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"Alienware PC's"

Is there anyone on here who owns an Alienware PC?

I was thinking of getting one, but couldn't really afford their prices. Are they really worth it?

On paper they definately sound like the most powerful PC's around, but are they really.

The G man wrote:

> I know that most games magazines use them as their top end gaming
> machines for reviews.
>

Thats most likely because Alienware GIVE them their latest beasts everynow and then - for the publicity.

I would never spend more than £200 on a CPU, Hopefully by the time I upgrade next the 3500+ Winchesters are around £150.

Sounds like I made the right choice then.

My Evesham PC is starting to show its age, but it still has a AMDAthlon 64 3400+, 120GB hard drive, and a Ati 9800XT. I haven't had an problems running games yet, but plan to upgrade the motherboard to allow for PCI express, and then the graphics card.

Any suggestions. I was thinking about either the NVidia 6800GT or the ATI equivilent (can't remember what it's exact name is).

Some pretty nice stuff you have in there although i would still want diamond screws, at least your computer should last you quite some time.

The cooling enabled me to clock the FX53 faster than the new FX55, the X800XT PE faster on both counts than the X850XTPE.

I don't intend building a new one for a long long time.

XFire Lanfire III - £100
Abit AV8 Deluxe (Socket 939) - £85
Enermax 520WATT PSU - £110
Athlon 64 FX53 - £600
Radeon X800 XT PE - £375
2GB Corsair XMS3200XLPRO - £420
2 x 36.6gb SATA WD 10,000 Raptor drives - £145
Sound Blaster Audigy 2ZS - £70
Creative I-Trigue 3600 2.1 = £90
Lite-On Dual Layered DVD/RW - £100
Phillips DVD drive - £40
Phillips 170C+ 17" LCD TV/Monitor - £320

Razer Mouse and mouse mat was £50, the Zboard was £40. Spent around £60 on cooling it and overall it came to just a little over £2500.

Suicide Soldier wrote:
> Built mine for £2500.

£2500, What the feck have you got in it? Diamond screws??? When did you build it?

I can't imagine paying more than £1500 for a very very good PC, unless i got a hardware renderer :)

I based mine on Alienware's top end system around 5 months back. Was going to be around £3500 to be delivered from Alienware including everything I wanted. Built mine for £2500.

Building is the better option unless you really don't want the hassle.

Yeah, they're far too over priced.

My boss build an almost exact spec machine as a top of the range alienware, for over a grand less.