Aurora R4 overheating problem SOLVED!!!

Hello Essay,

Welcome to the club of Alienware Failing Cooling system owners [li]

Well, to respond to your question, the best system that fits is the 80i from Corsair. The thermal paste is already applied on the radiator, so you won't have to purchase any other stuff. Follow the documentation provided with the cooling system and you'll be done quickly. The only issue i had was with the bios that warned me at every boot that the cpu fan failed. It's only because h80i system is not plugged to the r4 cpu fan plug anymore. I've found the option in the bios at last to prevent the system to halt at every boot ! here it is !

Cheers !

Don't forget when the time to change your computer will come, never again an Alienware ! [:@]

Thank you, KEAPS!!!

Hey guys,

First i want to say thanks for you comments ! When i made this post i never thought there was so many people with this problem

So... i was the first to open and clean the pump and it look like the problem is back again.

Same story almost 1 year later ...

But this time i completely washed the pump and made my own coolant fluid

There was alot of "jelly" inside the pump too

Step 1-  Wash the inside pump with listerine to clean and kill bacteria

2- Rince with de-ionized water

3- Add the coolant liquid :

50% de-ionized water  ( less conductive than distilled water)

50% Super coolant 

And few ml of listerine as biocide

I added around 80 ml of the mix to full it

Information for the water coolant mix http://www.overclockers.com/pc-water-coolant-chemistry-part-ii/

Im running this since 3 days and its working very well. My core temperatue was  75-80 C after i cleaned the pump last summer and im now at 60-65 C and the fan is so quiet 

So again i hope it will help you guys. This is another solution for less than 20$ !

Goldfire

hey, i am just wondering how can u replace the original alienware liquid cooling system with the corsair h80i? i hv tried to replace with a corsair h60 but it  didnt work the screw for stablizating the cpu wont  work. could u please tell me how to change the liquid cooling system?

thx

I was going to ask a Sales Rep this question...but will I still need to consider an after-market cooler, if buying a new R4 configured with the ALX chassis which comes with the optional "premium CPU liquid cooling solution"?

The Features and Design section on the R4 webpage seems to suggest that if u buy a new system with the standard R4 chassis, it will come with a lower quality CPU cooling solution, that will require buying an after-market cooler like the H80i.

I have read about the so called "premium"  cooling solution for the R4, but haven't seen who makes it and what the premium means. I have the standard chassis  R4 that is 19 months old and have not seen the problems many people have had at 12 to 14 months. Just waiting for it to happen though. A friend of mine bought a R4 two months after I did and had to change the liquid cooling out already. He uses his system pretty much the same as I do mine. We still can't figure that one out. He bought the H80i as the replacement.

If I were paying more for something called premium and it was made by Astek, I would be checking it out very closely.

Hi, I am also planning to replace with a h80i but how did u plug in ur power pum cable? I know the alienware one is a special one like 6 pin . How can u plug the corsair pump power cable is my major  concern.

Great job Essay! And kudos for posting those pics where all the connections go. I'm sure a few gamers out there will see that there R4s can swap out their stock pump for a better, cooler pump and could save a few R4s from overheating.  Aside from the increased fan noise, the H80i pump has been working perfectly and has decreased my temps on average 10 C over the stock pump.

Chris.  I replaced my CPU cooling unit with the corsair h55, which fixed the overheating and powering off problem, but now my smaller system fans run at their max speeds all the time, and my control center doesn't seem to status things correctly.  I'm not sure why these other fans and tempeture setting changed since I did not make any changes to them replacing the liquid cpu assembly, but is there something I can do?

Chris.  I replaced my CPU cooling unit with the corsair h55, which fixed the overheating and powering off problem, but now my smaller system fans run at their max speeds all the time, and my control center doesn't seem to status things correctly.  I'm not sure why these other fans and tempeture setting changed since I did not make any changes to them replacing the liquid cpu assembly, but is there something I can do?

Well, first of all ... if you install an after-market Asetek clone (instead of Dell-OEM part) I would not be surprised is MIO-Board/Command Center don't work quite-right any more.

That is what this project is all about:

http://en.community.dell.com/owners-club/alienware/f/3746/t/19585441.aspx

Second, I'm pretty sure the original white 4-pin (PWM fan) connector from the MIO-Board to the Motherboard has to stay attached for the MIO-Board to work properly. There are ports on the "top lighting board strip" to connect your radiator fan (like in the original setup).

We started our project due to the defective cooling system.  My son wanted to change it out himself and needless to say, he damaged the mobo.  I decided that we weren't going to use anymore *** dell parts so we ended up ordering a sweet deal from Newegg.  Asus Maximus VI Hero mobo, processor, and ram.  I am not experienced in building a PC and learned that the original case will only house the original mobo. Next we bought a fantastic Fractal Design Arc XL case.  This case has tons of room, fans and versatile.  I stripped out the aurora 4 parts that were still useful and built an amazing PC using the Corsair h80 cooling unit.  The machine is so quiet, you don't know its running.  A happy and expensive ending to a horrible dell experience.  I will forever build my own equipment from here on.  Great project and check out Neweggs instructional videos as they are a big help.   

Asus Maximus VI Hero mobo, processor, and ram.   ... and learned that the original case will only house the original mobo.

Yeah, dude needed the micro-Asus µATX / mATX / uATX like Sir_Gawain & others like him:

• http://en.community.dell.com/owners-club/alienware/f/3746/t/19439601.aspx
• Aurora w/Asus Z97 - Broadwell ready - can be a reality here shortly in fact; no reason to abandon the chassis nor throw the baby out w/the bath water

desktop sits beautifully on its perch, & a 1250w OCZ psu inside it in "case" there were any doubts ...