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Reason to choose this machine over m15 r5 Ryzen edition
FP deal:
- Dell fixed mux switch and cuda cores on 3070, TGP boosted to 130w with BIOS update.
- RTX 3070 is better to use with QHD screen, G-sync and Advanced Optimus gives you more battery life on the go w/o switch Mux switch to reboot.
- QHD screen come w/ IR camera support windows hello, it have variety of usage not only for login authentication. Such as admin permission and 1Password, Dropbox.
- 1TB ssd and 16G DDR both are swappable, x15 or m15 r4 before can't swap memory.
- Intel 11 gen have better performance in than Ryzen 5800H, Alienware have more tweak optimization on fan profile and thermal than m15 r5.
- It has Thunderbolt 4 port with Power Deliver output
- Per Dell support page. r6 support [dell.com] XMP memory while r5 couldn't [dell.com]
https://www.dell.com/en-us/member...igurations
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10870H is about 10-20% slower than 11800H both in multithreaded and single thread application.
R6 can swap DDR4 memory and it's 3200, you can upgrade to 32G or 64G. R5 came with soldered 16G memory and it's 2933.
R6 also support PCIE 4.0, the SSD should be substantially faster on specs.
R6 have QHD screen support windows hello, R4 is 1080p 300hz
R6 have Advanced Optimus and Mux switch, R4's always on dGPU thus battery will be a lot less when used in light workload.
1. bios update to add Mux switch
2. bios update to add extra power to 130w 3070 TGP instead of 115w
It's Dell's loss to send a premature and inferior unit for him to review. With adequate updates and a better screen like this one, I'd say there is no shortcoming on performance and rich in non gaming features. Alienware m15 never the top performer on market, it's m17 and x17's job.
And for R6 I listed those pros like XMP memory support, TB4 ports and 11800H performance boost are not addressed in that review too.
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according to this, the R5 has a mux switch after bios update. can anyone confirm?
Pretty ideal, but no QHD option for the 17. Which is weird because my R4 from a few years ago has QHD at 120Hz.
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I bought the r4 with 10th Gen i7 and same rtx 3070. I'm pulling 45MH/s rates mining ethereum
That's a horrible rate (out of the box). My G15 with 3060 pulls more than that. Have you tried optimizing? Depending on the vram you should be able to get 58-65.
There are a few guides on Reddit. Save yourself some power, run cooler and pull a better rate.
Oh my god I want to do this so bad but I have literally zero experience with tearing down electronics lol Any tips for someone who's interested in doing stuff like this?
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Just remember: disconnect battery first.
My other post about the result after repaste:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLa...ng_l
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