Turn it into a high end sleeper PC with a full custom water loop. But definitely get a dremel and get rid of those hard drive cages. You could also spray paint the interior metal casing black or a different colour to suit the theme and even make your own PSU shroud from acrylic. It would be super cool to get an ultra budget water cooled PC like under £100 for a full CPU and GPU loop though that's probably impossible. It's a shame you couldn't upgrade it or play any games really. Alienware should just give up making PCs and should just sell their cases as standalone parts. People would buy them a lot just for the asthetic and because they have a named brand.
Realunmaker Sleeper? Cars only! Sleeper in PC word is dead old crap! Reuse the parts that you can still use, replace all the ATX shit you can, if you do that in a car, you only keep the paint job, and replace the rest. Roads are still the same roads, titles do demand more now! You do some old ATX case too? a classic? I dooooo! Not a sleeper, just brand new RTX shit!
Especially as the BIOS shows that half the DIMMs are 512 MB and the other half are 1 GB. It looks like two kits are being combined and maybe there are compatibility problems.
Yeh I thought that when the POST screen showed 3072Mb, something's not right there & I'd call it bad practice to mix sizes even if they were playing well together.
Most definately a RAM issue. I restored a Dell Dimension C521, and I put 4 x 512MB DDR2 RAM sticks inside and I got a bootloop. I thought it was a one time occurrance, so I tried again, and I powered it on, booted to Vista Basic, aaaand memory dump. I tried putting them in, one stick at a time... Long story short, 2 sticks were bad. So I have to order 2 more.
@@mrkeefor soundcards are a thing of the past. the integrated sc in modern computers is most likely just as good (or better) than the xfi anyway. you probably wouldn't notice any difference in sound quality. only reason to get one nowadays is if you're a musician and need extra inputs, or if you have studio speakers that use xlr, then you would need some kind of interface or mixer
The case alone goes for 100-200$ on the used market. The guts don't matter it's a collectors piece. You gotta think you're not going to find a lot of those cases to be fair.
kodaloid Audigy 2 now, today standerd???? You need some old PC, doing what? Titles support only Atmos or DTS life kick? They do still sell this on 4x, for the headset gamers, need that now, why?????
@@lucasrem even today mobo sound cards leave features out that this audigy had back then, and those features make a difference for musicians. So yes, this is better than a lott of others still.
@@modzn7904 Listen to 0:45 on again. "These super plastic-y cases still sell for ridiculous amounts." If he lists the computer as an "Alienware gaming pc with modern specs" he may be able to make more than if it was just in a generic case because of the perception of the Alienware brand.
Dylan Greene too niche of a market. You’d be better off just cleaning the case and selling it. I’d just put modern internals and keep it as my personal PC.
Frankie Nelson what are you talking about. These cases are worth nearly £200 and what do you think people are doing with these cases? Making modern computers. There’s demand so there’s profit to be made
@yan356 P4 sleeper? sticker? run 2001 titles, why that? need a museum? Doom, what title you need? It's just ATX, you can replace parts! FCK sleepers, only fun if you need subscribers, not to own!!!!
@@smu48 What case u use, a classic too? Can't find it on your channel....are you real? obsessed by alienware, did so many ASUS Vento 3600 cases for people how needed this too! In the days, unable to find, now!
@@smu48 You need the community dump service, able to find old $4000 systems too, now, worth nothing. Uphill fancy neighborhood community center helps! Family, mine were in to academics, on Atari and Altar ....
@@falkwulf3842 IIRC Antec and Chieftec bought cases from the same factory (EG the Dragon and SX1040), I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't buy the cases through Antec or Chieftec and ordered them from the same OEM
thedungeondelver U all say USB 3, what do you all mean? USB-C connectors? 3.1, Thunderbolt 3? why care about that shit, just use old connectors, or use the ASUS front bus. What case u use now, USB-C only?
@@lucasrem USB 3 and USB 3.1 type C are completely different ports. USB 3 is backwards compatible with usb 2 while offering more power and faster transfer speeds.
@@InimicusSolitus Carbrod will never be any near classic, Washing machine, postcode? Need a classic case ATX? Antek 1995 the most wanted models, this too, 51 area X, that on top 360 Cooling. i do hate all the square boxes on my desk, need a well designed case, not china designs!!!
Deffo sleeper, old chassis with some modern components inside. Some pulsing green LED hue visible through the front vents. Would be tempted to paint the main parts of the case in an alien like green colour, something like Mazda Spirited Green Metallic for example, do the vents a smooth black like Toyota Astral black with a perfect lacquer finish to reflect the LED hue out. No other fancy gimmicks outside the case.
Upgrade it to a socket 775, slap in a Q6600 or Q9550 etc, 8gb of ram, GTX 460 or better. Keep it retro, but at least able to play something better than Max Payne.
Pickup a used tower HP 8000 series 775 series MB with a Q9950 CPU and a used GTX1060 video card, 500GB SSD, 16 MB ram and your're good to go! (you will need a z modified wiring harness to use with power supply)
I own one of these. I replaced the graphics card and power supply about 6 years ago, the motherboard, CPU and Memory about 2 years ago. I am running Windows 8.1 on it and it works fine, and I am watching this video on it now. I do want to update the graphic card again soon. Taking it to the local computer store does attract a lot of people who want a closer look at it, a real conversation piece.
@@qpwo8 alien were extremely overpriced and heavily marketed as Supreme performance gaming PCs so no alien no matter how old can be a sleeper from Pure reputation
I've still got an Audigy 2 ZS in my rig to this day. When I upgraded my system, i had to make sure I chose a board that had at least one PCI slot to use it. Onboard audio just never worked for FL Studio or Ableton, for me at least, and this Audigy was the only card I could get to work well with it. I'd buy another one of these cards if I had to.
I did an upgrade on one of these, the motherboard crapped, but that 1000w PSU they installed in it was intense. I installed everything new on an 1156 platform
I remember entering a mail in give away for this model that was green from the box of Final Fantasy XI. I really wanted this model back then lol. 512gb in 2006 was crazy, I remember losing it in 2009 when I got a 1gb card.
Here's a more "middle of the road" suggestion. Don't go full modern with it. Upgrade it to an LGA 775 board with something like a Core2Quad. That will let you use PCI-E and you can still keep Windows XP on it as well. Plus that shouldn't be too much in terms of heat for the case. Hell, if you can get the right board, you can even use DDR3 with it. :)
I found this case on Craigslist for 50 bucks and put my main rig into it. Definitely a conversation piece. Mine was a bit different, the exhaust fan is a single 120mm and the hard drive bays face the side.
I remember if you went to Alienware.com you could get a pamphlet in the mail in like 8 weeks that came with a huge poster of a random high tier model. Needless to say I still have this poster.
I remember these. A coworker of mine brought one of these to the office to use it as a work station. It's beast of a case. Haha. Thanks for the nostalgia trip.
supra107 In game branding, Alienware was one of the original partners, Ford Cars too, H&M official DLC Packs. Were did it all end? now? That was the most selling PC title, for 10 years?
I actually ended up buying a similar case for my current gaming PC when I was building. It was $180 in a bid but I wanted it anyway because it looks so damn cool.
FYI that soundcard may be old but its still one of the best sound cards of all time, the sound is amazing, especially if you compare with an onboard $5 sound chip
I'm way late on casting my vote but I totally agree. Not over the top but good like a Ryzen 5 2600X with the new GTX1660ti and 16GB system RAM an nvme boot drive and 4tb storage hdd and a decent power supply. Try to stay around $1000 - $1500 USD as low as you can keep it. I would paint the white parts of the case actual glow in the dark neon green and put some black light leds through the upper ridge line so they shine down onto the painted parts. And maybe some lighting under the case as well to make it look like its floating.
You should totally do a sleeper build! Maybe install something that would be similar to it's high-performance nature from a newer generation, maybe like a Core 2 Quad? Or, really go all-out and install a high-performance system in it. It's your PC, so really your choice. Good luck and have fun mate!!
I so love those cases I just can't ever explain how cool I really think those guys were back in the day. Really they were such a boost to gaming and the whole thing. You know, someday there won't be anymore of those awesome things. I actually would love to see it completly gone over all updated with the best stuff and see it rocking. If you think about it that someday could really be worth something. I know I'm 51 and when that thing was made I wasn't able to just go out and buy it. I just think those cases are the coolest retro tech available and looks are everything when you are wanting the coolest retro stuff.
Embrace the Darkness LED back then, car shaped cases! The Future, now? ugly square acrylic shinny glass boxed, on controllable RGB! the future is PS4 onboard graphics, cloud gaming! NOT this case......
This is a hard one. The nerd in me would want to save the old hardware. Sooner or later these parts will get rarer and rarer. However I love the instant gratification of getting parts you know work and have a good finished product quicker. Right now i'd go with saving it. Only cause I just upgraded my whole rig, so i already scratched that itch.
This machine is an Alienware Area 51 Predator 1 Aurora, P4-800. The dual 80mm exhaust fans give it away. I run almost the exact same computer case accept I use the Area 51 Predator 1 EXTREME 3550 case the only difference between the two are the HDD cages and a Single 120x120x38mm exhaust fan. The stock GPU for this system was a 128mb ATI radeon 9600XT, the original PS was an Alienware branded 400w. I know these machines inside and out and can help you get it sorted if you need any assistance. The case weighs in at a whopping 18.6 kg fully loaded as it is an all steel base chassis with a Plastic ABS shell. If you use a dremel then you will need reinforced cutting wheels and a drill to remove some rivets to modernize it.
Making a functional computer by putting an xbox inside a computer then installing a computer operating system would be some awesome Frankenstein stuff. Why? Because you can!
You could also use Steam's in-home streaming to run games the system couldn't otherwise handle. Don't know if you could get a network card working in that thing, but lan should work well enough.
Knew how old that was as soon as I saw it... Man those things were overpriced back then - but inescapably cool anyway. That was when Alienware was it's own company, I think. They put huge plastic chunks on top of Antec Dragon cases or something like that; insides and components are super duper similar.
Ahh I have the I believe later 2009 version of that Alienware Area 51 but I can't tell you that 2009 is the most certain year but ah the case is practically that same (Edit) The Alienware 51 ALX
Thank you for sharing your video.. I remember that day when higher clock CPU means higher performance and GPU is just an adapter to connect your PC to a monitor.. Now, we spend twice cost of CPU to get GPU that is for better performance.
I had this exact system in silver. I bought the guts of a newer alienware Aurora for cheap and tossed them in. Works great as both a cost effective solution and a decent power machine. Highly recommend doing something similar here.
X45 I mean, it's not bad to want a gimmicky case, since they go out of their way to make them look cool. it really would appeal to young people because of that. I can't remember which Alienware pc I wanted, but the case was the entire draw.
3:20 I wouldn't say sound cards are outdated. There was no way my Z370 onboard audio could run 250ohm DT770's so I had to get a strix soar soundcard and the sound difference is absolutely massive. I could barely hear anything with onboard audio and sound quality was just junk. Sure onboard audio can run ''gaming'' headsets but usually they can't run any audiophile headphones..
Just curious, have you tried another PSU? Some variants of that GPU recommend 30A on the 12v Rail. I know that those listed requirements are usually somewhat 'safe' but I've not had the best experiences with Thermaltake either (horribly inefficient).
It's crazy how heavy older cases were. Last year I handed down my 6700k + msi 980 gaming 4g in my antec 900 case to my son. Built myself a newer case and it's so light. I didnt really notice until I went to clean my son's pc and it feels 3x heavier than my new build
Back in 2011 I changed out all the components on my Area 51 which was a newer model than this one. I put new 1200 watt power supply, Intel I-7 Gen1, and Asus Rampage 4 MB, 16 GB of DDR 4 Dram, A Samsung Pro SSD Drive, and a new Nvidia Gforce FX card. I cant remember which one. Great improvement. Everything fit fine and ran great. Then Just this month I just finished another complete overhaul with this case. Intel I-9, Asus Maximus Hero XI MB, New SSD Nmv 2.0 Vnand card, 16 gb of 4000 mhz DDR 4 Dram, A new Nvidia GTX 2060 Super, and kept my power supply. Looking back I should have got a new digital modular power supply with less watts. These cases are what made Alienware what it was. Not what was in them. Yes, it is a heavy SOB to move even a few inches, but it looks bad! It is a nice quality case and well worth keeping and rebuilding in it. When Dell took over they turned Alienware into the joke of the industry. These cases were the very last of the good looking cases built by Alienware in Miami Fla. They have never looked bad ass since then. If you rebuild in your case, it would sell so fast your head would spin. People would buy it for the case and be happy that you rebuilt it. I put some of the best products in mine that totaled out to around $1,800 to build. You could put a 3rd gen Intel and lesser other parts and make a hell of a profit on it. What ever you do, dont let that beautiful case go to waste. Give it the honor it is due.
This is the PC that got me into PC gaming, and i still stand by it being my best memory ever. (this Alienware looks way early 2000's? mine was late 2008 ish era) This is a very early revision to this version of the Alienware area 51 I had as my first pc, mine didn't have the lock on the front, didn't have these 4 lower USB ports, Didn't have the power/activity indicators and such in the front and the side of the case looks to be a slightly different design. I used mine in its stock spec until September 2015, it had a Asus P6T deluxe V2, i7 920, two GTX 260 core 216 editions (1792mb vram versions) and 6GB ram and it originally came with two 500gb hardrives in raid 0. I got the PC in the above spec for £850 in late December 2009 (ebay second hand) In 2012 ish the hardrive setup died and i upgraded to a 120gb ssd like we all did back then and threw in a then huge 3TB hardrive as storage and another 6GB ram and overclocked to the best i could get the 920 too That 3TB hardrive died in 2014 after only 2 years service, but i replaced it with two 2tb drives In september 2015 when i got my first paycheck i bought a GTX 970 and slapped that in replacing the 7 year old GTX 260's Then march 2016 I Upgraded all the internals to a Z170 Asus Pro gaming, i7 6700k, 16GB ram, Evo 212 cooler and a new power supply (this case actually has some weird over sized power supply that's larger than standard so there was a gap above or bellow the supply) Whenever the NVME Samsung 960 released i got the 500gb model instantly as i was super hyped for it's release, it's still cool and damn, it's alot cheaper now lol Then in April 2017 I wanted to give my then girlfriends PC my 970 as a upgrade so i got a 1070 for £320 New off some lad who won it in a competition (replacing her two GTX 260's (hint hint)) But that Alienware only had that 1070 for a breif time, only 2 weeks passed and i ordered a Thermaltake core P3.... and the Alienwares fate was sealed after me owning it for 7 years and 4 months :( now he sits in the original Alienware dust cover in the bottom of my wardrobe, gutless, waiting for me to get the PC parts back from my Ex Ex so i can rebuild it to it's OG spec
I have very similar specs in my P4 XP box, just different motherboard(p4c800 dlx) and 1M cache instead of the 512kb but otherwise identical 3.2ghz HT. For XP and old Dx9 games it's a great machine. The 1950 pro is about as fast as you get on AGP.
This is pretty much what I do, I take these computers and strip them down, clean them, and install all new parts, I really liked working on this one when I did. For note, the one I worked on had a GTS 8800, AMD x64 (I believe?) and a 1000w PSU, it was a neat piece of tech.
When i was in highschool, i knew a rich kid with an Area 51 that looked i think about just like this, but it was probaby a bit newer. i think it had a Core2Extreme and SLi Nvidia cards. It was the craziest thing i had ever seen. Id love to get ahold of one of these cases for a retro build.
Seeing this reminds me of gaming at single core Pentium 4 3 GHz with a MX 4000 graphics card, 256 MB of RAM. Bought at 2005 I think. PC's still on us and it's still alive. I never thought my pops actually bought us a really nice mid-range PC at that time.
You should totally revamp that thing with modern hardware whilst keeping the classic case!
I agree.
+1
Agree +3
Thanks guys. Glad you agree
Yeah, it'd make for a good sleeper
Turn it into a high end sleeper PC with a full custom water loop. But definitely get a dremel and get rid of those hard drive cages. You could also spray paint the interior metal casing black or a different colour to suit the theme and even make your own PSU shroud from acrylic. It would be super cool to get an ultra budget water cooled PC like under £100 for a full CPU and GPU loop though that's probably impossible. It's a shame you couldn't upgrade it or play any games really. Alienware should just give up making PCs and should just sell their cases as standalone parts. People would buy them a lot just for the asthetic and because they have a named brand.
Tom Brown
Remember the Water loops, on top, why that? You need to find that, not do a remake distorting it!
What build did you do, classic too?
Umm... Jay?
"Sleeper"
sleeper? you do know who alienware is right?
yeah.
is the seagull ok??
Let us pray together for the seagull! Give me a Amen guys!
Amen
how are you verified
@@thepwnednub8963 he may be verified on youtube, but is he verified in the eyes of god?
@@thepwnednub8963 as long as you believe in god, you can achieve anything
I remember seeing those at sears for like $5,000 when i was a kid.
yeah...and scared the shit out of us.
jajajja yo vi un "acer predator g7700" y flipe me quede loco
@off spec I think that still holds true today. 🤔
back in the days, you'll get laid by just owning that case
I guess its powers have worn off these days then
@@RandomGaminginHD ayy.. agreed lol
I still own this PC lol
*still own
Damn, thats crazy. I owned one and now im gay......
I remember seeing one of these in a Maximum PC Magazine I do love those cases, and that era of PCs.
pc will never be as good as ayylmaolienware xboxes
Hey
Hello
@@mm-vv2de: yo
@@DKaldes: yo
I used to go to Alienware's website, customize one of these to my heart's content. Then cry inside with the realization that I cannot afford it.
same those were the good old days as a kid for me
A sleeper build sounds like a good idea.
Someone will surely buy a sleeper build con an old alienware case.
Realunmaker
Sleeper? Cars only!
Sleeper in PC word is dead old crap! Reuse the parts that you can still use, replace all the ATX shit you can, if you do that in a car, you only keep the paint job, and replace the rest.
Roads are still the same roads, titles do demand more now!
You do some old ATX case too? a classic? I dooooo! Not a sleeper, just brand new RTX shit!
What is a sleeper build ?
lucas rem that is what a sleeper build means for computers. Usually replace everything inside so it looks old but it’s a current gen beast inside.
@@jhonnyashes5249 A sleeper build is a pc that looks crappy on the outside, but is actually a beast on the inside.
@@lucasrem bro who hurt you
Boot loop... Try the RAM, one stick at a time. Had my PC do it once and just had to re seat the RAM sticks.
Especially as the BIOS shows that half the DIMMs are 512 MB and the other half are 1 GB. It looks like two kits are being combined and maybe there are compatibility problems.
Yeh I thought that when the POST screen showed 3072Mb, something's not right there & I'd call it bad practice to mix sizes even if they were playing well together.
Most definately a RAM issue. I restored a Dell Dimension C521, and I put 4 x 512MB DDR2 RAM sticks inside and I got a bootloop.
I thought it was a one time occurrance, so I tried again, and I powered it on, booted to Vista Basic, aaaand memory dump.
I tried putting them in, one stick at a time...
Long story short, 2 sticks were bad. So I have to order 2 more.
did*
That soundcard is still a pretty solid piece of hardware despite being ~16/17 years old.
Yes get experience with soundblaster 16 bit with non pre amp speaker + original cd player sound are eargasm
Rocking with Audigy2 ZS right now and I love its sound.
Still got my xfi but it's pci so can't be used in modern motherboards.
@@mrkeefor
soundcards are a thing of the past. the integrated sc in modern computers is most likely just as good (or better) than the xfi anyway. you probably wouldn't notice any difference in sound quality. only reason to get one nowadays is if you're a musician and need extra inputs, or if you have studio speakers that use xlr, then you would need some kind of interface or mixer
@@DecibelAlex or your using high end high power critical listening headphones
I laughed when I saw the Intel Pentium 4 sticker.
Dito. 40/50 currency units or not. That is too expensive, unless you for some reason love such old tech.
@@Orodreth888 Yeah this is really bad for the specs you can get an i5 PC for that price but he says that those Cases have a high value.
The case alone goes for 100-200$ on the used market. The guts don't matter it's a collectors piece. You gotta think you're not going to find a lot of those cases to be fair.
Well alright, that is a nice thing.
It mayed me feel good about my 2009 core 2 duo E1835, which is in a mac.
That soundcard is kick ass even for today's standards :)
I have the PCMIA audigy 2 still today in my T60 thinkpad.
kodaloid
Audigy 2 now, today standerd???? You need some old PC, doing what?
Titles support only Atmos or DTS life
kick?
They do still sell this on 4x, for the headset gamers, need that now, why?????
I still use my creative soundblaster from 2004
@@lucasrem even today mobo sound cards leave features out that this audigy had back then, and those features make a difference for musicians. So yes, this is better than a lott of others still.
@@kodaloid musicians, KORG, or the cheap AKAI versions doing the same for cheap! Forget Soundblaster, old gear!
Give it a complete revamp, all modern internals, clean the case up and maybe refinish it. Then sell it for profit and show us how much you made.
you aren't going to profit from a complete revamp any different then if he just built a computer
@@modzn7904 Listen to 0:45 on again. "These super plastic-y cases still sell for ridiculous amounts." If he lists the computer as an "Alienware gaming pc with modern specs" he may be able to make more than if it was just in a generic case because of the perception of the Alienware brand.
Dylan Greene too niche of a market. You’d be better off just cleaning the case and selling it. I’d just put modern internals and keep it as my personal PC.
The case is worth 100-200+ dollars.
Frankie Nelson what are you talking about. These cases are worth nearly £200 and what do you think people are doing with these cases? Making modern computers. There’s demand so there’s profit to be made
2 unskippable ads before I could even start the video. RIP TH-cam.
they really force u to use ADDBLOCK
@@Eutopia- I still have chrome with addblock since 2008
I ain't paying for ad free since it's a subscription price that matches to Hulu
@The Fork on the Left I think he's talking about TH-cam premium?
*laughs in getting no ads at all when watching foreign videos*
Put a Raspberry pi in it.
Imagine it being light as a feather after that
@@PACKERMAN2077 a dog walking on it and destroying it hahaha
@@PACKERMAN2077 It'd run better too.
😂
Kakoe2 I like your profile picture
Take out all the older components and turn it into the seagull's home.
Lmao
take out all the parts and give it a seagull upgrade path or attach all old parts to seagull and let it take them to valhalla
I read this RIGHT when I heard a seagull @ 9:46
your just buying the brand at that point really@Chris Ayres
@Chris Ayres what the fuck does that have to do with anything he said
Make a sleeper build, but leave the pentium 4 sticker on
@yan356
P4 sleeper? sticker? run 2001 titles, why that? need a museum? Doom, what title you need?
It's just ATX, you can replace parts! FCK sleepers, only fun if you need subscribers, not to own!!!!
@@lucasrem OK?
@@smu48 What case u use, a classic too? Can't find it on your channel....are you real? obsessed by alienware, did so many ASUS Vento 3600 cases for people how needed this too! In the days, unable to find, now!
@@lucasrem No i Uwe a modern case. My family isnt into gaming so they never bought Something Like that.
@@smu48 You need the community dump service, able to find old $4000 systems too, now, worth nothing. Uphill fancy neighborhood community center helps!
Family, mine were in to academics, on Atari and Altar ....
kinda looks like an air conditioner
Looks like a sex toy to me
Probably as heavy as one too
Could be used as a space heater.
The name of that PC was ahead of its time.
Creepernick02 what?
@@gaminghistory5080 area 51 raif
@@gaminghistory5080 raid*
No...
This old Alienware before owned by Dell. That is an Antec case with different plastic
Pre Dell buyout, Alienware used Chieftec cases. The case featured in this video is based off of the Chieftec Dragon.
@@falkwulf3842 IIRC Antec and Chieftec bought cases from the same factory (EG the Dragon and SX1040), I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't buy the cases through Antec or Chieftec and ordered them from the same OEM
Gut it. Go with all modern components. See if you can get USB3 headers for the front ports, etc.
That would certainly be cool. A rear USB 3 add on card would be nice as well.
thedungeondelver
U all say USB 3, what do you all mean? USB-C connectors? 3.1, Thunderbolt 3?
why care about that shit, just use old connectors, or use the ASUS front bus.
What case u use now, USB-C only?
@@lucasrem USB 3 and USB 3.1 type C are completely different ports. USB 3 is backwards compatible with usb 2 while offering more power and faster transfer speeds.
Just get a couple of adapters that go from the 9 pin motherboard header to 2x USB 2.0A ports
Make new PC, in this retro case. Would be cool.
Mortam
U get a new case every build, or keep using old ATX classics?
Whay case u use now?
@@lucasrem I have a corsair 540 air for my main pc, but I have an old retro case for my 2nd pc.
@@InimicusSolitus Carbrod will never be any near classic, Washing machine, postcode?
Need a classic case ATX? Antek 1995 the most wanted models, this too, 51 area X, that on top 360 Cooling.
i do hate all the square boxes on my desk, need a well designed case, not china designs!!!
case is cool put modern parts in there.
Deffo sleeper, old chassis with some modern components inside. Some pulsing green LED hue visible through the front vents. Would be tempted to paint the main parts of the case in an alien like green colour, something like Mazda Spirited Green Metallic for example, do the vents a smooth black like Toyota Astral black with a perfect lacquer finish to reflect the LED hue out. No other fancy gimmicks outside the case.
I had the slightly more modern version of this case with a 6700k and 1070 in it, for 2 weeks
0:25 that real time ray tracing!
There is Malware then there is Alienware
Then there's underwear
@@PACKERMAN2077 lol
@Jordan Bouret don't be a smart ass
Emmanuel chanda just leave him, nobody likes those kinds of annoying people
well i had my alien ware for 8 years, it is still running top games ... you cry baby !
Upgrade it to a socket 775, slap in a Q6600 or Q9550 etc, 8gb of ram, GTX 460 or better. Keep it retro, but at least able to play something better than Max Payne.
Dat Boii my gtx 470 can play fortnite at 145 fps
Dat Boii yup
@@hectorvallejo867 dude stop shitting a 1050ti at high settings gets 70-100fps
Dat Boii at low 1080p. At medium, 75, and at high 50
Pickup a used tower HP 8000 series 775 series MB with a Q9950 CPU and a used GTX1060 video card, 500GB SSD, 16 MB ram and your're good to go! (you will need a z modified wiring harness to use with power supply)
Put an LGA 775 board in it and wack a Core2Quad in it, so that it can still game but isnt extremely new
isn't*
just threw my alienware case away. found it inthe back of a truck and upgraded it as my main machine for 4 years. beautiful retro case
I own one of these. I replaced the graphics card and power supply about 6 years ago, the motherboard, CPU and Memory about 2 years ago. I am running Windows 8.1 on it and it works fine, and I am watching this video on it now.
I do want to update the graphic card again soon. Taking it to the local computer store does attract a lot of people who want a closer look at it, a real conversation piece.
Pair that psu with a celeron 420 and a gt420 *PLEASE*
yewah
420 OMG SMOKE WEED EVERYDAY
@@lunetwork5912 *airhorns*
Summoner Arthur gigitygig
I'm watching this stoned munching out satisfied by this beauty of a case.
MAKE IT A SLEEPER PC!
Seriously, we need more sleeper builds, especially with retro-cases like these, they are great!
It can't be a sleeper technically but I understand what you mean.
@@qpwo8 alien were extremely overpriced and heavily marketed as Supreme performance gaming PCs so no alien no matter how old can be a sleeper from Pure reputation
Darren Wilbanks
Honestly, this cases look Badass though. This thing look way futuristic at that time
I have 2 sleeper pc's one with 1998 white case and one with other old coolermaster case
Also the first Alienware in 1998 were the beast machine. I want to try to upgrade it and make it being a sleeper PC this day
I've still got an Audigy 2 ZS in my rig to this day. When I upgraded my system, i had to make sure I chose a board that had at least one PCI slot to use it. Onboard audio just never worked for FL Studio or Ableton, for me at least, and this Audigy was the only card I could get to work well with it. I'd buy another one of these cards if I had to.
he used ten pounds of diesel the monster!!!!
I did an upgrade on one of these, the motherboard crapped, but that 1000w PSU they installed in it was intense. I installed everything new on an 1156 platform
I remember entering a mail in give away for this model that was green from the box of Final Fantasy XI. I really wanted this model back then lol. 512gb in 2006 was crazy, I remember losing it in 2009 when I got a 1gb card.
Here's a more "middle of the road" suggestion.
Don't go full modern with it. Upgrade it to an LGA 775 board with something like a Core2Quad. That will let you use PCI-E and you can still keep Windows XP on it as well. Plus that shouldn't be too much in terms of heat for the case. Hell, if you can get the right board, you can even use DDR3 with it. :)
especially a P5N-D would be good, as it supports PCIe 2.0.
Do moden day internals!
I found this case on Craigslist for 50 bucks and put my main rig into it. Definitely a conversation piece. Mine was a bit different, the exhaust fan is a single 120mm and the hard drive bays face the side.
Some of the very last agp cards (think HD 3850) actually came with a pcie power connector because they would otherwise need 3 molex ones.
I remember if you went to Alienware.com you could get a pamphlet in the mail in like 8 weeks that came with a huge poster of a random high tier model. Needless to say I still have this poster.
Me: can we get an alienware pc
Mom: no we already have an alienware pc
Alienware pc at home :
A modern "sleeper" build would be cool.
Whatever you do, new or old, I’d like to see you try your hand at a hardline loop in that case
I remember these. A coworker of mine brought one of these to the office to use it as a work station. It's beast of a case. Haha. Thanks for the nostalgia trip.
Your videos are so fun man, can't stop watching these. Do more clips like these buying random old PC, or once that used to be expensive. Cheers
use the case and build an all new system matching the level of performance back in the day, may be a ryzen 5 with a rx570 or 580
Heyy, it's that Alienware PC that was available in Sims 2 as an official addon! :D
supra107
In game branding, Alienware was one of the original partners, Ford Cars too, H&M official DLC Packs.
Were did it all end? now? That was the most selling PC title, for 10 years?
@ Yes, the IKEA Stuff Pack, although it was paid, and as far as I can remember the Alienware PC was a free download.
I actually ended up buying a similar case for my current gaming PC when I was building. It was $180 in a bid but I wanted it anyway because it looks so damn cool.
I bet the seller loved it!
B Hew hahah I bet he didnt
first video of yours I ever watched, so happy to see how much your channel and video skills have grown
Restore it into an ultimate retro gaming Pc! Great video, keep the content coming!
Old? I remember "gaming" on a commadore 64, that's virtually new!
Turn it modern
Change the Pentium 4 sticker to something more modern and call it a day
Just slap on the i7 sticker and sell it for 1k
FYI that soundcard may be old but its still one of the best sound cards of all time, the sound is amazing, especially if you compare with an onboard $5 sound chip
I know its a shame XP browser support is gone also. I believe the only one that kind of supported it to the end was FireFox.
the only area 51 I wanna storm
make it into a budget ryzen system
I'm way late on casting my vote but I totally agree. Not over the top but good like a Ryzen 5 2600X with the new GTX1660ti and 16GB system RAM an nvme boot drive and 4tb storage hdd and a decent power supply. Try to stay around $1000 - $1500 USD as low as you can keep it. I would paint the white parts of the case actual glow in the dark neon green and put some black light leds through the upper ridge line so they shine down onto the painted parts. And maybe some lighting under the case as well to make it look like its floating.
@@cerberus50caldawg no wait for ryzen 5 3600 and gtx 1660 ti for around 1200
Hes referring to raven ridge
Put an Atom Mini ITX mobo in it.. same power.
I remember this computer being in The Sims 3 in green, and it was the coolest you could buy in game haha
you mean something like this? pcpartpicker.com/b/TPbj4D
You should totally do a sleeper build! Maybe install something that would be similar to it's high-performance nature from a newer generation, maybe like a Core 2 Quad? Or, really go all-out and install a high-performance system in it. It's your PC, so really your choice. Good luck and have fun mate!!
I so love those cases I just can't ever explain how cool I really think those guys were back in the day. Really they were such a boost to gaming and the whole thing. You know, someday there won't be anymore of those awesome things. I actually would love to see it completly gone over all updated with the best stuff and see it rocking. If you think about it that someday could really be worth something. I know I'm 51 and when that thing was made I wasn't able to just go out and buy it. I just think those cases are the coolest retro tech available and looks are everything when you are wanting the coolest retro stuff.
boi that case is shinier than my future
Embrace the Darkness
LED back then, car shaped cases!
The Future, now? ugly square acrylic shinny glass boxed, on controllable RGB! the future is PS4 onboard graphics, cloud gaming! NOT this case......
when a 15 year old system runs games bettrr then your laptop
You must gotta be kidding
When a craptop runs better than my desktop pc
put a modern system into the case as you said, but repaint it and try customize it somewhat!
This is a hard one. The nerd in me would want to save the old hardware. Sooner or later these parts will get rarer and rarer. However I love the instant gratification of getting parts you know work and have a good finished product quicker. Right now i'd go with saving it. Only cause I just upgraded my whole rig, so i already scratched that itch.
This machine is an Alienware Area 51 Predator 1 Aurora, P4-800. The dual 80mm exhaust fans give it away. I run almost the exact same computer case accept I use the Area 51 Predator 1 EXTREME 3550 case the only difference between the two are the HDD cages and a Single 120x120x38mm exhaust fan. The stock GPU for this system was a 128mb ATI radeon 9600XT, the original PS was an Alienware branded 400w.
I know these machines inside and out and can help you get it sorted if you need any assistance. The case weighs in at a whopping 18.6 kg fully loaded as it is an all steel base chassis with a Plastic ABS shell. If you use a dremel then you will need reinforced cutting wheels and a drill to remove some rivets to modernize it.
i had a boot loop with my pc i needed to do a bios update thats all
everyone needs to like this
Throw the spare xbox inards in it and install linux.
YES!
Linux isn’t that great yet for gaming and he’s all about building gaming systems
Making a functional computer by putting an xbox inside a computer then installing a computer operating system would be some awesome Frankenstein stuff. Why? Because you can!
Besides wine is capable of running just about anything that board can handle at this point. It would a retro-esk gaming rig.
You could also use Steam's in-home streaming to run games the system couldn't otherwise handle.
Don't know if you could get a network card working in that thing, but lan should work well enough.
remove all and make alienware big again
I love the old vinyl graphics on the side of those old ATi cards... it was so cool and unique.. I wish GPU manufacturers still did stuff like that :/
Perfect case for a sleeper! Socket 775/AM3, 8gb and fermi/terascale or newer would be sweet. But definitely keep the p4 sticker for aesthetic.
5:06 I spy a lil RandomGamingHD man ;)
What are you doing with an air conditioner
Bahahaha
you should modernize it :]
This case is so nostalgic. Would always drool over the green one I would see all the time on Tech Tv. Memories !
Knew how old that was as soon as I saw it... Man those things were overpriced back then - but inescapably cool anyway. That was when Alienware was it's own company, I think. They put huge plastic chunks on top of Antec Dragon cases or something like that; insides and components are super duper similar.
Ahh I have the I believe later 2009 version of that Alienware Area 51 but I can't tell you that 2009 is the most certain year but ah the case is practically that same
(Edit)
The Alienware 51 ALX
Looks like me mum
LMAO
@@AchiragChiragg LOL now i laugh me mum
bruh
are yue frem witcheah 3?
Pleaca ba de aici
Area 51 you say?
Thank you for sharing your video..
I remember that day when higher clock CPU means higher performance and GPU is just an adapter to connect your PC to a monitor.. Now, we spend twice cost of CPU to get GPU that is for better performance.
Watch those metal brackets on the case, Tech Yes City sliced his thumb up gnarly on the over sharp case parts. :O
New components for this old case 👍🏻
Eat it
U should give it to me and I’ll play some 🥔 games
Make a sleeper build using that case! I'd love to see that case live again!
I had this exact system in silver. I bought the guts of a newer alienware Aurora for cheap and tossed them in. Works great as both a cost effective solution and a decent power machine. Highly recommend doing something similar here.
I wanted that as a child. I was a fool.
X45 I mean, it's not bad to want a gimmicky case, since they go out of their way to make them look cool. it really would appeal to young people because of that. I can't remember which Alienware pc I wanted, but the case was the entire draw.
SLEEPER PC ANYONE?
3:20 I wouldn't say sound cards are outdated. There was no way my Z370 onboard audio could run 250ohm DT770's so I had to get a strix soar soundcard and the sound difference is absolutely massive. I could barely hear anything with onboard audio and sound quality was just junk. Sure onboard audio can run ''gaming'' headsets but usually they can't run any audiophile headphones..
5:52
"Probably two to three grand, because you know, it's Alienware" 😅😅😅🤣🤣🤣
What's the tool you used to look at the prices of those ancient alienwares? Edit: At 6:02
Just curious, have you tried another PSU? Some variants of that GPU recommend 30A on the 12v Rail. I know that those listed requirements are usually somewhat 'safe' but I've not had the best experiences with Thermaltake either (horribly inefficient).
It's crazy how heavy older cases were. Last year I handed down my 6700k + msi 980 gaming 4g in my antec 900 case to my son. Built myself a newer case and it's so light. I didnt really notice until I went to clean my son's pc and it feels 3x heavier than my new build
Back in 2011 I changed out all the components on my Area 51 which was a newer model than this one. I put new 1200 watt power supply, Intel I-7 Gen1, and Asus Rampage 4 MB, 16 GB of DDR 4 Dram, A Samsung Pro SSD Drive, and a new Nvidia Gforce FX card. I cant remember which one. Great improvement. Everything fit fine and ran great. Then Just this month I just finished another complete overhaul with this case. Intel I-9, Asus Maximus Hero XI MB, New SSD Nmv 2.0 Vnand card, 16 gb of 4000 mhz DDR 4 Dram, A new Nvidia GTX 2060 Super, and kept my power supply. Looking back I should have got a new digital modular power supply with less watts. These cases are what made Alienware what it was. Not what was in them. Yes, it is a heavy SOB to move even a few inches, but it looks bad! It is a nice quality case and well worth keeping and rebuilding in it. When Dell took over they turned Alienware into the joke of the industry. These cases were the very last of the good looking cases built by Alienware in Miami Fla. They have never looked bad ass since then. If you rebuild in your case, it would sell so fast your head would spin. People would buy it for the case and be happy that you rebuilt it. I put some of the best products in mine that totaled out to around $1,800 to build. You could put a 3rd gen Intel and lesser other parts and make a hell of a profit on it. What ever you do, dont let that beautiful case go to waste. Give it the honor it is due.
This is the PC that got me into PC gaming, and i still stand by it being my best memory ever. (this Alienware looks way early 2000's? mine was late 2008 ish era)
This is a very early revision to this version of the Alienware area 51 I had as my first pc, mine didn't have the lock on the front, didn't have these 4 lower USB ports, Didn't have the power/activity indicators and such in the front and the side of the case looks to be a slightly different design.
I used mine in its stock spec until September 2015, it had a Asus P6T deluxe V2, i7 920, two GTX 260 core 216 editions (1792mb vram versions) and 6GB ram and it originally came with two 500gb hardrives in raid 0.
I got the PC in the above spec for £850 in late December 2009 (ebay second hand)
In 2012 ish the hardrive setup died and i upgraded to a 120gb ssd like we all did back then and threw in a then huge 3TB hardrive as storage and another 6GB ram and overclocked to the best i could get the 920 too
That 3TB hardrive died in 2014 after only 2 years service, but i replaced it with two 2tb drives
In september 2015 when i got my first paycheck i bought a GTX 970 and slapped that in replacing the 7 year old GTX 260's
Then march 2016 I Upgraded all the internals to a Z170 Asus Pro gaming, i7 6700k, 16GB ram, Evo 212 cooler and a new power supply (this case actually has some weird over sized power supply that's larger than standard so there was a gap above or bellow the supply)
Whenever the NVME Samsung 960 released i got the 500gb model instantly as i was super hyped for it's release, it's still cool and damn, it's alot cheaper now lol
Then in April 2017 I wanted to give my then girlfriends PC my 970 as a upgrade so i got a 1070 for £320 New off some lad who won it in a competition (replacing her two GTX 260's (hint hint))
But that Alienware only had that 1070 for a breif time, only 2 weeks passed and i ordered a Thermaltake core P3.... and the Alienwares fate was sealed after me owning it for 7 years and 4 months :( now he sits in the original Alienware dust cover in the bottom of my wardrobe, gutless, waiting for me to get the PC parts back from my Ex Ex so i can rebuild it to it's OG spec
I have very similar specs in my P4 XP box, just different motherboard(p4c800 dlx) and 1M cache instead of the 512kb but otherwise identical 3.2ghz HT. For XP and old Dx9 games it's a great machine.
The 1950 pro is about as fast as you get on AGP.
This is pretty much what I do, I take these computers and strip them down, clean them, and install all new parts, I really liked working on this one when I did.
For note, the one I worked on had a GTS 8800, AMD x64 (I believe?) and a 1000w PSU, it was a neat piece of tech.
You're killing me here man!!! I have about 20 AGP video cards and still SHEELLLLVVERESS of classic old school gaming cards!! HIT...ME...UP!
When i was in highschool, i knew a rich kid with an Area 51 that looked i think about just like this, but it was probaby a bit newer. i think it had a Core2Extreme and SLi Nvidia cards. It was the craziest thing i had ever seen. Id love to get ahold of one of these cases for a retro build.
That is the BEST contender for a sleeper pc. Build a beast in it. Water cooled and all. That thing is sweet!
Seeing this reminds me of gaming at single core Pentium 4 3 GHz with a MX 4000 graphics card, 256 MB of RAM. Bought at 2005 I think. PC's still on us and it's still alive.
I never thought my pops actually bought us a really nice mid-range PC at that time.