The Alienware 13 is the world’s first 13-inch gaming notebook with VR-Ready certification. It’s quite impressive because this laptop packs a standard voltage processor in a 13-inch body, along with a powerful NVIDIA GTX 1060 graphics card. So we were also very curious.
In our case, the laptop is equipped with a GTX 1060, i7-7700HQ processor, 512GB PCIe SSD, 13-inch 2,560×1,440 OLED touchscreen, 8GB DDR4 SDRAM 2400MHz, and runs on Windows 10 Home.
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Loosen seven screws that secure the back cover with a screwdriver.
To remove the trim strip, pry it with a crowbar. Push the trim strip to keep him away from the notebook.
With the trim strip removed, you can access the video cable, LOGO LED cable, and another cable.
Under the back cover, you can remove and replace RAM, SSD, and wireless card.
Before touching the internal hardware, we need to disconnect the battery cable.
Remove one screw and take the SSD out of its slot.
The Alienware 13 R3 has a Toshiba 512GB NVMe PCIe SSD, Dell P/N: 07VPP2.
Here are the touchpad cable, keyboard backlit cable, and keyboard cable.
Remove all screws securing the metal roll cage. Release all snaps that secure the roll cage to the laptop body.
After all the snaps are released, you can remove the metal roll cage.
You can access the battery, CMOS battery, speaker modules, heatsink/cooling fan module, and motherboard under the metal roll cage.
The Killer 1535 wireless card, Dell P/N: 0G13K7.
SK hynix 8GB PC4-2666V RAM.
The Alienware 13 R3 has two RAM slots; you can add another 8GB PC4-2666V RAM.
Alienware 13 R3 features a 15.2V, 76Wh Li-ion battery, Dell P/N: TDW5P.
Alienware 13 R3’s speaker modules
Alienware 13 R3’s heat sink and cooling fan module
Disconnect all cables from the motherboard.
Remove all screws securing the motherboard.
Here’s Samsung 6GB GDDR5 video memory.
Touch pad metal plate
The Left and right buttons are attached to the metal plate.
Alienware 13 R3’s touchpad, from the touchpad, we can see it features a Synaptics touch chip.
After all internal hardware is removed, you can access the keyboard.
If your keyboard is damaged, removing and replacing the keyboard will be very difficult.
Remove the metal keyboard plate.
Hi, are the Wi-Fi antenna cables welded to the motherboard? Or how are they connected?
The Wi-Fi antenna cables are not welded to the motherboard. It is connected to the motherboard via a connector.
Hi, is the green speaker cable for the left speaker? Mine doesn’t have it, and I guess that’s why I don’t have sound on the left speaker.
Does it not have an HDD slot? Because I can’t afford a 1TB SSD.
The laptop has no HDD slot.
Does anyone know where I can order a replacement rear port I/o cover from?
Please try to search it on ebay.com.
I want to buy this laptop, but right now, I can only afford the version with 256 GB SSD. Can I exchange this hard drive later?
Sure, you can upgrade the SSD.
It has 2 M.2 SSD slots. You can add another SSD (I added a 512GB SSD for games) and still have the SSD that came with it at the same time. There is no slot for a normal-sized laptop hard drive, only an M.2 SSD. The M.2 SSD can be PCI-Express or SATA.