for almost 2k i should be assured proper performance, however that is not the case.
Problems:
- Randomly shuts down in the middle of any games, videos, at really any moment. However its not an ordinary shut down as the systems lights and everything stays on and i cant restart it or anything and must resort to unplugging the entire system
- If i do want to restart it or shut it down, sometimes pressing the power button doesnt do anything and i must also resort to unplugging the entire system
- Very massive performance issues, my system should be able to run easy games such as Counter Strike: Global Offensive at Max settings, yet it struggles to get atleast 45 fps on the lowest possible settings.
- That being said, sometimes I can run CSGO at its low settings and receive good frames, but over about the span of 4 minutes it gradually declines down to sometimes as low as 20
- Pretty sure my DisplayPort port is broken.
- Somtimes upon booting my PC I can play CSGO at good frames... kind of, my frames fluctuate from upwards of 150 down to below 20 roughly 20 times per seconds, which feels terrible.
- Also sometimes my computer makes ungodly sounds that brings me to believe that there may be a fan stuck inside my PC.
Now that is just a list of problems that i know of off the top of my head.
To put this in perspective for you, my friend has a 2012 dell laptop that at the time was only 600 dollars (I am unsure of the exact specs but I know for a fact that those are correct) is able to run CSGO at max settings and receive upwards of 120+ frames, also able to run The Forest (Which is a game i honestly get less than 10 frames on at lowest settings) at medium settings and get good FPS (Not sure how much but definitely 60+).
I am supposed to have a better PC than most of my friends yet it seems as if I have the worst PC.
Keep in mind, this PC was just purchased within this month. and delivered about a week ago.
Ive tried almost everything I can think of.
So overall this PC was a big disappointment and there must be something seriously faulty because I know that the hardware is there and able to work properly yet it is struggling at even the easiest things.
Jonas200
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August 16th, 2015 05:00
it sounds like something is really really wrong with your system, I would definitely give Dell a call and get it looked at.
but yeah i'm a bit concerned with the CPU i7-4790K it isn't really something that is suitable for this system because the CPU already gets hot enough running at standard speeds (it reaches the thermal limit).
I wonder if you put a cap on the maximum CPU speed in power management settings to 90%, maybe that will help with stability/power related issue.