I love this little thing. I still use mine (i5/960/16GB) with a new 500gb SSDas a multimedia PC hooked up to my TV. It's still pretty quick and responsive. I don't do a lot of gaming on it but it does do pretty well with Genshin at 1080p with an xbox controller.
This was still going for $400 on eBay I figured I can buy a more current CPU/motherboard ram/memory. I have a 2080 super so that should be fine with ryzen 5. I just wanted amd not Intel for fanboi reasons I think.
It definitely is good for that, but I suppose it depends on what is "retro" for you, If I'm playing retro games i mostly play gba/ds, SNES and Genesis. I have too many devices that will do those systems.
It should, but I'm not familiar with the requirements for Skyrim mods. I think the real question is the size worth having a 7 year old system vs doing a am4 or Intel 12th gen setup with rx6650.
I sold off the computer as it was somehow worth $400 on eBay. I'm guessing some folks don't keep up with video card pricing. Id guess I could have gotten very close to original price in 2021.
@@buildyourcomputer HoloIso (like a .iso file) is SteamOS3 ported to run on devices that aren't the steamdeck... Most people are using it on small form factor builds to achieve that home console PC experience. I think the only issue with the Alienware Alpha is that it is not AMD.
@@buildyourcomputer True true. I think the full release of SteamOS is hinging on that crucial nvidia driver support/workaround. I was also thinking maybe just install manjaro or linux mint and just set steam big picture mode as the default... the gpu is old enough that the drivers should be pretty solid at this point.
I love this little thing. I still use mine (i5/960/16GB) with a new 500gb SSDas a multimedia PC hooked up to my TV. It's still pretty quick and responsive. I don't do a lot of gaming on it but it does do pretty well with Genshin at 1080p with an xbox controller.
its still an awesome machine in 2022 as i still use it
This was still going for $400 on eBay I figured I can buy a more current CPU/motherboard ram/memory. I have a 2080 super so that should be fine with ryzen 5. I just wanted amd not Intel for fanboi reasons I think.
+1 for liking tails.
@@buildyourcomputer i use a gtx 1060 along with the i5-6400t
@@Satwix so you have the graphics amplifier?
@@buildyourcomputer yeah
It's a perfect littlepc if you're mainly interested In playing retro pc games
It definitely is good for that, but I suppose it depends on what is "retro" for you, If I'm playing retro games i mostly play gba/ds, SNES and Genesis. I have too many devices that will do those systems.
I just wanna run a heavily modded Skyrim. Is this thing gonna be enough for that? No crazy graphics mods, just a lot of mods.
It should, but I'm not familiar with the requirements for Skyrim mods. I think the real question is the size worth having a 7 year old system vs doing a am4 or Intel 12th gen setup with rx6650.
@@buildyourcomputer What is the better option for the money. I am operating on budget.
@@dylanplumley280 what is your budget? Also do you already have keyboard/mouse/monitor.
@@buildyourcomputer 600 and under
I have keyboard and a monitor but mouses aren’t too hard to come by so I could find one pretty easily.
I have one lying around and am interested in installing HoloIso on it. Have you tried this yet?
What's holoso? I'm assuming this is a bad auto complete
I sold off the computer as it was somehow worth $400 on eBay. I'm guessing some folks don't keep up with video card pricing. Id guess I could have gotten very close to original price in 2021.
@@buildyourcomputer HoloIso (like a .iso file) is SteamOS3 ported to run on devices that aren't the steamdeck... Most people are using it on small form factor builds to achieve that home console PC experience. I think the only issue with the Alienware Alpha is that it is not AMD.
It might work, I mean the system did alternately come with steamos from dell. Its Linux so someone could code nvidia drivers in.
@@buildyourcomputer True true. I think the full release of SteamOS is hinging on that crucial nvidia driver support/workaround. I was also thinking maybe just install manjaro or linux mint and just set steam big picture mode as the default... the gpu is old enough that the drivers should be pretty solid at this point.