★ Alienware X51 Full System Breakdown/ Disassembly; Alienware X51 Case Opening (Gaming PC Build)

Posted before the official Alienware channel's demonstration

In this video:
Removing the side panel
GPU
Hard Drive
CPU Fan
Heatsink
CPU
Wireless Card
Ram
Motherboard
Left Panel
Front Panel
Bezel
Case Fan

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Console gameplay recorded with Roxio Game Capture HD Pro
PC gameplay recorded with FRAPS
Edited with Sony Vegas 12
Commentary recorded with Blue Snowball Ice USB microphone

New Alienware X51 2013 Edition GTX 660 Unboxing Specifications Benchmarks Settings Graphics Card GPU 330w PSU Best Budget Desktop Under 1000 Trouble Shooting Overclock upgrade step by step
New Alienware X51 2013 Edition GTX 660 Unboxing Specifications Benchmarks Settings Graphics Card GPU 330w PSU Best Budget Desktop Under 1000 Troubleshooting Overclock upgrade step by step
New Alienware X51 2013 Edition GTX 660 Unboxing Specifications Benchmarks Settings Graphics Card GPU 330w PSU Best Budget Desktop Under 1000 Troubleshooting Overclock upgrade step by step

[xFightingIrish]

Had this baby for 4 years, just getting a new PC today. Rip buddy, we had some good times :')

[featherinadream]

I had a problem with my graphics card overheating. I just watched your video, pulled my pc to bits and cleaned everything, now it works fine. Awesome video, best part is where you hurt yourself ;). Thanks very much dude ^^.

[VeryTraumatic]

Some guys that use AMD cards or blower fans like to reverse the direction of the fan so that it blows air out of the case, but to remove it entirely and not put it back for you seems like kinda a jerk thing to do.

It could help with feeding the turbine fans of the Nvidia reference design cards. I still use it.

[VeryTraumatic]

The motherboard is proprietary (it's split into 3 pieces), so it would take heavy modding. Overall, I don't think it would be worth the effort to transfer the components to another case. Getting the case with the X51 is most of the appeal of this PC isn't it?

[TRIALvsERRR]

yes, its just that i think the small size will restrit uprgrades.

[VeryTraumatic]

I'd try for less than 9.75 inches.

If you trust your card's ability to cool itself, you can remove the case fan (last step in this vid) for an extra 1.5 inches of clearance.

[mohashali]

I love the x51 its small, powerful and beautiful. I've had mine for over a year and it's still quiet. The videocard could be better (gtx 660) but it's still good. I think the x51 is perfect for people that don't want to build their own PC but still want a beautiful yet powerful machine.

[PandawanTTV]

Thank you for this video. I was so nervous about doing this.

[newjsb]

I think my power board is defective was hoping to see how it looked when removed.

[SuperBrandonle]

all i can say is good luck putting it back together

[jespersvensson]

The "antenna from an insect" looking things actually are the antennas.... main & aux

[SKIL]

Also where is your ground band or how did you ground yourself?

[hakki]

Hi, i have the same pc and i have a question about the motherboard. As you said, the motherboard is in two parts which one of them receive the psu And other parts... My question is : can I move these two parts in a new case without problems ? Thanks !

[lMAGlNENATIVE]

Just buy the parts and built it your self you can get a really nice pc that runs all games on high to ultra settings for 500

[NeKMinNiTMW]

Well i have the I7 and all that good shit in my X51 but i only had a Nvidia GeForce 545 D:
Because it cant do battlefield 4 very well. And you sir just helped me install my 650TI. Thankyou

[darthchicken]

I'm definitely taking my alienware apart and using the cpu in a good build 

[Cozzma]

Now with the mini ITX in the X51 could you you use a regular power suply?

[bbbbBEOTCH]

ive never seen a cpu idle at 53 and not even hit 60c during cinebench also the bios allows OCing of the locked i5 6400

[BlueEyedDevilHunter]

Thanks for the vids Traumatic....I just bought an x51 a month ago and am having all kinds of problems with it....Mostly when I am gaming it locks up/freezes, then after 30 seconds of lock up the system reboots. On occasion I would get a windows error, the kernel stopped responding and has recovered. Now I am not even getting that error, It just crashes. To make things worse, when I boot now (cold) the fan is very very loud on startup and remains that way. I updated my GeForce Drivers to

[KFCLIFE]

Can you make a guide or link a guide to where to plug all the cables.. im a bit confused on that one hehe