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The Alienware Aurora ALX-XL
Sometimes you get a chance you can't say no to, so that's what happened to me.
After some discussions and exchanging ideas with Dell, I am very happy to announce to you a build with a super case. It's allready beautiful But I'm gonna give it a try
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The Alienware Aurora desktop.
And not only the case, but a complete configuration with the following components:
- CASE : Alienware Aurora ALX 875W-chassis (Matte Black)
- PROCESSOR: Intel® Core i7-3820 (4 Core, 10MB Cache, 3.60GHz)
- OPERATING SYSTEM : Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64-bits
- GRAPHICS : 1 GB GDDR5 NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 555
- MEMORY : 16GB (4 x 4 GB) 1.600 MHz Quad Channel DDR3
- HARD DRIVE : 256 GB SSD
- OPTICAL DRIVE : 8X Blu-ray Disc-rw-station en 24x dvd+/-rw-station
Before I start, first I want to thank all the great sponsors for making this build possible.
Alienware, for the system.
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Nvidia to deliver GPU upgrade (more on this later)
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And EKWB for the watercooling components
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There will be a lot of pictures again in this build. What is new is that I now going to add videos, think this will be a nice addition.
First contact with an
alien
Always a great feeling to receive packages
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unboxing
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The Aurora is certainly well packed, they have given this some good thought.
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A box in a box
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Clips to unlock the cover
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Almost
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The Alienware Aurora
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Nice shapes
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Front also beautiful and clean
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One touch on the Alien head and the panel slides down.
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If the PC is turned on and you activate the sliding panel, the lights which illuminate the optical drives will turn on
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Acrylic part what looks very nice ... especially when it is enlightened
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Power button
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Behind this is a pushpanel to the front I / O. containing
(2x) Hi-Speed USB 2.0
(1x) SuperSpeed USB 3.0
(1x) Mic
(1x) Headphone
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At the rear is the handle to unlock the side panel.
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Pull the last vent
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To unlock the sidepanel
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The PSU (Alienware™ 875-watt) is also swappable and modular
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Another great gadget is the enlightenment on the back. Activated with a push button.
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Also a great gadget is the Alienware Active Venting.
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Next box. With keyboard and other accessories
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The Alienware tactx keyboard with two-zone lighting setup
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The Alienware mousepad
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Some documents
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Drivers and utilities
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Cables
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And two Alienware 3D avatars
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Not finished yet ..... a monitor, the beautiful
Alienware OPTX AW2310
Specs:
•Connections Dual-link DVI (with HDCP), HDMI, 4 x USB
•Viewable Screen Size 23.5in
•Maximum Resolution 1,920 x 1,080
•Contrast ratio 80,000:1 (dynamic), static not quoted
•Brightness 400cd/m2
•Response time 3ms (grey-to-grey)
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Back to the Alienware Aurora ....
the inside
First looks without sidepanel
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And again a nice gadget: when the sidepanel is removed, the inside is illuminated without the power on.
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Powered by rechargeable batteries
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Very handy!!!
The caps for the airflow and coverup are very nicely designed and printed
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Cap for the GPUs is rotatable and removable
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Beautiful swappable, tool-less and cable-free hard drive bays
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Also well thought about is the power suply for the side panel (Lights)
On the side of the powersupply are contact points which provide this
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For now a Nvidia GTX555 is installed, but this will be exchanged for two Nvidia GTX680
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Cooler motherboard
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And the beautiful Alienware CPU cooler
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Personally I really like this one, so it stays in this build (perhaps modify)
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What cable management is concerned, everything is provided. But it looks a bit messy.
This will be better
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Module for lighting, fans and other applications
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This will be a lot of work, but a very exciting thing to do.
The first change that I'm going to do is swap the Nvidia GTX555 for two GPUs Nvidia has sent me.
Again thank you Nvidia
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For sending me two Nvidia GTX680's
Engine Specs:
- CUDA Cores: 1536
- Base Clock: 1006
- Boost Clock: 1058
- Texture Fill Rate: 128.8
- Memory Speed: 6.0 Gbps
- Standard Memory Config: 2048MB
- Memory Interface Width: 256-bit GDDR5
- Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec): 192.2
Unboxing again
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The beautiful GPU's
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with one Dual Link DVI-I, one Dual Link DVI-D, one HDMI and one DisplayPort
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And installed the new GPU's
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And now it is time for some modding
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First a window in the Alienware Aurora. And maybe two, one on both sides.
But this is for later... first one.
The sidepanel
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Contacts for lighting has to be kept in mind
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And the shapes / curves must be maintained
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Everything is pretty easy to disassemble. Black panel removed and drawn the line for cutting
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Disassambled the remaining parts
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RGB strip for color effects
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Detached the Acrylic carefully
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What's left...a piece of iron
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This is what we gonna use for cutting the window in the plastic panel
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After some sawing and filing
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Excess plastic also removed with my dremel to place the window (later)
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first fit
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Next step. We use the jigsaw
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Removed the reinforcement strip and drawned the hole slightly larger than the window in the plastic panel
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And saw it (and some filling of course)
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The points which seem to be thin will be reinforced
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Furthermore, it's still a strong frame
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And placed everything back. The gap inside between the plastic and iron needs to be filled
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And the window is almost finished
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A big start topic with a lot of pics and vids, but hope you like it.
Until the next update!!!
Grtz.
Kier
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