How bad is the CHEAPEST AMD Ryzen based Alienware gaming PC? 

On a quick note, be careful when speccing these Alienware systems up with the higher-end Nvidia GPUs. They use blower style coolers unless you pay an extra $200 for the GPU AIO thing (Which is only available with the 2080 Super for some reason). Many people have complained that the blower style cards overheat badly. So please keep that in mind. Sorry about missing that detail in the video and shoutout to Timmy Joe PC Tech for pointing that out to me.

The Alienware aesthetics automatically give the PC at least 100 FPS more

No SSD in a $1000 PC in 2020?? That's a crime

I find it amazing that Dell managed to make a case that could fit a normal system layout inside and still managed to cover the CPU with the power supply

Man, when I was younger I wanted an Alienware so bad. I thought they were the coolest shit ever. Then I got older and realised I was just a dumb kid who liked the aesthetic. Good job I wasn't in control of buying tech haha

A grand?!! and no SSD and only a single 8 gig stick? and then there is the interior design...deary me, crap. The only cool thing was the desktop:D

Fun fact: I made the Alien noises with my mouth.

1,000 for heating issues, single channel, and an HDD. Gonna sell like hot cakes on your local military base

"It looks like a Dyson so it must be good" Dyson : Worse than a $15 fan from Walmart Uh-oh...

"Running like a polio victim" - wasn't expecting that, awesome.

2010: "Bro, Alienware is the way to go! Your PC is inferior to my Alienware!!!" Now: "Bro, you got an Alienware? Why?"

I love the fact that you review things I can actually afford.

Wow, even my $400 acer I bought 6 years ago has dual channel memory.

I get the feeling *actual* aliens are quite insulted with this portrayal of their technology.

Dawid: hopes for a beam of light to deliver the pc Dell: send it normally Dawid : *insert Linus disappointed face*

Never seen Tarkov as a benchmark good to see Also “It’s trying to mimic the sound of the hinderburg” “It shouldn’t run like a polio victim”

I just bought one and this was great info to know! happy to know the cooling and frame issues early before it comes :D thanks!

"It was running like a polio victim." Holy shit dude 🤣

“I really hope it has a chocking fetish” Had me dying 😂😂👌🏼

Its so good to see a base spec review for one of these machines. so often do you see the top spec only reviews. A lot of good points made to consider when buying one of these. great review Dawid.

I like this guy. He makes little jokes every once in awhile while talking about anything. Don’t see much of that in tech vids anymore.

Why is this man's content so entertaining,I'm genuinely confused

10:49 the transition was so SMOOTH

When you buy an alienware, you're paying for a name that used to mean something. All you have to do is remember that Dell bought them out, and that should explain everything. Might as well buy an Acer.

5:00 - the best part of the video. :D lol

I remember back in the day when Alienware actually had a good reputation 😅

When buying a prebuilt, most people expect something that they don't have to open it up for an upgrade for a very long time, also with the size of that case you would think there would be a lot better cooling

New to your channel and I’m loving the content ❤️

I was 13 years old the last time I thought Alienware was cool. But I have a memory of Alienware looking way cooler back in the day.

What. Why would 1x 8gb of ram even be a option? Its 2020 alienware. 2020.

“It shouldn’t be running like a polio victim” 😂😂😂

Great review! So true about the difference the 3200 Ram makes for the Rizen processors! I ran a Ryzen 2600 on my system, and it gained roughly 25% boost in fps on the games I play when I upgraded the memory to dual channel 3200 MHz setup.

i know this is a tech channel, but can we take a moment to appreciate Dawid's manliness @2:09

I still have an old Alienware AMD Phenom in my basement.. in those big grey cases. I was using it as a Linux router ;)

I got one of these for like 1200$, specced with a 10700KF and 2080Super. Probably the best deal I've gotten and works VERY well for me.

“Looks like an office pc” Yeah, it is the same chassis as the precision 3630/3640

I'm sure Alienware would run out of business of prebuilts if they started to sell cases alone

Dawid: Lifts a computer out from the case normally without dropping it Linus: *disappointment face

"Like a robot's lady garden".....that made me chuckle. Great video, I think Dell & Dyson should create a hybrid that plays games & vacuums the room :)

Love ur vids found u when I was looking for how to fix my own laptop that I got for free I ended up fixing it but I got hooked on ur vids lol great videos btw

May I ask what AS OD is 😆

“This took nearly a month to get here” **mechanical switches that I ordered 6 months ago that still haven’t arrived** “First time?”

Over a year late but I'm still impressed by how much of a performance boost you can get with a properly set up configuration. Channels like yours have save me hundreds in avoiding upgrades by learning how to configure hardware settings correctly. On an unrelated note, I'm so happy that non RGB cases and components are slowly making a return. It always bugged me that manufacturers (especially case manufacturers) were sacrificing performance in favor of sticking as many RGB light strips into a system as possible. I'd rather not burn my CPU to a crisp thank you very much!

I've bought 2 Alienware PCs so far. Both on sale on the Dell Canada site. Comes out about the same or a bit cheaper than building your own. The most recent one has a CPU and a video card that were near impossible to find until recently so it was a double win.

So, not only does it look like a Dyson, it sounds like one of their vacuums.

My first computer was a pre built from Digital Storm over two years ago. I've been very happy with it. The build quality, components and cable management were all very good. Since then I've built my own PC's but would definitely recommend them if you're solely looking at pre builts.

bro you channel is dope keep doing videos like this

It would have been interesting to see how a 2x4gb ram kit improves the fps.

Nice video! I actually picked up this same unit with the 2080 super, 1tb M.2 16gb ram and ryzen 7 and with there savings it came out to 1550.00 which I thought was pretty good. Thanks for giving me a preview.

They went all out on the GPU then messed up everything else

I'm happy to see you took my advice on upgrading the RAM

Hi Dawid, I cured my leaf blower R9 with 1x corsair ml120 Pro non Ned fan ( stops bios error) 3x thermaltake toughfan12's and a corsair H60 AIO. Moved the Hdd cage to the chassis floor and added a fan where it used to live. Its a night and day performance boost.

Love your channel bud! It’s so good to see other saffas making it abroad. Much love from the UK!

Awesome and entertaining video as always. When you upgraded the ram you changed 3 things: Single to Dual channel, 8 to 16gb, and speed from 2666 to 3200mhz. It would be interesting to know which of these three changes had the most impact. For example I'm guessing moving to dual channel had the most impact followed by capacity increase, so would most of the performance increase have been possible by adding another 8gb stick at 2666mhz for probably half the cost of the 2 stick upgrade ?

I'm in Canada too, just for fun last month I went to try to see how long it will take them to ship a new computer. We were in Mid October and the Estimate Shipping Date was December 2nd !!!

Hilarious yet also informative review. Well done.

Definitely subscribed. I've seen a few of your videos and liked them, but this is such a great video, you earned a sub

I've been seriously thinking about getting a Ryzen Alienware. Thanks for the video. I'm still undecided but you answered a number of questions I had.

Thanks for being a honest reviewer man! I also have that pc and I really regret it... Get yo hands away from that!

Couldn't help but subscribe. Educational and funny!

I had a highly customized dell case before i bought one of the more expensive versions of this model and the only reason I switched over was because 1. the liquid cooling on the CPU and 2. a special little discount i get when ordering dell products for some specific reason. So yeah,AW is not for the budget gamer,it's not for the competitive performance freak either.paying for the brand is a part of it and no matter what industry you go to the top companies will always do the "pay for the brand" strat.

15:05 “It’s starting to grow on me” So does a Fungus. 😂

I cant wait for my r10 to come in!! I haven't had a gaming rig in years and have only been on console so their are so many games for me to play.

11:12 I spy a Scythe Big Shuriken 3 box. Fabulous to see a man of culture and refinement on the internet.

Dawid: Stuggle to remove the pc from the box RU-vid captions: Music

Hands down the most entertaining content on PC, love it man.

hey men, I just recently bought a Alienware Pre-Built computer, and thanks to you, I sauce the options and I end up with a good gaming PC, thanks men.

I was a dumb fuck and got one of these and was to stupid to actual research reviews. Its been running slow af and ive been looking for a reason. You are the only channel that reviewed the cheap one I got. Thank you, as the extra ram really did improve performance. Again, thank you.

"It sounds like it's trying to re-enact the Hindenburg Disaster." 😂😂😂😂

The fact we both have matching names and like tech, makes me feel at home

"you got like... 200$ worth of box right there" LMAO! I like your videos and character, I will subscribe! Thanks : )

"Dude, don't buy a Dell."

Looks really good though

Same thing happened to me with my Rog Strix 5800X RTX 3070. Had 1 single channel green stick of 16 gb ram. Had huge fps drops and stutters. Bought 2x8GB dual DDR4 3600 in dual channel and now everything is butter smooth :)

I just received a aurora r10 with a 3950x cpu, 32 gb 3400 memory. 1 tb sad and 2 gb sata drive. Also has a 2080 super with 8 gb memory. I have the liquid cooling option plus 1000 watt power supply. I will hook it up this weekend. It was a Black Friday sales. Anxious to see what it can do.

These are targeted towards people who know little to nothing about computers, why do you need to spec it out to not be garbage? It shouldn't be garbage at all.

I love the old Alienware pc cases

I have a the ryzen based r10 and I got it new before the prices went up due to covid and I managed to get it with a 3600x and a amd 5700 that’s also water cooled for around 800 and it performs better than most prebuilts I’ve encountered

I don’t think I’ve ever seen that escape from tarkov game anywhere except this Channel. Is that like Canadian call of duty ?

1:46 “that’s a 200$ worth of box” welp, now we now why the pc is so sh*t

So basically you’re paying for the brand and the case lol

We just received a new R12 purchased during Black Friday at a substantial discount. The system is an 11th Gen Intel Core i7 11700F, RTX 3060Ti, 512GB M.2, 16GB, 2x8GB, DDR4, 3200MHz all of this for only $980 (without tax) with discounts! This was an insane deal. Unfortunately, the air-cooled option was not available for the system deal. We have the Dark Side of the Moon cool which does not have the same lighting options as the White system. This is fine as the system would be positioned such that the lights would not be seen. The system looks good but like many have mentioned it has cooling issues. We have the system raised on a mesh stand with plenty of room for cooling. We first noticed the fans making a clicking noise while idling! I checked to make sure all fans are working and they are. We completed all updates and with nothing running while on idle the system CPU keeps jumping from 62° to 100° Celsius while the CPU performance is bouncing around the lowest to the highest. This is occurring while the system is idling without anything installed yet and no overclocking! Not a good omen. Also noticed there are no VRM heatsinks installed on this unit which could account for some of the CPU heat. The stock CPU fan is anemic. The interior design is small and will not fit a stock RTX card if you wanted to upgrade it. It is not a system to upgrade over time but again at the $980 price point, I didn't care. If we could have purchased a water-cooled system at the reduced price point we would have and I believe the design hinders the ability of the system to adequately air cool it. It is noisy when it kicks in cooling. What is surprising we were running a Lenovo Legion 7i notebook on the desk with a docking station (10th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-10750H Processor, NVIDIA RTX2070 Max-Q) at full settings in games and couldn't hear it but the R12 is like a fan running on high! Again we are so disappointed and will go back to using the Legion 7i.

I think you are on to something Dawid! If Dyson were to make a PC case with the invisible fan it would be the ultimate in my opinion. Dyson should make PC cases.

I thought that desktop was a ps5

The alien ware pcs that i remember looked a lot better when i last visited their website. This one looks lile an electric heater

I got the non-Ryzen version with some upgrades and honestly I can't complain too much. The highest the temperature got was about 56 C and that was while playing a game. The area I have it in might be the culprit but it runs the games I need and that's all I need it to do. I don't play CoD or Fortnite, just Phasmophobia, Skyrim, Viscera. Now it is moderately chilly right now because we're just heading into Spring, but I'm pretty confident it'll be fine.

I built a few pcs over the years. But like this review said some of their sales are pretty good as long as you know what your doing. I got one nearly two years ago on a black Friday sale. I was a bit nervous as you could imagine. I know my tech so I made sure I got good dual channel ram a good ssd and most importantly a9900k with a water cooled loop. So far so good I mean the pc is a beast so happy with it. During full load my 2080ti peaks at 73 degrees and I know it sounds crazy but the water cooling and the cpu is flawless. I Have it running at about 4.95ghz and it runs around 55 to 60 degrees max. I agree if your not careful you could end up with a crap setup but if you understand tech at all and don't have time to build one I highly recommend them.

I like how this RU-vidr....responds to all the comments ♥️

2:34 Alienware: "Shh! Shhh! You're gonna get us sued!"

I just realized this looks like the exact same inner frame as the Alienware R5 I bought back in 2017. the clips, the side panel release mechanism, the plastic GPU support... I think they updated the plastic panels clipped to the outside and updated the MOBO I would assume.

Love the videos! I was able to order one of these last week and negotiate with dell for around $450 off with a 3070 and i9 liquid cooled 32gb of Ram they will discount you just have to ask! Even through in a free Alienware headset

2:00 Oh, it seems very soft pouch.

It looks like an optiplex pretending to be a gaming rig and when you rip the side panel off it’s like a scooby doo reveal

yea it took me about a month to get my Aurora R11 and it also said 3-5 business days, then again i did buy it last year during the height of the pandemic so some delays were to be expected because of it

4:59 that fan is my spirit animal Edit: "only 1080p high settings" fuck, I'm old. That still sounds like next level future shit

14:33 "A rainbow vomet gaming system that you build yourself." that hits hard.

"cheapest" it might be the cheapest but I still cant afford it

Cool kids toy - thanks for including that. When are you gonna review the gaming PC tho?

I was able to get one with their last gen cases when they went in sale for cheap, I've been happy with it, though I did order some ram at the same time.

6:44 thats what i call an anti-dark mode setup