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1. #ALIENWARE SOFTWARE ORIGINALY SHIPED WITH PC UPGRADE#
2. #ALIENWARE SOFTWARE ORIGINALY SHIPED WITH PC PC#
3. #ALIENWARE SOFTWARE ORIGINALY SHIPED WITH PC PLUS#
4. #ALIENWARE SOFTWARE ORIGINALY SHIPED WITH PC FREE#

#ALIENWARE SOFTWARE ORIGINALY SHIPED WITH PC FREE#

We know dual-channel RAM doesn’t cost Alienware more money because the company allows users to manually select 16GB of dual-channel memory as a free alternative configuration.

#ALIENWARE SOFTWARE ORIGINALY SHIPED WITH PC PC#

Connecting the components in this fashion halved performance compared with what one could achieve by using two cables and both of the PATA connectors that came standard on just about every motherboard.Īlienware should hang its head in shame at the idea of charging people $3,400 - the minimum price for a Ryzen 9 5950X system - for a boutique PC stuck behind 16GB of single-channel memory without so much as a warning. Invariably, one would discover that the CD-ROM and hard drive were connected to each other and then to the motherboard, by a single Parallel ATA (PATA) cable. Segue: Back in the 1990s, one of the easiest ways to improve the performance of a hapless person’s OEM PC was to check how many PATA cables were connected to the motherboard. There is no fee for switching from 16GB single-channel to 16GB dual-channel RAM - Alienware just doesn’t offer dual channel as default on AMD systems, despite offering it as default on Intel systems. It does not advise the end user that limiting a 16-core CPU to a single memory channel may result in subpar performance.

#ALIENWARE SOFTWARE ORIGINALY SHIPED WITH PC UPGRADE#

If you select a Ryzen 9 5950X as an upgrade to the 5900, Dell’s configurator does not upgrade or suggest you upgrade to a dual-channel memory configuration. The top two options offer single-channel configurations by default. Only one AMD system offers double-channel memory by default, and it’s the second-lowest. The Intel desktop systems move to double-channel RAM at $1,900 and retain that configuration thereafter. Rocket Lake, on the other hand, offers dual channels by default.Īlienware sells its $2,700+ Rydesktop with 16GB of RAM in a single-channel configuration. RAM upgrade options, at least, are listed after you click “Buy Yours.” AMD Aurora systems can be equipped with 128GB of DDR4-3400 and an RTX 3090, but you’ll have to click on the “Buy Yours” button, then click on a specific system before Alienware tells you that the RTX 3090 and 128GB of DDR4 are both actually available for AMD systems. There is no indication anywhere on its product pages that Alienware uses different power supplies for Intel systems versus AMD systems, but only the Intel system gets the nod for an efficient power supply.Īccording to the desktop landing page, the AMD system supports half as much RAM as the Intel system and only offers up to an RTX 3080. AMD introduced PCI-Express 4.0 in 2019 but it’s only mentioned for Intel systems. Only the Intel system is described as a gaming desktop, even though Ryzen 5000 matches Rocket Lake’s gaming performance and Alienware is a gaming vendor, first and foremost. There are several differences in how these two products are being described to the potential buyer, and they aren’t equivalent.

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The Alienware Intel option offers a “reengineered gaming desktop with 11th Gen Intel Core processors, PCI-Express Gen 4 graphics and 80 Plus Gold rated power supply options.” The AMD option is described as: “High-performance desktop with up to 16-core 5th Gen AMD Ryzen overclockable processors designed for gamers who create.” There are a number of problems with this unwanted flashback to 2005, some more immediately visible than others: I was downright surprised to see the following at Alienware today. I’ve been keeping an eye on OEM system prices as part of our GPU shortage coverage. I thought this kind of behavior had been relegated to the distant past, but it seems to be cropping up again. Even when AMD was beating Intel in performance tests, OEMs would describe Intel-powered systems in soaring terms, while AMD machines were labeled with more pedestrian remarks like “Good for business and home office use.” Set the page to 800×600, and the AMD products would either be shoved below and require scrolling to see, or even shoved to the side, where you wouldn’t notice them at all if you didn’t see the horizontal scroll bar. System vendors would format their product lists for 1024×768 at a time when 800×600 was the norm. Motherboard manufacturers shipped boards without their own logos, in unadorned white boxes. Once upon a time (specifically, the early 2000s), certain manufacturers and OEMs were so terrified of what Intel might do to them if they sold AMD products, they went to ridiculous lengths to hide the fact that they did so.