Using Alienware's BEST Laptop... 8 Years Later!

[@psivewri]

Check out the awesome TCL C-Series range here: bit.ly/3wolAEk

[@ethn_oce5941]

nice

[@realcartoongirl]

you monster you didn't clean off all the paste on the gpu

[@psivewri]

@@realcartoongirl that stuff on the edges doesn't matter at all. It's really hard and I'd risk ripping off the small capacitors.

[@TrollDenied]

Respecfully the 17 wasnt the best, the 18 was. dual gpus, big screen, beefy power brick and heavy. i had one second hand myself with the i7-4910 and 880ms sadly it died on me before i could swap 980ms into it. its no biggie cause i ended up getting a great deal on a laptop with a 2070 in it for real cheap.

[@SyrizerEnxvity]

can you tell me what is that car game pls l subcribe to you

[@mbrooker79]

I rebuild/refurbish these laptops as a little side hobby and it's fun to see other people still using them. They were the last of the truly upgradeable Alienware laptops. They can even take a Quadro RTX 3000.

[@DevPatel-lo5kw]

great hobby dude

[@Me-eb3wv]

Based hobby

[@RandomThingReviews]

I have one that I bought recently. Screen turns on with some dim kind of lines and square shapes then goes black. Does not work with hdmi. I replaced the ram and I’m about to replace cmos battery and new thermal paste. Any recommendations?

[@nkarim4979]

@@RandomThingReviews Did you ever figure out what was wrong?

[@RandomThingReviews]

@@nkarim4979 at this point I’m convinced the gpu is bad. So I’m waiting to find another one with a bad screen and a good motherboard, gpu, cpu to swap

[@Obie327]

I ended up going with the ASUS Rog Strix 17incher in October of 2014. My unit was equipped with 12 gigs of ram and the GTX 860m Maxwell GPU. This gaming Laptop is still a beast and I use it as my mobile Vacation/travel system when away. Rock solid and surprisingly fast to this day. I can't believe it's been 8 years since I bought new!? Great Laptop when Laptops were built like tanks. Thanks Psivewri for the review!

[@curlyefrain9879]

They werent built like tanks,not at all bro. I remember one of my laptops got its ram broken due to simple fast tapping and had to take it to the repair shop.Nowadays they are more solid.Steam deck for example(still laptop)

[@Tattooed_goldenretriever]

how have you kept it going for that long? my hope is to keep my brand new gaming laptop for at least 5 years to go through uni

[@Obie327]

@@Tattooed_goldenretriever I guess it was luck? I did have my issues and skepticism in the beginning with Nvidia driver issues. I remembered a rough early start. A Year later upgraded to Window 10 Pro/SSD Boot/16 Gigs of ram. It's been rock solid since after a little while with Win 10. My Laptop sits next to me on a small table with a cooling Pad underneath. I only really move it when on the road/Vacation. Original battery still holding up great.

[@abdur1300]

Can it runs RDD2 or Battlefield 5?

[@wizzrobe3896]

I used one of these with for a while and stuck in a 4930mx and put in an MSI 1070 MXM. With some other mods and some custom heatsinks, it performed quite well. The only limitation was the max of around 118-122 watts the MXM slot could provide for the GPU.

[@WweBreezybre]

I currently have a 980m in my old one. I was thinking of upgrading to a 1070 but didnt seem worth it for the price.

[@ted.8631]

interesting

[@ted.8631]

@@WweBreezybre the 1080 is the best I think.

[@VeeIn3D]

@@ted.8631 Sorry g dfe Edit: Somehow I commented this while mowing my lawn and I kinda want to just leave it

[@rulvra3072]

GPU bottlenecks be like

[@Code_String]

Damn, seeing this is.. something. I have an m17x R4 and 17 R1 laying around. They were the main laptops before I gave everyone appropriate 2021/2022 laptops. Loved their modularity, it made me a lot more confident at dismantling laptops entirely. Albeit these computers aren't being used much anymore, I've planned on getting rid of the MXM GPUs and keep them as backup/server machines with a little touch of novelty.

[@TruenoG777]

if you don't want them you can sell them to me: v

[@Gadgetman1989]

One of the best things about this particular model is how if you wire a PS3/console to the HDMI it doubles as a handy on the go monitor with really good sound, I loved mine until the mobo went belly up and cooked both my GPU and itself, awesome video dude!!

[@Xillios]

THIS. This feature along with the upgradeable nature of both the CPU and GPU is the reason why this laptop still kicks ass. We will see nothing like it ever again unfortunately.

[@iSamYTBackup]

for the money that's a damn good laptop

[@Wile._E_Shitterman]

my uncle had bought this around when it came out and i grew up playing this, he passed in 2018 and got passed down to me and played it practically every day, sadly it stopped working, probably fixable but it's great to see that this laptop is still a good option for today

[@sawyerstiltz7343]

What is the laptop doing?

[@Wile._E_Shitterman]

@@sawyerstiltz7343 if you try to turn it on it'll stay on the blue screen with the loading circle and then it'll go black for a second and do that infinitely

[@NatK2010]

@@Wile._E_Shitterman Reinstall the Windows Installation. The Laptop is fine, but the Operating System is corrupt.

[@stevens1041]

I remember wanting one of these. Their desktops at the time had the same light/material design

[@thomasmacdonough288]

I still use a very similar laptop to this, a late 2015-17R3 with a 4k display, 970M, i7 and 16gigs of ram. Its served me well for 7 years, and by God it'll serve me many more. Its archaic, gets hot asf, and weighs half a ton, yet it's still strong enough to do what I need it to do, truly a fantastic machine.

[@siamfoxtyson3793]

I have an Alienware 18, had it for 2 years, it's still a beast today!

[@unicodefox]

I actually had the 14" version of this machine, not as high specced though (4th gen i5, GTX 750M, 8GB DDR3 & shipped 750GB WD Black), and it was a TANK (I have let the magic smoke out, twice, and it still works) and ran better than newer machines in some environments due to the massive amounts of cooling.

[@mitchelldrake7113]

This was my first gaming laptop and I still use it after upgrading some parts. It basically functions as a desktop for me

[@CYB3R2K]

My rule for gaming laptops: they are fine AS LONG as you dont expect to play the latest games. Usually theyre better for games that came out 3 - 5 years ago. Of course for small indie games they're fine.

[@Chrysalis4]

Recently switched from an alienware laptop with a 970m to a 3080 5950x pc. My laptop has done me well for 4 years straight and couldn't be more grateful for it's wonderful performance.

[@notfrostydev]

I have always wanted one of those when it was released.

[@BeckyAnn6879]

I have the little sister to this (the 2016 model) with an i7-6700HQ and 970M GPU. Using it right now to type this. We upped the RAM to the max 32 GB and swapped the 7200 RPM 1 TB HDD for a 1 TB SSD. I don't game HARD, but I find it handles EA titles like Plants vs Zombies: Battle for Neighborville and The Sims 4 on Ultra-high settings with no issues. Only probs this really has is the keyboard is shot, so I use a Logitech G Pro TKL and I think one USB port is acting shoddy.

[@Jack_Meadows]

Nice Keychron Q8! Just pi ked one up myself and love the Aloce layout 😃

[@WweBreezybre]

I was trying to stop mine from constantly restarting a couple months back. Maybe the gpu fan shutting off may have been my problem. I'll have to give that fan curve program a shot to see if it'll fix my problem.

[@psivewri]

Definitely worth a shot. I was pretty stuck until I realised I needed to do that :)

[@greendreeegon]

Yeah I’m sure it’s because ur gpu fan is stopping and it’s getting too hot and is restarting for safety. Try to clean the fan or something. Had that problem with my pc

[@ted.8631]

I use a cooling stand with mine yo help keep it running cool. they do have pretty good cooling but playing a high demanding game they do run hot. I haven't needed to overclock mine yet for any games.if you can keep them cool it might prolong the life of your laptop.I haven't had any issues yet with mine. I wouldn't use it at all for games if a fan isn't working you could cook it.

[@hsvmonarocv8136]

So can I ask, do you have this laptop and what OS... Win 10? Because I have this exact laptop

[@ted.8631]

@@hsvmonarocv8136 win 10

[@Cmdrbzrd]

Mobile Haswell processors are still great, and the graphics card can still be upgraded quite a bit. Would be a venerable machine with 32GB of ram, a large SSD(Or two), an I7-4810MQ and at least a 980M.

[@siyzerix]

The gtx 980m is quite poor these days. Especially considering 1060 laptops and gtx 1650 laptops beat it.

[@Xillios]

@@siyzerix With modified Nvidia drivers installed and the appropriate upgraded heatsinks, you can install up to a Nvidia P4000 graphics card, which gets similar performance to a GTX 1070. Obviously not everyone is going to do this, but it still makes the machine usable at decent frame rates even by today's standards; if you're not trying to run everything on max settings for the newest titles, that is. Not to mention, this was the last laptop with the capability of using an HDMI Input port, effectively allowing you to use it as a portable monitor for an external game system or anything else, such as an Apple TV. No idea why they removed this feature.

[@eternalrest2859]

I have one of these and its a beast of a machine for the time and actually pretty good even now.. Excellent build quality, reliable as hell. Thing hasnt skipped a beat in years. If you only have $500 and can get one for this price then its well worth it compared to the cheap laptops of today but as you said a modern GAMING laptop will whoop its ass.

[@milkbucket2011]

Great video Psivewri! You're like the only tech youtuber i watch

[@Contemporary_]

Finally a new videos after weeks!

[@OmegaZeroKiller]

As someone who had picked up a Clevo sporting a 1050 Ti Mobile for a similar price, I gotta say that the $400 pricing is definitely not a bad find. Took me a similar amount to max out the upgrades though (shame that mine is embedded onboard and not MXM).

[@cacciatore9147]

I bought this laptop with GTX860 2GB in 2014, for Kerbal Space Program. I upgraded the GPU to a MXM GTX 1060 6GB (also the power adapter) in 2017. It is a very reliable and stable machine, and it is used for computing tasks for the SETI@home project when I was out. But it is very heavy.

[@JNX07]

You're making me wanna put some love into my 17 R3 (6700HQ/970m). Might have to pick up some of that eucalyptus oil

[@zayncuriosity23]

Crazy how this laptop is still acceptable 8 1/2 years later. It can play some older games quite fine.

[@RebeccaRaven]

I have an x17 with a 17 R4 still laying around for backup. My Alienwares never break, they just get a little slower than what I like. I love them.

[@ivicron]

I have same laptop Alienware. Looks amazing even after years of usage.

[@Criticasparareflexio]

I came here with no expectations since my current main laptop (4720HQ/960M) is actually 8 years old, so I just wanted to see how you treated the subject of 8 years old computing technology.

[@FoxMccloud42]

a gpu upgrade to an gtx 980m would bring it more up to date. The nice thing is, it is an MXM-Module. But these are hard to get. I think Eurocom sells MXM-GPUs. But a used one would be cheaper.

[@GrimReaper-jm7yh]

Hi, I did upgrade mine o the 980m after my graphics card died, took me a long time to get a driver that worked, then Nvidia did a driver update and overnight my graphics card was dead, have tried everything to fix it, but no joy, :(

[@MrKillswitch88]

Getting an 980m is easy, it is getting one new old stock is an issue never mind at an ok cost as both the 970m and 980m are somewhat high failure rate cards due to the mosfets baking to death. Some versions of the 1060 are an good option and same goes for the 1070 be it with some effort. RTX 3000 is known to work well with these machines and I personally use an mxm version of the rx 580 because it was cheap and very easy to install.

[@razorreaper8440]

Great video and great classic laptop. A little correction here the best alienware at the time was the ALIENWARE 18 or AW18 R3 with 18 inches and dual graphics... and the entire laptop components were completely upgradeable.... I still have mine both the 15, 17 and the 18 plus the vintage M 18X R2 and all of those laptops can be upgraded up to the RTX graphics and going back to the gtx 500 series.... which is no longer existent today even from alienware themselves or might I say dell ... they no longer want you to upgrade. They just want you to buy a new system every year even the area 51m was garbage only locked in one generation of components... while being sold as upgradeable....

[@NexXxus86]

I had this exact laptop with the same specs. It was quite a beast.

[@emdotrod]

I remembered my friend still using this laptop as his editing machine up until 2020

[@SFH_Jenkins]

Man I love seeing these older gaming laptops, I don't know why but there is something about those beefy laptops filled to the brim with everything you could possibly need. An SSD and a HDD AAAND a CD drive with 4 sticks of ram while still being able to cool itself properly, that's impressive.

[@arsenal4444]

@Zaydan Naufal there are m.2 to sata adapters...not nvme, but they will be faster and easily stay at constant max sata 3 speeds of 550MB/s

[@m.hreels9822]

0:28 I love that TV!📺🤯

[@lamtsang3236]

I had mine since 2018 and now its 2023. This laptop is about 5 years old. It can play any games that is in my steam library but not the modern games like marvel spiderman, Horizon etc... Fifa 22 works great on here still. This is what I use to play with my friend sometimes when he has a day off. It extremely heavy and hard to carry on your back. I am planning on selling mine later on in the future for a much better performance with the Nvidia RTX 4090 graphics card in the market.

[@kumano7323]

I own this laptop, but with the 765m option instead of the 880m. Still runs well but the 9 year old 1tb HDD is failing. The rubber coating on this laptop has turned into goop and the whole thing (except the metal top) is a huge fingerprint magnet. Great vid as always!

[@mss2981]

get ssd..

[@theforerunnerreclaimer]

@@mss2981 It already has an mSATA boot SSD, the 1TB HDD is a game drive. And, no. SSDs are not required for games (atleast not yet...). Besides, a 1TB HDD is way cheaper than a 1TB SATA SSD

[@mss2981]

@@theforerunnerreclaimer Actually, an ssd does speed things up in game load times and some textures in general terms. The difference in performance with SSD is noticeable across the board.

[@theforerunnerreclaimer]

@@mss2981 Is a 3-5% performance boost worth 30-50% cost increase?

[@gordesky1]

@@theforerunnerreclaimer Really more so the increase of performance ouside of gaming is worth it alone with a ssd :) And makes a older machine feel alot more snappier :)

[@braylonthomson]

You are literally my fave KZbin! Keep up the great work

[@nathanmead140]

I have a m17x r3 that I built from parts for about $900 USD with a i7 2820qm, a GeForce GTX 560m, 16GBs (4x 4GB) of 1600MHz RAM, a 2TB 5400RPM HDD and windows 7 professional, it's heavy with almost everything installed (it's only missing the battery) and I use it on my lap, the m17x r3 is a good upgrade from my old laptop which is a linux PC now with LMDE 5 64 bit the only problem with that is debian does not support PPAs so I can't install the fixed nvidia 340 legacy driver that works on the 5.10 kernel and nouveau crashes cinnamon all the time.

[@Cam0545]

I have been eyeing some old laptops on eBay so this is interesting

[@SmilyTheMare]

i love tcl tvs i have a tcl roku 43” 4k uhd tv and i love it also great vid always love ur content

[@logangarrison]

i wanted to buy a used one for engineering classes, now i want to convert one into a sleeper specifically for gamer

[@Denny_1776]

Wow! Very sleek looking laptop. Nice vid!

[@unbrokendawn757]

would like to see some mkb related contents from you, psiverwri. especially that you own a keychron q8 @ 6:30. Would love to see you modding that keeb

[@theconjuror112]

This is the best KZbin channel, ever! Great video! Thanks!! 👍🤠

[@RedHotUzumaki]

i have the Alienware 17 R2 model from 2015, it was surprising to see the gpu is still supported by Nvidia this afternoon

[@kylethez387]

it was my second laptop, when i entered high school, soo nostalgia for the past

[@ypoora1]

I had the Alienware 14 from this generation. It was so solid and i kind of miss having it.

[@Actuallyalex92]

Still have mine going, bought new laptops, yet always return to the 14 for the build quality…

[@jortuspelatus7364]

Watching this guy's videos make me want to clean out my trusty Legion Y720. But I get nervous that I might short circuit some parts and kill my laptop altogether...

[@LazySpartan117]

Lucky, I got mine of fb market place for only 280 cad, it has a i7 4700MQ and a gtx 770M with 8gb of ram, still hoping I can someday find a nice MXM gpu for a good price to upgrade my 17 r1, i did eventually find some spare ram so its my main gaming beast, still going proud, even if it cant run the highest settings on games

[@RafikExe]

Hello sorry to reach out, im planning to buy used Dell g7(2018) with i5 gen 8 and gtx 1050, does these old gaming laptops hold up for years? Planning to use on college

[@iranouspolaris2035]

Great video full of interesting knowledge on the model. Great job!!!

[@JustinTheMan369]

I am still using an Alienware 17r5 with an 8750h and a gtx 1070 that i got more than 5 years ago. it had been a great PC but i am due for an upgrade. I am getting a laptop with an 11800h and 3080, that should give me another 5 years.

[@themadatheist1976]

I missed my old laptop with it's 12.5mm ODD that I swapped for a HDD caddy with a 12.5mm 1.5GB HDD pulled from a external HDD bought a Radio Shack, those were the good old days of basic modding. I just finished repasting my 2021 GL65 Leopard, 1st time removing a HS with that many chips to cool and it felt look I could lift a chip. Half the paste easily crumbled to powered and I'm pretty sure I used 1/2 a tube of MX-4 for everything. I did forget to do a complete fan and fin cleaning but the mesh intakes, like what you have, do a great job keeping junk out. I still want to under volt it to get lower temps. Nice to see lots of storage options on laptops. Mine shipped with a 1 m.2 NVME and 1 2.5mm SATA bays, but there was a 2nd unpopulated m.2 bay MSI left off. Luckily the BIOS supported 2 m.2 so I ordered the connector and support components and soldered them on. Now I have separate drive for the OS and my game while leaving the 2.5 disk for bulk media.

[@FrankValchiria]

not sure how is over there but l most old gtx 980 laptops or 1070 laptop go for more money than newer rtx laptops, literally impossible to find something like you did for less than 500 euros here , it's crazy

[@vicchopin]

man these vids are comfy af!!!

[@DevilsReject765]

Looks pretty nice 😊😊

[@alinosgg]

Would be cool to see a device collection video

[@davidmartineziii7343]

Ahhh yes ^_^ I have this very same AW17 ^_^ it was a hand me down from my cousin and I occasionally use it for light tasks nowadays. I used to play MMOs on it years back and AAA games, Witcher, etc. I still really enjoy messing with it and it makes for a neat conversation piece with people who don't think that I own a laptop haha! ^_^ great review and a reminder to me that I should also clean mine out as well!

[@rokr455]

i still have my 17 r2, love it

[@warrenmcclure7819]

8GB vRAM in that thing is nuts since this thing came out 9 years ago, wow

[@LupoAlbertoVB]

I actually still got one of these, I bought it new in 2013 I think, and it is still running flawlessly to this day, apart from the battery which is completely dead. It even runs Windows 11 without any problems! Very capable machine then and now, and super expandable with a lot of slots for msata ssds (very pricey at the time), 2x normal 2.5" hdd slots and an actually very good heat dissipation system, I think that I will hold on it for quite some more time :D

[@RIPUZI]

I love the machines you find. I wish I was more confident in changing the thermal paste on my laptop! Keep the videos coming!

[@kyle7514]

I have a 2018 Alienware 17 R5 that is built very similar to the laptop shown in this video, packing an i7-8750H and a GTX 1070 8GB, while it's showing its age now I'm amazed at how well it's held up throughout the years. The fans need periodic cleaning but the thermals are downright beautiful, under full load it never exceeds 75c on any components and it legitimately stays cold on my lap. I hope Alienware goes back to these thicker designs, I'm not a fan of their general slimming down due to thermals and I'm not a fan of the buttonless touchpads the newer models use.

[@derdummeasi]

neautiful maschine. I wanted it so bad.

[@Crashoverride1234]

For anyone having mouse pad issues and the cpu fan running loud, try uninstalling the Synaptic Touchpad Driver or software. Once I removed that the mousepad was back in action and the fan stopped running so loud. No idea why tho.

[@Jeminai77]

im on one of these atm. an m18, 8 years old and still kicking. sure it cant play some most recent AAA games but this laptop made me an Alienware fan, i was stupid enough to invest in SLI back then so when the first GPU finally died i was able to swap them out with the relatively unused GPU & its fine. WAS impressed with Alienware, right up until i recently tried upgrading to the new x17. you can see what they tried there even though they removed a few features & dumped shit speakers into it, but i returned that piece of shit ASAP. upgraded screen was full of blister points in the black screen on TWO units they sent me, the second one had faulty speakers too. suffice to say i didnt feel as confident in investing that much in another Alienware. took them nearly 2 months to reimburse me and i made the move to a custom desktop PC instead. they had no interest in keeping me as a customer, fuck Dell.

[@surajshetty3887]

I have the AW 14 R1, i7 4700mq, 8gb ram, 765m, 750gb hdd+64gb ssd. It's been 10 years, got it on October 2013. I did lot of gaming from 2013 to 2018, 2018 to 2020 I had removed windows and replaced it with linux, many things didn't work due to driver problem but was enough for my college purpose. Now it's 2023, I started the laptop after 3 years and it's still running. I was thinking to just upgrade it to 16GB Ram and Upgrade to complete ssd and install windows 10, like a restoration hobby project. Hope windows 10 works fine now, not sure how the drivers will work well or not.

[@jimbilello7134]

i have one and still use it on steam from time to time

[@frostqueenmag91]

If that thing costs $3000 out of the store it better last forever

[@TamFishe]

Fun fact, i watch this video from my thermal throttling dell latitude that a while ago i used your screen cleaning method with the lens cleaner and to be honest, it always makes the screen look like new

[@pankajdas5939]

I have recently played and completed Marvel's Spiderman on my 10 yrs old Dell inspiron 15 in medium settings, 30fps, with no issues at all. Dell used to make finer products before 2014. Now a days I feel they do a lot of cost cutting like other brands

[@o_o6869]

nathan is quite a nice person to have on KZbin community

[@Faisalmajdalz]

Thank you for your video, so what actually did you do to fix the fan turning off ? I have the same issue in my alienware.

[@jokiph9830]

you can optimize the ram and defrag the storage it can help

[@jokiph9830]

😲 is that true

[@LSnium]

I dont know why but I love this Eucalyptus man.

[@mugetsu9393]

i bought this laptop in 2013 and its still being used today, back then it costed me like 2500euros and only now since a few months its starting to show its age, getting rlly hot ( i still play ff14 and sometimes WoW on it on low-med settings tho ) but i also never ever opened that thing up to clean or do maintenance on it. thing is a tank. and the sound it makes, i mean the speakers, those are rlly nice imo. ima put it in retirement on the end of this month since im buying a new laptop.

[@elsombero1747]

Ah, thx for showing how you fixed that thermal issue with that software tool. I actually bought a RTX 2080 very recently for 210$ and I had a similar issue where one of the fans would shut off till the GPU reached 92°c. GPU Tweak Software which came with the drivers, that I also used to overclock the GPU, didn't help. Even after disabling that 0db fan setting. Well, I think the sensor was broken or something like that since it was reading the wrong temperatures but I don't mind. The GPU was advertised as broken and 210$ isn't such a high price. The thermal compound was alright but I replaced it anyway since the GPU was overheating before doing that software "tweak" of the fan control.

[@diegoplayz6346]

210 dollars?!?!?! Edit: I just read the full comment and I realized the fan was screwed up

[@tobylifers3390]

Damn, our boy has the $$$ TCL sponsorships now?! Congrats Psivewri!

[@sineadpuddles]

Just saved me a battery replacement thank you!

[@Ll3maFN]

got that keychron q8 i see, have you changed the switches to some nicer ones?

[@unfortunate_chemist]

I have a 17R3 that was accidentally put in storage 6 weeks after I got it-thought it was stolen. Found it in mid December 2023 it’s in new condition the battery even had enough charge to boot

[@TheSpotify95]

That looked like a really nice machine - and of course, modern laptops don't tend to have a CD/DVD drive, nor do they tend to have multiple drive bays. I would personally have 32GB RAM (across all 4 slots - 8GB per slot) as well as a 250GB mSATA SSD as the boot drive (or 500GB if dual booting), a dedicated 1TB SSD for games, and a 2TB mechanical hard drive for documents/photos/videos etc. This really is a desktop replacement, but in the form factor of a laptop.

[@abdur1300]

U can still buy external DVD drive

[@chivalrousroaminknight3566]

@@abdur1300 As I did for two of my laptops; one of which is an AW 18 R3

[@AMPTechGrade]

This was my laptop in college, came with a 770m. It was cheaper than a MacBook Pro 15 inch if you could believe it. An absolute dream but it was noisy as hell pissing off my roommate & heavy as shit to lug around to class

[@Ionknomen]

I'm still using this in 2022! Mostly the CPU and uses the GTX 1080 as my external graphics card. Its still holds up surprisingly very well as a giant cpu box. Not the best, but you can pretty decently run newer games. For people who complains about how it sounds like a jet engine after a while. You have to repasted the CPU and GPU chip and clean the fans every 1 or 2 years. I done this in a computer store near me. Not the best Laptop or PC but it still holds up pretty well with some care. :D

[@anorepublic1159]

Please, how do you use an external graphics card, I thought they only work with laptops that have thunderbolt ports...Please can u explain how

[@Ionknomen]

I use the Alienware Graphics Amplifier. Depending on your Laptop Year, you should have a proprietary connection plug behind.

[@buda3d2007]

I plan on baking my MXM card, its seems to be having issues only when running 3D excelerated applications, otherwise the whole unit is no good as i7 HD graphics have been disabled on my machine.

[@stefanegger]

why do you think the thermal paste needs to be liquid? It just has to bridge the gap which it does perfectly if you would not finger around in the system.

[@adamek9750]

The AW13 was quite interesting it had oled all those years ago with a decent gpu in a small form factor

[@animeaspie9635]

Would make a good cheap gaming laptop today

[@spoons4904]

Really good video as usual

[@sallyk9298]

the alienware 15 r3 with the gtx1060 and 6700hq still slaps. but now that gpu's are back to somewhat normal, it is very outdated.

[@RafikExe]

Hello sorry to reach out, im planning to buy used Dell g7(2018) with i5 gen 8 and gtx 1050, does these old gaming laptops hold up for years? Planning to use on college

[@sallyk9298]

​@@RafikExe you can find relatively cheap 20xx or even 30xx gpu laptops with 10th gen cpu's. i wouldn't go near a 1050 laptop in todays market. But it all depends on your budget.

[@tru.m2063]

Man i like this old laptops or desktops. I bought 4-5 months ago a Dell E6540 with i7 quad 4800mq 2.7ghz, radeon hd 8790m 2gb gddr5, 16 gb ram, 512 ssd for 470$ US. It was the best buy for my. I mean for that king of money you will never find a gaming laptop like this in my country. Am the most big like part, this laptop is refurbished, and have 2 year varranty. I bought it from a store who specialized in reconditioning IT systems. And i found it on a official store from my country listed in 2013 for 1950$ US :)), so yea it's a best buy for 2022.

[@XTREAMER5423]

Nice job, Nathan! I love laptops, especially the old ones. Nice video. 💪🏼💪🏼

[@hazardouslogic5817]

Still Using my 9 year old Alienware 18 as my daily , only had to replace the battery once.

[@mbrooker79]

The 18 with dual 880M's was the best model in 2014, it was then released with dual 980M's in 2015 for a short time.

[@psivewri]

Oh right! I thought they stopped making the 18" models a few years prior. Wow I can only imagine how much heat dual 880m GPUs generate 😬

[@mbrooker79]

@@psivewri Well you wouldn't need run the heater in winter. The 880M was a terrible card and had a high failure rate. I've got a small stack of dead ones in the garage. There was no need for a 8gb vRAM GPU in 2014.

[@reddeadryan78]

I have it, still works.

[@puertoriqueno24]

I still have my 17 R2 R3 R4 R5 ❤❤❤❤

[@HamOzer]

7:21 psivewri also check his Twitter aswell during the game runs

[@NahashonMuriithi-pu6mc]

would you recommend this laptop in 2022 for light gaming like gta 5 or so?

[@durplenurples2941]

What kind of eucalyptus oil are you using to clean the rubberized surfaces?

[@WellBeSerious12]

Did you know MSI Afterburner exists? Also stunning reflective footage at the end.

[@Chrysalis4]

i would try overclocking on a laptop