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hey how's it going Dave Judy here this is a quick video on the Alienware 17 r4 so this is their flagship model it's their biggest it's their baddest that's their most expensive just a quick hardware overview it's got an overclock well i 7q x 1080 kickass speakers toby eye-tracking that's not something I would use very often but it is there it's got four drive bays it's a beast now it's expensive but if you're in the market for hardcore 17-inch gaming laptop this is my favorite on the market right now so before I get into the things I do like about it I want to talk about a few things that I don't love about it first are the RAM slots there's only two slots so you can get up to 32 gigs of RAM if you do like tons of VM or if you run on crazy CAD software you might need more than 30 gigs so if you do that's a limitation second thing are the ports it has a decent number of ports but for a 17 inch laptop I feel like there could have been more USB ports there's a total of four two of them being type C the third thing is the overclocking software like I mentioned before it has an overclockable CPU but there's no Alienware easy-mode software you have to go into the BIOS or run stuff like throttle stop or the Intel XP you program to overclock and I wish there was something that was built by Dell there probably will be in the very near future but right now there isn't the other thing is that the power supply is really big it's 330 watts but you're going to properly power a GTX 1080 you kind of need the wattage so those are some things that I don't like about this laptop there's obviously a bunch of things that I do like but I'm going to focus on three things that kind of really separate this laptop from the others in this space first is build quality of all the 17 inch laptops in this price range Alienware does of the best they aren't super thin or super light but this thing is a tank it's got steel and magnesium on the inside carbon fiber composite for the exterior it just feels really durable I think this is the toughest 17 inch gaming laptop the Alienware lighting is also cool light up tripods are always fun the light strips on the side are especially cool now I don't think that this is a design for everyone but I do think they're made really well the second thing I like is the performance it's running the KB Lake i77 820 H K and a GTX 1080 the performance on this machine is be really nice but any laptop with these components are going to deliver something similar but what makes this lots of special is the thermal management I don't know if I got lucky with like a really good thermal paste job but I was ready to open it up reap aced and reap at it but looking at the temperatures I'm not even going to bother the fan noise on this system is good I expected it to be loud because the video card it's definitely not silent and the fan often runs on idle but under load it's quieter than most GT X 1080 laptops I've used so we're getting good performance with good thermals and good fan noise what's not to like right so the last thing I really like about this laptop and this is a big one for me is the screen in particular it's this quad HD panel it is a TN panel but before you say GTFO because it's a TN panel trust me it's really nice great color accuracy 120 Hertz with G sync this thing was built for gamers so there are a gaming laptops out there with 60 Hertz panels it's not that it's wasteful because these cards are capable of pushing out so much more it's more that you're missing out on really good gaming experiences if you just capped at 60 Hertz playing on a 120 Hertz panel is so much better stuff just looks super smooth now my videos are shot in 24 frames per second so it's really difficult for me to showcase this you go just have to trust me or see it in person 120 Hertz panel looks phenomenal in terms of pricing Dells tend to fluctuate a lot they have like seasonal sales and stuff like that but right now you get this system so a GTX 1080 overclockable i7 and a 120 Hertz g-sync panel for $2,400 it's expensive but if you can afford it you'll be playing buttery smooth games for years okay with the Alienware 17 r4 you're getting one of the best-built 17 inch laptops so the money heavy but it's built to last you're getting a 17 inch TN panel that gives one of the best gaming experiences you get the classic Alienware keyboard it's not the more common chickweed style but it's a good typing experience and it's easy to get used to you get a solid trackpad that lights up with RGB LEDs and inside you get a cable a chi seven and a gtx 1080 that are cooled really nicely so you can comfortably overclock you get four drive bays and two RAM slots all of which are easy to access and upgrade and then you get a 99 watt hour battery which is actually the legal limit for bringing this laptop onto a plane I mean you can't go any bigger than that and even then you're only getting four hours of battery-life overall it's a really good laptop obviously it's super powerful obviously it's very expensive but if you're in the market for something like this like a really high-end top to your gaming laptop that you can competitively game with take a look at this one it's pretty awesome hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs if you liked it subs if you loved it see you guys next time