Ultimate Alienware Gaming PC Setup 2024 (RTX 4090 + 4K OLED)
**Unboxing and First Impressions of Alienware's Latest Gaming PC**
We recently had the opportunity to unbox and put through its paces Alienware's latest gaming PC, which has generated a lot of excitement among gamers. The build is quite tidy and small, which is impressive considering the powerful specifications that are packed into it. The machine features the latest Intel Core i9-14900KF processor, 32 gigs of RAM, and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 490 graphics card.
**Quiet Operation**
One of the most interesting aspects of this build is its quiet operation. We put it through a series of tests to see how it performs under load, and were pleased to find that it was barely audible at all. In fact, we found that the noise level was hovering around 49 decibels, which is comparable to the ambient noise in many offices. This is impressive, especially considering the powerful hardware that is packed into this machine.
**System Specifications**
The system specifications are truly impressive, with a focus on delivering high-performance gaming and content creation capabilities. The build features an Aurora R16 chassis, which offers plenty of room for upgrades and customization. We also saw some interesting design choices, such as a subtle curve to the monitor that provides an immersive viewing experience without being overwhelming.
**Peripherals**
Alienware has also made significant improvements in their peripheral category, with a focus on creating a cohesive and integrated gaming experience. The keyboard, mouse, and headset all seem to have been designed with the gamer in mind, with features such as built-in receiver and a comfortable design that reduces fatigue during extended use.
**Configurability**
One of the standout features of this build is its configurability. With options ranging from 4060 to 4090 graphics cards, users can choose the level of performance they need for their games and applications. The system also offers plenty of memory upgrade options, with a maximum capacity of 64 gigs, and storage upgrades up to 4 terabytes via PCIe.
**Conclusion**
Overall, Alienware's latest gaming PC is an impressive machine that delivers on its promise of high-performance gaming and content creation capabilities. With its quiet operation, compact design, and configurability, it's clear that this build is aimed at serious gamers who want a premium gaming experience without the hassle and expense of customizing individual components.
**A Word from Our Host**
We'd like to thank our host for taking the time to play Hell Dividers 2 and giving us a taste of the game on this impressive system. We also want to extend our gratitude to Alienware for sending over their latest gaming PC, which has certainly made its way into our office and will likely get plenty of use in the coming weeks.
**Partnership with Unbox Therapy**
We'd like to thank Unbox Therapy for partnering with us on this build, providing us with a unique opportunity to experience Alienware's latest gaming PC in person. Their enthusiasm and expertise are always welcome, and we're grateful for their contribution to our content.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso it's time for another new gaming setup and this time it's from Alienware we're going to check out their latest stuff and it's kind of cool because I actually haven't checked out their products in a while the monitor is probably the thing that I'm the most excited for it is a 32in 4K OLED gaming monitor they're calling it QD OLED and of course you guys know I'm such a fan of OLED in general and then to see it in a gaming monitor you know they figured out all the Kinks and stuff we into sort of Next Generation OLED which can be put into to a monitor without some of those drawbacks that people have thought about historically they've got all the little pixel shift stuff going on so you can enjoy those wonderful deep blocks and actually it's going to double as a great multimedia monitor for watching movies and stuff of course those also benefit from OLED so the specs on here QD OLED 4K 240 hz3 milliseconds 99% DCI P3 HDR true black 400 and HDMI 2.1 actually if we lift it up we can get an idea of the aesthetic of course it's got that Alienware aesthetic on the back we've got this kind of silver spacecraft look we've also got their new wireless gaming mouse this is called the pro wireless gaming mouse 120 hours 4 khz 8 khz polling rate of course we can also use it with a cable which happens to be included and Alienware exclusive magnetic force key plates ooh curious about that magnetic force key plates Optical switches with 70 million click life Spin and a 5-minute charge will give you 6 hours of battery life the whole thing is under 60 G you know there's that push there's that kind of preference for ultra light gaming mice that's going on right now they've also included their Pro wireless gaming keyboard we can see the RGB on full display there uh this is a white keyboard as well an interesting choice we've got hot swappable linear mechanical switches from Alienware so that'll be interesting to check out as well dual layered sound dampening so maybe these are relatively quiet what actually be my preference as much as I like the tactile click of like a blue key switch it can be a little bit annoying for other people that are nearby battery life up to 1800 hours on Bluetooth so it's also Wireless that's with the RGB lighting turned off of course if you have the RGB turned on it goes down to 72 hours but it looks so much more pretty oh here's the other thing it's a compact form factor it's a 75% which again is a preference right now in gaming setups they've also got the new headset 720h dual mode wireless gaming headset the aesthetic is going to fit in with all the other items here 30 hours of battery life high-res audio capable 20 HZ to 40 khz we can use it wirelessly or wired with a 3.5 mil connector which is nice to have in a pinch and then you've also got RGB built in there so you can kind of set it up configure it however you choose lightweight which I pay a lot of attention to as much as I care about the audio quality of a headset is it comfortable to wear for extended periods of time fast charge 15-minute charge 6 hours of use noise cancelling microphones and then in this last box they've sent over one of their gaming PCs to power everything so we're going to have the full cohesive Alienware set up for 2024 I don't even know the spec of the machine that they sent in here okay so alien wear unboxing experience the famous Alienware alien lift up here and we have our peripherals actually they've included a mouse so you get one you don't need to purchase an extra one but obviously the pro model is going to be a little bit more featur Rich you've also got your power cable up top you're going to get your antenna for your wireless and a Dell keyboard I presume this is going to be more basic than the one we have over there I don't mind the fact that they throw it in actually it's a little bit above basic but it is Dell branded rather than Alienware branded it's actually kind of slim which is also cool it's an extra keyboard for you because you're obviously going to get the pro model Alienware little card in 199 6 we set out to build the most Innovative and high performance computers for ourselves and fellow Gamers since then alienware's products have won hundreds of awards around the world often heralded as a definitive gaming PC experience okay wao it's actually cool immediately greeted by the see-through glass uh side panel here this is the Aurora R16 and it's a fairly compact system ooh cool I was wondering I was like why why do you need to have padding in here but I kind of get it now it's part of the design to have this pass through oh and then this section in the middle the reason that's there is because that's providing your front ports here we have headphone three USB A's and a type-c and that's kind of a nice spot for it I like that it's recessed this is something that often goes Overlook you may have these ports but they're flush and then the connector is all exposed and if you bump it it's breakage here most of that connector is going to be recess protected it's a little detail it's a curious topic of where the best location is for these ports like should it be on the front should it be on the top this makes the most sense on a desktop you're sitting right there it's easy to see and plug into it so that works for me I think that is all the plastic you can see on the front here an Intel Core I9 chip inside so that's our first indication of what specification they've sent over on this side here you can see you've got the Aurora branding so you know which mod you have and this panel oh there we go just Clips on this side over here is extremely clean I we're really only looking at a couple of different cables I'm not sure where they were able to hide everything but it's in there we've got a locking Port so the thieves don't get it the back plate here motherboard section R16 a lot of audio options over here some more USB options of course we've also got dedicated ethernet and we can see our GPU here this is our first glance bunch of display port HDMI and then the power supply lives down at the bottom couple of extra slots for expansion too this is where the magic happens and they've been able to include a glass panel now this was a thing that previously you'd only see from like extremely Boutique manufacturers and now Alienware is integrating something similar because obviously this is what the client wants they want to see all those components that they spent so much cash on and if I turn that then this plate will come down yeah I mean there's always some kind of unique mechanism sometimes you're sliding sometimes there's Clips in this case there's a screw which I suppose again from a theft perspective is ideal you can carry around a screwdriver but your expensive components are in there and if you're using this in a setting where there's a lot of other people you know where you feel like you want to protect it they've put the panel lock right next to the system lock now you pull it it's spring loaded and then your side panel comes off so this is actually a fairly compact system looking at it now I can see there's an expansion slot down here for a 3.5 hard drive if you choose to install one for extra storage although this unit has a couple of ssds nvme Samsung 1 tbte so that's two terabytes of SSD storage which could be sufficient for a lot of people RAM on the other hand is Kingston Fury Beast ddr5 16 gigs * 2 there's a lot of custom spacing and stuff different brackets because they're trying to be so efficient and fit so many components into something that remains relatively compact like you can see see the way power supply and GPU is sort of spread if you had a desk like this you would likely want to have this on the right side because then you can appreciate the window so I think next we go to the Monitor and I'm curious to see how this one looks beside the Aurora system wo okay many items to look at here first part of the stand ooh very spaceship little subtle alien wear down the side and yes adjustable this is not something I've seen before but it's actually labeled the adjustments are labeled I suppose so you can remember your favorite settings power cable display port HDMI microfiber cloth I didn't know this but Alienware includes stickers and this is going to fit onto the back to get a cleaner look and sort of cover up those ports ooh satisfying little bit of curve on that display and a nice two-tone look on the back of it Stormtrooper type look you can see we have our pivot there even without moving the stand obviously you can move the stand and slide it around but this is a more effortless kind of turn and then we've got height so you find whatever is comfortable for you in your setup that's a decent range right there what about tilt we even have tilt obviously the nice thing about using the included stand is that the aesthetic is cohesive when you're looking at it now on the monitor itself we've got power on the left hand side and then over here we have USB in order to power the USB hub two USB A's at least in this location and then one more underneath the monitor there's also a type c there as well two hdmis one e Arc capable and then one display port there as well see that Mo no spray the screen only spray the cloth then use the cloth to wipe the screen now the monitor itself self here is extremely thin kind of makes sense considering it's OLED oo thin bezels especially along the top Nvidia gon capable on the monitor as well it's so interesting that they marked it sometimes you know you're like I don't know I kind of like to have it 3/4 of the way but here you can just be like you know what I like to have it at a three when I'm gaming and I like to have it at the one setting when I'm working something like that we have our ultra speed HDMI certified that's confidence inspiring so I suppose you could just run cable underneath if you chose to but if you see when I tip this forward there's actually an opening here that we can run cables independently up and through like this USB power and because the stand is elevated in the back it means it's not pinching any of those cables once you're up here you're still going to use this little management thing here in order to hook each Cable in the direction you need to go there we go so very clean from the back back and the front here all we have exposed is like an inch of cable going up through this Channel and then from the front I don't think you're going to see anything at all when you do go to lift it you get a little bit of slack it's still very uh fluid you can see how the cable can easily travel through that channel this setup obviously needs a keyboard here this is the pro wireless gaming keyboard oo this feels very robust this feels very sturdy power switch kicks it into 2.4 GHz you can also use Bluetooth you can use Bluetooth with a number of different systems the receiver is housed inside the keyboard itself so it keeps things really portable and at least you have a place to put it when not in use so you don't lose it you've also got a USB port obviously if you want to use it in a wired fashion or to recharge it and when you power it on you can see the RGB backlight goes on immediately it's a really bright environment but we're already able to see and cycled through the RGB and then it settles on that Alienware color now those are really quite dampened listen to this gentle tactile but gentle obviously this is a preference thing but this is to my preference these grips that are pre-installed here keep that thing quite sturdy here we have a long braided type-c cable to connect it pro wireless gaming mouse W very lightweight extremely lightweight some of these mice now are so light how do they even oh feel this wao told you well they say that it's less than 60 G it is so light imagine your responsiveness type c on the front recessed you can use it in a wired fashion or in Wireless mode power switch on the side of course we also got forward and back you can see when I power it up you get this LED indicator classic Alienware color the receiver fits inside of the mouse like that when not in use so I suppose they've included this as kind of an extender for your receiver and in this case what that lets you achieve is it lets you get your receiver closer to where your actual Mouse is if you have to run a further distance let's say your PC is like 10 ft away from your monitor you don't have the access to these front ports you're far away from these rear ports you run a USB cable and this is basically like an antenna so you get a better connection if you were gaming mode and you were like low latency competition MLG you would realize how important this is this is a good color match by the way as you would assume they would do okay so the last item here is going going to be our headset to complete the comprehensive setup so yes lightweight an interesting texture here this is a textile it's like a fabric type feel we can move the suspended portion depending on our head size and how much we kind of want to push into that and it clicks into different spots the ear cup shape looks somewhat inspired by the monitor here we have the microphone extended or put back into its house housing our type- C Port is in the same location as the microphone but on the other ear cup we have our analog audio jack we have game as well as chat mute switch power switch volume wheel with tactile feedback this is kind of a cool design how the ear cup sits suspended by this singular Peg ooh for me that suspension mode there is probably already good and that's going to depend on the size of your head mostly it is fairly lightweight I remember back in the day when every ear cup was some sort of vinyl or synthetic leather and you would get hot now they've got this memory foam and this kind of breathable material I think the goal there is to be able to wear for longer periods of time without steaming we've got our analog cable 3.5 mm with another mute switch in line and a microphone USB a to c converter as well as our wireless receiver and I kind of like the uniformity of their Wireless receivers they're all very tiny and don't forget the alien wear sticker and this is also cool because you might think to yourself well might you get your receivers confused but they have managed to label it on the bottom side tiny 720h so you know which receiver you're messing with if you choose to remove it or if you want to take your mouse on the road you know oh this is my headset not my mouse so I think it makes sense at first to set everything up in a wireless fashion the cleanest look some people may prefer the robustness of wired but for this setup we'll do it Wireless oh that's a power switch of course the alien head and we have RGB coming on not just there but on the side and I like how it Cycles at first showcasing the fact that it can do any color but then it settles on the Alienware color G snc little monitor setup here English 4K straightway instant functionality so you're going to wait and this will be your little buddy that followed you around oh that's cool okay so don't go to the red leg oh my goodness that was quite a strike right there so just I'm just like M4 is just showing me around right now you don't like M4 no he's just T3 was just chilling previously now T3 is on the money let's find out what will what was that oh oh nice kind of liking that grenade launcher woo that's fun it's more responsive and lighter weight feeling than I expected that grenade launcher it's very poppy Why will why though who by accident well that's interesting no Auto reload and tons of Friendly Fire deaths that's these are some interesting choices that's what people like cuz you're yelling at each other you're like you just killed me man is that guy alive or dead why is he standing so still is he alive I think that's literally like a a bug on the bug there a sack of meat right there the hell is that about and don't shoot that good advice don't shoot the nuke that thing right there this thing shoot it okay I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't shoot that he shot that my unit's always doing work too he saves me my ammo hey when I got that guy saves me a lot of ammo the guard dog man my guard dog is so effective I don't even have to why don't I even use my ammo at all yeah get him go I think he's evacuating where that blue line is on the left oh my God that's far you got to to the drop sh they'll pick you up and then that's but it can get Prett look at this yeah it's a meteor storm right now making it difficult so every Mission ends with like a Sprint yeah usually like it gets pretty hairy a frantic Sprint okay so this part's pretty hard you got to wait in this area drop sh you up I got it and not die just let my dog do the work he's doing quite a bit he does all of it he does everything oh it's busy it's getting busy got like 20 seconds left oh queue it up I have the dog doesn't matter got a little okay yeah I think it's coming down oh is it it's coming down what do I have to need do I need space stay there yeah like right above what the so you always got to sneak out of there every time like the the uh the bugs are trying to well obviously stop your progress one thing I was curious about is just how quiet the machine was going to be obviously it does have liquid cooling on the CPU which is going to help a lot but then just in general like how tidy it is and how small it is I was curious if it was going to be loud this is it under load I've got 240 frames per second here and I'm playing on a monitor just off of camera and I have been playing actually for I don't know probably half an hour when it's idle or you just sort of boot it up you you barely hear it at all and then under load this is about as loud as I've heard it get in the middle of gameplay and will actually has a sound meter so he can measure the amount of sound that we're talking about so at the top here we are getting about 49 48.5 maybe on the side here I think around 47 48 and usually the back is louder yeah it's around 49 so it's hovering around I guess 48.5 49 49 DB Jack just said that between 40 and 50 is okay for the library you can be in a library at 40 to 50 DBS I mean I don't know if you're going to carry your Alienware PC into the library but it wouldn't be the noise that would give you away because you'd be plenty quiet system specs we have them here now Aurora R16 and it is the I9 14900 KF 32 gigs of RAM we have quite a build in front of us here and as far as the GPU is concerned check that out RTX 490 so we have plenty of horsepower everybody who has looked at this setup in the studio has been like you know what that's a kind of a nice size system it's not overwhelming even on the desktop although obviously you could get a bracket and have it hang below this desk for example and they've managed some kind of balance of of the gaming aesthetic without going completely overboard like it's also a kind of minimal setup the monitor is unbelievable one of the nicest gaming monitors I've looked at like we're just getting all the specs we want now it's finally the convergence of the things which couldn't previously go together like high refresh and OLED at the same time I also feel like they've zeroed in on a nice size for their Flagship like this is 32 in and everything is in my field of view when I'm playing the curve is subtle it's not overwhelming it's just a nice little touch and the same with the peripherals like this mouse has surprised me I love the way it houses the receiver the headset keyboard mouse combo it's just very integrated maybe more so than other gaming PCs because in this case Alienware is controlling the whole experience and that's kind of their advantage that they make this variety of components made to work together and I really feel like they kind of stepped their game up here in the peripheral category now if we're talking about specifications this is the top tier we've got the top chip and we've also got the top GPU but there are a number of different ways that you can configure this 4060 4060 TI 4070 70 TI 70 super 4080 and then obviously the 4090 which boosts the price quite a bit you can even do AMD Graphics if you choose to memory options go up to 64 gigs storage options go up to 4 terb for pcie and vme and then there's dual Drive configurations where you can do more than one SSD or you can put some added storage in there so many different ways to set it up as you please you're getting an integrated experience from a system maker that obviously builds tons of these things you're sort of getting the backbone of Dell and you're getting something that's tight and tidy and meant to work together and with their current accessories you're getting something that doesn't leave you wishing you had some third party option because you've got something that's a lot closer to that Pro level or that premium level of gaming peripheral it's just coming from the first party system maker in this case all right so shout out to both will for making me play hell divers 2 giving me a a taste of the hot title right now and also thanks to Alienware for sending over their latest this is definitely going to get some use around here in the office and of course for partnering with unbox therapy very coolso it's time for another new gaming setup and this time it's from Alienware we're going to check out their latest stuff and it's kind of cool because I actually haven't checked out their products in a while the monitor is probably the thing that I'm the most excited for it is a 32in 4K OLED gaming monitor they're calling it QD OLED and of course you guys know I'm such a fan of OLED in general and then to see it in a gaming monitor you know they figured out all the Kinks and stuff we into sort of Next Generation OLED which can be put into to a monitor without some of those drawbacks that people have thought about historically they've got all the little pixel shift stuff going on so you can enjoy those wonderful deep blocks and actually it's going to double as a great multimedia monitor for watching movies and stuff of course those also benefit from OLED so the specs on here QD OLED 4K 240 hz3 milliseconds 99% DCI P3 HDR true black 400 and HDMI 2.1 actually if we lift it up we can get an idea of the aesthetic of course it's got that Alienware aesthetic on the back we've got this kind of silver spacecraft look we've also got their new wireless gaming mouse this is called the pro wireless gaming mouse 120 hours 4 khz 8 khz polling rate of course we can also use it with a cable which happens to be included and Alienware exclusive magnetic force key plates ooh curious about that magnetic force key plates Optical switches with 70 million click life Spin and a 5-minute charge will give you 6 hours of battery life the whole thing is under 60 G you know there's that push there's that kind of preference for ultra light gaming mice that's going on right now they've also included their Pro wireless gaming keyboard we can see the RGB on full display there uh this is a white keyboard as well an interesting choice we've got hot swappable linear mechanical switches from Alienware so that'll be interesting to check out as well dual layered sound dampening so maybe these are relatively quiet what actually be my preference as much as I like the tactile click of like a blue key switch it can be a little bit annoying for other people that are nearby battery life up to 1800 hours on Bluetooth so it's also Wireless that's with the RGB lighting turned off of course if you have the RGB turned on it goes down to 72 hours but it looks so much more pretty oh here's the other thing it's a compact form factor it's a 75% which again is a preference right now in gaming setups they've also got the new headset 720h dual mode wireless gaming headset the aesthetic is going to fit in with all the other items here 30 hours of battery life high-res audio capable 20 HZ to 40 khz we can use it wirelessly or wired with a 3.5 mil connector which is nice to have in a pinch and then you've also got RGB built in there so you can kind of set it up configure it however you choose lightweight which I pay a lot of attention to as much as I care about the audio quality of a headset is it comfortable to wear for extended periods of time fast charge 15-minute charge 6 hours of use noise cancelling microphones and then in this last box they've sent over one of their gaming PCs to power everything so we're going to have the full cohesive Alienware set up for 2024 I don't even know the spec of the machine that they sent in here okay so alien wear unboxing experience the famous Alienware alien lift up here and we have our peripherals actually they've included a mouse so you get one you don't need to purchase an extra one but obviously the pro model is going to be a little bit more featur Rich you've also got your power cable up top you're going to get your antenna for your wireless and a Dell keyboard I presume this is going to be more basic than the one we have over there I don't mind the fact that they throw it in actually it's a little bit above basic but it is Dell branded rather than Alienware branded it's actually kind of slim which is also cool it's an extra keyboard for you because you're obviously going to get the pro model Alienware little card in 199 6 we set out to build the most Innovative and high performance computers for ourselves and fellow Gamers since then alienware's products have won hundreds of awards around the world often heralded as a definitive gaming PC experience okay wao it's actually cool immediately greeted by the see-through glass uh side panel here this is the Aurora R16 and it's a fairly compact system ooh cool I was wondering I was like why why do you need to have padding in here but I kind of get it now it's part of the design to have this pass through oh and then this section in the middle the reason that's there is because that's providing your front ports here we have headphone three USB A's and a type-c and that's kind of a nice spot for it I like that it's recessed this is something that often goes Overlook you may have these ports but they're flush and then the connector is all exposed and if you bump it it's breakage here most of that connector is going to be recess protected it's a little detail it's a curious topic of where the best location is for these ports like should it be on the front should it be on the top this makes the most sense on a desktop you're sitting right there it's easy to see and plug into it so that works for me I think that is all the plastic you can see on the front here an Intel Core I9 chip inside so that's our first indication of what specification they've sent over on this side here you can see you've got the Aurora branding so you know which mod you have and this panel oh there we go just Clips on this side over here is extremely clean I we're really only looking at a couple of different cables I'm not sure where they were able to hide everything but it's in there we've got a locking Port so the thieves don't get it the back plate here motherboard section R16 a lot of audio options over here some more USB options of course we've also got dedicated ethernet and we can see our GPU here this is our first glance bunch of display port HDMI and then the power supply lives down at the bottom couple of extra slots for expansion too this is where the magic happens and they've been able to include a glass panel now this was a thing that previously you'd only see from like extremely Boutique manufacturers and now Alienware is integrating something similar because obviously this is what the client wants they want to see all those components that they spent so much cash on and if I turn that then this plate will come down yeah I mean there's always some kind of unique mechanism sometimes you're sliding sometimes there's Clips in this case there's a screw which I suppose again from a theft perspective is ideal you can carry around a screwdriver but your expensive components are in there and if you're using this in a setting where there's a lot of other people you know where you feel like you want to protect it they've put the panel lock right next to the system lock now you pull it it's spring loaded and then your side panel comes off so this is actually a fairly compact system looking at it now I can see there's an expansion slot down here for a 3.5 hard drive if you choose to install one for extra storage although this unit has a couple of ssds nvme Samsung 1 tbte so that's two terabytes of SSD storage which could be sufficient for a lot of people RAM on the other hand is Kingston Fury Beast ddr5 16 gigs * 2 there's a lot of custom spacing and stuff different brackets because they're trying to be so efficient and fit so many components into something that remains relatively compact like you can see see the way power supply and GPU is sort of spread if you had a desk like this you would likely want to have this on the right side because then you can appreciate the window so I think next we go to the Monitor and I'm curious to see how this one looks beside the Aurora system wo okay many items to look at here first part of the stand ooh very spaceship little subtle alien wear down the side and yes adjustable this is not something I've seen before but it's actually labeled the adjustments are labeled I suppose so you can remember your favorite settings power cable display port HDMI microfiber cloth I didn't know this but Alienware includes stickers and this is going to fit onto the back to get a cleaner look and sort of cover up those ports ooh satisfying little bit of curve on that display and a nice two-tone look on the back of it Stormtrooper type look you can see we have our pivot there even without moving the stand obviously you can move the stand and slide it around but this is a more effortless kind of turn and then we've got height so you find whatever is comfortable for you in your setup that's a decent range right there what about tilt we even have tilt obviously the nice thing about using the included stand is that the aesthetic is cohesive when you're looking at it now on the monitor itself we've got power on the left hand side and then over here we have USB in order to power the USB hub two USB A's at least in this location and then one more underneath the monitor there's also a type c there as well two hdmis one e Arc capable and then one display port there as well see that Mo no spray the screen only spray the cloth then use the cloth to wipe the screen now the monitor itself self here is extremely thin kind of makes sense considering it's OLED oo thin bezels especially along the top Nvidia gon capable on the monitor as well it's so interesting that they marked it sometimes you know you're like I don't know I kind of like to have it 3/4 of the way but here you can just be like you know what I like to have it at a three when I'm gaming and I like to have it at the one setting when I'm working something like that we have our ultra speed HDMI certified that's confidence inspiring so I suppose you could just run cable underneath if you chose to but if you see when I tip this forward there's actually an opening here that we can run cables independently up and through like this USB power and because the stand is elevated in the back it means it's not pinching any of those cables once you're up here you're still going to use this little management thing here in order to hook each Cable in the direction you need to go there we go so very clean from the back back and the front here all we have exposed is like an inch of cable going up through this Channel and then from the front I don't think you're going to see anything at all when you do go to lift it you get a little bit of slack it's still very uh fluid you can see how the cable can easily travel through that channel this setup obviously needs a keyboard here this is the pro wireless gaming keyboard oo this feels very robust this feels very sturdy power switch kicks it into 2.4 GHz you can also use Bluetooth you can use Bluetooth with a number of different systems the receiver is housed inside the keyboard itself so it keeps things really portable and at least you have a place to put it when not in use so you don't lose it you've also got a USB port obviously if you want to use it in a wired fashion or to recharge it and when you power it on you can see the RGB backlight goes on immediately it's a really bright environment but we're already able to see and cycled through the RGB and then it settles on that Alienware color now those are really quite dampened listen to this gentle tactile but gentle obviously this is a preference thing but this is to my preference these grips that are pre-installed here keep that thing quite sturdy here we have a long braided type-c cable to connect it pro wireless gaming mouse W very lightweight extremely lightweight some of these mice now are so light how do they even oh feel this wao told you well they say that it's less than 60 G it is so light imagine your responsiveness type c on the front recessed you can use it in a wired fashion or in Wireless mode power switch on the side of course we also got forward and back you can see when I power it up you get this LED indicator classic Alienware color the receiver fits inside of the mouse like that when not in use so I suppose they've included this as kind of an extender for your receiver and in this case what that lets you achieve is it lets you get your receiver closer to where your actual Mouse is if you have to run a further distance let's say your PC is like 10 ft away from your monitor you don't have the access to these front ports you're far away from these rear ports you run a USB cable and this is basically like an antenna so you get a better connection if you were gaming mode and you were like low latency competition MLG you would realize how important this is this is a good color match by the way as you would assume they would do okay so the last item here is going going to be our headset to complete the comprehensive setup so yes lightweight an interesting texture here this is a textile it's like a fabric type feel we can move the suspended portion depending on our head size and how much we kind of want to push into that and it clicks into different spots the ear cup shape looks somewhat inspired by the monitor here we have the microphone extended or put back into its house housing our type- C Port is in the same location as the microphone but on the other ear cup we have our analog audio jack we have game as well as chat mute switch power switch volume wheel with tactile feedback this is kind of a cool design how the ear cup sits suspended by this singular Peg ooh for me that suspension mode there is probably already good and that's going to depend on the size of your head mostly it is fairly lightweight I remember back in the day when every ear cup was some sort of vinyl or synthetic leather and you would get hot now they've got this memory foam and this kind of breathable material I think the goal there is to be able to wear for longer periods of time without steaming we've got our analog cable 3.5 mm with another mute switch in line and a microphone USB a to c converter as well as our wireless receiver and I kind of like the uniformity of their Wireless receivers they're all very tiny and don't forget the alien wear sticker and this is also cool because you might think to yourself well might you get your receivers confused but they have managed to label it on the bottom side tiny 720h so you know which receiver you're messing with if you choose to remove it or if you want to take your mouse on the road you know oh this is my headset not my mouse so I think it makes sense at first to set everything up in a wireless fashion the cleanest look some people may prefer the robustness of wired but for this setup we'll do it Wireless oh that's a power switch of course the alien head and we have RGB coming on not just there but on the side and I like how it Cycles at first showcasing the fact that it can do any color but then it settles on the Alienware color G snc little monitor setup here English 4K straightway instant functionality so you're going to wait and this will be your little buddy that followed you around oh that's cool okay so don't go to the red leg oh my goodness that was quite a strike right there so just I'm just like M4 is just showing me around right now you don't like M4 no he's just T3 was just chilling previously now T3 is on the money let's find out what will what was that oh oh nice kind of liking that grenade launcher woo that's fun it's more responsive and lighter weight feeling than I expected that grenade launcher it's very poppy Why will why though who by accident well that's interesting no Auto reload and tons of Friendly Fire deaths that's these are some interesting choices that's what people like cuz you're yelling at each other you're like you just killed me man is that guy alive or dead why is he standing so still is he alive I think that's literally like a a bug on the bug there a sack of meat right there the hell is that about and don't shoot that good advice don't shoot the nuke that thing right there this thing shoot it okay I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't shoot that he shot that my unit's always doing work too he saves me my ammo hey when I got that guy saves me a lot of ammo the guard dog man my guard dog is so effective I don't even have to why don't I even use my ammo at all yeah get him go I think he's evacuating where that blue line is on the left oh my God that's far you got to to the drop sh they'll pick you up and then that's but it can get Prett look at this yeah it's a meteor storm right now making it difficult so every Mission ends with like a Sprint yeah usually like it gets pretty hairy a frantic Sprint okay so this part's pretty hard you got to wait in this area drop sh you up I got it and not die just let my dog do the work he's doing quite a bit he does all of it he does everything oh it's busy it's getting busy got like 20 seconds left oh queue it up I have the dog doesn't matter got a little okay yeah I think it's coming down oh is it it's coming down what do I have to need do I need space stay there yeah like right above what the so you always got to sneak out of there every time like the the uh the bugs are trying to well obviously stop your progress one thing I was curious about is just how quiet the machine was going to be obviously it does have liquid cooling on the CPU which is going to help a lot but then just in general like how tidy it is and how small it is I was curious if it was going to be loud this is it under load I've got 240 frames per second here and I'm playing on a monitor just off of camera and I have been playing actually for I don't know probably half an hour when it's idle or you just sort of boot it up you you barely hear it at all and then under load this is about as loud as I've heard it get in the middle of gameplay and will actually has a sound meter so he can measure the amount of sound that we're talking about so at the top here we are getting about 49 48.5 maybe on the side here I think around 47 48 and usually the back is louder yeah it's around 49 so it's hovering around I guess 48.5 49 49 DB Jack just said that between 40 and 50 is okay for the library you can be in a library at 40 to 50 DBS I mean I don't know if you're going to carry your Alienware PC into the library but it wouldn't be the noise that would give you away because you'd be plenty quiet system specs we have them here now Aurora R16 and it is the I9 14900 KF 32 gigs of RAM we have quite a build in front of us here and as far as the GPU is concerned check that out RTX 490 so we have plenty of horsepower everybody who has looked at this setup in the studio has been like you know what that's a kind of a nice size system it's not overwhelming even on the desktop although obviously you could get a bracket and have it hang below this desk for example and they've managed some kind of balance of of the gaming aesthetic without going completely overboard like it's also a kind of minimal setup the monitor is unbelievable one of the nicest gaming monitors I've looked at like we're just getting all the specs we want now it's finally the convergence of the things which couldn't previously go together like high refresh and OLED at the same time I also feel like they've zeroed in on a nice size for their Flagship like this is 32 in and everything is in my field of view when I'm playing the curve is subtle it's not overwhelming it's just a nice little touch and the same with the peripherals like this mouse has surprised me I love the way it houses the receiver the headset keyboard mouse combo it's just very integrated maybe more so than other gaming PCs because in this case Alienware is controlling the whole experience and that's kind of their advantage that they make this variety of components made to work together and I really feel like they kind of stepped their game up here in the peripheral category now if we're talking about specifications this is the top tier we've got the top chip and we've also got the top GPU but there are a number of different ways that you can configure this 4060 4060 TI 4070 70 TI 70 super 4080 and then obviously the 4090 which boosts the price quite a bit you can even do AMD Graphics if you choose to memory options go up to 64 gigs storage options go up to 4 terb for pcie and vme and then there's dual Drive configurations where you can do more than one SSD or you can put some added storage in there so many different ways to set it up as you please you're getting an integrated experience from a system maker that obviously builds tons of these things you're sort of getting the backbone of Dell and you're getting something that's tight and tidy and meant to work together and with their current accessories you're getting something that doesn't leave you wishing you had some third party option because you've got something that's a lot closer to that Pro level or that premium level of gaming peripheral it's just coming from the first party system maker in this case all right so shout out to both will for making me play hell divers 2 giving me a a taste of the hot title right now and also thanks to Alienware for sending over their latest this is definitely going to get some use around here in the office and of course for partnering with unbox therapy very cool\n"