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I just received my Alienware Aurora R13 yesterday and on turn on it has a very loud fan clicking noise. Is this normal? It will subside after a few minutes but start clicking again when running powerful programs.

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Aurora R5, recent fan noise

My Aurora R5 is about 5 years old and in just the last few days I have noticed the fans are very noisy. I have looked at the Thermal Controls and they are set to auto, when fans noisy the CPU sensor temperature is around 72 degrees. It does make more noise

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Intermittent rattling / whining noise on Aurora R3

I received my Aurora R3 about a month ago and generally it has performed very well. However I've noticed an intermittent but annoying rattling noise that comes and goes and seems to be coming from the area of the cooling pump fan. I've uploaded a video of

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Aurora R6, making buzzing fan noise

Hi there, I've had my Aurora R6 since 2018. I haven't used it particularly hard or moved it much. A few months ago it started occasionally making a loud fan noise but it would usually go away. Suddenly, this week, it's making a loud buzzing noise that sounds like it might

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Aurora R13, odd whirring/whining noise

R13 last month, and straight away noticed as soon as I started it that there was an odd repetitive whirring/whining noise (exactly like this one posted on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Alienware/comments/rclh38/strange_noise_in_aurora_r13/

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Alienware Aurora R6 clicking noise From PSU

So I have had my Aurora for about a week. Today i finally had a chance to fire it up and play some games. However when I launch games a whining/clicking noise is coming from PSU. I saw several other people were having the same issue and were able to get the PSU replace.

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Looking at New Aurora - Need to know about noise level.

Hey All - I am looking at getting a new Alienware Aurora (the regular one, not the ALX). I like the form factor of the system, and it frankly seems like a pretty good buy, especially with the EPP discount. I am planning to get the base i7-920 model (no overclock), with 6GB RAM and a single GTX260 (I

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Aurora R11, makes annoying noise when no game is played

Hi guys, I got Alienware Aurora R11 a month ago. Everything went fine with the box until a few days ago when it started to make electricity noise. It doesn't sound like a fan noise. It is similar to the sound I hear from electrical

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Aurora R7, i7-8700K with cooling, loud noise

R7 with the specification of : Proc : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7K 8700K (6-Core/12-Thread, 12MB Cache, up to4.7GHz with Intel(R) Turbo Boost Technology) GPU : GTX-1070 PSU : 850W EPA Bronze PSU Liquid Cooled Chassis Issue :

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Aurora R4: Increasing fan noise

fan that is slightly higher pitched than the norm. This noise gradually increases in intensity to the point where in certain games (more specifically Crysis 2 and NecroVisioN) it is deaqfening when compared to the normal noise. This doesn't seem to affect performance in any

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Alienware Aurora R5 liquid cooling unit making slight humming noise

Just received my Alienware Aurora R5 desktop. The system works great. However, I can hear some humming noise (like a mechanical HDD busy working) from the liquid cooling unit. It's not really loud, but I can hear it while sitting a few feet away. Cooling system works well. Prime95 stress

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Soft humming noise from hard drive - Aurora

Hi, Another question from me ! I hve just received an Alienware Aurora and have a 1 TB (non RAID) hard drive. I noticed that when the hard drive is reading and writing, as evidenced by the light on the front of the chassis flashing, there is a

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regarding PSU noise in Aurora R3

Hi guys. I bought an Aurora R3 back in November 2011. Since then, I have been through 5 different problems that required a piece swap. Now I am worried about the PSU. My PSU started making a quite significantly high static noise that you could even hear when

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Aurora A6 Horrific Clicking Noises

https://www.dell.com/community/Alienware-General-Read-Only/Alienware-Aurora-R6-clicking-noise/td-p/5519394 Aurora-R6-clicking-noise/td-p/5519394>

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Aurora R6 PSU Fan clicking noise help

my aurora r6 psu fan started making clicking noise. need help resolving this trhanks

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Aurora R11, i9-10900, 3080, CPU overheat and fan noise issue

Hello, I just received my new Aurora R11 yesterday and I'm having serious CPU overheat and fan noise issue, is this normal? The idle temperature for CPU is around 60°C and it jumps to over 90°C, occasionally hitting 100°C while gaming, and the fan noise can

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Aurora R15, making weird noises

HI, I have my Alienware Aurora r15 for almost a year and about a week ago it started to make weird noises when it was on, I thought it was because I needed to get rid of dust that may be in there, but after dusting the noise was still there, I was wondering if anyone would know what it is that is ma

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Aurora R11, RTX 3080, noise levels?

I'm curious as to if anyone that has an Aurora R11 with the OEM Nvidia/MSI RTX 3080 can comment on noise levels for it, since it seems to be a special for Dell/Alienware card with a non standard cooling setup. I ordered one last

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Aurora R7, fan noise

Hi, I recently (Aug 2018) bought Alienware Aurora R7 with liquid cooling and 850W PSU and GPU GTX 1080. I have noticed that when I wake the PC, there is a noise (sounds like some fan which is not too loud but distracting) which starts 2/3 minutes after I have woken it up

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Loud Fan Noise (Alienware R5 Aurora Desktop)

Hi I have recently purchased an Alienware Aurora R5 Desktop for gaming. It has 1070 GTX graphics, 32 GB RAM and i7 CPU. The PC itself is great and if I play movies/music or do internet surfing it is very quiet. But if I try to do any games

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