Dawid: "Numbers can't be sarcastic" Also Dawid: "and for that, alienware gets -200 points"

Dawid being sarcastic about someone saying he is too sarcastic is hilarious lol 😆

Dawid's arbitrary scoring system. Clearly a 653/10 result if I ever I saw one.

First Dawid uses Jeremy Clarkson levels of metaphors, and now he uses a TopGear scoring system. I'm sensing a pattern.

Love the Top Gear style scoring system

I feel like Dawid should petition the UN to make it a war crime to ship gaming computers with a single 8GB stick of RAM.

LOVING the new implemented scoring system - objective and on point!

At the start of the video I thought "Oh no, Dawid's sarcasm is going to be held back by complainers in the youtube comments!" and then BAM! "MINUS 200 POINTS" and I had a sudden and wonderful sigh of relief as well as a good chuckle lol

It's frankly impressive how a dell prebuilt achieves the same high performance score as a custom built PC would! I'm talking about the portability score.

I have spent the last 3 weeks watching everything you have posted. You , my good sir, are fantastic. 10/10 would recommend. I love your energy, your humor, and your technical information. Your channel is great. Thank you. :)

Not that you would, but please don’t change your sarcasm & jokes. One of my favorite things that keeps me coming back to your videos! It’s pretty easy to tell when you’re being sarcastic :)

"Is this car green?" "no... no, it's red". I got some severe "Clarkson, Hammond & May style Top Gear 'trying to do a serious roadtest'-vibe" here.

I could be wrong, but I feel like the laptop won the noise test. The tone of the alienware seems like it would still be heard through headphones, while the laptop’s tone might not.

1:03 New Grading System 1:51 Build Quality 2:34 Upgradeability 4:09 Possessed by Alma 7:35 Bloatware 8:10 Portability 9:09 Thermals and Noise 9:56 Gaming Performance 13:29 Price 14:16 Final Score

The Alienware only lost because it still has something to peel off on the side panel, that would've solved your memory issues.

I'm a big fan of the new scoring system please keep it

Dell? More like Bell with the ring the Alienware makes when the side panel closes XD

This is the type of consumer oriented content I have been looking for

The scoring system is still way more accurate than UserBenchmark's system

Every Dawid video seems so satirical and calm at the same time. Always a joy watching your videos. Especially even though you get some really amazing sponsors and tech you love to post unique and "cheap" tech to review and use in videos which I've found many other popular tech channels don't do at all nowadays.

David you need to try the laptop hoocked up to an external display because laptop without a mux switch have a really strange limit on the GPU. I have a rog with a 2060 and plugging it in a monitor gets the spu usage from 50 to 100

Only Dawid can came up with a score system to eliminate sarcasm.. and creating more sarcasm at the end!

If your PC refuses to boot after messing with ram always reset the CMOS. You'll save yourself hours of messing with things that work. It's usually bios that messes up when something with RAM is changed.

6:08 this is due to the poor bios installed on the system by default, dell has realized this and has made a downloadable bios update that fixes everything.

You shouldn't disregard the OEM provided veneril disease in laptops. Its kinda crucial to most functions including RGB controls and even performance controls. I don't know if you used Turbo mode in the video, but if not, you could get better performance on the laptop, because Turbo mode usually OCs the GPU a little and increases the CPU TDP budget as well.

Dawid, resetting the CMOS should ALWAYS be the very FIRST thing you do when any pc fails to boot after altering the ram in any way. For this reason I am over ruling your 200 point deduction on the Alienware, and thus awarding it the win here. JS NK

This entire video is a top gear tribute. It starts off with one of the Mr Needham letters complaining they never review anytbing seriously, then it starts off as a Clarkson sarcastic consumer advice segment, and then devolves into a top gear challenge featuring it's own ridiculous scoring system. Well done Dawid 😂

Really enjoying this new scoring system, it just makes so much sense! Keep it going Dawid, I think everyone will agree with me on this.

so i had a version of this laptop that had the Ryzen 7 4800 and the RTX 2060 in it for a while. I noticed the bottleneck too with the built in display. Figured out that the built in display uses the on board graphics built into the Ryzen processor as a kind of scaler. It pushes video through the RTX 2060 then through the Ryzen VEGA video to be displayed on the built in screen. If you use an external monitor through the Type C port, you should get better FPS and a more consistent performance through the GPU as it will no longer go through the VEGA graphics chip.

There are a million tech channels on KZfaq. None make me laugh as hard as Dawid!

Your persistent sarcasm is why I come back to your videos. Don't change for some dude who curses and shouts at you through a message over the internet.

The ram speed story is 100% relatable and I loved it

5:20 When you overclock RAM or even just clock it to it's rating, your system can sometimes have a panic attack. When this happens the system either doesn't boot, post, or even turn on. This happened to me when I thought I had 3600MHz RAM when I really only had 3200MHz. I clocked it to 3600 and my pc bluescreened after I booted it and didn't turn on. So when this happens, CLEAR THE CMOS! There are usually two pins on your motherboard (depending on your manufacturer) that you have to jump with a metal object like a screwdriver in order to reset the CMOS. Usually it says something like BAT, JBAT, or CMOS RESET next to it. Just jump those pins with a screwdriver for about 10 seconds and all your BIOS settings will reset. Then go in and set all your customs again.

That's the most sarcastic use of a score that I ever saw on youtube, I loved it.

Please do not lose the sarcasm. The entertainment value for those of us with a sense of humor is invaluable.

TLDW: With this crazy GPU crisis, buying a laptop is much better!!

Nice video, for next time I would go for a CMOS reset strait away, if swapping ram doesn't work ;)

Just a note on McAfee removal: McAfee themselves now offer their own removal tool that, at least in my experience, completely nukes it from existence (though this was in a nonOEM bloatware scenario with Adobe). Link below: download.mcafee.com/molbin/iss-loc/SupportTools/MCPR/MCPR.exe

I'm glad you tried the other part of the backpack.

Dawid's sarcasm is one of my favorite things about this channel. Anybody who hates that has bigger issues than a baseline Alienware Aurora system.

You, sarcastic? Please

I love his content if is so fun to watch

I worry about the physical safety of someone confused about Dawid's sarcasm. "Is that red hand in the crossing signal just sarcastically telling me to stop and it's actually telling me to walk into the street?"

Kinda bummed Dawid didn't get to say 'Linoooooode' today

Great video, Dawid. I burst out laughing at the "Portability" category. Clearly an impartial decision not designed to hurt the already-doomed Alienware. 🤣 Regarding the gaming performance, however, I wish you had noted the laptop frequently won in the 1% lows, especially once you made your magic upgrade. I found that quite interesting.

Dawid youre content's always amazing, keep doing your thing!

I don’t have an ASUS laptop, but in terms of noise, it’s worth noting that recent Lenovo Legion gaming laptops are excellent at making no audible fan noise in quiet mode, while still delivering enough horsepower to run any game at over 60 FPS. For instance, the 16” Legion Pro 7i with RTX 4080 is completely silent in quiet mode even under full load. It comes with a beefy vapour chamber cooler to achieve this in conjunction with slow spinning fans. Performance is good enough to deliver 60 FPS in Cyberpunk with RT on, while remaining completely silent. Very impressive indeed. Their slimmer 14” Legion Slim model with an OLED panel is also quiet, but not totally silent, in quiet mode, while delivering excellent performance and thermals.

I'm trying to wrap my head around the concept of Dawid having too much sarcasm. That's UNPOSSIBLE!

The same problem happened with an a320 motherboard even if you use a 2400g. Every single time you change hardware, needs to reset CMOS

Hey Dawid, did you adjust the timings for the 3200mhz? The timings for 2666mhz will not work with 3200mhz at the same voltage. To know the correct timings look at the specification on the memory stick. For such a stick this would for example be: PC4 3200/19/19/19/40. The memory will run at lower timings when on 2666mhz, for example C17/17/17/35.

Alma definitely visited my laptop last night. The keyboard started flickering, mid task, and the whole thing died. It did leave a almost visible figure on the screen. I am not kidding. It took me about a hour to get it working correctly again.

9:28 you know what helps alot with that? NOT TRYING TO MAKE THE LAPTOP LESS THAN A INCH THICK! It's truly amazing what wonders a real heatsink can do.

Ive eaten enough dirt and the dent in my head keeps growing that the simple numbers are nice, also Alienware is pretty bad for software glitches, both my alienwares have rgb glitching witch makes it not work half the time, the fan controller also likes to reset and set the fans to full speed all the time, drivers a nightmare and Alienware fx is shit tier at best.

The problem with the low GPU utilisation is that those laptops do not have a mux swich (wich means the gpu routs it signal to the iGPU (wich bottlenecks the performans) to the laptop display) to prevent this with ASUS laptops u have to use a usb c dongle at the usb c port and hook up to a external display

Awesome video, something I have wanted to compare and see for a few months. Keep up the excellent work Dawid 👍

Dawid being sarcastic is part of the reason i cannot stop watching the videos.

I feel like Asus should get extra points for making you not recreate "the crying game" in the shower from the shame of buying an alienware.

One of the reasons I love your channels so much is because of your personality and humor. I'm sure you don't need to hear it from me, or anyone else, but don't change for the haters!!!

Damn, I was measuring the quality of things with the level of sarcasm Dawid is using and now he uses these confusing numbers?!

i am just imagining Dawid getting one of those hate emails and him and Anna just laughing at it together.

It's funny to hear KZfaqrs complain about all the negative comments because i rarely see them. It reminds me of the story i heard, "2 Bad Bricks" One day this Buddhist monk was building a wall and when he finished he noticed that 2 bricks were slightly out of line. This bothered him for days, he wanted to tear the wall down. But one day one of the laymen followers was at the monastery admiring the wall, the laymen was a mason. The monk went up to the man to talk about the wall and before he could say anything the lay follower turned to the monk and said "Wow you guys did an amazing job on the wall" Monk replied: "What do you mean, can't you see those two bad bricks? Follower replied: "Yes of course, but look at the other 998 bricks. They're absolutely perfect! There will always be bad bricks

When you were "Putting the Alienware in the backpack", I noticed you left a whole sides peel on!

Dude, your sarcasm is why I continue to watch this channel. I ABSOLUTLY love your humor. Also I can't believe you waited 2 hours to reset the bios, what are you, some kinda n00b xD

Props on the Be Quiet sponsorship. Quality sponsoring quality.

I'm so happy there was zero sarcasm in this video.

Although I appreciate a sexy numerical system as much as the next guy. It is the witty remarks and sarcasm that keep me coming back!

4:00 "Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is? Insanity is doing the exact... same f***ing thing... over and over again... and Getting Different Results Every Time" - IT Professional

My favorite KZfaqr right now

Your sarcasm is one of the highlights to this channel. You could probably start a new channel "Dawid Does Creative Sarcasm" teaching and get a ton of subscribers.

I kinda like the noise the Alienware makes when the side panel is closed, it's an odd sound, fitting for Alienware.

My Therapist: "Numbers can't be sarcastic, it's not possible" Dawid:

you are not too sarcastic, i think thats why most people watch your videos. you have entertainment and i like the way you describe a machine with venereal disease

As a fellow sarcastic sob, I appreciate the quality of David's over-explanation of sarcasm. It's honestly overtly refreshing like an actual hamburger that wasn't made 3 weeks earlier and then placed in a McDonald's heat lamp and sold to you as something new and fresh.

Your sarcasm is amazing. Please never let up.

I feel bad for people who don't get Dawid's sarcasm. It's one of the best in the world.

Adding a numeric scoring system to your comparison videos is definitely banana out of 10 and I'd rate this specific review a solid 5/7. Thanks Dawid!

I want to see Doug DeMuro score some cars like this. The sarcastic but not sarcastic at all numbers are great. @Dawid Does Tech Stuff you should keep a running tally of all the scores and do a year end comparison with no sarcasm whatsoever.

Dawid without sarcasm can't exist. It is a law of nature.

Now this is some old-school Top Gear type objective scoring.

I picked up this laptop not too long ago, I paid for the 3050 variant but was shipped the 3060 instead. No complaints from me! Also made to sure to get the one with two sticks of 8gb ram already installed. Been a great laptop so far!

I come for the tech review and stay for the sarcasm

he just sarcasmed his sarcasm. my new hero

I'm here for the sarcasm. Don't ever change.

I like that Alma score concept. Nothing more frustrating than evil-alien-possession gremlins when you're just trying to do a simple hardware swap! What a nightmare!

For like the longest time, I was looking at the desktop computer and thinking there was a giant series of cracks in it, like it hit too hard somewhere along the line. It WA actually your lighting umbrella or something.

Damn my man is almost at 500k, are we getting a special video to celebrate?

The noise of the closing of the Alienware sounded beautiful 😭

Alma’s grandmother 👵 possessed my 2003 Dell PC too! I had the blue screen of death 💀 every time I used the sleep button, it was mysteriously slow though having a fast cpu, and it crashed when I used a USB scanner. I think Dell is expert at infusing Alma into every product it makes!

I may be incorrect, but I believe the XMP profile does more than just change the RAM speed. I believe it's a complete OC profile. Just changing the RAM speed could cause issues. Also pro tip, if you change something in the BIOS and the computer stops POSTing, always start with CMOS.

Lmao, I'm so happy you made this scoring system just to piss off the people who couldn't decipher his sentiment xD

Dawid:Numbers can't be sarcastic. Number 69: Hello there...

"I will introduce a numerical scoring system ... assuming you are able to count beyond 3" :D

I really enjoy the objective and non-sarcastic scoring system used in this video. It goes a long way to helping me better understand your content.

I spilt my drink at 2:58 , this is why we come here.

8:50 you did it the wrong way. you need to put the backpack into the alienware

I am shocked and despaired at the lack of sarcasm. Without it, there is no reason to live…… Also, that Tongan sounding “Hoo-Haa” MUST live on!

Alma can also live in any PC (most vulnerable are the prebuilts that haven't had all their updates [bios] applied upon arrival) and can thrive in noobs hands.

David. We love your sarcasm. Let the haters hate. We love you.

While you were shoving the Alienware into the bag ineffectually, I noticed there was still protective plastic on the side of the case. Maybe if you took that off, it might fit?

Nice to see you're still playing with 2000's era hardware.