Rebuilding a CLASSIC Alienware PC from 2007!

I could only dream of how awesome it would have been to get this Alienware Aurora PC back in the day, so today I am going to rebuild it to its former glory and see how it would have performed in games from the time period.

[wombatmarsupial]

Alienware was always a dream back in the day. That's about my ability at cable management, just role up the surplus connectors and cram them in an empty Bay. SLI was always hit or miss and it was overhyped. Good video😊

[melvinmartinali]

....thats an absolute dream pc case i still realy like it even to this day

[chicagorc]

i have almost 10 alienwares. i got 2 of the Predator 2s. i got a blue one and a silver one that are like mint! im glad im not the only one who likes these cases

[gustipher]

Thanks for making this great content man, I know you don't have a lot of subs or anything, but I really enjoy your stuff and heck have used your mac build as a bible for my own, Keep it Up!!

[TRS-Eric]

I found an Area-51 7500 R3 case and had no idea where to start in finding it's original components after google failed me. You got me started! Thanks!

[picklerick]

I recently bought a similar Alienware. It was a dream PC of mine as a kid and when I decided to look for one it took me months to find the right one. The PC was actually running quite well for being all original parts but the old Core 2 Extreme and DDR2 were obviously just a little outdated. I guess Ive been slowly turning it into a "super-computer" or at least a high-end gaming PC in today's standards.

I went with a Ryzen 5600x, 32GB of DDR4-3600 and an NVMe drive. All I need now is a graphics card. I am trying to find a decently priced 3080 or maybe even a 3090, if not I may just wait till next generation. Hopefully I can get the original LEDs to work, I wired them up correctly but the software will most likely be the issue.

[oliveragustin]

Man! I was smoking up and this case popped into my head looked at my rig and now cant get this out of my head to retro fit my current rig into this case!

[dandowodzenka]

Will all due respect, if you had actually purchased one 'Complete", you would change/correct your comments. 1. You don't need painted metal inside a case, especially when you can't see it. 2. A see through case would ruin the reason behind it's unique design. 3. Small exhaust fan? it was a large 120mm 4. The HD fan wasn't exhaust, it was intake. 5. There was mostly plenty of cooling via fans only, 1 exhaust and 3 intake (3 of them 120mm and 1 at the HD was 92mm). 5. Also, it came with cable management throughout! These were the best machines back in 2007, i even have the original Alienware Area-51 2002- Chieftec Dragon Case with all components to go along with the P2 case in the video

[robertnz]

I have a case like that but the area 51 7500 and has factory 1000 watt power supply and original board also had a cpu cooler with huge radiator on it. Way ahead of its time.

[isaaccarter]

Just did this in my 2008 Area 51 case. Did a dual xeon setup, 1tb gammix m.2, msi 980ti golden edition and a 750w l EVGA power supply

[DGCastell]

I always drooled about owning an Aurora with a sweet six-core Phenom II

[roscoecoe]

I would've went with the Q6000 CPU. Was a beast back in the day. I had the same computer with the Q6600 & 2 XFX 8800 GTS SLI. Intel learned a lesson on the Q6600. Never allow that much headroom or it'll hurt your next 2-3yrs sales. Still have this computer in one of my spare closet collecting dust. Can't bring myself to get rid of it. Might do a future build with this case. That's if the new graphic cards will fit. I highly doubt it though. Might have to cut the side panel.

[joshuabruett]

You're right when you say that SLi was never supported that well, but back when it was still relevant technology, it did scale better than your findings here. I'm not saying you did anything wrong, and I actually really liked the video, but I had two SLi systems several years ago, and they both performed better than this did. So maybe something has changed. I don't know what and I appreciate the video, but I have to believe that SLi did work better back in 07.

[fxgamer-yt]

in nivida control panel there a setting in gobble setting you can enable to force sli in applications

[nikolakarovic]

I have Area 51 Alx black cosmos, was searching for it in Europe 1year.

[SilverX]

i know this is a bit old but did you reinstalled the driver after getting the 2nd card working and check the NVIDIA control panel to turn SLI off and back on again yes that works sometimes.
3dmark and Heaven Benchmark can use SLI i should know i use to used 2x 4gb 980's in SLI

[theangel]

great video!
did youy know, by change, wgere i can find old drivers for the same chassis ? I onw a 7500 and really need old versions of AlienFX (1.05) and command center. :-(
Thk.

[Reswavey]

I have the same pc and I’m planning on using the case

[theerror]

when I think of Alienware, I honestly think of Sheldon Cooper.

[EpicxNL]

I recently bought the same case on Ebay. Unfortunately, the black slides for the HDD drives are missing. I noticed your were missing too when you opened up the case. Could you maybe tell me where how you got these replaced? Thank you very much! Also, I really enjoyed your video