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| Illegal Alien | Alienware Build I have just specced up an Alienware build for myself when we move to Vancouver it comes out at £2053 inc tax and shipping, what do you think to the specs for that price? 1] Aurora™ 7500 Processor: AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 4200+ with HyperTransport and Dual Core Technology Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition with Service Pack 2 Warranty: 1-Year AlienCare Toll-Free 24/7 Phone Support with Onsite Service Power Supply: PC Power & Cooling 510 Express 650 Watt peak power Chassis: Alienware® Full-Tower Case Chassis Upgrades: Standard Cooling Motherboard: Alienware® nForce™4 SLI™ Chipset Motherboard PCI Express Graphics Processor: NVIDIA® GeForce™ 7800 GTX PCI-E 256MB DDR3 - Includes Free Copy of BattleField 2 ! Memory: 2GB Low-Latency Dual Channel DDR PC-3200 at 333MHz - 4 x 512MB System Drive: High Performance - Serial ATA - 250GB Serial ATA 7,200 RPM w/8MB Cache Primary CD ROM/DVD ROM: 16x DVD-ROM Drive with Software DVD Decoder Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster® Audigy® 2 ZS High Definition 7.1 Surround Firewire (IEEE® 1394) Floppy Drive: 3.5" 1.44 MB Floppy Disk Drive - Black Network Connection: Integrated High Performance Gigabit Ethernet Monitor: Alienware® 20.1" 16ms LCD Display - Silver/Black Keyboard: Free Alienware® Microsoft® Multimedia Keyboard Mouse: Free Alienware® Microsoft® Mouse Optional Mouse: Razer Diamondback Mouse Alienware Exclusive Offers: Gamespot Complete - Free 90-day Trial (a $20.85 value) Alienware Exclusive Offers: 10% off your next EB Games online purchase Cable Management: Alienware® Cable Management System Free Alienware Mousepad: Free Alienware® Mousepad Desktop Enhancements: Exclusive AlienGUIse Theme Manager AlienInspection: AlienInspection - Exclusive Integration and Inspection - $99.99 Value - FREE! AlienWiring: AlienWiring - Exclusive Internal Wire Management - $99.99 Value - FREE! Main Rig: E8400@3Ghz/ATi 5850 /4Gb OCZ/750Gbb Hdd/Antec 900 PSN ID: wedge |
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| That's quite a lot of cash mate. Personally I would spec up my own system for that sorta money. £2000 would get you: 4400+ 7800GTX PCP&C 510 Sli DFI SLi-D Audigy ZS Crucial Ballistix 2 x 1gb Lian Li Case (£200ish) Dell 2001 FPW (the 1600 x 1200 one) 250gb SATA Hitachi/Samsung NEC DVD-RW Saitek Eclipse Keyboard Razor Diamondback Gaming mouse And thats not even using US prices Check my project <<| Black3D |>> Originally Posted by hexah
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| my sig in a better case for 800 but that alienware is one seriously cool machine bit overpriced though dfi sli-dr | AMD64 3700+ san | 2 Gb kingston PC3200 | SLI XFX 6800GT | emu 1820m + ADAT 32 channel audio card | 600w modualar PSU | 300Gb maxtor maxline | 3 X 300 samsung spin point sata2 hdds | 70Gb raptor | akasa case | Zalman Reserator 1 Plus with two cpu blocks | ifyouknowme also know as HEXUS|Mrbeef |
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| surely for 2 grand u can have 2x7800 GTX and and FX57 for banter also? Rig: Amd 64 3700+ San Diego | Abit AT8 | 4x512 Corsair XMS3200C2PRO | PowerColour X850XTPE / Arctic Cooled | Samsung Spinpoint 250Gig | Enermax NoiseTake 485w | Arctic Freezer 64 Pro | Coolermaster Wavemaster Silver | 17" CTX Flat Screen | Logitech G5 / Everglide Destrukt Monstermat | |
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| with alienware you pay for the service.. and its bloody good service my mate has a laptop from them and it took him 3 days to get his tft replaced compared to 2 1/2 weeks with me and acer. |
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| Originally Posted by TiMeZeRo
WTF?? You actually managed to get Acer to replace a tft screen?? Truly, you have some mystical powers, sir! |
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