This MASSIVE Alienware Laptop Was WILDLY EXPENSIVE

If it is upgradable in any way with better parts, a part two upgrading this beast would make for a great video

I thought this was going to be a video about the new 18" Alienware with the 4090 in it. This was somehow better, though.

to be fair, 20-40% FPS increase with a second GPU in SLi is about what you got back then. I had 2 780Tis from this generation and I remember playing Shadow of Mordor and going from 40-50FPS on high settings to about 60-70 when SLi was enabled. The real limitation youre probably hitting is the amount of VRAM.

3:21 I have to correct you on this. That is NOT a firewire port. That is actually a Mini DisplayPort. Even the symbol suggest that too.

I bought one these new. It has SLI 860m. It was put away after I built a newer desktop. Covid hit and my nephew borrowed it for school. Years passed and he has new laptop and desktop. During Thanksgiving I inquired about it. They dug it out of a closet. I just finished doing a fresh Win 10 install and games/clients. I'm surprised it's handling GTA V and Farcry 4 as well as it does. I'm going to load it with kids games and have a little gaming/youtube kids station for my oldest kid. I absolutely forgot how massive it is. They even had the big alienware backpack I had it in. Great video!

5:29 Facts. I love how easy it is to open a laptop before. Now, tons of screws and you have to pry the lid.

Not gonna lie this thing design and upgradability is nothing short of amazing... wish they still made laptops like this one nowdays... would really like to see a second video were you try to upgrade it 😃💪

That SSD-slot at 5:11 is for an mSATA-SSD. Fourth gen Intel (aka Haswell) was the first plattform supporting the NVMe protocoll, but it was not very common in laptops yet.

I have the duel 780m version of this, incredible machine. Bought the alienware backpack(the only bag it would fit in) so I could bring to and from work, ended up having to reinforce the straps because it was too heavy and they started to tear off

You may have to see about getting the new Framework gaming laptop and see how that performs.

Would LOVE to see this laptop upgraded to the max, just to see what difference that could potentially make.

I remember the pre-Dell Alienware, those systems were pretty awesome if you could afford them. Spoiler: you probably couldn't afford one

Dawid, I'd really love to see a video of you upgrading the MXM graphics card(s) in this old beast and see what it can do with something significantly newer. The NVIDIA Quadro P4000 mobile seems to be quite an upgrade, while costing not nearly as much as a Quadro P5200. Additionally, seeing the CPU upgraded to a 4940MX would be mildly interesting (as the CPU in this laptop was already upgraded to the 4700MQ). I'm not sure what RAM comes in the laptop, but perhaps upgrading that as well could be interesting. All together, it would show upgradability is important and how large the difference in performance can be with said upgrades. Just a cool idea. Edit: also, did anyone see that little subwoofer at 5:42? 10:13 shows the laptop had Klipsch speakers, which must be pretty impressive! I'd love to hear those laptop speakers!

Correction it's a Alienware 18 not the m18x. The m18x is older but way cooler in my opinion with no power limitation, you could attach dual 330w PSU pushing 660w into it overclock the heck out of it. The Alienware 18 won't draw more than 330w it is hardlimited.

I had the 14in base model of this Alienware laptop generation. It was my daily driver in high school. What a throwback!

Looking forward to Dawid learning about GTX 1080 SLI laptops, that would be a very cool video!

DAM THIS WAS EXPENSIVE WHEN LAUNCHED! And here we are thinking today's GPU prices were crazy

13:30 worth noting SLI isnt really working in this specific case. 2nd GPU is only running at 135mhz and drawing less than 10w But i guess it makes sense as SLI was probably already dead and buried by the time BF V released

There is 1 thing im missing with in your old hardware videos - overclocking. Im pretty sure you can make those 765m's run significantly higher clocks with this kind of cooling. I managed to get extra 20% of performance just by overclocking 7600 in my retro gaming laptop.

That port you called firewire is actually Mini Displayport! Also- you have to upgrade this as far as you can now....