Buying A $100 Alienware Laptop From Facebook Marketplace!
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2023
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Today we're using and cleaning up a cheap $100 Alienware 15 R2 laptop I purchased from Facebook Marketplace. Was it worth the money and can it be useful here in 2023? Let's find out :) #alienware #cheap #laptop
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Alienware 15 R2 Specifications:
Intel Core i7 6700HQ (quad core, eight threads)
8GB DDR4 2166MHz (before upgrade)
128GB SSD + 1TB 7,200RPM Mechanical Drive
Nvidia 965M 2GB Graphics 
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@@andriveShaking my head my head?
$100 AUD for an Alienware entry level gaming laptop? That's a no brainer deal mate! Congratulations on snagging this rare gem in the wild!
Australia is Asia, they have their own market, most need cheap Xeon clones fake systems...
@@lucasrem ok......?
@@lucasremAustralia is Oceania where tf did you get that from 😂
@@lucasrem what kind of school did you go to bro? australia is not in asia lmao
I won't complain much if I got such laptop at that price. Might not be able to run latest and modern games but it's still powerful enough for a lot of things
Absolutely. If you're lucky enough, Someone else's trash can be your treasure.
I got my laptop similarly cheap because the owner couldn't be bothered buying a new onboard keyboard and sold it without it, for about $400 less than they could have gotten for it if they had been bothered to follow through with the warranty repair.
Instead they used it until the warranty expired, sold it and I got it for a song.
65 USD for a current-era working laptop that can comfortably run a lot of stuff by throwing a stick of RAM in it is one hell of a deal
I bought a Ryzen 3500u laptop with its Vega 8 igpu for 120CAD from a pawn shop and I thought I had the craziest deal ever. :(
@@mikes78 Indeed. I just bought a Thinkpad X220 for $10 and it just need a new keyboard replacement that cost around $12-15 and the laptop is running once again. Still a solid machine for the price I bought it.
@@jponz85 ah, so that's what it's for. I was thinking it might've been a proprietary dock connector.
Still, it sucks to have to use a proprietary eGPU solution when you should just be able to use the Thunderbolt port which is sitting right there... that'd accelerate the video handling as well as providing faster storage, and power - if it worked.
For something 8 years old, that laptop handles modern games pretty damn well. I get around the same performance on my current HP Pavilion 14 (iris xe, i7 1165g7, 16gb ram) for the mentioned games and I bought this in 2021! That laptop is a great deal for the price. But it also shows how far tech has come in just a span of 8 years. In another decade or so, we might be able to run demanding titles like Metro Exodus and the likes on teensy notebooks with integrated graphics cards. What a time to be alive.
Metro Exodus can run on the original GPD Win Max, no need to wait a decade it happened three years ago!
@@MegaTerryNutkins On max settings, sir. I just completed the entire game and the two colonels DLC on the laptop I mentioned. It was on 720p low, however, and I got a very respectable 40fps average.
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I just finished playing Metro Exodus on my Legion Y720 with its i7 (7th gen) and 1060. Still got it! 💪
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found any Australian clown ? Why there ? down under aliens ? Worth Shipping, muhahahahahahaha
I enjoyed every single second watching this video. You opened my eyes towards using old things as they still useful. Thanks.😊
What an interesting coincidence! I'm actually in the process of converting one of these into a desktop computer inside of a Lian Li o11 dynamic. I have a great fondness for the older Alienware Laptops so it's cool to see some more love for these things.
Y ibm love . Tink pad love.
Hey psivewri! your videos are so refreshing to watch! it could also get me into cleaning old laptops and making some use of them, thanks for the content as always!
Same. Sive's videos inspired me to find old PC/laptops and try to make it more useful rather than ended up in the e-waste bin
Same
That is a beautiful refurbishment right there! Very satisfying to watch! Nicely done!
First Alienware laptop I’ve seen this close, nice find, great descriptions 🎉 from cali
These are always my favourite videos from you!
I have this exact model as well! Only difference is that it has a 970m instead. Was very useful to know that Eucalyptus oil can get rid of the sticky mousepad buttons. Laptop holds up pretty well up to this day since I bought it in 2016. Only complain is that the battery holds almost no charge (and replacements are fairly expensive), but I don't really mind since I use it plugged in for gaming lol.
Why it is so big ?
is it worth 100 aussies ?
you seem like a great youtuber! it was a pleasure watching this video reccomended from my homepage (:
i remember wanting this laptop back in the day, thankfully i saved money and bought a desktop that i still have to this day (with upgrades through the years)
I always lover how those AlienWare laptops looked. I remember passing by my local Best Buy when I was a kid and always stopping to look at the displays.
Me too but it too expensive 😂
I like how easy laptops are to maintain, take apart and clean vital parts that need regular cleaning.
I own the Alienware 17R3 (same design as the laptop shown in the video, but 17 inch) powered by the Intel Core i7-6700HQ with 32GB of RAM and the 980M 8GB. I still use it to this day. It performs pretty good at medium settings for most new games.
I also own Alienware's Graphics amplifier which connects to the laptop with the proprietary Graphics Amplifier port in the rear and put in a 1080 in it. That was a great stand-in for the lack of good thunderbolt performance.
just got the aga. performs better than my friends pc with a 3070
I got the same 17 version laptop, 17 R2, i7 4710HQ with 8 gigs of ddr3 and 970m 3GB :)
You’re videos deserve more views. Keep up the work mate! 🎉
Hey psivewri, awesome video as usual but can you please tell me what background music you use as they're incredibly soothing to listen
These alienware laptop repairs never get old :)
Haha that laptop looks like a pain to do basic maintenance on. Not surprising coming from Alienware though lol.
I remember pulling apart an older (2012ish) Alienware and it was very easy to access the fans + heatsink.
What shaders do you use for minecraft? Awesome videos! Love older tech and you always get the good stuff! Keep it up!
You know it's a good day when Nathan uploads a new banger.
I still have my 13 R2. Everything original, nothing broken, but it's about time to do invasive maintenance on the thing. I did also have a 15 R2 when they were current...and I remember that 965M being pretty crap for its spec.
Nice video Psivewri keep up the good work
Man, I remember buying one of these for a couple hundred about 8 years ago. Served me well.
Another excellent video! Thanks!
That's a great deal for a still useful system! I love that over the top "gamer" design
Lucky enough, in Malaysia I never come across a seller who didn’t clean up their used items before selling.
I guess you can’t expect much for $100 given that it’s a complete steal for a working Alienware.
Not a bad laptop if I say so! I would have upgraded the 120GB SSD to a larger one (and NVME if the laptop would take it), as well as possibly adding a second M.2 (or NVMe?) SSD (given the second slot) and probably just settled for a 1TB or 2TB HDD for the 2.5in slot.
Having said that, with 960GB A400's being available for about £35 nowadays, that is also a good option. 250GB isn't enough as a games drive when GTA 5 takes up over 100GB all by itself.
Very glad to see some RUclipsrs taking the pain to find cool and outstanding deals like this for those of us that can’t afford expensive gaming laptops. I would be very glad if u’d sell it to me. I’m from Ghana(west Africa)
There always something cozy about watching an old laptop being upgraded and refurbished
Great video! Would be interesting to do a temp / gpu / cpu benchmark before and after removing the cat fur as I presume it will throttle?!
Thank you so much for making these videos! It's so satisfying to see these older computers getting restored.
I was wondering if you can try playing some Cloud Gaming services on older computers and see how they will run? Are they a viable option for someone that wants to play GeForce Now or Xbox Cloud Gaming on an old computer like this?
I think if the internet connection is good enough and the system has hardware decoding of the video stream, you could play on very, very underpowered hardware.
@@tristansewell5986 Thank you for the reply. Yes indeed, technically it should work.
However, it would be great to see how well it would actually work with the specific network card, Monitor Screen, GPU and CPU combination on each of them.
And it would be very interesting to see the latest games running at max settings on these old restored computers
Our Internet connection isn't great sadly 😅. But I could definitely try that on older machines that would otherwise have NO hope of running the games 😊
@@psivewri Thank you so much for the reply, I really appreciate that! It would definitely be awesome to see if it's possible
The M.2 slots on this laptop are SATA only I think, I'd double check before buying any nvme drives for it.
It has the nvme keying so it's nvme /sata compatible
@@letsgobrandonfjbtrump47rude
Specs page says otherwise
As far as I've read it will accept NVMe as well as Sata. Hence the M.2 NVMe slots.
M.2 and SATA are 2 different things lol
Quite lucky to get a working one for that little, i usualy see broken ones or for parts at those prices and higher, anything below 100~150 euros is broken or those office laptops at best.
btw i wouldint spray cleaner directly on screen, a single drop can kill the display if you warent fast enought at wiping.
I bought one of these years ago, nearly the exact same but the 970 model from Facebook marketplace for £50, it had an issue in which it wouldn't show anything on it's own display, I fixed that by bypassing the i7's own integrated gpu and running just on the 970, then got the Alienware eGPU enclosure and slapped a 1080ti in it and ran this laptop as my main desktop for about 2 years, before eventually selling the whole lot for way more than I payed for it. I'll always have fond memories on my Alienware.
the final upgrade is with very high soldering skills and bios modding, i could see in the video that there's still empty vram space, need to update firmware bios for GPU to accept more vram and which slot.
I have the older (younger?) sister to this, the m17 R3 Alienware. Mine has the 6700HQ CPU, but a 970M GPU. Still runs Win10 like a dream, but the CPU knocks it in the head for Win11.
Nice as always. I really like the restoration videos. Man, can I ask, what's your camera setup? Sometimes I try to record similar stuff and I don't like the quality I get. Thanks!
I film using Fujifilm XT4 cameras. The main lens I use is an 18-55 T2.9 👍
picking up old copmuter in second-hand market is really fun
Hey. Love your videos. Though can you please leave a link for the eucalyptus cleaner. I am really unable to find a good one.
there wasa alienware egpu "Alienware Graphics Amplifier" (this very large connector on the back) this was how we did the docking back in the day
I have this exact model. It's, by far, the best laptop i ever had. Fans are almost turned off while heavy gaming (heavy as in Cyberpunk 2077 at max settings).
You can install a custom V-Bios to enable some hardcore performance to truly test the cooling capabilities. (You need to check the chipset. It has the 1st gen 965M, not the 2nd gen, "TI", found in MSI laptops.)
Also, with MSI Afterburner, the power draw can be increased. Mine is taking around 78W when OC'd (can be checked with SiSoftware Sandra) to +135MHz Core and +300MHz Memory (can to 400, but it crashes sometimes).
The 965M is a very capable GPU that can be OC'd to the performance of the PC 960. Even when not OC'd it's comparable to a PC 960 in real life performance.
Oh, and you can use the "Graphics Amplifier" to hook up an RTX to the R2 15.
Also if you roll back to one of the earlier BIOS versions, you get XMP profiles and you can install way faster RAM.
Have i said how much i like this laptop? 😂😂
i enjoyed watcing your contents on my thinkpad t570 laptop been a fan of you for a few years now. and thats why i decided to buy a laptop but sadly im not that techy.
I have similar laptop but with gtx 970m 3gb, pretty solid machine even today for budget gaming :) I highly recommend doing undervolting of cpu via throttlestop, makes a huge difference, before my cpu hit 90 degrees in couple of minutes, now max 80
She was my first ever gaming computer, she lasted me a good 6 years, and ran so many games very well :3 the gtx 980 she had was really good and I am glad it's the computer i grew up with.
I liked the fact that they used these computers in the stargate series, alienware was my favourite when dell was "big" here in sweden, standard price around 2000USD....
These still sell for +500€ where im from. You got a great deal on this one.
You must be from some other planet, in Australia is's new ?????
Was it always bad ?
That's basically my daily rig. Still using the i7-6700HQ, but I have the following year model of this laptop with the GTX 1060 6Gb.
The 1060 singlehandedly gave this laptop so much more of a run than I thought it'd go for when I purchased it back in 2016. Mine also has a Thunderbolt 3 port on the back that works with docking stations and can run two 1080P displays with it. Really handles just about anything I need it for. Such a shame that Microsoft artificially limited Windows 11 compatibility as this machine should have no problem running it.
I still daily drive mine, mine does have the 980, i wouldn't buy Alienware again nor would i spend the outrageous amount of money i did when i purchased brand new, but its a great laptop for daily task and light gaming, i build a desktop around 2 years ago so this became my work and travel machine, would love to have something lighter but if it still works i will use it xD
Also thanks for the advice on how to remove the gunk in the mousepad it drives me insane and thought i could do nothing about it!
Any intel i5 or i7 laptop from like 2017 still is a beast for general use (not AAA+ games but u know just for daily use) and if you play games like league of legends or fortnite your pc dont even need much more than that
I used this bad boy before I built my pc 3 years ago. I’d say I loved it after I cleaned it out. I got to play cod Cold War, osrs and doom 2016. What more could I ask for¿ plus I had 32 gb of ram which was over kill. I do use this bad boy as a emulation station at this point.
I have a simillar machine to this! Asus GLsomething with i5 6300hq 950m(4g) and 16GB ram (upgraded from 8) with 128GB m.2 SSD and I still use it often. With fresh W11 installed it works pretty well, but playing modern games is almost impossible. Though, I downloaded Skyrim and Far Cry 3 again and I enjoyed my time
i have a question... WHAT HAPPEND TO EASEY TO ACCESSS INIERNALS IN A LAPTOP??? like my laptop (not for gaming but i did use it for gaming for a while) you pull a latch and the battery slides off, pull another latch and the cover comes off, instant access to the ram, storage, Wi-Fi card, and m.2 slot, 6 screws later and the CPU cooler is out, flick a switch and the CPU comes right out of the socket, s I haven't removes anything accept the back cover, why cant we go back to this???
That's the best deal ever. I would want to get some more powerful laptop, but the fact that this is only like 90 CAD or something is the best steal and I would definitely get it.
Pro tip with this laptop cause I have one. You can overclock the display to 90hz which is nice for games. I have been running it at that for a long time and haven't had a problem so I recommend it!
Would you install a total of 3 SSDs (2 NVMEs and 1 SATA)
I have this exact laptop and I love it lol!! Only payed about 140 American for mine so even though I payed more than you I still feel like I got an excellent deal :)! Enjoy it!!
The guy in the background - "bruh!" 😂
My 2016 Dell Inspiron gaming laptop has that rubber matte finish and it's starting to become sticky and breakdown. I wish I could go back in time and tell manufacturers to NOT use rubber coatings. Great video.
So weird they used this type of coating. They had similar coating on some 90's electronics that also became sticky. Guess they never think long term that the hardware might be used for a decade..
I have 10min in between meetings, oh look at this. Psivewri uploaded a new, conveniently 10min video. 😅
This was my daily driver up until 2020.
Never really used it for gaming, but it was perfect for music production; these days I’m using an M2 MacBook Pro, I also have a couple Windows computers, but nothing feels as good as my Alienware did. (But USB-C charging is life changing after having to deal with Dell’s atrocious charging brick.)
Hello from Zach's Tech Turf.
Seems like a nice deal... but then again my gaming laptop was once owned by a family member which was then fixed up and given to me its my first one too so i do my best to take care of it
back in the day I thought those laptops looked so bad ass and always waned one would definitely buy at that price for old times sake
I had similar with GTX 960m and you can connect external GPU. Yea it's old, but I still love the design and it can run a bit older games pretty well, without any upgrades even to this day. For example Witcher 3 you can play on medium graphics (this was pre Witcher 3 update though). Overall, even though it's old, you can still play games on it, if you're on the budget and the external GPU connection is pretty good bonus.
Lol I have a 960m 😅
This would be such a good contender to be converted to an everything console with a custom chassis, and put under the TV
When did you restart the MC server? Didn't it have security issues a while back?
that is massively better than my work laptop, which is still perfectly fine for its uses
965 still puts in the work.
Nice job with the laptop
That was my first gaming laptop! Man it was not anything amazing but to a 14 year old, it was like holding the coolest gadget ever lol.
I miss your videos Nathan. Best wishes from Leipzig.
Very cool vid, btw what is the name of the shader 😅
Hey mate I'm currently in Australia!
Do you sell these restored products after your videos?
I would love to get one for myself.
Love your videos!
On the mobo it is written dd3L so dimm. How did you use ddr4?
Hey nice Captain Willard watch!
how the heck do you run pubg with 60fps on that? I have a RTX2070 and its getting real performance issues at lowest settings
i sold my brother my old alienware laptop for 200 usd. still runs great to this day. i had the same cpu but a gtx1070 and 16gb of ram. still a very manageable portable gaming system. i think i paid almost 3k for it brand new.
I have a Dell 7577 i7 7700HQ with 1060 graphics which is still ticking along nearly 6 years later as a daily driver not that I really use it for gaming as I have a PC for that :) The battery is pretty much useless now of course but I haven't bothered replacing it as I pretty much just have it plugged in all the time anyway, it is a bit like this Alienware as there is a simple door on the back for easy access to the battery/storage/memory but to clean anything else would pretty much require quite a complex disassembly of the entire unit!
did you collect the laptop from Woodville North or Lewiston ? if you went to Lewiston you need to factor in the fuel as it is long way from the suburbs you were driving in the toyota camry video.
I have the same laptop but with gtx 970m, it got recently reset and now it doesn't have alienware command centre,i tried alot but couldn't get any version working,can anyone guide ne about that?
With same specs I was playing call of duty Warzone and eventually Caldera during lockdown. 25-40 FPS and decent for casual gaming though especially with friends. Then it died of heating issues and outdated hardware. The game required 4 cores CPU and 3Gb VRAM as minimum but somehow it ran with 2 cores CPU and 2Gb VRAM. May be because of larger cache memory and 16 GB of RAM available. 😅😅
I'm sure you already know this but have you tried connecting a external GPU through Dell/Alienwares port on the back?
For $65, even just being a productivity laptop is a gnarly deal. I have a 2019 M17 R5. One of the last "really good" laptops from AW. Since then, the quality has dipped back down.
that is an absolute steal. I'm looking at one right now on fb market but even with an older 4th gen i7 albeit slightly better 880m graphics but for $340. contemplating wether to get it or not and use as an overkill windows 7 gaming laptop to play older offline games. but for $340 it's steep, specially when geforce latops and even hd graphics can do. it does have 120hz panel though
did 32 gb ram worked? on the specification of alienware r2 only 16 gb is supported "Configurations supported 8 GB, 12 GB, and 16 GB"
Perfect stuff! What a bargin
Just got one of these myself, and this video is endlessly helpful. Quick clarification, you used two sticks of 16gb DDR4 RAM correct? Also, any recommendations as to where I should purchase it?
you were referenced on austin's video!!
I was looking to buy a similar laptop but the GPU was almost always a deal-breaker, really unfortunate that they don't have modular GPUs. Guess I'll just wait and save for the Framework 16.
bro there's a GPU dock connector in the back....
they didn't put thunderbolt because you were expected to use a proprietary GPU dock.
I still have that in , just wait to be powered on
I bought an Asus F550VX for 170 € with the same i7 6700hq and a 4gb gtx 950 it even runs horizon zero down with only 8 gb ddr4 ram and 10 gb virtual ram, using FSR and utilizing all 4 gb of video memory
I am preety happy
Dose anyone know if it’s possible to upgrade the graphics card on this and if so what card I’m new to pcs and laptops in general
All my respect ,please tell me what oil for cleanung you use please :)
Got a zenbook pro duo like new w everything for 900 on mercari, its got a 3070ti i9 12900k 32g ram 1tb nvme, 2 oled 4k 60 hz touch displays, im soo greatful i caught this hidden gem, laptop is now my baby
My old Alienware that I still use today looks just like that except for the power button and it is a 2014 Alienware 14
That was a steal. I would have insta purchased it if I happenned to cross something alike over here lol.
I lucked out and got an HP Omen 15" with i7 9750h, 1660 ti 6 gb, 16gb ddr4 2666, 256gb nvme gen 3, 144hz 1080p screen, and backlit keyboard all for 150 USD