yeah what's in the box Melissa Adam I'm so excited what we have here is the
Alienware area 51 M gaming laptop this was
introduced at CES I saw it ahead of time in New York City
this is one of the most beautiful laptops I've ever seen
Dell has done a completely new design language for the area 51 M was good I'm
sure it's not just what's outside it's inside and I am gonna need look at this
so your tape we have it we cut it so that and that by the way this box weighs
about 20 pounds oh boy supposedly the laptop there's a little
left for nine pounds there it is all right so this is the new flagship laptop
for Dells Alienware line part you want to know this is the cool part first of
all it has this wonderful honeycomb venting underneath and Gordon's got a
screwdriver ready but before we do that I'm just going to let you know there are
dual fans underneath here let's pull off these screws so you can see what's
underneath one of the other cool things about this laptop is that it's really
upgradable you have free drive phase plus you can upgrade the memory and you
can upgrade the CPU and this laptop has a desktop class CPU I think do we have
the 8750 H this is the coronoid 900 K it is a socketed desktop part which has
been done in the past but not by somebody in a long time
no but that explains why you have all this ventilation here and when we move
the laptop around you're going to see there are huge exhaust ports in the back
as well as intakes on the side and you know we're gonna have to see how hot
this thing gets when we test it well luckily it is an ailing where so
it's nice and thick you got room for cooling yeah we don't use probably seen
videos of the outside but we won I want to see what yeah how is it is it get in
here they had a really great blowout in New York but obviously that took all the
work away they say that this thing has the equivalent of some desktops in
airflow there's eight heat pipes yeah
jump in the plastic oh this is interesting
what are we looking at I guess it really doesn't matter but there's a so there's
four sodium's on paper for ddr4 2400 they actually say these are clocked at
2666 you can put because it's four dims you can put up to 128 gigs of ram into
this laptop if you use the new 120 new 32 gig
sodium's you have a 2.5 inch drive when one of the things i want to point out is
this is the stamping I was telling you about
so these stamp things tell you what do you have what kind of screwdriver you
need and also what kind of slot it is like it points out the battery there and
it even has a label for the elimination which is kind of interesting you can
obviously see the two fans here and I don't know if we can flip this over a
force you can see the heat pipe well together yes it is there is a CPUs here
we're not gonna actually go to level cuz we do one over on some tests before we
take the thing apart go out and watch Linus this video it's done a great job
on it the CPUs here standard desktop 900k also down on eighty seven hundred
and a ninety seven hundred K and also for the graphics part the holy grail of
graphics though in laptops is right under here and there is a
custom-designed graphics board this has a GTX 20/80 Full Tilt
max P as they call it but Alienware it's designed the back of this
there's a module if you stripped it down in the motherboard you can actually
replace the entire graphics card so in three years two years whatever when
you're sick of this 2018 performance Alienware it would hopefully sell you a
new graphics card you'd swap it out or they'll send someone into your house to
do it and you're ready to go that's that's pretty cool again that has not
been this is this has been done before Asus tried it about ten years ago they
went know it went nowhere because at the time graphics cards just kept getting
hotter and hotter and using more power alien wars really betting that since
2080 is based on 14 nanometer and most of the radiology are based on you know
older processes that the next generation of graphics cards are going to get
cooler so it's a calculated bet they are not saying they can guarantee it but you
know they're not going to go through all this engineering now if they can't give
you an at least one more graphics card so I think it could actually work out
and they're obviously also hedging their bets with the dual fans and you see the
fans are both on the outside of the laptop so they can really just pull all
that air outside I wanted to point out the 90 watt hour battery and it's taking
up a significant amount of space in the back of this larger than TSA well no no
100 watt hours limit and I also wanted to point out there are two AC adapters
that you get with this laptop they're probably over here you get a 330 watt
I'm interested to see the size difference okay here's the 180 watt this
is the light weight AC adapter so tube yeah I guess and then here is the 330
watt AC adapter so you only use one or the other yeah it's only one or the
other you don't need to use both like on the predator 9000 2120 my next yeah so
this is obviously not the one you would take with you but this one you could
conceivably put in your backpack so is it smart enough to know which one you're
using and and kind of run efficiently then yeah they basically tell the laptop
how much power is available okay so for storage options you've got two M twos
they're already here you have your 2.5 inch drive for your bulk storage because
you're not gonna fit everything and also of course easy access to the sodium's so
all the stuff and also the wireless yeah I was wondering what that was
it's the wireless card and this laptop has 2.5 g right so you know quarter ting
gig is whatever the hell it is you want to call it well I thought 5g was
anything no I'm talking about instead of gigabit
show up at the bottom back home yeah and that's a nice touch I think these are
they captive I come in yeah I think they're actually captive screws that's a
really nice touch the bottom is is not aluminum it's plastic the nice
rubberized finish huh I just played the AC so this is the 180 watt one and this
one is three pounds 14 ounces alright but there are a lot of other really nice
aspects of this design as far as though there's a really wonderful light on the
back of the laptop and hopefully we'll be able to turn it on and see that yeah
why don't we far enough over just charging the battery
and the cool thing about the Lighting's oh good so you have the Tobii eye
tracking down there that's an option there's four different display options
they're all 1910 but different specs otherwise yeah 1080p 60 1080p 60 g-sync
1080p 144 1080p 144 g-sync alright let's listen without back here and that Nancy
stadium loop will reflect whatever lighting scheme you set for the rest of
the laptop you know what's so interesting to is listen there we go the
fans is this of course is on the motherboard the main motherboard here
but these ports are part of that graphics board that Alienware has
designed a line is pointed out interestingly which is true is you could
eventually say like hey next generation of Nvidia or AMD graphics you get
different ports so it's possible you can get more ports and then probably just
probably sell you are the back where maybe this portion slips out but it's
possible you could replace that and of course we get our amplifier we get our
two power ports nice little Alienware head there I like this design
alright this spin it back around you can see there are thinner bezels on this
which is also nice a lot of gaming laptops of those really thick bezel
especially the chassis inside is a magnesium alloy this also feels like
metal yeah it's cold to the touch yeah it's cold to the touch you got a
nice numeric keypad here you have real mouse buttons when you're of course the
trackpad lights up my preference yeah I'm glad they went back to this there's
a lot of criticism that I thinking that is it the m15 mm 17 they went away from
that because of all the power consumes but you know obviously is it gonna be
plugged in for most of his life you can also really feel the air coming
out these two side ports from those dual fans we saw before so I'm interested to
see how this quote-unquote desktop 20/80 runs up against an actual desktop 20/80
well why don't we do some yeah quick quick benchmarks and come back to
it in a minute okay all right we're Gordon we're back how
does it look so far hey so looks pretty good you know we're
just doing quick benchmarks this is not a review folks we are gonna finish our
full review after we run all our tests we've got a few quick CPU performance
tests and a few quick GP performance as I really want to know how 2080 does in a
big thick laptop like this when it's full power I've seen it in max-q and I
gotta say it's a little scary sometimes to see the ray-tracing performance in a
thin laptop of a 2080 max-q part basically it's not that much faster than
a 20 60 desktop part so I want to see how the Alienware area51 mr1 stacks up
and in actual performance it's actually only about 5% slower than scores I'm
seeing in Port Royal which is a you know a rate racing benchmark 3dmark
it's only about 5% slower than a desktop r-tx 2080 which is really good to give
you an idea I think the 2080 max-q a thin and light
laptops about 30% slower than 2080 part which is a little scary
this is only about 5% off GPU is looking awesome I'm also interested in CPU
remember this is a desktop of core I nine ninety nine hundred K a desktop
socketed processor in the area 51 m and and I actually ran some benches to do a
few quick tests in performance stock out of the box it's it's damn near as close
as is a desktop cry 999 hundred K with the CLC cooler give you an idea
I see about 1200 out of coffee like h's those 35 45 watt processors 1202 maybe
1350 out of a core I nine in a coffee like H this sucker is pushing along with
eight cores 16 threads mm so my my original test of the 9900 K on a CLC I
was seeing about 2100 so that's pretty close to what you're getting out of the
box a desktop 900k it's essentially like a
99 educate with MCE off the default turbo ratios that you're gonna get out
of 900k huh there are overclocking options on here I
haven't really explored them too far yet but I did want to get a good idea of how
this thing does under a heavy thermal load so I've been running fur mark and
prime95 for I think we've been going now for about an hour and 15 minutes the the
GPU is a decent clock we're basically running up around 1800 or bounces around
between 18 to 1600 it's pretty decent and that's you know fairly close to what
you're gonna get out of a 20 av desktop part the CPU starts off at about you
know four seven and then as we keep that thermal load going this is an extreme
thermal load this is prime95 no EBX version we're up at 4-4 right now so
I've seen kicks off at about four seven we get down to maybe four or five and
then it sort of settles out four four four three it'll bounce around a little
bit and we are seeing thermal throttling which is basically hey max temperature
of this package is 100 C we're there we're gonna cut it back a little bit to
keep the heat down so this is the default pan setting there are other fan
settings I don't imagine it gets louder than this though this is pretty similar
to what you're gonna get out of Max this is without overclocking and of course
remember this is an extreme test this is for mark which is a power viruses people
like to call these days and prime95 you're not gonna really see this in
today's games or any workloads you're gonna throw at a laptop what about from
the wall but whatever drop so I was interested because we have two power
superstar we have 330 we have a 230 or 180 and we're about 400 watts the screen
is that max brightness we're loading up the GPU and the CPU and I don't think I
saw anything over about 420 watts at the wall so we're well within the the power
capability of both of those bricks but you are gonna need both those bricks if
you're gonna run run it hard obviously so I'm so far very impressed
I mean the thermals are actually pretty decent - I took someone with images yeah
where are they there we go so this is a thermal image of the keyboard shot with
the Fleur you can see it's actually pretty decent about a hundred hundred
see right at the middle here this sort of the brightest area is about a hundred
yeah and there's a private text okay thanks
all right thanks so so what are we looking at here the heat is not bad I
mean it's not like it's more of those things if you you've used these big high
performance ops sometimes they can sort of fry your hands this is pretty
reasonable temperature so you know I think that the fan noise is pretty good
the CPU performance is pretty awesome you're those those six core core I nines
in laptops not gonna touch this eight core desktop part in this laptop that
r-tx 20/80 performing only about five percent off of you know a reference 2080
card so it's moving along this is a one fast laptop and you know again remember
the big secret is socket processor you might be able to upgrade it if you get a
CPU that fits in there and works z 370 chipset folks and hopefully upgradeable
graphics that can't be determined till we get new GPS down the road but this is
looking really nice and I like this white this white is really in a
rubberized finish the default blue on the keyboard both the blue it is a perky
we have a Toby yeah I tracker in here there's actually there's overclocking
built into the BIOS there's overclocking oh and we've got a little bit of power
limit there it's basically the the system is like hey we're gonna crank
back either power or crank back thermals because we're running at extreme heavy
loads here and it's gonna do that to keep it from melting down 100c is about
the max I have seen that I've seen a lot of other coffee linkage laptops so
that's not part in a laptop it's not bad nope so so we'll see your full review
soon full review hopefully by next week got to do a bunch of other tests but
it's looking pretty impressive I gotta say we've seen you know there's teardown
videos people have taken this sucker apart but it's
pretty cool the noise is not extreme and I love to see how this this is probably
gonna smoke the 87 UK desktop parts we have seen you know it has been done
before and eight and a half pounds it's a really nice package nicely though
awesome thanks Gordon okay