Dell Member Purchase Program has
Alienware Aurora Ryzen Edition R10 Gaming Desktop on sale for
$1,199.99.
Shipping is free.
Thanks to community member
paliknight for finding this deal.
Specs
- AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Octa-Core Processor
- 16GB 2933MHz Dual Channel HyperX FURY DDR4 RAM (4 slots total, up to supported)
- 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8GB GDDR6 Graphics Card
- 550 Watt Power Supply
- 802.11ac WiFi (1x1) / Bluetooth 5.0
- Windows 10 Home
- 1-Year Hardware Warranty w/ Onsite/In-Home Service After Remote Diagnosis
- Dell Wired Keyboard & Wired Optical Mouse included
- Front Ports
- 2x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type A
- 1x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type A w/ Powershare
- 1x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type C w/Powershare
- 1x Headphone Line-Out
- 1x Microphone Line-In
- Rear Ports
- 1x Digital Output (TOSLINK)
- 1x igital Output (Coax)
- 6x USB 2.0
- 1x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type C w/ Powershare (up to 15W)
- 3x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type A
- 1x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type A
- 1x RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet
- 1x Microphone In
- 1x Line In
- 1x Line Out
- 1x Center/Subwoofer Output
- 1x Rear Surround Output
- 1x Side Surround Output
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What he shared does say "high performance CPU liquid cooling", but I did not pay for anything extra.
Right at the end he said "just to confirm, this is it" and on THAT one it said "smart cooling" instead. I told him something had changed, he said it had not. I asked him to please paste into chat the tech specs one more time of the actual computer they will ship and once again it said liquid cooling. I guess I'll see what I get when it gets here... /shrug
Worst case, back it goes
When people are saying it's not upgradable they're referring to the case right? What would stop you from putting the parts in another case and upgrading later?
If someone could explain I'd appreciate it so I know going forward. Thank you
Any gamer+pc builder can comment on this build for the price?
There are limitations with form factor as it is small in itself but there might be parts around that can bought to fit in for upgrades?
The form factor is small there isn't a ton of room for expansion, but you can add more ram or another hard drive.
There is next to no chance you'll lose money if you keep this machine, mine on it for say, six months, and then resell it then - that's the worst case scenario. The best case scenario, like Kettch says, is that it pays for itself and you just have yourself a sweet extra world class gaming rig. At current rates that's exactly what would happen - this machine can do 60-62 MH/s, which right now is pulling in about $260/mo in gross ETH, and about $245 after electricity costs (going off an average - your own electricity costs may make the net anywhere between ~$230-250, but not less than that for sure anywhere in America).*
The coolest thing you could do with this machine for sure imo, since it seems like your daughter is into computers and tech savvy, is show your daughter how to mine ETH.
I've shown a ton of people how to start mining now so while there are a ton of ways you can do it, I've found the following to be the easiest for most people to pick up on Windows. Takes literally 5-10 minutes, guaranteed. Just a few steps:
1. download t-rex miner on windows. Go here https://github.com/trexminer/T-Rex/releases and pick the t-rex-0.19.10-win-cuda11.1.zip download for a RTX 3000 series card, and
t-rex-0.19.10-win-cuda10.0.zip for a RTX 2000 series card.
2. install metamask, which is an ethereum wallet chrome extension. not necessarily the most secure way to do this, but the easiest by far. Make sure you keep the 12 word recovery seed phrase they give you secure but don't also lose it - anyone who has access to those 12 words can take all your money, but if you lose those 12 words, you also lose all your money. https://chrome.google.c
3. unzip the t-rex miner above, open the ETH-ethermine file in a text editor, and change it from
by replacing the 0x1f75eccd8fbddf057495b96669ac15f8e296c2cd address with your own metamask ethereum address you just made in step 2.
4. double click that ETH-ethermine file to run the t-rex miner, then you're done - you literally just made at least $1000 in 5-10 minutes of work.
Optional bonus step 5. Once you're comfortable with steps 1-4 and rolling in your mining $$$, you can increase your hashrate and make even more money by using MSI Afterburner to overclock your memory and power limit the GPU so it doesn't use as much electricity: https://www.msi.com/Landing/afterburner
Start with the values recommended here and you should be good: https://www.nicehash.co
Enjoy! The coolest thing in the world, I really think, is showing kids how to do things like this - really wish I got into this stuff more when I was younger. Little cooler than seeing your computer literally make money for you.
Blows my mind that I can buy a world class gaming/ML rig (...actually I have 8 3070s now, 2 3080s, 2 3090s, and 1 3070 laptop now lmao), and it will literally both pay for itself and heat my home and save money on heating bills because now I literally use all my computers as space heaters that make money, instead of costing money. Totally mindblowing to me. Hope your daughter likes it!!
*Fair warning - it won't stay at $260/mo in gross revenue forever. ETH mining will end period in 1.5-2 years as the network transitions to proof of stake, and as more miners start mining each miner will earn less, and also there's a proposal to reduce fees coming out later this year (around summertime most likely) that will reduce mining revenue substantially when it goes through.
So don't try what I'm doing at home (buying a crapton of machines to mine for the hell of it) without being fully aware of what you're getting into and doing your own research - but also for just one extra machine like you have, definitely go for it - you'll for sure make enough money before mining revenue drops too much to make this worthwhile, and you can for sure sell this machine for at least $1000 in 6 months from now imo given that the fair frontpage price just a few days ago was literally $1500 for this thing, so really hard to lose.
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What he shared does say "high performance CPU liquid cooling", but I did not pay for anything extra.
Right at the end he said "just to confirm, this is it" and on THAT one it said "smart cooling" instead. I told him something had changed, he said it had not. I asked him to please paste into chat the tech specs one more time of the actual computer they will ship and once again it said liquid cooling. I guess I'll see what I get when it gets here... /shrug
Worst case, back it goes
liquid cooling is +$50
killer WIFI 6 is +$20
I wish there was a way around it but the rep didn't budge.
liquid cooling is +$50
killer WIFI 6 is +$20
I wish there was a way around it but the rep didn't budge.
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AmEx offer page says it's only valid for online and phone orders only, which I'm not sure what the difference would be between chat and phone as both are manual orders.
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