{"video_id":"J-RXqNafscs","title":"Alienware's CRAZY upgradeable laptop","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2019-05-06T14:53:45Z","duration_s":618,"segments":[{"start_s":0.08,"end_s":6.319,"text":"this video from ces is brought to you by dbrand their prism screen protectors and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.16,"end_s":8.4,"text":"grip cases protect your phone that's pretty much all there is to it check","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":7.52,"end_s":15.36,"text":"them out at the link in the video description so let me put it this way this is the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":11.679,"end_s":17.119,"text":"alienware area 51m and in the words of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":15.36,"end_s":22.0,"text":"our alienware rep which if he wasn't such a nice guy who's very credible i","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":19.68,"end_s":28.8,"text":"would find very hard to believe yes Linus it has a 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at the link in the video description","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":605.04,"end_s":610.08,"text":"so thanks for watching guys we are on our way to the next suite here at ces","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":608.48,"end_s":613.959,"text":"2019 don't miss any of it by being subscribed to Linus tech tips","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"this video from ces is brought to you by dbrand their prism screen protectors and grip cases protect your phone that's pretty much all there is to it check them out at the link in the video description so let me put it this way this is the alienware area 51m and in the words of our alienware rep which if he wasn't such a nice guy who's very credible i would find very hard to believe yes Linus it has a full core i9 9900k processor in it i went really because everything that i know about size and heat and how much you need to get rid of how much of it a 9900k would produce would indicate that that sort of thing would be basically impossible and that's even ignoring the rest of the completely over the top specs of this thing so it can be equipped with up to a an rtx 2080 ti graphics card with six gigs of gddr6 memory that's gdr6 right yes it's got what i'm assuming dual NVMe boot drives and raid zero do you have a two and a half inch expansion drive in here surely not the two and a half inch drive in here uh okay it's it's got a 1080p 144 hertz panel which might not be that impressive today but it's thin bezel and there's a plan for later this year to upgrade it to 240 hertz and they've done all of this within like i would say a fairly slim desktop replacement form factor but it gets even crazier because while desktop replacements are kind of a replacement for the performance of a desktop they have never been a replacement for the upgrade ability of a desktop and that is where they really surprised me they're actually going to allow me to open this so i need my tool kit where'd it go got it and they're going to let us crack it open to see how they have achieved upgradable graphics on this machine actually we're going to move over here so couple things jump out at us right away that's a 90 watt hour battery so in spite of the size we are still getting right up against the limit to what you are allowed to put in a laptop in order for it to be able to be carried on an airplane there's that two and a half inch drive bay that we talked about before they somehow managed to put four dimm slots on the bloody thing even though with 32 gig dimms upcoming that's not even entirely necessary we've got m.2 expansion slot right here number one and then i don't see number two here's an m.2.5 something label i don't know what that's to do with but uh i guess we'll find the other one a little bit later and we've got cooling fans i think we're gonna have to go deeper so del says i actually won't need help with that because they've provided a handy dandy little key here for all the screws that i need in order to remove this um what is this called again rip cage the rib cage okay cool so we need 14 l8s here we go one ah two ah okay so now we're pulling off this back shroud here that covers up the rear i o as well as these incredibly beefy looking heat sinks so you can see they've got support for their external graphics not that there's anything much more powerful than what's already in here external display Ethernet dual power inputs because hey that's a thing um let's go ahead and remove some more screws get that rib cage off there we go so we're disconnecting the battery now this is an important first step so we just pulled uh this appears to be what the display output for the built-in display i don't know i'm kind of guessing at this point but we're actually getting very close to being able to get a better look at where we're going with this here okay so these wi-fi antennas do i need to pop these off yeah it looks like i might be able to hold on a second it might be able to furnish it this one though this one's got to go shoop hard drive okay this one we're good this one i'm getting caught but it's on this i think we're good on that this guy's gotta go webcam oh we're getting close i can feel it uh oh this hard drive cable management actually has to come out there we go oh these wi-fi antennas we may end up needing to remove those but not a hundred percent sure yet i think that's all that's holding us in right now yep okay now there goes the cable management for that sorry guys if it helps at all i feel really really bad no i don't that was a lie there's lies damned lies and then there's what i just said and there it is so this right here thank you so this right here is the secret sauce so here is and this is not a standard desktop socket did you guys create this socket standard this is a standard socket under here it looks so low profile you're sure right this take it off i mean it should be the standard just dropping no no no yeah the the the lga standard yes but this retention mechanism this is not standard it's a veritable bounty of exciting tech things so first of all i don't know what i was expecting well i do know what i was expecting because we've seen desktop processors in laptops before and typically they have just used the same mounting mechanism as desktop motherboards because it's a lot of work to engineer your own and dell actually uh the folks that i'm talking to here don't actually know if they made their own mounting mechanism but i can tell you right now that that is not a standard one and so that would lead me to believe that it is entirely possible that they have actually created their their own hold down for it here now the lga itself so that's the little socket that the CPU sits into that is standard so theoretically there is nothing that would prevent someone from buying a lower end processor out of the gate and then actually upgrading it down the road a service that dell plans to provide either themselves like you'll have to pay extra obviously but where they come to your house and install it for you or as a kit that you can actually do by yourself this is a really different way of thinking about laptops you coming out baby yeah you are you want to yeah i got it all right here we go i was totally wrong so it's just this ARM that's been changed i guess they just wanted to save a little space here so that is a standard desktop socket and check this out so all these thermal pads around here those are for the vrm because as you can imagine cramming the right kind of power delivery for this is a like Intel has 95 watt processors and then they have 95 watt processors cramming the kind of power delivery you need for a proper desktop CPU into something like this is not trivial and of course you're going to need all of that cooled by the same heat pipes beefy fans and beefy heatsinks that you have for the CPU itself but this this right here is the proverbial money shot because i think that most people over the next few years are not really going to need to upgrade a core i9 9900k for gaming but graphics cards those keep moving and that's where you're going to see you know a 30 or 40 uplift and performance generation over generation that is as long as NVIDIA has their way and this is the piece that dell says they would like obviously bad stuff can happen the spec could change to such a degree that it's impossible but that they would like to be user upgradable in the future now if you're familiar with notebook graphics you will already know that this is not an mxm module so that was the previous standard for upgradable or modular graphics and laptops but NVIDIA in their infinite wisdom is trying to kill it or not trying to kill it they have killed it so dell actually leaned on the engineering prowess of their precision team to just go well if you're not going to support the standard then damn it i guess we'll do it ourselves so the idea here is that you could remove this with a couple of screws and not only you remove this right here and not only would you be able to change the performance you could even change the outputs on this thing so you could support future display standards like HDMI 2.1 for example pretty flippin cool now all that's left is to um leave you guys to put this back together because i've got another appointment thank you guys thanks and also to tell you guys about our sponsor dbrand so dbrand is sponsoring our trip here to ces 2019 their grip case is as you can imagine very grippy it's Linus proof because otherwise realistically they wouldn't let me endorse it and it's got their super clicky buttons as well as their trademark customizability so you got your precision cut true texture 3m vinyl skins and pretty much any color you could want the other big thing this year is they're prism screen protectors they've got an applicator so it goes on super easily you get a perfect fit every time and the impact resistance of this thing is quite frankly it's 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