2 months of ownership at this point (3080 version). Overall, this is a beautiful and powerful gaming PC, truly looking like a piece of alien technology on my desk. I bought it "used" via Amazon Warehouse for a big discount: aside from not arriving in the original box, no signs of wear. The warranty had 7 months left.
Just finished a playthrough of Baldur's Gate 3 on max settings at 4k resolution (FPS capped at 60 due to monitor restrictions). Zero problems, and the GPU temperature rarely rose above 65 C. The highest temperature I've seen is 75 C, and that was with GPU utilization near 100%.
I've tried a bit of VR via a wired connection to a Meta Quest 2 with decent results. Google Earth is stunning. No Man's Sky has to be played at minimum settings due to severe stuttering, thought NMS VR is a notorious system hog. Performance was improved when I minimized the Steam VR's screen mirror displayed on the monitor.
There is a known problem with sleep mode with Alienware on Windows 11. While sleeping the fans frequently cycle on/off, and this lead to an occasional blue screen ("Windows failed to load"), requiring a restart. Turning off sleep mode and using Hibernate instead eliminated this problem 95%. Startup following hibernate requires just a few seconds to load.
Overall, thumbs up. Will update review if new problems emerge.
| Processor | 4.6 GHz ryzen_7 |
|---|---|
| RAM | 16 GB DDR4 |
| Memory Speed | 3466 MHz |
| Hard Drive | 1 TB 512GB SSD + 1TB HDD |
| Graphics Coprocessor | Nvidia Ge Force Rtx 3070 |
| Chipset Brand | NVIDIA |
| Card Description | RTX 3070 |
| Graphics Card Ram Size | 8 GB |
| Wireless Type | Bluetooth |
| Number of USB 2.0 Ports | 4 |
| Number of USB 3.0 Ports | 7 |
