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can you buy just the tower for the alx x58

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The answer to your question is yes, but there is a catch. The Alienware computer case comes with a 750 watt power supply:

http://www.alienware.com/accessori [...] CatId=1031

Interesting exterior. It looks like something out of a 1950's science fiction film.


Message edited by JohnnyLucky on 08-30-2009 at 05:16:27 PM
Reply to JohnnyLucky

But why would you want to? They're god awful cases internally.

If you're going to pay that much for basic steel and plastic, get a Raven and do some lighting mods to it.

Reply to LePhuronn

Actually i was wondering the same thing, i might get a case like that because alien-ware might be a rip off but their cases sure do look awesome.

LePhuronn...how are they awful internally? Please explain :)

Reply to blackhawk1928

ot better yet, build custom alienware computers for people, could make a bit of money from the name alone

Reply to mindless728

blackhawk1928 wrote :

how are they awful internally? Please explain :)



OK, perhaps awful was too strong a word. Mediocre is better. There's nothing special about the cases inside - airflow is restricted to one draw fan in the front and one exhaust fan at the rear. There is a fan over the hard drives but it doesn't draw from the outside, so it's just circulating case air, and there is a fan on the side panel, but it's behind so much plastic styling and lighting it barely draws any air through, plus I don't think there's a dust filter so that's gonna be blowing crap all over your GPUs.

You can't run cables behind motherboard trays so you have to start using sticky pads with ties wraps just to get the cables out of the way otherwise you're impeding the already limit airflow (and as there's no window on Alienware cases I've never seen an Alienware build even bother with cable management - you're not gonna see it so why bother right?).

These cases were fine when you had cooler chips like the Core 2 Duo and Athlon X2 but with todays quad-core, highly-overclockable beasts, these cases just don't cut it any more.

All the work, especially with the P2, has all gone on the styling and the AlienFX lighting. They look great don't get me wrong, but for a basic E-ATX chassis with a funky molded plastic shell it's seriously overpriced and underperforms unless you're watercooling (which is how they clock their ALX X-58 to 3.8GHz without melting).

Personally I'm doing some lighting mods (and hopefully a DIY AlienFX lighting system IF I can revise electronics well enough to understand some tutorials I've found) to a Raven.

Reply to LePhuronn
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LePhuronn wrote :

OK, perhaps awful was too strong a word. Mediocre is better. There's nothing special about the cases inside - airflow is restricted to one draw fan in the front and one exhaust fan at the rear. There is a fan over the hard drives but it doesn't draw from the outside, so it's just circulating case air, and there is a fan on the side panel, but it's behind so much plastic styling and lighting it barely draws any air through, plus I don't think there's a dust filter so that's gonna be blowing crap all over your GPUs.

You can't run cables behind motherboard trays so you have to start using sticky pads with ties wraps just to get the cables out of the way otherwise you're impeding the already limit airflow (and as there's no window on Alienware cases I've never seen an Alienware build even bother with cable management - you're not gonna see it so why bother right?).

These cases were fine when you had cooler chips like the Core 2 Duo and Athlon X2 but with todays quad-core, highly-overclockable beasts, these cases just don't cut it any more.

All the work, especially with the P2, has all gone on the styling and the AlienFX lighting. They look great don't get me wrong, but for a basic E-ATX chassis with a funky molded plastic shell it's seriously overpriced and underperforms unless you're watercooling (which is how they clock their ALX X-58 to 3.8GHz without melting).

Personally I'm doing some lighting mods (and hopefully a DIY AlienFX lighting system IF I can revise electronics well enough to understand some tutorials I've found) to a Raven.



+1. For that price you could get a TJ07 or a nice Lian-li instead of that piece of plastic junk.

Reply to ShtBrix

Good point, I agree and looked online, they do look like some crappy cases, but on the outside, the cases looks awsome though, but truth be told, its the inside that really matters so you are right.

Reply to blackhawk1928
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