New Alienware 2015 R2 VS R1 - SATA 6Gb/s VS PCIe SSD (Boot)

I shall summarize the difference between AW 15 R1 and R2: (mainly as in, is it worth the update from R1 to R2)

- the dynamic cpu overclocking is not a smart thing imho. It won't be benefited much of it, since it clock dynamicity depends on the temperature of the CPU, and since the cpu still has the same 47watt TDP there will be not much room left for overclocking your cpu. That small temperature room could be more efficiently used on the GPU. (of course i'm talking about game performance here. it is still more beneficial in terms of cpu intensive tasks when not using the GPU)

- The pci SSD will not make a much difference compared to the M.2 ssd, perhaps only in a few specific scenarios. But definitely nothing groundbraking, UNLESS a much powerful ssd is used. An example is intel it's new pci SSD. That ssd performs typically better than a normal sata ssd. which will definitely benefit from the pci lane. And I don't think dell will use an ssd of that class in a laptop, don't think it even exists for laptops yet.

- USB type C is definitely a nice addition. I can totally see this type taking over over years. due to it's capabilities. But for now the question remains still (at least for me), will I be using it. Not anytime soon, and it's means one less usb 3.0 port for me. so perhaps a good thing to have on my next laptop.

- DDR4 ram. Definitely a nice addition. Games will not benifit too much of it. But still, technology evolves, and it is natural that you want every component to be of recent technology. Amazing to see it implemented on laptops already. Kudos to alienware for this.

And that wraps it up.

Definitely some nice features in there. but not worth to leave R1 in order to get the R2.

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New Alienware 2015 R2 VS R1 - SATA 6Gb/s VS PCIe SSD (Boot)