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Alienware M17X question

bondoao1
By bondoao1
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Fortunately the company I work for allows us to pick and choose and take home anything deemed e-waste as once it hits the bin it is no longer company property.

This has proved to be quite useful for me in upgrading just about everyone in my family's PC's since our company has a contract with HP to replace all PC's every couple years.

 

In my daily check of the e-waste bin yesterday I pulled out an Alienware M17x laptop in near perfect condition.

I believe it was tossed because the HDD is no longer working so I do not know what hardware is inside. 
It does have the Core i7 sticker on it.
I have an old SSD i'm going to put in it and install win10 over the weekend.

 

I know this is a possibly 10 year old laptop but my question is if it is still a relevant laptop by todays standards?

 

 

Junk Yard Dog Build

 

I7 -10700K
MSI Z490 MPG Gaming Plus

 

Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 32gb (4x8gb) DDR4 (3200 MHz)

Gigabyte RTX 2060 Gaming OC Pro

 

Corsair H115i Platinum AIO

EVGA 750 GQ

In a Cyberpower PC X-Titan case

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It's a high end laptop, but it's still an old laptop. Having a Core i7 is better than something like a C2Q, but how decent it'll be all depends on what CPU and GPU combination it has.

Phobos: AMD Ryzen 7 2700, 16GB 3000MHz DDR4, ASRock B450 Steel Legend, 8GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070, 2GB Nvidia GeForce GT 1030, 1TB Samsung SSD 980, 450W Corsair CXM, Corsair Carbide 175R, Windows 10 Pro

 

Polaris: Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2, 32GB 1600MHz DDR3, ASRock X79 Extreme6, 12GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080, 6GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, 1TB Crucial MX500, 750W Corsair RM750, Antec SX635, Windows 10 Pro

 

Pluto: Intel Core i7-2600, 32GB 1600MHz DDR3, ASUS P8Z68-V, 4GB XFX AMD Radeon RX 570, 8GB ASUS AMD Radeon RX 570, 1TB Samsung 860 EVO, 3TB Seagate BarraCuda, 750W EVGA BQ, Fractal Design Focus G, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

 

York (NAS): Intel Core i5-2400, 16GB 1600MHz DDR3, HP Compaq OEM, 240GB Kingston V300 (boot), 3x2TB Seagate BarraCuda, 320W HP PSU, HP Compaq 6200 Pro, TrueNAS CORE (12.0)

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It's definitely a cool computer and an i7 should still be a decent enough CPU, but back in the day mobile GPUs were never very good and they really haven't aged well. 

If you get it good and cleaned out and temper your expectations it'll be usable for some games.

It really wouldn't compare to modern gaming laptops, but it'll still be better than Integrated graphics.

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