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hey what's up guys - we're back with another video and today we are going to be taking a look at the Alienware graphics amplifier or the GM as I like to call it it has this striking aggressive game rail look with a fan up front a 460 watt power supply a four port USB hub and a PCIe slot for installing a graphics card but let's rewind the tape a bit why would you install only a graphics card here is the concept get a small Alienware PC like the Alpha or some Alienware laptops and then connect that to the graphics amplifier to get desktop like graphics performance with that said you might be wondering why not just get a bigger PC well because portability the Alienware alpha that I have is super small and does actually have pretty decent specs in terms of graphics it has a desktop 960 graphics card so what you do is you take only that small PC to LAN parties and when you are home you have got this beefy desktop graphics card so how do you get it up and running well just open up the case and remove these two screws then just get the GPU into place and just pop it in and once that's all done get those two screws back into place now you need to connect the GPU to power get the needed pins and just connect them then close the case and connect your monitor USB peripherals power and the cable that connects the graphics amplifier to your alien work PC now just turn on the PC and the graphics amplifier will turn on with it if you want to disconnect it and then reconnect it however the connected PC has to be powered off because it cannot hot-swap between two different graphics cards I wanted to see the difference between using a gtx 980 inside of a normal PC versus using it in the graphics amplifier and here are the results so as you could see the performance is not exactly the same sometimes the PC gets about 10% better average fps in games but sometimes it's the exact opposite so expect a 10 to 15% difference between a normal PC and the graphics amplifier in terms of cooling it's great the graphics card has its own vent on the side and on the front is a fan so cooling is definitely on the good side the only problem with the fan though is that it is very loud and because it's only a 2 pin fan there is no way of controlling the fan speed so what you have to do is basically just pull out the cable if you want the quieter system as a conclusion is the graphics amplifier worth the $200 if you already have an alienware PC that supports it yeah definitely it gives you easy access to upgrade your graphics card if you already have a normal desktop PC just buy a better graphics card and you're pretty much all set alright that's it thanks for watching please leave a like if you enjoyed the video subscribe if you want to see more like it and I'll see you guys in the next one peace out you