Alienware 17 windows 10 (Solved) and first impressions

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I've just finished installing windows 10 pro on a AW17 and though I'd share my experience and issues encountered. Laptop Specs are: AW17 3D 120Hz Panel I7 4910 (Stock - No OC) 8GB GTX 880M (Stock - No OC) 32GB 1600Mhz Samsung Memory 512GB Samsung Evo 840 mSATA (Boot Drive) 2 x 1TB Samsung Evo 840 SSD's Killer 1202 WiFi I only installed the GTX880 2 days before I upgraded to windows 10, I thought I was either going to have to replace both the thermal paste and pads or perhaps the entire GPU as it was reaching skyhigh temps - 89 degree celsius  during 3DMark Vantage (Score 19831) and 93 degrees celsius after playing COD advanced warfare for only 30 minutes. I'll come back to temps shortly.... The upgrade process was virtually painless, I decided to select the option of not keeping anything, hoping windows would do a clean install by selecting this. I was right and windows wiped everything, only creating 3 partitions on my boot drive (previous upgrades like 7 to 8 have created many more than this) The upgrade process roughly took 15 minutes from hitting start upgrade now to booting to desktop. And Windows 10 loads fast, windows 8 used to boot to desktop on this laptop in around 8 seconds, Windows 10 takes about 5-6 seconds. The Windows 10 automatic driver tool seems to work a lot better than previous, within 5 minutes of connecting to the net Windows 10 had found all driver but two, after 10 minutes it had found all drivers but one (Alienware OSD) I checked 'installed Programs' but only found synaptics touchpad and realtek sound drivers installed, but only one 'Unidentified Device' in device manager (Alienware OSD) I decided to try installing all the windows 8 drivers for the AW17, most of them work fine, here is a list of the drivers that either would not install or presented error messages after installation. RealTek RTS5209 PCIE Card Reader Driver. ST Microelectronics Freefall Sensor. Qualcomm Killer WLAN E2201 - This will install correctly, but it presents errors during installation. Alienware 17 Air Plane Mode Switch - Not sure if this is even needed in Win 10. Every other AW17 Win 8 driver installs without issues - Including the win 7/8 version of Command Center v3.0.29.0 (which needs DotNet Framework 3.5 before installation)   Now to the good part - Windows 10 has dropped both my CPU and GPU temps by over 10% The GTX880 now max's out at 79 degrees Celsius and scores 21978 in 3DMark Vantage. Idle is in high 40's, Looks like Microsoft may have FINALLY got it right and released something nice

AndrewSi · Answer

I wish we were able to edit posts here - I've made a mistake on the 3DMark Vantage scores

They should have said:

89 degree celsius during 3DMark Vantage (Score 29831)

The GTX880 now max's out at 79 degrees Celsius and scores 31978 in 3DMark Vantage.

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