alienfx-tools VS alienfan-tools

Here. For fan control you only need AlienFan-GUI, for lights + fans - AlienFX-GUI.

Any AW/Dell software needs to be purged. With Holy fire/orbital bombardment/moon sized space station, etc. For CPU stuff, Intel XTU/AMD Master as appropriate. For GPU Afterburner. HWinfo more than replaces CC for system monitoring. And alienfx covers the hardware features in a lightweight and 99% functional way (its mostly just missing features). If you do have issues with it, just ping the dev and they will get it sorted. Not bad for a single person dev team.

Major points: disable the capsule update thing in BIOS (you don't want auto updates reinstalling stuff your trying to get rid of). Get HWinfo, Afterburner, and alienfx to replace AWCC.

First, make sure anything and everything from Dell is flushed from the system: CC and SA are both notorious for gumming up the works. Best practace/least hassle is to just wipe the shipped OS and start fresh. XTU, Afterburner, HWinfo, and alienFX should be everything you need, be very lightweight, and not be a borderline performance virus.

https://github.com/T-Troll/alienfx-tools? The only issue it seems to have is not having some systems recognized, but that is just a case of getting a message to the dev and getting it added.

Get the following: AMD Master (or XTU for Intel), Afterburner, HWinfo. That covers tweaking the CPU/GPU and monitoring. Then alienfx for the Dell specific hardware. That should all be a fraction of the size and work without issue.

Give https://github.com/T-Troll/alienfx-tools a try, its a little thin on fancy UI but it should have all the features your after and its not CC.

If anyone is interested in trying to move away from AWCC for fan and power control, check out https://github.com/T-Troll/alienfan-tools (currently it supports few devices so you can contribute if you want to and it's not my project, just giving a shout out)