The All Alienware Setup

Alienware alien right here that's right we're finally doing it the all Alienware gaming setup is it the finest Esports apparel that money can buy or is it such overpriced plasticky junk that you'd be better off with a literal gain gear there's only one way to find out by donning this out of this world exploration cap and visiting the home planet of Alienware and also visiting the planet of our sponsor you like gaming well the folks over at build Redux do too and their mission is to help you buil

d the gaming rig of your dreams just Pick Your Parts and let them take care of the rest check out build Redux at the link below to learn more kicking things off we've got a computer yeah this is a somewhat notorious computer oh oh Mr McGregor why did you do that all I wanted to do was drink in your bar notorious sorry the Aurora R15 what's the problem with it oh I see the problem where's the air for the GPU yeah I mean there's one fan here but like wow that's not a good design yeah and also they

spent all this time making this massive plastic shroud to angle this case at a diagonal that does nothing for it it looks cool but out with the old in with the new hmm I'm not actually sure that this is a design Improvement to their credit though that is an awful lot of ventilation that's a big Improvement on the side their big claim is that they were able to reduce the size of the case by 40 percent without changing the interior that's how much space they wasted by putting it on an angle we've

also improved the actual front ventilation by allowing for slightly larger gaps but then they've removed a fan there's only one intake fan now yeah they did do that maybe the issue is just that we're configured with a lower end GPU and we don't need the second fan to their credit though this is something that Dell Alienware and some of the other big oems do a lot better than custom Builders this GPU is not friggin going anywhere no matter what happens to this thing in shipping curious will this

just go on here you know what I think it might if it wasn't for this top piece here it's got the same funky motherboard oh I get it all the front I O is just right on the board so there's no internal wiring okay that's actually pretty cool and while it might not have the same out of this world looks as the older chassis it's a lot more practical and it's got it where it counts it's got a 13700 F-16 core processor eight performance eight efficiency cores and a 470 TI meaning we should be able to

get some pretty good gaming performance out of this thing as long as the thermal design doesn't suffocate our Hardware like the old one had a tendency to do I think I'll put you here this configuration will cost 18.99 okay considering the specs that's not bad but will the peripherals be reasonable too do we really need this many I got my choices no offense to Alienware but why do they even need all these different peripherals when people can just buy ones from Logitech wow well no I'm just it's

a legitimate question you're gonna make Dell cry well we got everything in both colors and all of the different types so there's a lot of differences hey these look like giant ear pods I kind of do sick First Impressions what what 69 wait are these Wireless yes they are the tri-mode wireless 119.99 it's a little bit more than that you're going up 149.99 200. wait 200 that's what they have it listed on their website that's a little unfortunate with the depth of these ear cups and with how padded

they are my earlobes are already touching against the hard plastic here you know what though it feels like they have mics on the inside do these have active noise cancellation they do they do wow that helps justify the price at least I actually covered their lower end ones the 720 H's on short circuit they didn't have that many features they also kind of suck I don't want to be a total hater or anything but boy I wouldn't pay 200 for these they're already uncomfortable and I've been wearing the

m for about 10 seconds on my head I found that would actually be pretty comfortable the ANC bump that's what sitting my ears though let me try these ones yeah give it a shot oh wow yeah yeah that's right there the lower end ones are more comfortable I think this is way more comfortable and it has a retractable mic rather than a removable one I guess with this one their angle was you could wear them out you might get bullied but you could wear them out I think I'm gonna stick with the 720 H's for

my all Alienware set up here just gotta adapt the type C wireless dongle to a type A and then plug that into the PC yo dog I heard you like dongles I dongled your dongle whoop why don't we talk keyboards next sure we got the 420k which we obviously have to choose for the memes oh okay hold on a second they got some cute little dials over here on their full-sized what is this it only goes left and right this is for like when you're trying to escape a stun lock or whatever so you have a knob and

like a rocker curiously cheap printing on some of the keycaps actually it's double shot PBT yeah they're double shot except where they put stickers on them oh my gosh yeah yikes to their credit though it's a solid enough feeling board so if you're into the whole Cherry MX red I guess these probably are yep switch thing then uh you'll be pretty happy with this wait what he said why do they need this okay you put your 2.4 gigahertz dongle there and then you can have a charging thing and then it ca

n break away yeah so you can have magnetic you have cableless on your desk and you just have this like say at the back of your table you're done you slide up and you charge yeah now I feel like I got hosed now that I saw that cool interface on the other one this is just a USBC Port I saw the cutout and I thought the cool thing would go in there but it doesn't all right that's fine I'm still going for the 10 keyless 79.99 [Music] double it oh this one's not even Wireless though so I'm wondering i

f maybe the pricing issue is coming from the Dell thing where you always have it on sale right how much is it on sale 120 that's still too much it's it's better it's really hard to justify a lot of the gaming keyboard prices these days when you can get like a zoom 65 or whatever a really nice custom keyboard for a very similar price okay who knows though maybe I'm gonna start you know popping headshots like nobody's business and I'm gonna be like Alienware for life now I'm almost afraid to guess

at the price of these mice because I am not getting any better at this you do have a chance at Redemption the full-size keyboard what do you think that's priced at well I mean given with this one would like 300 I don't know you're close 289. oh my gosh but just 200 on sale how about this mouse RGB alien type c interface 26 000 DPI it comes with a little type c thing with five little contact points here and then a little Breakaway majig that can hold the there you go wireless dongle and also oka

y this is actually pretty cool plug-in power so you can just charge like that break away break away how you doing these days Kelly Clarkson 99.99 150. I hate DPI switch buttons that are on the bottom of the mouse it's like having a charging port on the bottom of the mouse like what are you an idiot it's got 420 hours of battery life are they just straight memeing with this thing like I don't get it listen man aliens okay why don't we have a look at the 620m is this a left-handed Mouse wait no it

's just an ergo right-handed mouse that I didn't quite understand at first everyone who's looked at this in the office has had the exact same thought it's looks like it should be a left-handed Mouse but no it actually does feel pretty good in the right hand this should be no more than 79.99 oh you you just think about it for a little bit longer maybe you know what it's going to be what no I don't know what it's going to be 26 000 DPI okay so still high in sensor 89.99 it is 99.99 79 on sale okay

but it is also the Dell thing of estimated value what is the estimated value so Dell on their website they list the pricing of their products by giving you an estimated value and then giving you the amount that you save so everything's permanently on sale I thought that was illegal will they explain it it's based on industry data so they're not actually listing it at that price they're calling it savings by just having a cheaper product than the made up number that they chose I just want to be

a hater here give me something good oh desk pad all right oh no idea if this is good I haven't touched it okay this is I'm seeing this when you are oh it's very small uh is there anything bigger they sent us like 10 of them but I think they're all the same size of box how much is this mouse pad if this is more than 19.99 mouse pads are 14.99 mouse pads are only bundled okay so free that is fine it's got a non-slip backing stitched Edge you know what as bundled mouse pads go that's pretty good no

hate Alienware no hate do you know what we can trust to be good from Alienware what displays oh yeah that's probably true actually okay we got options here it looks like yes 500 Hertz gaming display I already know that this thing is absolutely sick it's not cheap but it has differentiating features that kind of justify it or the qdo LED 34 inch Ultra wide they also send over one of their more mid-range monitors it's a 27 inch 165 Hertz 1440p panel does it have an actual g-sync module in it or i

s it just g-sync ready it's a g-sync compatible with freesync premium Pro 349 3.99 I mean you know what that actually seems like probably a better match for our system anyway why don't we go with this sure why is a laptop part of this uh because it's heavy they sent us a laptop I don't know game on the side of your game streaming computer you know I do kind of like the Caboose i o system though everything's at the back got your Thunderbolt micro SD okay sure not a huge fan of the headphone jack

at the back type c display port out couple type A's mini display port out actually pretty good modern i o is there no ports on the sides whatsoever nope I don't like ports on the right on a gaming laptop just because that's where my mouse is don't mind it on the left don't mind like if the micro SD was on the front or on the side or something like that I think I'd probably prefer that and I love their RGB track pads it actually looks so cool so cool yeah it's kitted out with a 3900 and a 4080. o

f course it is mobile so who knows depending on the wattage based on how much heatsink there is in it I'd say it probably does all right though yeah there's no way this is less than like 2600 US Dollars 27.69 oh wow okay yeah pretty good then another thing Dell does well is laptops yeah though alienware's had a rocky history with those that is a really funky foot it goes all the way around and it makes sure that it's going to be able to get some intake no matter what you put it on kind of smart

holy crud there's a lot of fans in here one two three four that I can count we should get something running on it I want to hear it scream oh um they sent a webcam yeah there's some Essentials that Alienware doesn't have like a webcam so we got the Dell version of it cool we also got a dual charge dock for your desk for your purples this actually looks that was not my fault is this a little tiny sound bar yeah it's a little dell sound bar it's compatible with some of their monitors it just magne

tically Clips on the bottom of it sick perfect what's this charge dock for Adam uh just nice to have your setup it's called wireless charger on the front you got a USB extension you got ethernet for what the charging stuff this just seemed like it felt like we were a little sparse for stuff from nail anywhere and I wanted to add a little something something listen sometimes the gamer got to get work done too okay the dock is powered but it unfortunately uses a permanently attached type c cable m

eaning that it has to be exactly this distance from whatever it's docking with does it at least charge this thing it does uh USB power delivery but does this laptop do USB power delivery the answer is no wait yes the answer is yes okay good show me that RGB let's go hey not bad it occurs to me though we haven't talked about the chair I'm sitting in I know that gaming chairs typically start in the 350 to 400 range whether they should or not is a whole other topic of discussion we're not going to

get into that today this seems pretty mid as far as gaming chairs go a little bit of left to right adjustment a little bit of forward back adjustment no removable armrests or anything it does go all the way back okay so that's good but my chair does do this I'm gonna say with Alienware tax they want like 500 bucks for this it's actually just 429. okay it's priced like any other gaming chair it's actually you know what that foam is not bad it's deep and it's firm so you shouldn't have as much but

a sleep effect as you would on some gaming chairs where you're basically just 10 minutes in sitting on a piece of plywood yeah your butt's never going to be asleep when it's deep and firm it's um not so secretly a virta gear chair really all of the marketing on their website links to vertigure videos interesting the last time I looked at anything from vertigir it was awful yeah this is actually not too bad they've improved good job good job here let's try out that sound bar it's USB only I susp

ect it doesn't sound very good okay [Music] can confirm Adam the speakers do come out the front here what was the price of this you know what it's a business solution I'm gonna guess it's like a hundred dollars actually you're spot on really yeah it's a hundred bucks wow that sucks these have a pretty okay Sound Stage yeah when that loading screen hit I actually thought the sound was coming out of some speakers next to the monitored up they also support Dolby Atmos it's not the most contrasty mo

nitor but it it does look fine yeah the lights are not doing it any favors it's pretty good I would game on this all day no problem um I mean I would try anyway I'm not promising to be any good and I died cool hey you know what though credit to our computer for being pretty darn quiet what are The Thermals anything oh how are our thermals I mean our GPU is sitting at 70 degrees we're relaunching the game because we want to see the monitor running in HDR mode it's display HDR 600 certified which

means you're not going to get that dazzling effect that you would from something that can do a thousand nits Peak brightness or more but it should be at least a little better than something that's display HDR 400 you can see a little better yeah you actually can see a little better um so that's good everything's on Epic and it's it's actually still pretty good I mean you can fault the 40 series for its value but you can't really fault the 40 series for its performance we're getting near 100 FPS

pretty consistently in here and over here you've been just playing with this laptop trying to get the fans to rip hey yeah these are very crunchy key switches yeah they're mechanical interesting these have an extremely high actuation for us at the very very top of the keystroke and then they just give way I am not a huge fan to be perfectly honest with me no you like a little travel before you're yeah I think they made the right call not going with a massive trackpad I've seen some gaming laptop

s go with like obscenely large track pads for something that I don't really want I'm a I'm on a gaming laptop I have a mouse high performance mode enabled let's go oh here we go you can smell the heat yeah we got a couple more FPS there too look at that uh okay that's a little less tolerable hold on hold on but what if I had headphones on closed back headphones the solution to all our problems in conclusion not a ton of huge surprises here Dell's core competencies remain what they were before mo

nitors laptops and as long as you don't mind the trip to proprietaryville I'm a little bit of a price premium desktop computers as for the rest I'd say the peripherals are suitably adequate if not the best priced options on the market like this mouse in particular is fine but when you compare against other trendier products that are for example super light or have extras like side scrolling it's not really going to stand up at least for the price with that said if you've got yourself a whole Ali

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