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I recently bought the Alienware 17 R1 machine with the oven-like GPU GTX 880. As many of the current owners of this configuration the GPU heated up like crazy up to low 90s C. What I noticed is that it heated up the adjacent 1TB HDD up to high 50s C which I am absolutely not fine with. Then I thought why not transfer the HDD to the extra free caddy (The one in the corner below the GPU fan assembly) and voila the HDD temp. hovered in high 30s - low 40s C just how I like it. Also,...
An advice to Alienware 17 R1 owners
I recently bought the Alienware 17 R1 machine with the oven-like GPU GTX 880. As many of the current owners of this configuration the GPU heated up like crazy up to low 90s C. What I noticed is that it heated up the adjacent 1TB HDD up to high 50s C which I am absolutely not fine with. Then I thought why not transfer the HDD to the extra free caddy (The one in the corner below the GPU fan assembly) and voila the HDD temp. hovered in high 30s - low 40s C just how I like it. Also,...
An advice to Alienware 17 R1 owners