Alienware is built to last?

[Shadow]

I bought my Alienware Aurora R10 Ryzen Edition with a 3080 in 2020 when CP 2077 came out and I can't believe that this rig is still running fine after so long and poor cooling and dust galore.

[Pscht]

Three years is hardly "built to last". Try again in a decade.

[ReBoot]

PCs live long if built well. My custom build has been humming along for years.

[mwesthoff]

Congrats on paying 3x the amount for nothing but a cool name.

[Shadow]

引用自 mwesthoff：

Congrats on paying 3x the amount for nothing but a cool name.

Back when I ordered it, the 3080 was impossible to find due to chip shortages, so I had to go for the Alienware because they were the only few businesses that had stock.

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

My PC is on year 7 and still playing new games at epic settings...

[NakiBest]

Try visiting the local PC/laptop repair shop to fix (remove!) the dust gathered. :)

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

引用自 NakiBest：

Try visiting the local PC/laptop repair shop to fix (remove!) the dust gathered. :)

I think OP has their fans all wrong because a good case should be equivalent to a continuous flow intake and exhaust vacuum. Then again, OP's system was built by Dell...

[Wolverine]

Well, when you compare actual Alienware PCs from the past
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5AC9n2h430
with what you get from Dell today, you might think differently...

[TGC> The Games Collector]

Longest custom build I had lasted around 8 or 9 years.

It's really great, I mean, I bought a new rig and I can really notice the improvements.
Even if most of the things just ran well enough, some of the newer games were starting to be a bit too demanding..

[Nige]

Three years for a PC is nothing imho.

I bought an Alienware Area 51 in 2004 and replaced it with a custom build in 2012, which lasted until 2023 and was still running when I sold it on.

The Alienware was good and looked fabulous but, iirc, was pretty much impossible to repair or upgrade. The lauded customer service wasn’t that good and it took months to be delivered and arrived with a broken latch on the side panel (where the key goes). I couldn’t face sending the whole PC back.

I still have the case and I’m thinking of hacks to turn it into a wine rack or something, but I would never, ever, ever, by Dell or Alienware again.

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引用自 NakiBest：

Try visiting the local PC/laptop repair shop to fix (remove!) the dust gathered. :)

Just use a air compressor on like 15 psi with an inline moisture filter and blow the dust out. That is what I have been doing for many years and no problem. I work at a pc repair shop and we charge 60 dollars to clean a pc and that is what we use is a air compressor with an inline moisture filter.

[Wolfpig]

引用自 NakiBest：

Try visiting the local PC/laptop repair shop to fix (remove!) the dust gathered. :)

He/She/it could also buy a case with......dust filters (or if possible add some to the current case).

Im always surprised how dust free my case is when i look in it after some longer time, compared to the cases i had without extra filters.

[Azure Fang]

When Alienware was owned by Alienware, they sold well-built but overly expensive builds. Modern Alienware owned by Dell sells trash Dell builds slapped with the Alienware brand so they can mark them up to bilk gullible "gamers". Even if even if you paid the "silicon shortage premium" for the 3080, you still overpaid for the entire rig. Modern Alienwares usually fail after 3-5 years, and the most common culprits are the PSU and motherboard as those are the two parts Dell commonly cheap out on and some of their OEM manufacturers are still using surviving capacitors from the capacitor plague.[en.wikipedia.org]

引用自 John Johnson：

引用自 NakiBest：

Try visiting the local PC/laptop repair shop to fix (remove!) the dust gathered. :)

Just use a air compressor on like 15 psi with an inline moisture filter and blow the dust out. That is what I have been doing for many years and no problem. I work at a pc repair shop and we charge 60 dollars to clean a pc and that is what we use is a air compressor with an inline moisture filter.

Besides being a good investment as a household utility, a good air compressor is a perfect PC duster. Some think microelectronics are too fragile, but you don't hold the nozzle inches away from the case like you would a can of air. Plus, there's the added benefit (compared to canned gasses) that you're not risking thermas stress/shock as the air is usually room temperature if not heated slightly indirectly by the pump.

[Brian9824]

My last build is going on 10+ years. It got passed down to the wife who now uses it.

[MoonC A T]

引用自 mwesthoff：

Congrats on paying 3x the amount for nothing but a cool name.

It stopped being cool years ago for anyone who knows anything about PCs