I would try the back-one anyway. It should be running directly off the motherboard.

If either was "full featured" seems like it would be the back-one.

The rear one works without any issues both gaming and charging at the same time. The front one is the problem one - gaming no issues. Charging - nine. The interesting point is that in the headset on both ports I see the thunderbolt ie charging. But seems the front doesn’t have enough power to charge

The "front one" is different. I would expect it to run from the front-panel circuit-board (likely via some usb-hub arrangement of some kind). 

Unless you see in the Aurora-R11 specs that it Charges, I would not expect it to.

Finally, pretty sure those are just USB-C ports (not true-Thunderbolt ports).

That would make sense. Although the specs says that the front charges and the rear doesn’t.

https://dl.dell.com/topicspdf/alienware-aurora-r11-desktop_users-guide_en-us.pdf

Check that powershare is enabled in the BIOS for the front ports. I know my R10 has front port powershare and it can be enabled or disabled in BIOS. Worth a check to see if the R11 has the same options

Had mine disabled… turned it on and will see what’s going on

Agree and that’s the problem. In my case the front doesn’t charge and the rear does charge… go figure…

The manual says the front has PowerShare and the rear doesn’t.

I need to check mine as well, I usually charge my phone or ipad through my monitor/aw3420DW ... this has me curious now.

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@mako64 wrote:

I usually charge my phone or ipad through my monitor/aw3420DW .

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I wouldn't. Over-amped ports like to blow-up eventually (maybe years later).

These work nice. Will also charge something big like an iPad faster.