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The cables are what ruin it, no doubt about it. What specs has it got?

Low or high end Alienware it must of cost you at least £1200 so I think they should of got some basic black sleeved cables, and actually attempted to tuck them away neatly.

I like the case but at the same time it just looks like a chunk, bigger than it needs to be?
 
ShaunB-91 said:
Damn I don't know how I feel about that Alienware. I can't make my mind up!
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Like any new one at first I didn't like it. It takes a while for me to get my head around them as they are pretty radical.

The PSU is fine, it's a Delta. Their stuff is hardly crap. I could paint it, but with it whining I would be risking it.

If you have a look at some reviews the thermals are excellent and I will completely vouch for that. A rig running SLI and so on that operates on three 120mm fans is quite a feat of engineering, especially when they never have to even spin up.

Not many PCs come with fully braided extensions or cables. To braid them would be very easy because they're all modular but I would possibly leave that to Shakmods. Problem is I won't be leaving the side off so right now it's not bugging me enough tbh.

It's a pre built rig that I bought with all of the reason and intention people buy pre built so obviously that means I don't need any hassle. The way my luck has been lately I would braid the cables, the PSU would go pop and they would refuse to replace it.

ShaunB-91 said:
The cables are what ruin it, no doubt about it. What specs has it got?
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CPU - 5820k factory overclocked to 3.8ghz, bumped to 4ghz by myself
Asektek Liquid cooler
8gb 2333 DDR4 memory
MSI Alienware motherboard, Quad SLI capable, triple SLI capable
850w 80+ silver Delta power supply
GTX 960 2gb (replaced with my Titan Blacks)
Soundblaster Recon 3d (onboard)
Killer E 2205 network card (onboard)
Intel Proset wireless
2tb Toshiba hard drive
Bluetooth
Slot loading DVDRW
SD card reader

It's about £250 more than current market price. However, it includes a next business day onsite warranty, nearly all others do not. Last time I looked I could either buy a 4790k/970 rig for a grand or a 5820k/960 rig. It may even have been more, so less of a difference.

I haven't seen any rig by any manu come with fully braided cables unless you pay extra. Some do have just plain black ones though.
 
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I have always liked Alienware, I would be prepared to buy one for the sake of having one but when you put that much cash down I wouldn't want to be like well, the cables need swapping out, the PSU is whining etc. I'd be annoyed!

Do they not test their systems before they send it out, just with it coming whining?
 
ShaunB-91 said:
I have always liked Alienware, I would be prepared to buy one for the sake of having one but when you put that much cash down I wouldn't want to be like well, the cables need swapping out, the PSU is whining etc. I'd be annoyed!

Do they not test their systems before they send it out, just with it coming whining?
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Obviously when tested it had a 960 in dude. I'm now running Titan Black SLI, an Asus RAIDR and four extra hard drives. So chances are yeah, it was tested :)

Coil whine is not something limited to Alienware, so I'm not going to blame them. Otherwise I would buy from no one, given pretty much all 970s whined at launched even Nvidia's.

It's fine honestly I don't even need headphones for it. Yeah the wires are a bit manky, but then as I said in my post above these days you either get all black wires or single braided NOT fully braided with the PSU. Not even the most expensive come braided so I think people are being a little picky.

It doesn't have a window and this would be the hardest Alienware ever to put a window in given the lights would have to be cut out so what's the point? as long as it's tidy in there (and it is, the wires are perfect lengths) and the airflow is good I'm happy.. As I said, the reason I bought this rig was so I could get back to gaming and not stress all the time.

Edit, also consider it could actually be my GPU/S whining on this PSU. There does not seem to be any rhyme nor reason for it and no one is completely not guilty of it. Asus, MSI, Corsair...

Edit again. Forgot to say. The other day I had a good poke through it and this one does not have any proprietary connectors. The lights run from a molex. So in theory I could fit my Revolution 1250w. I would need all of the cables remade though at the right length.
 
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Ahh I didn't know it came with a 970 dude, I thought you had the Titans come with it. Fair enough mate, I understand your points, I just think for the price you pay, the little bits that aren't perfect should be.
 
Yeah came with a 960 which I very quickly sold for a £100 profit so the rig owes me £1180 without any GPUs.

Trust me when I say, no £1180 rig is going to be perfect and it most certainly won't come with braided cables. No rig does. IIRC no PSU does? though there could be a couple of very expensive high end ones that do.

The only way to achieve perfection is to throw tons and tons of money at something. IE, my last rig had all purple and black extensions (that I converted to orange and black later on) that cost me over £80. Thing is once you put the side on you can't see it.

What makes the matter worse is that Alienware have put clear white labels on each cable telling you what it's for. I cba even removing those tbh.

Tom will remember my last Alienware rig. I7 950 and a GTX 470. I had that thing for over two years and never took the side off apart from my monthly clean. I had that rig for over two years and then an Area 51 ALX for nearly two years pretty much untouched also.

I'm done with all of the fiddling really. Last year I fulfilled my dreams of spunking stupid money on a PC and I surely did that. Only thing is? when you come to sell a rig like that the market is tiny and you end up taking a MASSIVE hit on it. Example? my Cosmos 2, I can't shift it even at silly money.

Once I am clear of all of the excess crap I will be settling down as I have done and gaming more and peeing around less. Since buying the Alienware I have spent more time gaming in the past four days than I have for about 18 months. And with Fallout 4 coming I just want a solid, stable rig that will allow me to play it for the hours it will need :)

Next weekend I am hoping to finally buy a Schumacher Cat with full brushless/lipo. Right now I am in love with my cars. They're just so much fun and cost nothing to run once you get past the initial set up costs.
 
Vault-Tec said:
Yeah came with a 960 which I very quickly sold for a £100 profit so the rig owes me £1180 without any GPUs.

Trust me when I say, no £1180 rig is going to be perfect and it most certainly won't come with braided cables. No rig does. IIRC no PSU does? though there could be a couple of very expensive high end ones that do.
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Bitfenix's PSUs are prebraided. I have one and it was less than the equivilent corsair/evga with a braded cable set.
 
Wraithguard said:
PCSpecialist do systems pre braided or you can chose it in the extras.
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Yeah it always costs extra. I would imagine Alienware would have considered doing it but without a window of any sort it's just not worth it tbh. I mean why wouldn't they? it's extra cash.

I have enough paracord to braid it myself but I just cba.
 
IDRK what you thought of my comment, I wasn't disputing the fact that what they have done is good for the money. It doesn't need individual braiding and it would probably be disgusting and expensive if Dell attempted it. 8-Pack systems are the only pre-builts with acceptable braiding and well that's because they get the best guy in the country on it and they are many thousand £'s a pop.

The Alienware clearly isn't meant for looking inside, at all, and that's fine it serves it's purpose and what you want of it right now. It just isn't very engaging for PC enthusiasts on a forum, we are just about all here because we appreciate the efforts taken beyond that. I'm not saying don't share it at all either, but performance and aesthetics of the exterior are clearly the highlights. Especially now you've teamed it up with your Titan Blacks!

I can understand why you have no intentions of modifying it, I definitely wouldn't either, but it would make a nicer project :p reminds me very much of the M8.

JR
 
If I braided the wiring it would look incredible inside.



The only thing I would need to do is paint the PSU black and then braid the modular cables.

But as I said, it's just not worth it. There are three lighting zones on the side panel so cutting a window would be impossible. And I'm not spending £100+ on something I can't even see. Even putting those coolers on the memory was a little bit silly but at least they add some function, even if it's pointless.

It's not like I don't have the tools, time or skill it's just pointless.

Seriously, the OCD being displayed here.. Get a grip people ! :D
 
OCD would be to find it annoying that there are 2 fans at the front/top and only one at the front/bottom... It actually does annoy me :lol:
 
JR23 said:
Depends on your standards, I think you'd have to go a little further than that to get a unanimous incredible.



Nobody is displaying OCD :eek:

JR
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So people telling me to open up a computer and fully braid the wiring and then put a side panel over it isn't OCD?

My standards are I want a PC that works. I press the power button, it immediately starts up and boots. Then I double click on a game icon and off I go.

TPC said:
OCD would be to find it annoying that there are 2 fans at the front/top and only one at the front/bottom... It actually does annoy me :lol:
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One directly feeds the GPUs, one puts air over the back of them and the last is for the CPU. I think it's very good, as usually no one bothers cooling the back of a GPU and there is memory on there.

TBH it's got to be the quietest high performance PC I've ever owned.
 
I don't want to have an argument here. Because you bought a product, I completely understand why and I agree that braiding the cables would be totally unnecessary for it's intended purpose.

Unless it's intended purpose is trying to engage PC enthusiasts on a tech forum on a level that they can appreciate and respect. I can't tell which your going for and it sounds to me like your changing your opinion every post just to start an argument nobody wants to take part in.

JR
 
JR23 said:
I don't want to have an argument here. Because you bought a product, I completely understand why and I agree that braiding the cables would be totally unnecessary for it's intended purpose.

Unless it's intended purpose is trying to engage PC enthusiasts on a tech forum on a level that they can appreciate and respect. I can't tell which your going for and it sounds to me like your changing your opinion every post just to start an argument nobody wants to take part in.

JR
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I'm not going for anything, dude. I just posted my latest purchase.

It's like I said before; you can't say sodding anything on the internet without some one kicking in and having their say.

I bought it for the reasons I bought it, that's pretty much it :)

Now I expected some people to complain. It's an Alienware, something many don't get. I appreciate that, each to his own etc.

Any way, forget it... Hopefully I just sold the last thing I needed to sell to fund my next car :D
 
Vault-Tec said:
I'm not going for anything, dude. I just posted my latest purchase.

It's like I said before; you can't say sodding anything on the internet without some one kicking in and having their say.

I bought it for the reasons I bought it, that's pretty much it :)

Now I expected some people to complain. It's an Alienware, something many don't get. I appreciate that, each to his own etc.
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Exactly and nobody complained, nobody blindly hated alienware. Most people had something positive to say about it. I think everybody understands exactly why you bought it.

When you post something on the internet your obviously opening it up to other peoples opinions, nobody told you that you should do anything, just suggested what they might consider would enhance it.


If you don't want people to post their thoughts of the interior and the build itself then just post the exterior. Whether or not it has a side panel or not is irrelevant when you just took it off and showed us. And if you take it off yourself and look from time to time then you certainly take pleasure from it. If a bear looks good in the woods when nobody is there, is he still a cool ass motherf***ing bear?

JR
 
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