Hey there, I've got an Alienware 15 R3 which was a replacement of another (AW15 R3 unit that Dell exchanged due to thermal issues) that has been having a lot of problems since I updated the BIOS.

The biggest problem is that my temperatures after the BIOS update are WAY higher than the use to be. I hardly use to go past 85 Degrees but now I'm lucky if I can stay below 90. This has been resulting in thermal throttling obviously but I'm more concerned about the health of the machine in the long run. I'll list some screenshots of my thermals that I had taken the other day. However this morning I was idling in the Overwatch Menu (The title screen) And my CPU began to heat up to about 96-97.

The second problem I've run into after the BIOS update has installed has been relating to the GPU in the system, a GTX 1070. It started when I noticed that my FPS was basically capped at 40 and bouncing between 25 and 40FPS. I thought this was strange so I looked around my computer.. Power settings were fine and nothing was out of the ordinary. This gets a lot stranger when I unplugged my laptop and tested it out on battery. Instantly my thermals dropped to what they use to be and performance improved! So I began to look at the power settings, nothing has changed everything is normal. I don't know what has caused this but I've been able to circumvent it slightly by toggling the switch between the Intel HD Graphics and the Nvida card and restarting my computer (This enables the GTX 1070 to be running at all times) HOWEVER. It eventually starts up again and I have to toggle and reboot once more.

The third problem I've noticed is that my Wifi seems to drop constantly, there really isn't much to say about that but the fourth problem is rather frustrating... The Intel HD Graphics causes my computer to stutter on basically everything, it's repeatable at all times by right clicking on my desktop. This does not happen when it is just the Nvida GTX 1070 handling graphics.

Is anyone else having the same issues? If so is there a fix planned?