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? Thansk for watching :)
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.
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
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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!
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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
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.
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
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...
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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
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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 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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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 RU-vid & 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.
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 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.
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
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.
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.
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
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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 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.
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.
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
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 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
Waldherz FeuerClan 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????
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.
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!
Hold on... Alienware was bought out by Dell; Then things went down hill. Back in the day... I was competition for the top of the range Alienware systems. They would be beaten with my budget systems. But budget was still a good mid/top system. The GT ultima glx was 60% less in price and had 40% better performance. The style was around the same, just slightly smaller.. I've only chucked the case of the last surviving one If only I could attach a picture you would see how similar they are. That system had mods carried out but the alx is actually older that you think. The problem your seeing was that the performance mod on these system was not only in better hardware (cherry picking) and the over clocking but also in the slimming of the software (OS) this combination was the way Alienware managed to be top of the most wanted. A lot of well paid advertising and "benching" which formed a lot of their advertising by covert means and then the following occured. They really were struggling when Dell took over and it was some years before things got up and going. Hardcore programmer's and followers never really got over the "it's just a over priced dell" thing; as you may know Dell borrowed a lot of Alienware to bring out its own "performance" systems and laptops. Many of my GT Ultima systems still are around today, though they would be modified by now or sold and dismantled. But many of the system were custom built for purpose and still run as originally designed and built. Some Costing over £7000 it wasn't going to be a use for a year or two and then buy a new one.. that's car money!! But as you have said, the price and ease to build your own is now a lot better and the margins so small I got out of the game a long time ago. I would say that these days I'm out of touch and days at the top of international benching are way gone... To much work for little rewards. But I'm liking the new stuff thats out and I've done some upgrading and have been on the hunt for a new styles system, I won't be taking much with me from my now dated system as over the years there is now a 20-30% performance difference. Yes not a lot, but enough. Nice find..
@@kuro9410_ilust yea and the pc in the video is a perfect example of shitware. I mean 2000 bucks for a good processor with a gts 240 hahaha my 5830 with i5 750 build cost me literally half the price and beat this shitware 10/0 in games
@@Joullele9 back then Alienware had the top spec, that system has been modded. I think it's base would be around 10-15 yesrs old. In about 2007 any savvy person would know how they weren't great, but marketing went on and on and on. Then Dell got there XPS systems which were the same at half the price.
9GB of DDR3 was fairly common back on the X58/LGA1366 platform in pre-built machines. HP also sold machines that way - I had one with 3x2GB and 3x1GB sticks paired with a i7-920 and a GTX 260. Due to the Tri-channel memory controller (6 DIMMs), that was considered fine back then.
