1 Year Review
a51 laptop 5080
im going to review specifics cause its situational
its been a crazy year with nelly 40 bios updates. i started my year in a tent running of a generator
when i first got this pc i suffered thunderbolt 4 issues and still do. dell have stated it has USB4 with thunderbolt 5 support left it very disappointing
the battery was hard to achieve 3 hours. it needs a fresh wipe of windows and nothing installed on raid to achieve 3+ hours on battery
it takes little for it to go from 6w-25w to easy 30-50w. webbrowser opening a new page or a new piece of software installed. i did manage to play blackops 2 for 2 hours waiting at the drive in cinema
its a nice size laptop, and being my first its been reliable and a safe purchase. yes i have had crashes and had to wipe window 10+ times the support i have receive was always slow and lacking(dell is hell)
i have had to go threw a corrupted bios from 40 bios updates and eventually fixed it after the whole pc was bricked. its been a pleasure to know its fixable
the features of just turning the power on and the laptop comes on was a blessing on a generator. the solo panels came on so did my pc to greet me i have had to since disable this feature living in a house
im now running raid and proper heatsync and packs and it seems to be the hottest thing in this pc but i get 28gbps and the raid glitch of a single drive is gone running raid0
its a amaysing system that is capable of running ai at 60+tokens a second all while sitting at super cool temperatures while in use im getting 40c with ambient 16c for medium usage 40+gb of ram usage all while using Element 31 deffently got my vote
if you enable integrated graphics you can see this cpu peek at 251w while if you disable integrated it peaks at 140w the paste keeps it cool.
i dont like the audio that they have chosen the 3.5mm jack cant tell the difference between device unlike my soundcards that know its a headset or a speaker and the driver only support 80ohm headsets.
here was the 18 backpack : r/Alienware
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 (notebook) video card benchmark result - Intel Core Ultra 9 Processor 275HX,Alienware 0FPT9C