I've bought and repaired quite a few broken pcs over the years, and anytime it's an Alienware that's not starting up it usually means the motherboard has burned out and usually taken the CPU with it.

Mostly because they use the intel stock cooler on an i7 and then make that singular fan also pull double duty as exhaust in an itx sized case, without having heatsinks on any of the vrm or PSU components.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They also overclock all their stuff from factory. Basically, they squeeze out every little drop of performance even at the cost of ruggedness and sanity. Which, to be fair, is what their customers want.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I haven't had anything from the past 5 years from them but nothing I tested was overclocked in any way. The proprietary motherboards didn't even have xmp or multiplier control. And the gpus are usually the cheapest blower models which aren't capable of sustaining the advertised boost clocks.

Don't think any Alienware pc is ever running near the limits of the hardware, it's just a shitty dell prebuilt covered in cheap plastic and LEDs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Ah, it looks like factory overclocking was just an option, and might not have even been around that long. My bad.