Why Alienware...

[iamdarkyoshi]

Why did you put an AIO cooler on an i5 650? Its not even a quad core!

 

Does anyone know why they deciced to do this for the Aurora R2?

 

Wank factor? I dunno...

 

The system had a blower style HD5870 in it, so its not like they were aiming for low noise...

[MorganO]

1 minute ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

Why did you put an AIO cooler on an i5 650? Its not even a quad core!

 

Does anyone know why they deciced to do this for the Aurora R2?

 

Wank factor? I dunno...

 

The system had a blower style HD5870 in it, so its not like they were aiming for low noise...

why not?

[m0k]

how else do you expect them to justify the markup…?

[ZestyJalapeno]

They can put "watercooled" onto the marketing blurb, and back then they would've gotten away with highway robbery pricing that. Thankfully the market has wised up and Alienware actually has some value.

[iamdarkyoshi]

1 minute ago, mok said:

how else do you expect them to justify the markup…?

The LEDs, obviously

 

They add more wifis

[Guest Kloaked]

What the hell are you talking about?

[iamdarkyoshi]

4 minutes ago, Kloaked said:

What the hell are you talking about?

I'm taking apart an alienware aurora r2, and they used an AIO cooler for the 77w i5 650.

 

I see no reason to liquid cool a dual core i5...

[Guest Kloaked]

Just now, iamdarkyoshi said:

I'm taking apart an alienware aurora r2, and they used an AIO cooler for the 77w i5 650.

 

I see no reason to liquid cool a dual core i5...

 

They probably did that by default just to drive up value costs if that was when they always included water cooling. It's not that big of a deal.

[The Sloth]

if you are a non-tech enthusiast talking about pc part and not know much about it. a single core Pentium water-cooled sounds cool despite of the benefits or the performance.  

[ProjectBox153]

5 minutes ago, nerdslayer1 said:

if you are a non-tech enthusiast talking about pc part and not know much about it. a single core Pentium water-cooled sounds cool despite of the benefits or the performance.  

You could take it down to the Celeron (or even Atom) level for some people, especially the people I know.