Reasons to buy
If it were not for the price increase of the graphics card, I would definitely not buy a branded machine, let alone a high-priced branded machine like Alien (this is not in line with the purpose of being worth buying). After all, my main office computer is I5-4590, 128G SSD, 16G DDR3 1600, GTX-750TI.
Because my friends have been in the Amway digital currency and the price of ETH has soared recently, I also want to try mining. However, the current graphics card price alone is really hard to buy. I just need a desktop computer at home, so I am going to buy a set of high-configuration machines for mining home 2. Now if you look up a single host with 3060TI on the Internet, even Lenovo, Thor, etc. must be at least 1W2,3, and you can hardly get it.
A friend told me that Alien has a very cost-effective machine R10 8165, AMD R5 5600X, 16G DDR4 3200,, 512G SSD+1T SD, 3060TI graphics card, with an original price of 3799 25 -Inch gaming monitor, priced at 15,999. Coupled with the included 3 years 7*24 hours on-site service, the price-performance ratio is really good.
just in time for the local Vientiane City to have events. Postal Savings Bank credit card will get 500 coupons for any stored-value cards over 5,000, and full coupons will be collected at the Alien Store. It is equivalent to a direct reduction of 1500 and finally won by 14499. For the money paid last Thursday, the machine arrived on Saturday, much faster than online booking. It also comes with an extra-large cloth mouse pad that is said to be worth 399. Regular shopping malls can also directly issue invoices without adding money. It feels so fragrant.
Host appearance display
The packaging box of the host and the display is huge, the box of the host is nearly 40 kilograms, and the display is also more than 20 kilograms.I took the machine out of the packaging and put it directly in the basement. I didn't take any photos. Forgive me.
First come a complete picture. Ignore my cheap keyboard, mouse and desk. The keyboard and mouse are used by the HTPC in the living room. Because the aliens don't have a mouse and keyboard, they are temporarily used. Logitech's low-end suit. The desk was the same desk used when renting a house. It was bought in the early 100s and has since been used as a shelf for sundries.
host appearance. All AURORA series machines have similar appearance. The outer plastic case is huge, and the actual case inside is the standard ATX size.
On the back of the host, there is only a screw on the upper right.
There is a large area of damping pad at the bottom of the main unit
, remove the screw on the right side of the chassis, and open the case with a pull plate on the right side.
Take off the cover and you can see the case inside. The size should be the same as that of ordinary DELL, but the outer plastic case is much larger. The outside dimensions are about 44cm long, 48cm high, and 21cm wide. The other iron case is only 31cm long, 32cm high, and 17cm wide. The iron sheet is indeed thick enough, but the edges and corners are not polished, and there is a risk of injury to your hands.There is also an integral air outlet below to feed the graphics card, but it is not equipped with a dust filter, so it is better to equip it for later use. The iron plate is wrapped in an oversized plastic shell, and the weight is heavy enough
The two buckles in the middle and the lower right are moved to the top, the power compartment can be rotated 90 degrees to open, and you can see everything inside _Span4span
power compartment 90 degrees open
internal accessories
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img2 p img p _p5 At the bottom is a fan, which is responsible for air intake
. The water-cooled fan at the top of the back of the chassis forms a single air duct. There are heat dissipation holes on the top of the chassis, and the heat is discharged from the top.
Let's take another overall photo above, everyone ignores my feet. motherboard is a small board of M-ATX, there is no foundry logo, and no chipset can be seen. If you know it, please tell me
internal parts from left to right, top to The following sequence is introduced
CPU is AMD’s R5 5600X, 6 cores and 12 threads. This is my first AMD host,And I haven't paid attention to performance for a long time, so please check the specific performance directly online.
The CPU on the left side above is water-cooled, but it is only water-cooled by a single fan. What makes me unacceptable most is such an expensive machine, the motherboard has only 5-way power supply, and the heat sink is full of industrial wind. . .
I opened the water-cooled pipe, but I couldn’t find the sixth channel
, and the motherboard also only has a 4-way SATA heatsink.
The memory on the right side of the CPU is Kingston HYPERX vest, 8G*2 dual channel
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On the far right side next to the front panel of the chassis is a 3.5-inch hard drive bay. The screwless structure is used
is equipped with a 1T Barracuda hard drive
img on the left side is the wireless network card pspan_p23p5 The more common AX200
does not have an external antenna.Instead, it extends directly to the top of the rear of the chassis
, and below the right side is the M2 disk position
, the same is not found on Toshiba Span M2. The models are all 500G
. At the bottom of the machine are two 2.5-inch disk bays, which are also screw-free
and the plastic frame inside the pirate ship The workmanship of the chassis is better. I have broken three of my 4 bays.
graphics card
I mentioned a bunch of other accessories. As the most expensive graphics card in the machine, I have to focus on it separately.
The front of the graphics card is protected by the lower cover of the power compartment, and there is a plastic bracket on the front
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metal chassis details _Span4span
The graphics card bracket taken down
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short video card cardWith a single 8PIN power supply, the green PCB looks very cheap. The interface is standard 1 HDMI and 3 DP. I rummaged in all directions but couldn't see the brand, only 4 heat pipes. It should be the most common configuration. If you know the brand, please tell me, and I don’t know how much worse the performance is than the 3-fan version on the market. This is the second time I have bought such an expensive graphics card since I bought more VOODOO and the first generation G-FORCE at 2K in the 90s.power supply
power supply is unpainted as a whole, it looks very cheap
can be fixed on a 3span bracket 90 degrees. Such expensive machine is equipped with ordinary power supply, even a half-module is fine.
, after taking it down, you can see the nameplate
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Use experience
The last two photos of Master Lu's test are the other performance tests. Know how to measure, forgive me.
front halo,Turn on the alien head button and the letters at the back to adjust the RGB lighting separately. There is also a halo behind the display and the alien head can also adjust the RGB lighting separately, but only on the back. So the whole machine has 5 light zones.
Summary
The above is the basic situation and accessories of this machine. Looking at the price of JD accessories, CPU is 2400 yuan, single fan water cooling is 300 yuan, Kingston memory is 670 yuan, Kioxia M2 SSD is 500 yuan (JD only has 500G without 512), wireless network card is 120 yuan, and Seagate 1T hard disk is 300 yuan.
The motherboard is really unknown, so let's calculate it at 500 yuan. The power supply is 300 yuan and the chassis is 500 yuan. The display is 3799. It costs 9389 yuan if it does not include a graphics card. For a total of 14,599, it is equivalent to 5110 bought a 3060TI. This is not the genuine WIN10 and OFFICE home edition, plus 3 years of the above service. Such a calculation is really fragrant to buy aliens than to go to the computer city to build a computer.
PS, Xianyu’s official R9 9th generation I7 console can be sold for 4000 (my friend 9 thousand bought the R9 official host, equipped with 2060S graphics card, he left the graphics card with other standard 4000 for the same day I sold it, and later bought mine together), this host should be able to sell for 5,000 without a graphics card.
This 25 monitor can be sold for more than 2500. Even if you only keep the graphics card after you get it, it is equivalent to buying a 3060TI in your early 7000. This is a full 2,000 lower than the market. If you have a demand for graphics cards recently, you can really consider aliens. The service is still much better than that of Lenovo or Haier's Thor and other complete machines of the same price.
postscript
registered Spark mining pool and easy miner with the help of friends,Start mining. The settings for the graphics card are still being explored. At present, the income is less than 40 yuan a day, and the electricity fee is almost 35 yuan. Moreover, the power consumption of the graphics card is only about 60%, and the life span is much better than that of a dedicated mining machine running at full speed. Although the mining pool shows that the price of 14500 will be paid back in 400 days, but I need to use a computer and not just for mining, so I don’t care if the mine is in trouble, I can make a profit as much as I can (after all, the graphics card itself is equivalent to buying at a low price) .
And the CPU occupancy rate of mining is only less than 5%, and other office Internet watching movies will not be affected at all. And I don't play games, so I can mine in the background. Finally, the temperature of the graphics card is more than 60 degrees, and the wind blowing from the top of the case is warm. My room happens to be at the head of the West Building. The floor is low and the sunlight is not good. The brick walls of the old house are not insulated. In addition, it is not underfloor heating. The northern winter is nearly 2 degrees lower than the other room. This machine is also equivalent to a low temperature heater. This alien is so fragrant!
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