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DugDawg
09/25/09

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Those vents are over the top, but I must admit, they are kind of cool, in the geekiest way possible.
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Xelmon
09/25/09

In reply to This Alienware PC Has Motorized Racing Vents
Here is my take on this;

1, Why do you need all that?

2, What about the "I bought a cooling loop for 60 bucks used for the proc" factor?

I firmly stand on the "can build it cheaper" end. Not only that, AW hasn't convinced me one bit that this is all worth it. To what end, hm?

I own a steel "case" that has no panels what so ever. My power switch broke off years ago, I hotwire my PC to turn it on. Does that matter when I game though? No, and AW can't convince me otherwise.

Instead of spending money on trivial things such as looks, I spend it on hardware. Mind you, not bleeding edge, just simple hardware that makes Most things play very nicely.

For those who wonder:
E6750 @ 3.6Ghz on MSI Neo2-FR, 2x2 GB XMS2, ATi 4850
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smiddy
09/25/09

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Why are they not open all the time?
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Dangeresque (Kojima-san doesn't have to make Metal Gear any more)
09/25/09

@smiddy: I take it you don't know a lot about computers. There are several reasons, the most important of which is so that you don't get dust or other contaminants getting in. Computer parts are actually pretty delicate, and things like dust and crud can gum up the works. Worse yet, if you were to, say, spill your drink on your desk, and it dripped down to the computer underneath... bye bye computer. Down for the count.

It's kind of silly what a big deal they made about this, like it was the second coming, but it IS a very cool, useful, smart feature.

EDIT: Finished watching video... "silly what a big deal they made"? This computer is freaking NUTS! ...I want one.
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Edited by Dangeresque (Kojima-san doesn't have to make Metal Gear any more) at 09/25/09 12:15 PM

Durandal
09/25/09

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While they do have many interesting features, I think the problem of Alienware stuff is the price - and I don't just mean 'it's too high.' It's that A) it's a price NO-ONE finds reasonable, just some can afford it, and B) I can build a PC with the same specs for literally a QUARTER what they charge. And the pieces will be just as high in quality.
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Jonathan Rose
09/25/09

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Calling it infinitely upgradable because of screwless assembly and a fancy, obviously expensive and harder to maintain alternative to fans on certain vents strikes me as weird. It isn't like roughly half of the cases you can buy today don't have a screwless assembly anyway and calling it infinitely upgradable because you can have up to six hard drives strikes me as silly, and doubly so when you consider that socket types with Intel are currently splitting into two directions and PCI Express is likely to be undergoing a major change sometime before the next two years.

So while that may seem silly to me, so does using a fancy air-based heat dissipation method when your hotter components are already on liquid cooling.

Also I'm rather annoyed by the fact that he didn't explain what a motorized heat vent even is. You know, a fan and a vent could be called a motorized heat vent. But thats buzzwords for you. It's not like Alienware customers are typically from the overclocking scene anyway... which really makes all that fancy cooling pretty moot.
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Koztah
09/25/09

@Jonathan Rose: Not to mention, liquid cooling is pretty pointless unless you overclock like a motherfucker.

Sure, it increases component life - but the way I see it, if you're enough of an enthusiast to bother fucking around with water cooling, keeping the solution bubble-free and cleaning algae out of the tubes, you're probably going to be replacing the whole machine within 2-3 years.
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Matt0505
09/25/09

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Isn't Alienware essentially just Apple Hardware for PC's? Insanely overpaying for something just because it looks nice.
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IsLaNd3r - and the chipmunks
09/25/09

@Matt0505: Thank god this isn't gizmodo or else you would be hung from your entrails by now. Otherwise you are right.
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Koztah
09/25/09

@Matt0505: Problem is, it doesn't even look nice. You can get much more functional, easy to work in cases that do look better and put together your own superior machine for a lot less.
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Soldier_CLE says DON'T STOP AT THE STAR! REVOKE THE WHOLE DAMN THING, OWEN!!!
09/25/09

@Matt0505: Hardly. The "PC" community have been putting in high quality components in their gaming laptops a lot longer than Apple started giving up their manby-pamby PowerPC (Please...) Processors.

From Falcon to Alienware, to (then) Voodoo and now ASUS (and beyond), we're still rigging our desktops and laptops, and that will likely never change.

--Typing this on an ASUS ROG G51-VX1-A1 laptop with Q9000 Quad processor (Overclocked) with 8GB of RAM, NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 260M CUDA with 1GB Dedicated GDDR3 VRAM, ExpressGate function, Hackintoshed partition in it's second HDD and other doo-dads.

NOTE: My MacBook Pro has since been sitting in my closet in it's box for the last two months. (^_^)
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Edited by Soldier_CLE says DON'T STOP AT THE STAR! REVOKE THE WHOLE DAMN THING, OWEN!!! at 09/25/09 4:22 PM

Soldier_CLE says DON'T STOP AT THE STAR! REVOKE THE WHOLE DAMN THING, OWEN!!!
09/25/09

@IsLaNd3r - and the chipmunks: Owning both a MacBook Pro and an ASUS ROG G51-VX1-A1, I am confused as to what is actually right about the statement; especially when the gaming community have always had laptop and desktop configurations available to them (at least since the late-80s/early 90s), and Apple fairly recently ditched their PowerPC CPUs for Intels.

Wouldn't it be the other way around?
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Char Aznable
09/25/09

@Soldier_CLE: Don't worry, they're just here to foam at the mouth because other people have money and don't care to build their own PCs.
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GunFlame
09/25/09

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'Alienware : All Powerful'

'Alienware recommends Windows Vista'

I love that. :D
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Paradox me
09/25/09

@GunFlame: Aside from Windows 7 being right around the corner, what is wrong with Vista exactly?

And that question refers to now, in 2009, not when Vista first launched.
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GunFlame
09/25/09

@Paradox me: Is Windows Vista all powerful? Do you not find it funny how they promote it this way but Windows 7 is coming out?

I run Vista on my Laptop, and I like it.

Just found it funny, try breaking your frown a little.
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Paradox me
09/25/09

@GunFlame: No frown here, was just curious is all.

Wasn't sure if you found each individual line funny or both of them together, which seems to be the case here.
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Sarcasmancer
09/25/09

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Alienware strike anybody else as "Pimp my PC?" Their machines look sexy but you pay a lot extra for what essentially amounts to gimmickry.

I'm gonna stick with Falcon Northwest.
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suntorytime
09/25/09

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The hard drive storage at 04:28 is smexy, they should have a windowed side panel to show it off.

Props to Alienware, even though most pc gamers would swear to never purchase this, it's good to see gamers whom aren't into PC gaming (yet) can find avenues to jump right into high end pc parts.
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Rakkoon
09/25/09

@suntorytime: I'm not sure about the showing off bit, especially when not all 6 HDD bays are used up, but it sure looks far easier to maintain than the setup in my Antec case where the 4 HDDs are in a 'box' that can be pulled out, but then the cables get pulled out of the HDDs making hooking them back up a royal PITA.
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Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science.
09/25/09

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Oh god, when he touched the alien head
I shit bricks.

There are no words to describe how much pain I'm in right now.
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SupaPhly
09/25/09

In reply to This Alienware PC Has Motorized Racing Vents
I still don't get why people would get alienware if you can build (or get someone to build for you) a new pc from scratch for much cheaper
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amg0D
09/25/09

@SupaPhly: would love to see someone build you that, for cheaper.

Look I've always stated the same thing, I could build me a much cheaper computer, but motorized vents, hydro cooled stations, not just cooling the entire box with one, but cooling separate area's with several, space for 6 hard drives, that are easily swappable, no tools, you can upgrade every bit to this machine without having to go through Alienware directly.. seriously show me someone who can do all that for cheaper... I was amazed by all that.
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Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science.
09/25/09

@SupaPhly: Clearly you didn't watch the video and see just how much extra stuff was built into that thing.

Also, pics or it didn't happen.
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Edited by Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science. at 09/25/09 3:11 AM

SupaPhly
09/25/09

EDIT: seriously
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Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science.
09/25/09

@SupaPhly: Very well, show us your perfect replica of the "Area 51"
or it didn't happen.
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