This Was The Cheapest Alienware Gaming PC on eBay...

Hey man, i know it is not related, but please keep up your work. The best thing is coming home from a very long day and having you check out some cool hardware. Thanks a lot for lighting up my day

Could imagine this back in the day, with all the hard drive slots full, SLI graphics cards, probably sounded like some sort of massive industrial air conditioning unit when going.

You forgot another caveat: "Willing to lug around a 100lb PC when moving". These Alienware cases are equal to moving around a 32" CRT television, or so they feel like it.

I used to own this tower. I sold it in 2018 to an enthusiastic 20yr old guy and I didn't understand why he loved it so much but now I wish I had kept that case. The components inside were long outdated, I wouldn't want those back but the case yes. I built my PCs myself after owning an Alienware tower like this. Overpriced and under performing is what Alienware is now but I would say that about any pre-built tower. Nevertheless, I will own this case again one day. Also, my Alienware tower had a Radeon Hd5870 1gb. That is one component that I wish I still had sitting on my shelf.

Wheres the seagull?

You told that you would deliver longer and more in depth videos. Since that video your uploads became even more entertaining and informative! Very nice effort Steve, keep up the good work mate ;)

Great video. Surprised the old i7-920 performed so well, I'm sure helped by the triple channel ram.

A fun video idea might be to see when X generation of processor was finally a bottleneck for Y gen of GPU, maybe look at flagship and entry level ends. Could be a fun retrospective!

Especially in older systems mismatched memory is not an issue. You just have to check your clocks and timings, as usually (at least in newer systems) it might default to some "low" jedec spec speeds

So something you might find interesting. My first Alienware was a Cyborg green Area 51m notebook which apparently I purchased in Feb 2003. I'm looking at the product manual that came with it right now, it's in the form of a black Alienware branded A4 ring binder. Upon opening the ring binder you're met with a front page that has TOP SECRET printed across it, CONFIDENTIAL, followed by "For your eyes only" and Agent followed by name and an agent number that's been assigned which is the order number. What follows is 8 chapters on almost 20 pages of printed A4 sheets, the exact details of each component in the system, the burn in benchmark results, a nice intro from them thanking you for buying a system and asking for feedback on the experience. Almost all the pages are scribbled on by myself from the many experiences of system reinstalls, nightmare driver experiences, dodgy ram and broken dvd rom drives, horrid dial up modem issues, nothing just worked and it was a rolling car crash for the most part being a battlefield 1942 pc gamer. This was a pretty unique experience back in those days, well I wasn't aware of anything else like it anyway, cost me £2300 for a Pentium 4 2.8GHZ, 512 mb ram, ATI mobility Radeon 9000 and a 40GB hdd, which was a huge amount of money then. It came from Miami by ship with FEDEX and took several weeks to arrive, and if there was a problem it would have to go back the same way, although they had tech support in Ireland, and you always needed tech support in those days because there were no resources, just dial up modem and shitty internet. Ah, the good old days, when Alienware was quite a special PC. I moved to an Alienware Area 51m desktop a couple of years later, also a good experience, the alien head machine, but the laptop lived on as a business pc for many years afterwards. It's great to see people like yourself digging out these old giants and cleaning them up, having some fun with them!

A gtx 1060 6 gb, 1660 ti or RX 570/580 8gb would be a good pairing. An RTX 3050 oR 3060 would be a nice try to see if the 920 is still capable of handeling ray tracing. Love the content.

It always amazes me how capable old hardware can be after so long. Imagine being able to run Crysis on a Pentium 4 1.5 and a GTS 250 in 2011.

16:46 Unoptimized games that somehow look even worse than previous gen titles because they lack style, lots of games just look like each other just because they lack that certain mood and atmosphere, i'm playing MGS V The Phantom Pain and that game despite being 8 years old looks great and has some of the greatest most fluid gameplay you can find in any game, and card manufacturers just pushing up the price and making underwhelming lower end cards. Sorry for going on this long rant here, cool video as always, enjoy how much time you put on making videos like this, stay like this forever.

I'm still using a custom built X58 system as my main PC with a X5670 6c/12t @ 4.4GHz, 24GB RAM, GTX 1080. I bought my first X58 system, HP Z400 Workstation, 10 years ago. Originally it had a Xeon W3520 (i7-920), 6GB RAM and Quadro FX 1800 but I upgraded the RAM to 12GB and GPU to a GTX 660.

This week I found a PC in a trash heap, has a FX-8320, GTX 1060 6GB, and 16GB of DDR3! Took it home and it turns the HDD had died and was preventing Windows from booting. Removed the HDD, reinstalled Windows on the included 120GB SSD, and it runs great! Gonna be giving it to a friend who needs a PC.

Curious on how you keep all of the things you've bought in the past videos

Oh man, I just finished one of these at work. It was ridiculously dusty. Honestly shocked the AIO still worked.

I don't know why, but hearing your intro felt like seeing an old friend after a long time away. It was oddly comforting. Hope you're doing well.

I've been thinking about buying some of these, gutting them, putting a good quality paint job on them, and building some nicely spec'd out systems. I think the nostalgia factor would attract some people.

This was one of my favourite cases they did. I think they went down over the years. I would like to put my modern hardware into one of those cases.