Ronan
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Hello forum,
I thought i would say hi, since i just pushed the button on a X51 last Friday (self 27th birthday present). So i'm rejoining the Alienware community! A little bit about my Alienware past:
Back around 2005 i purchased my first Alienware, a Aurora m7700. Fully loaded, spent a lot of money on it. It was a rough beginning, with 1 mobo burned, 1 CPU burned and 1 GPU burned, within 2 month of owning it (took a total of 3 month to get it fixed, plus shipping time, so basically the first 5 month i didn't really have a laptop after spending thousands). My first experience wasn't that great, and it took MONTHS to get it fixed and only after i had to personally contact the president of Alienware at the time did anything actually move forward! They ended up making it right, and i used that computer for around 4 years intensely.
Flash forward to 2009 where i sold the laptop after a lot of usage. I replaced it with a high-end MSI gaming laptop.
Let's move forward again, this time to last Friday where i ordered a X51 R2 after seeing positive review for the small console-size gaming desktop. The price was right, especially compared to the gaming laptops i was eyeing locally. The option of having it sit on my desk was a huge positive since Montreal is a very dusty city. Desktops on the floor require weekly internal vacuuming.
After a LONG chat with Dell/Alienware, i ended up with this:
Alienware X51 R2
i5-4440 turbo
R9 270 2GB GDDR5 (There was zero Nvidia options in Canada, i hope this is still a good card)
8GB RAM
1TB HDD
Windows 7
330 watt power supply
TactX Keyboard
Regular Mouse (i own a Razer mouse)
Complete 1 year warranty that i will upgrade in a few months.
All of that with our ridiculous 15% taxes for MUCH less than the gaming laptop i was thinking of getting. I already own a nice HD monitor and a huge Smart LED TV so i think i'm set.
Now i am just wondering what can i expect from the heat and noise of the X51? I heard one of the fans comes overclocked passed it's limit from Dell (6000 rpm vs the factory limit of 4800rpm)? Is that still the case with the second generation X51's?
What about heat? Will i be limited by it when gaming after a few hours and i need to let it cool off? Now i don't do much gaming at my age, but i still enjoy an hour here and there, and the occasional hours on some online game with my younger brother.
Lastly, is it a safe and stable system to leave on for the day? It's replacing a computer that's basically on when i get up and goes off when i go to bed.
Thank you for any input,
Ronan
I thought i would say hi, since i just pushed the button on a X51 last Friday (self 27th birthday present). So i'm rejoining the Alienware community! A little bit about my Alienware past:
Back around 2005 i purchased my first Alienware, a Aurora m7700. Fully loaded, spent a lot of money on it. It was a rough beginning, with 1 mobo burned, 1 CPU burned and 1 GPU burned, within 2 month of owning it (took a total of 3 month to get it fixed, plus shipping time, so basically the first 5 month i didn't really have a laptop after spending thousands). My first experience wasn't that great, and it took MONTHS to get it fixed and only after i had to personally contact the president of Alienware at the time did anything actually move forward! They ended up making it right, and i used that computer for around 4 years intensely.
Flash forward to 2009 where i sold the laptop after a lot of usage. I replaced it with a high-end MSI gaming laptop.
Let's move forward again, this time to last Friday where i ordered a X51 R2 after seeing positive review for the small console-size gaming desktop. The price was right, especially compared to the gaming laptops i was eyeing locally. The option of having it sit on my desk was a huge positive since Montreal is a very dusty city. Desktops on the floor require weekly internal vacuuming.
After a LONG chat with Dell/Alienware, i ended up with this:
Alienware X51 R2
i5-4440 turbo
R9 270 2GB GDDR5 (There was zero Nvidia options in Canada, i hope this is still a good card)
8GB RAM
1TB HDD
Windows 7
330 watt power supply
TactX Keyboard
Regular Mouse (i own a Razer mouse)
Complete 1 year warranty that i will upgrade in a few months.
All of that with our ridiculous 15% taxes for MUCH less than the gaming laptop i was thinking of getting. I already own a nice HD monitor and a huge Smart LED TV so i think i'm set.
Now i am just wondering what can i expect from the heat and noise of the X51? I heard one of the fans comes overclocked passed it's limit from Dell (6000 rpm vs the factory limit of 4800rpm)? Is that still the case with the second generation X51's?
What about heat? Will i be limited by it when gaming after a few hours and i need to let it cool off? Now i don't do much gaming at my age, but i still enjoy an hour here and there, and the occasional hours on some online game with my younger brother.
Lastly, is it a safe and stable system to leave on for the day? It's replacing a computer that's basically on when i get up and goes off when i go to bed.
Thank you for any input,
Ronan
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