Dell has led the way in our latest prebuilt testing: The company has continually set new bars in prebuilt quality. For Dell, no bar is too low. The Alienware R10 takes us to new depths.
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In this review, we’re testing an Alienware R10 Ryzen Edition pre-built gaming computer, which shipped for about $1800-$1850 and included an AMD R7 5800 (non-X CPU), NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti, and (gasp) two sticks of RAM. The Alienware R10 Ryzen Edition system, sadly, lets AMD down in a big way: It’s using an Intel cooler on the AMD CPU, and it’s a low-power cooler that’s starved for air. The enclosure is comically complex, to the point of being a negative in the review.
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You can see why the ABS Challenger is the best prebuilt we’ve reviewed so far here:
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We also looked at Lenovo for another OEM prebuilt here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_b0ndn5oIg
Or you can see why the Dell G5 5000 is insane here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DMg6hUudHE
And for something different, we covered the announcement of Valve’s handheld Steam Deck:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkolKam3kjU
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Guess Who's Back, Back Again (It's Alienware)
02:41 - Pre-Built Reviews Recap Til Now
04:22 - Tear-Down
07:30 - Misleading Advertising on the Cooler
10:05 - Dell, What Are You Doing?
11:40 - Power Supply
12:10 - Bad Motherboard Solder Quality
13:15 - Intel Cooler on AMD CPU
14:15 - Lazy or Malicious
15:15 - Thermal Benchmarks - CPU & GPU Combined Load
16:40 - Proving the Point
17:10 - Gaming Benchmarks
17:53 - Cyberpunk 2077
18:35 - Rainbow Six Siege 1080p, 1440p
20:26 - Hitman 3
20:44 - Red Dead 2
21:02 - Noise
21:53 - Noise Ramp
22:16 - Power at the Wall
22:54 - BIOS, Setup, & Instructions
24:50 - Conclusion - Utterly Incompetent
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Host, Writing, Testing: Steve Burke
Testing, Writing: Patrick Lathan
Video: Keegan Gallick, Andrew Coleman
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