The Worst Pre-Built We've Ever Reviewed: Alienware R13 $5000 Gaming PC Benchmarks
37,825The Alienware R13 is easily the worst pre-built gaming PC we've ever reviewed. Dell manages to downclock an i9 to equal an i7 performance instead, yet charges $5000 for the PC.
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Unfortunately, even spending $5K does not get a good pre-built gaming PC. You'd think it'd get you the best pre-built PC of 2022, but it doesn't even get you the best pre-built gaming PC of 2015. This thing is built to decades-old standards and manages to throttle just about every component in the system through either power or thermals, and the noise produced is that of a mid-2000s Gateway.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Alienware R13 Benchmarks & Review
01:55 - System Specs & Proprietary Components
04:35 - Majestically Ruining the 12900KF
05:26 - Blender Showing the Problems
05:48 - 7-Zip Compression Isn't a Problem
06:03 - CRYO-TECH TM
08:30 - 96 Degrees Celsius Seems Good
09:55 - Power Throttling is Bad
11:12 - Extremely Bad Frequency Throttling
12:41 - GPU Thermals
14:30 - Noise Examples & dBA Levels
15:23 - Gaming Performance
15:43 - Cyberpunk 2077
16:14 - Rainbow Six
16:29 - Power Consumption
18:02 - Perennial BS Warranty Scam
19:52 - BIOS & Software
21:52 - Conclusion
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Testing: Patrick Lathan
Video: Andrew Coleman
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