Alienware Area 51 Mod Project

[Dell Dude]

View attachment 248View attachment 249I'm upgrade to X79 chipset

- Here is my current system set up
X58 Chipset
Intel Core i7 970
12GB Patriot Viper Xtreme Pc3 1600 @ 2000Mhz
2 120GB Mushkin Callisto Deluxe in Raid 0
2 GTX 460
BDR Drive

- And New System Will be :
X79 Chipset
Intel Core i7 3930K
Corsair H100
Asus Sabertooth X79
16GB Patriot PC3 15000 @ 1866Mhz
2 120 GB Mushkin Chronos in Raid 0
2 GTX 460
BDR Drive

 

[Dell Dude]

- Here is the Corsair H100 Installed On Top
Perfectly Fit

I will update with more pics

 

[BlackJair]

Nice vent system... Nice everything xd

Are you that multitasking? I always ask for 4GB ram because i barely use it.

 

[Sir_Gawain]

Looks very nice, keep us posted with some more pics!

 

[Dell Dude]

- Yes i'm do alots of multitasking

 

[Dell Dude]

- Everything works just fine except the ACC, some times i got full control of it, some times not but keyboard and mouse led lights i can control at all time plus front case led light
- When i'm not in control two HDD fans and Case fans at full blast and both side and top led light is turn off
Did anyone know how to fix this problems? my ACC version 2.5.52.0 ( A08)

 

[Dantheman221]

Yes, I've heard of that issues with alienware's. I'm guessing its a mobo issue

But hey, thanks for doing this because I wanted to buy an Area-51 case and add a different mobo and gpu/cpu on it ^^ I like the h100 on that thing! ^^

 

[Dell Dude]

You're well come
Yes i do like H100 my idle temp around 39 C ( 0verclocked @ 3.9Ghz)
Unplug the GPU cage Fan or Plug it too mobo seem to be solved the problem ACC

 

[drmark]

So with the motherboard change you connected the lights daughterboard, and got the software working with no issue?

I have an older system with the same board, Looking to replace it with one with USB3 and SATA 3 drives. I have not seen anyone do this yet. So didnt know if the light kit worked.

 

[Dell Dude]

Yes i'm now trouble free with ACC, now i can take full control of ACC anytime and everytime , the lights actually connect to MIO board not on the mobo, just connect USB port on Mobo to MIA board

 

[Razec]

Hey I am new to the forums and I myself have an Alienware Area-51 x58. I've wanted to upgrade for a while now but have been very hesitant on behalf of losing ACC and mainly the lighting. I have already replaced a lot of the stock components that were in my system but want to know if a full upgrade is truly viable.

My question is do you have full control of the Alienware Command Center software. As can you control all the lighting and fans? I really want to know as I love this case and don't want to lose it.

Thanks for any reply you have. Also if you did get it to work can you get better information on how you got it to work.

From what I can tell all you did was unplug the PCI Fan from the MIO/Daughterboard to either the Motherboard or just leave it unplugged. Was this the only step in getting full functionality with the ACC software. Or where there any further steps.

Thanks for any information.

 

[MoDVelocity]

- Here is the Corsair H100 Installed On Top
Perfectly Fit

I will update with more pics

Nice mods. You have any benchmarks?

 

[juggernaut85164]

just beautiful!

 

[holeyguy66]

n/m i didnt notice i was on page 2 of this thread. nice setup man. i want one of these cases so bad it hurts

 

[LW_Black4]

Fabulous upgrade, and congrats on sorting out the AlienFX lighting - which I am still struggling with.

A big-ass 3rd Gen graphics card would totally Rock your system, mate.

 

[jayhernandez7]

Nice modding man! Always appreciate pictures! Good look!

 

[worminfested]

Looks great. I also would like a little more info on how you got the ACC to work.

 

[jayhernandez7]

ACC! Give us ACC info!