- You never know, with a dell desktop,
what you're gonna get.
Sometimes, they're just incredible.
You can upgrade them as much as you want
and as they become cheaper,
they're the sort of thing that you look for
on the side of the road or at an office auction
or something like that.
So you can just huck a GPU in it and awesome
you're off to the races.
Other times, you can do almost nothing
and you pay a premium.
I don't know where this is going to land,
but hopefully it's in the former.
So this is the Alienware Aurora R10
and lets get into it!
I wonder if we got a mouse and keyboard.
I was looking at the configurator,
and they are a zero dollar option to add on.
Looks like it, excellent!
Up top here we have a mouse,
which looks like it was supposed to stay in there
but did not.
Power cord and we have a keyboard.
Low profile RGB mechanical gaming keyboard.
Cherry red oh wow!
That's pretty sick for a zero dollar option.
I actually like those a fair bit
if I'm honest.
They feel kind of like a just really long
travel laptop keyboard.
Huh.
Well, I don't think that a lot of people that
get this will be mad about this keyboard at all.
I don't know how I feel about the design if I'm honest.
It's like a Dyson fan.
Or like a ramjet or kind of Portal-ie
- Hey Hey Hey!
- It's not going to offend anyone.
Even if it might not be quite your cup of tea.
Also, these peels are fantastic!
You can see here that they have a bunch of cutouts.
If someone doesn't take it off,
they don't just choke their PC out.
(crinkling)
Is that how you do it?
I totally don't get ASMR,
so I have no clue what sets people off.
I don't know if you pay a premium over getting
a normal desktop for the Alienware one,
but I would certainly pay a bit of a premium
just for all of these peels here.
Wow.
All right so I guess now we can start it up.
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Oh!
Its kind of loud.
Nice bit of air coming out of here.
This is much more kitted than what we asked for.
So here we actually have an AMD Ryzen 9 3950x.
So that's sixteen cores.
Pretty much the best processor that you can
get that's y'know,
for consumers and not for workstations.
We also have sixty-four gigabytes of RAM.
It is a 2666 so it would be nice to have a slightly
higher speed instead of that much capacity.
Like if you're looking for gaming,
you might want to go for like thirty-two gigabytes
at a higher speed than sixty-four but-
Oh! Whatever, it's sixty-four gigabytes of RAM.
That's pretty sick.
You also have a two terabyte Samsung NVMe SSD,
and to top it all off we have a
Geforce RTX 2080 Ti so she's powerful!
She's a real powerful one!
If the cooling system can handle this computer,
you know that any other spec she's gonna be fine.
Let's take a little look at the IO here.
So on the front we have USB type C along with three USBs
and headphone-microphone so that's pretty sick actually.
On the back we have optical audio and what I think is
a subwoofer out so that's pretty cool.
We also have ten USB type A ports
and another type C back here.
Along with an ethernet port
and three display ports,
HDMI, and the VR out USB type C thing.
Oh yeah, there's also audio out for the like
five point stereo thing.
Does anyone actually use those?
Anyways, we are getting amazing network speeds.
Even for, that's a gigabit.
A hundred and thirteen megabytes per second down.
That's pretty sick.
Hilariously enough here,
our internet is good enough that its CPU bound on
how fast your downloads go.
So having the, y'know, good ol' 3950x,
which is actually at like twenty-five percent
utilization or like forty,
just downloading Doom.
It's pretty sick that we can actually
take advantage of that.
All right so let's see how it does for the CPU tab.
Running the good ol' 7Zip benchmark here.
We're only seeing up to seventy.
That's pretty good.
This thing is liquid-cooled although liquid coolers
aren't always your best friend.
This one seems to be though.
Maximum of seventy-six degrees and it looks like its
leveling off closer to seventy.
I'm impressed I have to say.
I was kind of expecting this to be a bit of a hot boy.
All right that's enough of that.
Onto Doom!
As an absolute shocker to no one,
an RTX 2080Ti plays games good.
Where the heck do I go?
Why do I need to start on platforming?
This is just the absolute worst.
So yeah this is pretty frickin' sick.
We're looking at a pretty solid hundred-eighty FPS
on ultra nightmare 1440p.
Really no complaints whatsoever.
I don't think we're learning anything super valuable
from finding out that this gaming system that
is basically the absolute best that you can get
is really good.
GPU got up to a maximum of eighty-one degrees.
Okay so it's not going to be super happy.
Although I guess what can you really do?
It looks like its taking in air from right here.
I think it's a very standard cooler that we have on there so
its kind of about what you get on a 2080Ti.
This looks like a desktop that has pretty good cooling,
but I guess we'll find out soon enough.
The real test, though, comes when we get inside of it.
Are you actually going to be able to upgrade this thing
like a normal PC or are you kind of just stuck with
what Dell gave you?
So you just take out one screw here, pull on that,
and it looks like it gives you access to-
okay what is that?
(laughter)
This is a very less-than-conventional layout.
I guess it doesn't really matter for the thermals
because air is coming in here and shooting out there.
Anything for the GPU would be coming in the vent that was
right here and out.
As for the CPU, it looks like it would probably drawing in
here and a bit up here
and then there's a radiator around this area
So you just push these two little tabs up
and all of this moves away.
Cage for a hard drive here,
cage for a hard drive there
or I guess SSDs if you so please.
We also have a hard drive bay up here at the front.
We also have only one eight-pin CPU connector.
So you're not gonna be able to overclock this chip like
you could with like a five hundred dollar motherboard.
As for the cooling, we have just pretty standard looking
AIO with an Alienware logo on it here.
And it goes up to a one twenty millimeter
radiator in the top.
It looks like it has kind of like
a delta server fan of sorts.
Then in here we have another PCIe
only an 8x slot and two fours.
Probably want a couple 16x-ers but at the same time
SLI is dead what else are you going to need
all that power for?
You can still put like a ten gig card
or whatever in here if you want.
My impression of the inside overall are quite good though.
As someone who has upgraded Dells in the past that were
really poorly designed for upgrading,
this looks like you'll have a
much easier time going about it.
It still isn't quite the same as if you built your own
computer but at the same time if you only want a pre-built
now at least you have the option to upgrade it in the future
instead of just finding out you're screwed.
Does it say what the wattage is of
the power supply anywhere?
I'm pretty sure that we got the thousand watt model.
It was manufactured on November sixth of 2019,
I can tell you that but I can't tell you much else based off
of what's on it.
This guy right here as spec'd comes in at just over
four thousand dollars.
Which honestly seems pretty reasonable given how OP it is
Although now we get to find out
if that actually makes sense compared to buying your own
desktop or like building your own desktop.
We did at the PC part picker here and it looks like the
total is 3579 dollars.
You're definitely paying a premium for this guy,
but its not all that bad really.
Especially when you consider that you're also getting like
a pretty good keyboard and a mouse.
So that closes the gap to only what like
two or three hundred dollars?
And for that you get a warranty, its assembled,
it just shows up at your door.
Me personally?
I would build the PC because I like doing that.
For you its kind of up to you this is like quite a
compelling machine there's no real complaints here.
Good job Alienware!
Just that.
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