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August 1st, 2020 23:00
Looking for clarification
Hi all,
I am excited to announce I have placed an order for an AW PC! Ever since I was a kid I have always wanted to have one so I am very excited that I am at a spot in my life where I can treat myself. Listed below are the specs. Since I placed my order I have been doing some reading on these forums and have began to doubt my purchase a bit and am hoping that some of you fine folks can help clarify a few things for me.
1st - I Paid just $1670(before tax) for the system and after looking around it seems like a tremendous deal. It should be noted I used a 10% discount code when making my purchase. I was playing around on pc parts picker using the specs and the estimated price was $1921.80. Its not perfect however due to the fact that I was not given a name for either of the hard drives in my build, the name of the motherboard(I have heard both b550a and b570 chipsets and I dont know what is included) and the fact that I could not find a comparable case on pc part picker. If I am paying significantly less than market value of the parts, then I have concerns about the possible build quality of the machine and worried about any shortcuts that might be taken when putting it together.
2nd - After perusing the forums I have seen some conflicting information on if the case will provide adequate cooling for my cpu and gpu. I decided to upgrade to the liquid cooling and from what I can tell it only has the one 120m fan Does anyone with first hand knowledge with the ryzen 7 3700x and rtx 2080s have any idea if the liquid cooling with 120m fan and one 120m case fan is going to be enough?
3rd and last - One of the lines below has me concerned "658-BCUO Additional Software" Does that mean my computer going to be shipped to me with obtrusive bloatware that I don't need and cannot remove?
To anyone reading, I really do appreciate you taking the time to look at this, thank you so much!
210-AULI Alienware Aurora R10
370-AFLE 16GB Dual Channel HyperX(FM) FURY DDR4 XMP at 3200MHz
321-BFWJ Dark Side of the Moon chassis with High-Performance CPU Liquid Cooling and 1000W Power Supply
490-BFQC NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 8GB GDDR6 (OC Ready)
338-BUDK AMD Ryzen(TM) 7 3700X (8- Core, 32MB L3 Cache, Max Boost Clock of 4.4GHz)
801-1493 Dell Limited Hardware Warranty Initial Year
658-BCUO Additional Software
340-BSLL AMD Ryzen(TM) 7 Label
400-BFXF 1TB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD (Boot) + 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s (Storage)
619-AHCY Windows 10 Home (64bit) English
speedstep
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August 2nd, 2020 06:00
321-BDXJ 850W PSU & CPU Liquid Cooling. No such option for GPU.
321-BFWJ 1000W PSU & CPU Liquid Cooling
r72019
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August 2nd, 2020 00:00
You get the b550a (oem only) motherboard in the r10. Dell doesn't sell this with a 570.
r72019
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August 2nd, 2020 00:00
You'll get Dell bloatware like awcc and supportassist. Trial for mcaffee, etc. I just did a wipe and clean install from free downloadable media direct from microsoft. Best time to do that is with a new pc you don't have anything to backup.
RobbieGray1992
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August 2nd, 2020 09:00
If I do a wipe and clean does it void my warranty? To my understanding dell will do a "remote checkup??" when I contact customer support so that they can see what is going on with my hardware/software before they do anything. Is that wrong? Forgive my confusion but until recently I didnt really know that much about computers and I am trying my best to educate myself so that I am not at the mercy of whoever helps me. Thanks again!
RobbieGray1992
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August 2nd, 2020 09:00
Ok I finally understand what you meant. The GPU will have built in fans to keep it cool, I forgot about that lol.
That being said will the liquid cooling and the 120m fan be enough to cool my CPU? Most if not all of the reviews on the alienware r10 I have read, have all been featuring the ryzen 3950 CPU. All of the reviews have noted that the liquid cooling is not enough to support that CPU and I wanted to make sure that the cooling that I have will be sufficient. Thanks again for your reply, I am learning!
RobbieGray1992
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August 2nd, 2020 20:00
Ok thank you. I will approach the next weeks carefully but eagerly. I am very excited to unbox my PC. Thanks for the laughs btw caught me off guard after a long day at work.
r72019
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August 2nd, 2020 20:00
Oh yeah, reinstalling windows doesn't void the warranty. The warranty and support won't cover any issues that come up due to your reinstalling windows though, like if you can't get it to boot after formatting the drive for a reinstall you'd be on your own. But the warranty would otherwise cover any hardware failures within the warranty period. For example, I was still able to get tech support on AWCC glitches after reinstalling windows.
StrongHarm
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August 3rd, 2020 08:00
I've been in the industry for 25+yrs and have always built my own systems from parts.. until Alienware really upped their game that is. For the past 6 years I've purchased Alienware exclusively. It's an antiquated notion that you have to perform a reload of Alienware upon arrival. There's no doubt that there was a time when this was true, but the "bloatware" isn't nearly as invasive as it was at one time. If you don't like AWCC you can simply uninstall it.. and that goes for AV software as well. It's interesting that information like this can persist for so long after the variables driving it no longer exist. A parallel example is Windows Updates. There was a time when I didn't perform updates for 6mo after they occurred to make sure they were stable... this is no longer necessary but has become an industry habit.