What resolution though? 3840x1600 is a lot harder to drive than 2560x1440. It’s literally 6,144,000 vs 3,686,400 pixels. That doesn’t seem a huge amount until you realize that to do things like anti-aliasing you need to render in multiples of these resolutions (usually 2-8x). When you’re rendering at those higher resolutions the number of pixels grows at square not a linear rate… so that’s a LOT of pixels to push.
Almost guaranteed to be not, Dell hasn’t shipped an ATX PSU in I think 10 years. They are all versions of 12VO server PSUs. 80+ Platinum though… so efficient, but completely proprietary.
I love watching guys like his videos. Faux outrage to go after whatever company they hate to get clicks and fight a brand, despite supporting brands just as bad.
I got no horse in this race other than hating lies and stupid illogical hatred. I get the build your own crowd. I also understand the it’s a commodity crowd and both have valid points - neither is evil.
But I did put up a video that shows you CAN PUT a standard ATX power supply in the OPs machine despite all the haters saying it’s impossible because “I Hate Dell”
Nah in his case it’s very real frustration. They aren’t actually against prebuilts… just prebuilts that are completely proprietary. Hence the disappointment the PSU isn’t ATX12VO. They are basically hoping that things can be reused later and they can’t because of the design. Things like making the cooler structural into the case etc. It means that cooler cannot be used outside of that case period.
Man it’s been over 10 years since I owned a dell, and I remember when I tried to upgrade it myself I was met with frustration over the proprietary form. Are they still doing that?
Seems like anyone looking for a quality pre-built would be better off going with NZXT.
It’s why I specifically stated I get the it’s a commodity crown. The vast majority of people (including gamers) just don’t want to open the case. It’s just too easy and cheap to just replace.
Back when I took support calls in the early 2000s I worked in the corporate sector. Most of the supposed IT guys could barely do any of the TS we asked. They knew Ghost, how to image and put the system on a desk. Ask them to even reseat a CPU and there were major issues. I had a guy flip out because I made him do a debug and it fixed his Ghost issues.
One and done is ok for MOST people. People like you and I want to tinker and do cheap easy upgrades every few months. We just are not that big a piece of the pie - just look at all the gaming laptops that can’t be upgraded either. Or peoples phones. Or consoles…
Yes but proprietary parts also hinder locals shops from helping, and while I highly doubt that the PSU on that machine is going to die (Dell does actually make great PSUs) the fact that it’s not ATX12VO (which is a standard) but something completely incompatible is frustrating. What’s more frustrating is for a period Dell was using standard parts… and then stopped.
I get what you’re saying… but when the HPs of the world are shipping machines with standard parts that your local friend or computer shop can replace it’s hard to recommend Dell/Alienware to the non-technical, many of which don’t want to deal with Depot repairs. So outside of laptops… which are already proprietary as all get out… yeah hard to recommend. Not to mention the bang for the buck factor. That 5k Alienware thermal throttles and has an underbuilt power delivery for the CPU (8 stages vs 12 on average for literally everybody else for that series of CPU). That means that even if the CPU didn’t thermal throttle in that case (a fixable issue on Dell’s part, they have better cases) the power delivery would limit turbo boost and duration because it literally can’t sustain the load. For 5k… I’d expect that thing to turbo until the cows come home or I start to cry from the electricity bill.
It’s clear this shift happened between the R7 and R13… but I can’t find a definitive date.
True, however I have loved their monitors because I haven’t seen many good ones that have g-sync. I have had 0 issues with my Alienware monitor and quite frankly have loved them enough to where I just bought a new one for my new PC.
Now Alienware computers/laptop I would avoid at all costs.
And that explains it… you’ve got all forms of Anti-aliasing turned off and are rendering only at 100%. That significantly reduces the processing and VRAM requirements. I figured as much.
Nope, I was just curious how you were fitting in the VRAM for that GPU. MSAA or FXAA on that GPU could completely blow out the VRAM unless you tuned it very tightly. It is worth noting that the settings for “10” are different per GPU apparently. On mine it turns on MSAA to 4x but I’m on a 3080 (but it did it on the 2080 I had before prior too).
So can you now agree that a mobile 1060 is more than capable of running 3840x2160@10@60fps on WoW? Even with anti-aliasing set to whatever WoW recommends for a 3080?
