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a computer yeah this is a somewhat
notorious computer oh oh Mr McGregor why
did you do that all I wanted to do was drink in your bar
notorious sorry the Aurora R15 what's the problem
with it oh I see the problem where's the air for the GPU
yeah I mean there's one fan here but like wow
that's not a good design yeah and also they spent all this time making this
massive plastic shroud to angle this case at a diagonal that does nothing for
it it looks cool but out with the old
in with the new hmm
I'm not actually sure that this is a design Improvement to their credit
though that is an awful lot of ventilation that's a big Improvement on
the side their big claim is that they were able to reduce the size of the case
by 40 percent without changing the interior that's how much space they
wasted by putting it on an angle we've also improved the actual front
ventilation by allowing for slightly larger gaps but then they've removed a
fan there's only one intake fan now yeah they did do that maybe the issue is just
that we're configured with a lower end GPU and we don't need the second fan to
their credit though this is something that Dell Alienware and some of the
other big oems do a lot better than custom Builders this GPU is not friggin
going anywhere no matter what happens to this thing in shipping
curious will this just go on here
you know what I think it might if it wasn't for this top piece here it's got
the same funky motherboard oh I get it all the front I O is just
right on the board so there's no internal wiring okay that's actually
pretty cool and while it might not have the same out of this world looks as the
older chassis it's a lot more practical and it's got it where it counts it's got
a 13700 F-16 core processor eight
performance eight efficiency cores and a 470 TI meaning we should be able to get
some pretty good gaming performance out of this thing as long as the thermal
design doesn't suffocate our Hardware like the old one had a tendency to do I
think I'll put you here this configuration will cost 18.99
okay considering the specs that's not bad but
will the peripherals be reasonable too do we really need this many
I got my choices no offense to Alienware
but why do they even need all these different peripherals when people can
just buy ones from Logitech
wow well no I'm just it's a legitimate question you're gonna make Dell cry well
we got everything in both colors and all
of the different types so there's a lot of differences hey these look like giant
ear pods I kind of do
sick First Impressions what what 69 wait
are these Wireless yes they are the tri-mode wireless
119.99
it's a little bit more than that you're going up
149.99 200. wait 200 that's what they
have it listed on their website that's a little unfortunate with the depth of
these ear cups and with how padded they are my earlobes are already touching
against the hard plastic here you know what though it feels like they have mics on the inside do these have active noise
cancellation they do they do wow that helps justify the price at least I
actually covered their lower end ones the 720 H's on ShortCircuit they didn't
have that many features they also kind of suck I don't want to be a total hater
or anything but boy I wouldn't pay 200 for these they're already uncomfortable
and I've been wearing them for about 10 seconds on my head I found that would
actually be pretty comfortable the ANC bump that's what sitting my ears though let me try these ones yeah give it a
shot oh wow yeah yeah that's right there
the lower end ones are more comfortable I think
this is way more comfortable and it has a retractable mic rather than a
removable one I guess with this one their angle was you could wear them out
you might get bullied but you could wear them out I think I'm gonna stick with
the 720 H's for my all Alienware set up
here just gotta adapt the type C wireless dongle to a type A and then
plug that into the PC yo dog I heard you like dongles I dongled your dongle whoop
why don't we talk keyboards next sure we got the 420k which we obviously have to
choose for the memes oh okay hold on a second they got some cute little dials
over here on their full-sized what is this it only goes left and right this is
for like when you're trying to escape a stun lock or whatever
so you have a knob and like a rocker curiously cheap printing on some of the
keycaps actually it's double shot PBT yeah they're double shot except where
they put stickers on them oh my gosh yeah
yikes to their credit though it's a solid
enough feeling board so if you're into the whole Cherry MX red I guess these
probably are yep switch thing then uh you'll be pretty happy with this wait
what he said why do they need this okay
you put your 2.4 gigahertz dongle there
and then you can have a charging thing and then it can break away yeah so you
can have magnetic you have cableless on your desk and you just have this like
say at the back of your table you're done you slide up and you charge yeah
now I feel like I got hosed now that I saw that cool interface on the other one
this is just a USBC Port I saw the
cutout and I thought the cool thing would go in there but it doesn't all
right that's fine I'm still going for the 10 keyless 79.99
double it oh
this one's not even Wireless though so I'm wondering if maybe the pricing
issue is coming from the Dell thing where you always have it on sale right
how much is it on sale 120 that's still too much it's it's better
it's really hard to justify a lot of the gaming keyboard prices these days when
you can get like a zoom 65 or whatever a
really nice custom keyboard for a very similar price okay
who knows though maybe I'm gonna start you know popping headshots like nobody's
business and I'm gonna be like Alienware for life
now I'm almost afraid to guess at the price of these mice because I am not
getting any better at this you do have a chance at Redemption the full-size
keyboard what do you think that's priced at well I mean given with this one would
like 300 I don't know you're close 289.
oh my gosh but just 200 on sale how
about this mouse RGB alien type c interface 26
000 DPI it comes with a little type c thing with five little contact points
here and then a little Breakaway majig that can hold the
there you go wireless dongle and also
okay this is actually pretty cool plug-in power so you can just charge
like that break away break away how you doing
these days Kelly Clarkson 99.99 150.
I hate DPI switch buttons that are on the bottom of the mouse it's like having
a charging port on the bottom of the mouse like what are you an idiot it's
got 420 hours of battery life are they just straight memeing with this thing
like I don't get it listen man aliens
okay why don't we have a look at the 620m is this a left-handed Mouse wait no
it's just an ergo right-handed mouse that I didn't quite understand at first
everyone who's looked at this in the office has had the exact same thought
it's looks like it should be a left-handed
Mouse but no it actually does feel pretty good in the right hand this
should be no more than 79.99 oh you you just think about it for a
little bit longer maybe you know what it's going to be what no I don't know
what it's going to be 26 000 DPI okay so still high in sensor
89.99 it is 99.99
79 on sale okay but it is also the Dell
thing of estimated value what is the estimated value so Dell on their website
they list the pricing of their products by giving you an estimated value and
then giving you the amount that you save so everything's permanently on sale I
thought that was illegal will they explain it it's based on industry data
so they're not actually listing it at that price they're calling it savings by
just having a cheaper product than the made up number that they chose
I just want to be a hater here give me something good oh desk pad all right
oh no idea if this is good I haven't touched it okay this is I'm seeing this
when you are oh it's very small uh is
there anything bigger they sent us like 10 of them but I think they're all the
same size of box how much is this mouse pad if this is
more than 19.99 mouse pads are 14.99
mouse pads are only bundled okay so free that is fine it's got a non-slip backing
stitched Edge you know what as bundled mouse pads go that's pretty good no hate
Alienware no hate do you know what we can trust to be good from Alienware what
displays oh yeah that's probably true
actually okay we got options here it looks like yes
500 Hertz gaming display
I already know that this thing is absolutely
sick it's not cheap but it has
differentiating features that kind of justify it or the qdo LED 34 inch Ultra
wide they also send over one of their more mid-range monitors it's a 27 inch
165 Hertz 1440p panel does it have an
actual g-sync module in it or is it just g-sync ready it's a g-sync compatible
with freesync premium Pro 349
3.99 I mean you know what that actually
seems like probably a better match for our system anyway why don't we go with
this sure why is a laptop part of this uh because it's heavy they sent us a
laptop I don't know game on the side of your game streaming computer you know I
do kind of like the Caboose i o system though everything's at the back got your
Thunderbolt micro SD okay sure not a
huge fan of the headphone jack at the back type c DisplayPort out couple type
A's mini DisplayPort out actually
pretty good modern i o is there no ports
on the sides whatsoever nope I don't like ports on the right on a gaming
laptop just because that's where my mouse is don't mind it on the left don't
mind like if the micro SD was on the front or on the side or something like
that I think I'd probably prefer that and I love their RGB track pads
it actually looks so cool so cool yeah it's kitted out with a 3900 and a 4080.
of course it is mobile so who knows
depending on the wattage based on how much heatsink there is in it I'd say it
probably does all right though yeah there's no way this is less than like
2600 US Dollars 27.69 oh wow okay yeah pretty good then
another thing Dell does well is laptops yeah though alienware's had a rocky
history with those that is a really
funky foot it goes all the way around and it makes sure that it's going to be
able to get some intake no matter what you put it on
kind of smart holy crud there's a lot of fans in here one two three four that I
can count we should get something running on it I want to hear it scream oh
um they sent a webcam yeah there's some
Essentials that Alienware doesn't have like a webcam so we got the Dell version
of it cool we also got a dual charge dock for
your desk for your purples this actually looks
that was not my fault is this a little tiny sound bar yeah it's a little dell
sound bar it's compatible with some of their monitors it just magnetically
Clips on the bottom of it sick perfect what's this charge dock for
Adam uh just nice to have your setup
it's called wireless charger on the front you got a USB extension you got
Ethernet for what
the charging stuff this just seemed like it felt like we
were a little sparse for stuff from nail anywhere and I wanted to add a little something something listen sometimes the
gamer got to get work done too okay the dock is powered but it unfortunately
uses a permanently attached type c cable meaning that it has to be exactly this
distance from whatever it's docking with does it at least charge this thing it
does uh USB power delivery but does this
laptop do USB power delivery the answer is no
wait yes the answer is yes okay good
show me that RGB let's go hey not bad it occurs to me though we
haven't talked about the chair I'm sitting in I know that gaming chairs
typically start in the 350 to 400 range
whether they should or not is a whole other topic of discussion we're not
going to get into that today this seems
pretty mid as far as gaming chairs go
a little bit of left to right adjustment a little bit of forward back adjustment
no removable armrests or anything it does go all the way back okay so that's
good but my chair does do this I'm gonna say with Alienware tax they
want like 500 bucks for this it's actually just 429.
okay it's priced like any other gaming chair
it's actually you know what that foam is
not bad it's deep and it's firm
so you shouldn't have as much but a sleep effect as you would on some gaming
chairs where you're basically just 10 minutes in sitting on a piece of plywood
yeah your butt's never going to be asleep when it's deep and firm
it's um not so secretly a virta gear chair
really all of the marketing on their
website links to vertigure videos interesting the last time I looked at
anything from vertigir it was awful yeah this is actually not too bad
they've improved good job good job here let's try out
that sound bar it's USB only I suspect
it doesn't sound very good okay
can confirm Adam the speakers do come out the front here
what was the price of this you know what it's a business solution I'm gonna guess
it's like a hundred dollars actually you're spot on really yeah it's
a hundred bucks wow that sucks these have a pretty okay Sound Stage yeah when
that loading screen hit I actually thought the sound was coming out of
some speakers next to the monitored up they also support Dolby Atmos
it's not the most contrasty monitor but it it does look fine yeah the lights are
not doing it any favors it's pretty good I would game on this all day no problem
um I mean I would try anyway I'm not promising to be any good
and I died cool
hey you know what though credit to our computer for being pretty darn quiet
what are The Thermals anything oh how are our thermals I mean our GPU is
sitting at 70 degrees we're relaunching the game because we
want to see the monitor running in HDR mode it's display HDR 600 certified
which means you're not going to get that dazzling effect that you would from
something that can do a thousand nits Peak brightness or more but it should be
at least a little better than something that's display HDR 400
you can see a little better yeah you actually can see a little better
um so that's good everything's on Epic and it's it's actually still pretty good
I mean you can fault the 40 series for its value
but you can't really fault the 40 series for its performance we're getting near
100 FPS pretty consistently in here and
over here you've been just playing with this laptop trying to get
the fans to rip hey yeah these are very crunchy
key switches yeah they're mechanical interesting
these have an extremely high actuation for us at the very very top of the
keystroke and then they just give way
I am not a huge fan to be perfectly honest with me no you like a little
travel before you're yeah I think they made the right call not going with a
massive trackpad I've seen some gaming laptops go with like obscenely large
track pads for something that I don't really want I'm a I'm on a gaming laptop
I have a mouse high performance mode enabled let's go
oh here we go you can smell the heat yeah we got a couple more FPS there too
look at that uh okay
that's a little less tolerable hold on hold on
but what if I had headphones on
closed back headphones the solution to all our problems in conclusion not a ton
of huge surprises here Dell's core competencies remain what they were
before monitors laptops and as long as
you don't mind the trip to proprietaryville I'm a little bit of a price premium desktop computers as for
the rest I'd say the peripherals are suitably adequate if not the best priced
options on the market like this mouse in particular is fine but when you compare
against other trendier products that are for example super light or have extras
like side scrolling it's not really going to stand up at least for the price
with that said if you've got yourself a
whole Alienware gaming setup I don't think you have any excuse for
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