Review: Alienware x17 R2

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Temperature and Consumption

Temperature and power consumption

Temperatures measured during the gaming sessions were very good for a laptop, with a rise to over 75° on the CPU and 74° (72° on the hotspot) GPU internally.

Externally, the chassis was lukewarm with peaks on the keyboard at over 35-40° after a long session of Borderlands 3, this does not make the computer any less unpleasant when gaming.

For the power consumption in games (Borderlands 3) we find a processor reaching 115W and the GPU 165W on average. In stress test under AIDA64, we are at 115W for the CPU and 160W for the GPU measured in software of about 290W measured at the socket.

The 330W charger is clearly enough to support the laptop at its maximum load without running out of power.