What's Inside This Old $2000 Alienware ALX?
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- Опубліковано 21 тра 2019
- Earlier this week I purchased what was once a $2000 / £1900 Alienware Gaming PC for just £150. So what's inside, and how do it's specs hold up today?
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I remember when I thought Alienware was the top tier of gaming PCs, then I learned to build.
They used to be, specifically before Dell bought out their company. I used to buy their PC once in 2005 which it was Area 51 ALX. I bought them in their website, back when they used to do a boutique custom built, made in Miami with an alluminium brief case and leather attache and a bunch of cool stuff based on what were they offer on their PC customizable in their website so I am happy with what I was paying back then, same as how people glad with what they paid for the gaming rigs like Voodoo, and Falcon Northwest PC. It's definitely worked pretty great until now and I'm just gonna upgrade it. OG Alienware's Customer service was greater than what Dell did on Alienware stuff right now.
America I mean if you don’t want to build a pc and you want warranty just buy a Alienware lol it’s like 200-300 usd overpriced
Facts
Same
I also bought an asus rog gt51ca and then I learned to build and I build a nice pc my self
This is literally a train from Half-Life 2
Combine keeps selling their Nova Prospekt equipment
wayyyy too true
stop citizen
Holy shit. All the flashbacks I just had from og half-life and counter strike
@Craig Tucker >nylon
The guy took the RAM, the GPU but he left the 500gb ssd
ssd chould have been bad
That's why non tech savy people buy from Alienware
He may have just been using this old girl as a file server or something.
He forgot
Im wondering if it was an SLI config to begin with. The 2nd GPU slot at the case is filled up with an exact same piece of shielding as the rest. But even if they did, they clearly did not take out the ram and gpu for the money. Its still 9gb of RAM and the GPU is worthless
*When you realized an old card can run Crysis. While, your card cant*
GTX 1060 is enough to run Crysis but not with all settings turned VERY HIGH.
Objects can only be turned to HIGH.
Crysis don't design to run on newer card.... It don't look that good anyhow... so why would you?
Crysis struggling on 1060? Crysis 1 worked 60+ fps on hd 5830 with i5 750. Clearly not meant for newer cards.
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@@tasteful7364 He's already dead inside...
These old alien ware reviews are my favorite
Noice
Ay
i think that also
Wanna buy my immaculate Alienware M15X? Check out e-bay UK. Only £150 finishes on sunday ;)
Spex Wise where’s the link
I used to own an 2010 Area 51 Alienware PC that weighted backcracking 40kg... but the internal design of the unit was the best I have ever seen, it had a server-like ease to upgrade things
Was that the one with the six drive bays behind the motherboard and motorized top vents on the aluminum case? I would've kept that case forever.
Man Ive been watching you for quite a few months now, on and off, and I wanna say that I love your style of presenting the information. No clickbait, respect for the viewership and straightforward content, with no fillers. Keep it up my man, you are doing a really good job! Never, ever change your style. 10/10 would gladly support
damn man, its a real gem you got there - 3 channel ddr3 low latency memory, x58 MB, put decent cpu and modern GPU in it and it can still rock!
holly crap.. MB alone goes for 170-230 USD on aliexpress.
Hey @
RandomGaminginHD I actually have one of those exact cards (GTS 240) in my collection of old junk graphics cards, pulled it out of an old Dell XPS system from around the same era.
I'm in the UK and would be happy to send it your way if you'd be interested, would love to see a video of them running in SLI! Hit me up!
Potato
Up
Would definitely like to see this!
Message him on Instagram so he'll be able to see this
Yes yes
"weighing in the same as a large dog or overweight child" that actually made me choke on my soup
Whoa...that's mean. I'm a good dog!
Man. That pc is looking good, even after 10 years. Wow
5:07 sounds like my grandmas 1960's hoover
It would be dope if someone made a case like that that opens on the front for airflow instead of optical drives and that lambo side panel.
You obviously haven't looked at many higher-end cases these days. Some already do exactly what you describe. Some are modular and can be configured all sorts of ways.
And then of course vendors offer all sorts of aftermarket kits and parts for custom PC modding, if that's your thing.
That was a jackpot, if you are lucky you can find just an x58 motherboard and that ssd for what you paid
First gen i7s are still great today when overclocked, yeah that was a steal
X58 boards are expensive
Thats my point
@@mitchell3876 I need a cheap system for editing. I'm looking at older i7's
Does anyone know where he bought it from?
Lady at my work brought in her Dell XPS and it had this graphics card in it. She was complaining about the screen going black. took that cover off and it was literally packed solid with dust lol. Cleaned it out and shes back to drafting on it no problem
Imagine spending $2000 just to end up with a GTS 240
Great review!
Brah, He Got It For *150* Pounds
@@Saleem_Bhai Brah, did u even watch the video? It used to be 2000 dollars* when it got released.
Would thing at least a gtx 280 or better yet a 295 lol
Pretty sure the GTS 240 is NOT the OEM card.
lol o have before a alienware m15x laptop tht had 260 and i7 920 and i sold it for $440 lol now i have a ryzen 3 build with rx 580 8gb that i build for $440 fucking pc prices go down so fast
That gts 240 is actually a rebranded 9800gt.
you mean 8800GT?
really I've had one of these ASUS 9800GT 1GB. Unfortunatelly it broked after the warenty had expired. sorry for my eng
@@hanspeter2210 Yes but no. The memory and clocks are higher on the 240. Also, it has opengl 3.0 support not 2.1
yep, basically, it's a rebranded 9800GT, which was itself an evolution of the 8800GT, and the GTS250 was a rebranded 9800GTX. Good job Nvidia, always recycling...
@@TheRealWALLABI hd 7970, r9 290, r9 390
Edit: 280x and 380x, not x90
A cpu swop for xeon x5675/5670 overclock to the 4ghz or more with the liquid cooler and upgrade the graphics card to rx580 or 1060 and you've got a PC that can hold it's own in modern games and would make a good video too
You don´t even need a liquid cooler... Got my 5670 running on air at 4,2Ghz for years now. Temps are at 67 max with aida64 and 55-60 while gaming.
@@datreja9573 yeah I know but just the best way to make the most of what he had there
Will the case ventilation impact air cooling significantly?
@@FightCollective I have the same Dell ms-7591 motherboard. It's an unlocked mobo with a built in overclocking utility.
Those Xeons are really nice CPU's. I've had a Xeon X5670 4.4GHz since 2016.
When you pressed that button at 0:38 I was like "YOOOOOO! A feature more useless than RGB?!"
DAAAAMN BRO IT IS!!
DAAAAAMNNNNM
I saw that and said "I want that." Now to find one.
The editing has vastly improved well done mate and keep it up I’ve been watching for 2 years and I’ve enjoyed the past 2 years
Thank you :)
Love your vids lad, keep it going!!!
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When I get them, I put them, in due date order, in an "In Tray" in our office.
This is adorable. An in tray. Just divine. Glad it works for you, it sounds like a really lovely system and process.
What an intro......
Music?
@@connorhillam8146 i think I've heard it from ni no kuni 2 game I guess
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@@stevethea5250 u high
Fairly new subscriber here - love the fact you're a fellow UK-er! Keep up the interesting content.
Always loved the design of the Alienware pc cases, i view them as collectibles.
New ones are just a Dell office PC with plastic around it
I'd have bought it in a heartbeat. Those old Alienware boxes were cool. Yeah, it's heavy enough to anchor a mega-freighter during a storm in the Channel, but my old Rampage 3 Extreme in a Haf-X case rig wasn't any better. But they did have that goofy-cool styling. You paid out the nose for it new, but they were darn cool.
I would literally just bought it for the case alone, even if I had to gut the thing and replace it with new parts.
A fantastic upgrade to this pc would be a Xeon X56xx, 6/12 processor that takes easy GTX 1070 / RX 590
I agree, xeon x5670 is very cheap, is a good option
I'd probably just upgrade the gpu first, the i7 920, as shown, is still very capable.
VellsGaming the x5675 has always been the best value
Better to go with a w3680/90, they have an unlocked multiplier, the x5670 is getting close to worthless now
I've got a dual x5690 system along with a dual x5670 system
You have to make sure the board supports it first. I like into it, given that I have the same processor. My board doesn't support the xeons (Asus ROG Gene II). Still, it's not the big of an upgrade, so probably not worth it.
Why are your videos so satisfying to Watch?
Great vid again bro..keep up the good work
okay, but can it run coolmathgames at a full 60 fps with no stutter and no fps drop
It will have some PROBLEMS
Lmao!###
@@ivanbiota99 underrated! Lmao
It’s gonna have to be hard
It will but you have to turn the settings low.
With a GPU upgrade the alienware will game once again I've got a i7 930 in a older system and it still plays everything I want
If I'm not mistaken, like the Dell XPS cases, you could swap out the OEM board and replace it with a ATX form factor board to modernize it if you wanted -- but that would ruin the nostalgic charm of it! Also, starting at 5:23, that is a HUGE fan/heatsink for that northbridge chipset! :O
Dont know if its your camera but damn that alienware case looked nice and clean from the outside and inside. That black color
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@@stevethea5250 not even slightly related to the vid
That's the main selling of Alienware system really, they always make a good lookin case.
It actually sparkles ✨ in good light, they mixed the paint with glitter, lots of blues and purples
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Can you upgrade it to a Xeon 6 core, more ram and a decent graphics card? Would be interesting to see it being a powerhouse again
I actually have one of these lol. Mine had the fancy moving vents on top.
I bought one of these back in 2011 for work. I opened it up recently and was amazed (like the video) to find that there was virtually zero dust in it. I have put some new SSd's in it and all it needs now is a up to date video card and it would still fly. On the back of buying this AW PC for work, in 2013 I bought a 18 inch laptop for home (780m SLI, 32gb ram, i7-4900QM) as my main gaming/work PC (adobe stuff). A few days ago I took out the original v-nand C drive and 5400rpm 1tb secondary drive and replaced both with new 1tb samsung 860 EVO drives. Its still an absolute beast. I have had zero issues with it - none of the drives I replaced failed, I just thought "it was time" and "just in case". Despite the initial cost, the build quality is peerless and I have never had a PC last as long or age as well as my AW laptop.
Got it! We should all go out an buy brand new Alienware computers!
:P
This design 10 years ago
Cool enough
I had a Core 2 Quad Aurora, it weighed 50pls!
Make a review
Lol
Was it the generation before this one??? I had both auroras.
I remember back in our LAN days, if someone rolled up with an Alienware he was the king (and his dad probably rich AF). That where the days, when you were a "high-performance enthusiast" because your GPU had a fan on it, and having to remove the sidepanel so your system doesn't overheat was really just a flex.
My 2014 X51 looks like it came out yesterday, they did a great job at designing their cases
Man my current PC is still older than that
That's a nice living room set, mate.
Been using PCs since I was a toddler as my dad forced me into learning the ropes. Now I build PCs and always tried to get gaming rigs from my childhood to show my kids the difference between what I grew up with and them.
Oh wow! I had this almost exact PC with an ATi Radeon 5870, i7 920 (OC'd to 3.2) and 12 GBs of RAM. Thanks for the blast from the past.
Mine is still running today! A 2600k is running it. I finally built my first computer last year, but I still use the Alienware.
You rebuilt your PC with that Alienware cases ??
YT Anonymity no. I said I finally built a computer, but I still use the Alienware. It is still running as originally built.
"what really matters is on the inside" aww
I still have my old xps somewhere, q6600, 4gb ram and an 8800gtx. Such a beast back in it's day. Might have to get it out and show her some love.
i like you. i like that you look just like a regular guy and you dont tempt to play otherwise. Thank you for every Video you upload. i love every single one!!
Oh man, This brings back memories when I had my old Alienware ALX, but the motherboard blew up. lol. I wish I would of kept the case though, and made a Sleeper unit out of it. :3
The case is the coolest part why would you get rid of that
Slap a xeon 5675 in there with a rx570/580 and for an additional 120€ you have a PC for years to come!
Damn, I used to have an Aurora R3 with a i7 2600k and a 6850. Great machine for the time. The Chassis was the coolest part of the machine. The memories ...
I still have and use my old Alienware aurora r3 i7 2600, I upgraded the ram, a new GPU, and a couple ssd. I’m still using it for gaming. Great computer.
On Call of duty, i turned my anti aliasing off and it removed the cap for me. I did this on COD:MW (2007)
I wonder how it would perform with a few upgrades, Xeon paired with a RX 470/570 or Nvidia equivalent?
Yeah Intel CPUs hate amd GPUs. They are run like shit compared to the nVidia equivalent
My old college had a computer room with about 18 of these , never had a clue about how much they were !
I atually helped someone rebuild this exact model once. The hardest part of it was solving the connections between the power switch and the mother board since it had been gutted and then had the parts given back in a seperate box. With everything disconnected I had to try and figgure out how the case manager circuit board interfaced with everything else. It comes with a case safety and lighting manager along with a case fan manager which was all unplugged and it refused to switch on until I plugged certain fans and components into the case manager. Was a beast machine though and with a nice ram and GFX upgrade it ran more modern games with fairly little effort.
$150 for this is awesome dirt cheap.
X58 mobo is worth more
@@Adam130694 not always
I still use mine, paid $40 at a yard sale. 22gb ddr3 gtx 750ti runs great
22gb ddr3 wtf? unmatched sticks?
I have an Alienware I got not even two years ago. I was ripping computers apart since the mid-80s, I'm very happy to just buy a prebuilt on. Heck, my old PC (a Dell XPS) from about 9 years ago is still kicking. I got that one high-end, so it's an i7 920. Not great for gaming anymore (it could, just not well), but still a solid workhorse. Whoa! I take it back. I just checked and got that XPS back in April of 2009, so it's pushing 11 years old. I did upgrade some components (SSD, graphics, RAM), but it's still a solid machine.
Pretty good content mate!
regards from Brazil!
this 2010 pc is a perfectly usable PC in 2020. Imagine using 1998 pcs in 2008 or 1988 pc in 1998
Yep Moore's law is now dead
@@malachaicarter4338 i'm now hv a 2005 pc, with athlon X2, 4GB RAM & some sort of ATi graphic card. Still using it for browsing & watch UA-cam & movie. It's on windows 8, i tried giving it a windows 10 but the installation simply won't start. Probably gonna use it until support for win8 ends.
@@malachaicarter4338 My Thinkpad T400 from 2008 is still perfectly usable for many modern tasks, mostly because it has 8GB of RAM and an SSD. Leaving Windows 7 on it helps it a lot, as Windows 10 would just destroy the Core2 Duo in it with all of its bloatware and spyware. If I put Linux on it, its lifespan would only increase. I also have a Thinkpad T61 from 2007 that has a weaker Core2 Duo and 2GB of RAM, but it can still be used for basic tasks because I put an SSD and Linux on it. If modern software developers weren't so profoundly incompetent, we wouldn't need increasingly powerful hardware to do the same basic tasks from over a decade ago with the same performance.
curious to see what this can do with a rx 470 4gb gpu or 570, and if that board is overclockable.
i bet its easy overclockable like my old alienware m17x laptop.
I have an area 51 and aurora from this generation with the moving fins that i've brought up to date with modern systems inside it. Really easy to do with the auroras, but the 51's need a special wiring kit that a guy on ebay used to make.
I gave my Auraura to my brother a couple of years ago, the machine is a beauty and I'd love to put my current build in that chassis
That intro though.
Good buy. Buy a x5675 on Ali 6C/12T CPU and a used RX 580 and your good to go,that ram though!
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Nice garden mate
You know you are getting old when Black Ops is considered a "classic".
Great video man.
1080p at launch? Nice
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Why you cry 1080p, cheap TV guy in 2010? 2007 expansive monitor u used back in the days?
nice?
Why does he keeps crying 2k alienware.....?????????DELL for gaming, unable to understand why they bought that logo????
@@lucasrem What?
@@Waldherz He's an idiot, pay no attention to that fool.
@@lucasrem Could you like... shut the fuck up?
@@DerrickRG Finnish?
Nice video, I always love these 3rd Generation Alienware videos. I currently use a r4 of that same case but with a i7 4820K on the 2011 platform.
I will say the pre-build gaming rig of the R1 time generation isn't the Alienware Aurora R1 you have there, you can sometimes find them on decent deals but often the Alienware name hikes up the price.
Its Dell Cousin is your often your best find from 2008-2009. With Aurora's big brother the Area 51 looking really nice and being almost twice the size of the Aurora its a beast, but the Dell XPS 730x rocks the same Motherboard and same RGB light as the Area 51. But because it holds the 100% Dell badge it is often over looks when compared to its Alienware cousins keeping the price much lower.
Been looking for one of these for ages and have never been able to find one at the right price
Nice, update bios, Get a Xeon X or W 6core with an oc if u can (the top models of xeons have unlocked multi) and stick in a 1070 or something like that and see how it stands up to your zen. Cheers.
Only the w series are unlocked, the x series (dual socket) aren't
The 920 that he has is unlocked multi as well 😊
My old Xeon W3550 in my Thinkcentre has a bit better performance than this i7 with the same cores, threads, and TDP.
ALX Model Had Motorized Vents and more lights on the sides.
Also TWO 295s in SLI! A 2-GPU card in a dual configuration B^).
Since the OEM memory was messed with, I doubt the Geforce GTS 240 was the original card since even back then that card was a pile of shit.
I remember being crazy for those old Alienware Aurora cases.
I just got an old one, probably the same model, from my friend. Hope to upgrade it soon. Might not need to but very cool to know that I may have a $2k computer at home lol
2000$
Huh, I'm first after 6 months
Well, second i guess
I mean second
@@realchronal If you count from zero yes
Oh 360p-ness is just pure quality
@@drewh4911 Cuz u r late
That case is pure awesomeness even today 😍
I had the same GPU in the first OEM pc i had as a 13 years old child. It came inside a dell XPS and it also featured an intel quad q9300. Man... that brings back memories
Highend gaming computers. The only thing with a higher depreciation value than Luxury cars.
Wait a minute!! The lights add at least 20 to 30 more FPS. PCMR 😆😆😆
Yooo back before I got into PC building I use to want an alienware so bad. You should find a cheap used Area 51 that has that active cooling setup on the top where the fins open and close as the system get hotter/colder, that thing really blew my mind as a kid. Now after building several PC's I realize it's a total gimmick, but it'd be interesting to see how that mechanism has held up over time.
I don't think there are many cheap ones to be had,if any.
I saw this PC in a PC-Shop around 8 years ago in Berlin, me as a 10 yo was super hooked that it had a watercooler and i had no clue how thats even supposed to work. You know, water and electronics, not a good idea. It was my dream PC at that time. Well, i was never able to afford it. Glad to see this 8 years later again!
Just got a Alienware X79 with a i7 4820k !!
nice
Looks exactly like my Alienware R4.
I have an R4 as well! got an i7 4820k, 16gb ram & a recently upgraded rx 590 from the gtx 770. Fantastic machine.
I love my Aurora R9. That machine packs a punch with a monitor at 240mhz refresh rate.
I had one of these from 2007 to 2018 almost all original and it gamed to the end I ran Eve online well on it as well as steam games and Skyrim at lower settings later though . Loved that computer
And you them in Alienware website ?? Which we can customized them before we paid for it ??
damn this was my dream when I was like 10 lol
"I found this one last week for around 150 pounds" - so it cost about the same as it weighs, then
I actually have one of these!! It isn't the exact same model, it's a higher end one, but it has the same case, except on top it has "active cooling" vents that open and close as the computer needs them. I got it for 50 bucks from a friend's brother, who found it outside a dorm room af his college, destined for the scrap heap. It works perfectly, and I use it to power my Oculus Rift, I did change out the GPU with my old 1070. Its specs are an i7 975Extreme Edition (water cooled), 16gb ram (upgraded, was originally 12gb), EVGA FTW 1070 (originally 2x GTS 240's), and it still has its original RAID 0 setup, made of 2 500gb drives. I love it, and it helps keep some space free on my main rig for non-VR games.
I love that case, it would make an awesome sleeper
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>crysis plodding along just fine
>dips in to the mid 20's
Okaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Dirty Dog this is a budget channel 25-30 is technically playable and that’s all budget users need
@@coreylong2353 Yeah, considering most TV and Movies in the past years have been around 30 fps, which is considered smooth enough for viewing, anything above 20 should be atleast playable.
Definitely, personally I’m only running 60 and when I used 120 I saw a massive difference. But at the same time I’ve recently played through red dead on the very lowest end ps4 and I was honestly fine with the 20-30, after an adjustment period ofc
This looks exactly like my Aurora R4 that I bought 8 years ago lol. The thing is a beast and still manhandles the latest and greatest tripple A titles and I have only replaced the graphics card in it.
It’s crazy how fast technology evolves. Like we could never predict what’s going to happen just 5 years from now and that’s not even that far from now. It’s just crazy
I like how everytime he has a video with an i7-920, you can always count on the "slap a xeon" in there comments
Lol.....he knows about the xeons
doesn't fucking seem like it
@@Craziestbanana yes, that he's literally made a video on the x5650 proves your point...no wait
@@bluescluessuperagent w3680? you can't overlock a x5650 in a oem x58 board, you can with a w3680, he hasn't explored that.
@@Craziestbanana that's at least original lol.
Do an X5690 upgrade and 12gb of RAM I'm begging you!
it can prob go with 16gb just fine, but i'd love to see an comparison with a x5690+ a rx 580/gtx 1070 and the i7 920 + de rx 580 or 590
I recently upgraded my brother's ALX, funnily enough i left the GPU in after a clean (a HD 7950). It had two 500GB HDD's raid0'd with Win7 so i added an SSD with Win10, upgraded the CPU from an i7 3820 to a 4820k (supports PCIe 3) and swapped out the 8GB 1600MHz RAM for 16GB 1600MHzx DDR3.
Plays everything he wants (total war titles mainly) and second hand everything cost about £100. I enjoyed cleaning 10 years worth of dust out and it does look nice albeit different and it weighed a freakin ton!
I have one of these, but it's an Area 51 ALX. I bought it in pieces at the time and put it together, piece by piece. Has an i7-980 6-core processor and GTX 970 in it with 16GB DDR3 RAM. The Cooler died in it though andd I had to replace it with an H100. Still works perfectly fine.