Gaming Pc Rig

Derrick Burnette · Aug 13, 2014

Would you guys rate this, I was gonna build it myself but someone's buying this for me so I decided to just get what I wanted one Alienware.. Also if you have a similar rig could you also tell me how skyrim would run with just 2k mods on and a couple of spell mods on a 1080p tv screen, its a 37 inch vizio. The last gaming pc I had only had a nvidia 540m gpu and it ran ok for a while.

Alienware Aurora Desktop

Operating System Windows® 8.1, 64Bit, English

Processors Intel® Core™ i7-4820K Processor (Quad Core, 10MB Cache,

up to 3.90GHz w/ Turbo Boost)

Memory 16GB (4 X 4GB) Quad Channel DDR3 at 1600MHz

Video Card NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 780 with 3GB GDDR5

Hard Drive 2TB 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s

Chassis Alienware Aurora with ALX Chassis

Media Card Reader 19-in-1 Media Card Reader

AlienFX AlienFX Color, Quasar Blue

Adobe Reader Software Document Reader Included

Optical Drive Single Drive: 24X CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) w/double layer write capability

Sound Card Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio

Wireless Dell Wireless 1540 802.11a/n Dual Band, High Speed Wi-Fi

Liquid Cooling With Premium Liquid Cooling

dariens007 · Aug 13, 2014

pretty powerful system should handle skyrim with mods. can't add a SSD for a boot drive to the mix?

Derrick Burnette · Aug 13, 2014

Wow did not think of that. I'll probably buy one for my os.

Greybeard Croft · Aug 13, 2014

It's a [strike]good[/strike] brilliant rig but you do pay an Alienware premium. In my opinion, Alienware is somewhat overpriced.

Derrick Burnette · Aug 13, 2014

Oh I know, I plan on building my next one, but someone is buying this for me so I figure I'll just upgrade as I go, the chasis is pretty nice so I shouldn't have to buy another case. I'll just upgrade as I go. This is my first real game/ all purpose pc so i'm excited to see how it runs, like i said the last pc i had to game on was a sony vaoi laptop with a 540m gpu from nvidia. So I'm stoked to see how a real one runs.

Greybeard Croft · Aug 13, 2014

Jump on it for sure, it has really good parts. You probably wont need to upgrade anytime soon with that setup, you can even do some OC'ing if your feeling up to it.

Derrick Burnette · Aug 13, 2014

Thanks you all, I'll definitely post what I think of it when I get it.

GRUxTSAR · Aug 13, 2014

Don't buy that trash. You'll pay a huge price premium for that i7 and 16gb RAM. You can build a much better rig for yourself and also add an SSD

Greybeard Croft · Aug 13, 2014

GRUxTSAR :

1: He is getting it all payed for.
2:The parts in that PC can easily be salvaged for future builds, even the case is bad-ass.
:heink:

GRUxTSAR · Aug 13, 2014

Greybeard Croft :

I'm aware of that. But whoever's paying for that Alienware could pay for a MUCH better PC for the same price. Personally I wouldn't pay anything more than $1500 for a build like that, and even then I could still build myself something better

Greybeard Croft · Aug 13, 2014

GRUxTSAR :

Think about it from this view.
You are about to buy your brand new gaming PC, You've heard all about building your own rig, but you don't want to screw anything up. Someone offers to buy you a fully built gaming PC with brilliant components.
What do you do?

GRUxTSAR · Aug 14, 2014

Greybeard Croft :

GRUxTSAR :

Think about it from this view.
You are about to buy your brand new gaming PC, You've heard all about building your own rig, but you don't want to screw anything up. Someone offers to buy you a fully built gaming PC with brilliant components.
What do you do?

If I had zero idea of how computers work and absolutely could not build it myself, I'd either get someone else to build it for me, get NCIX to build it for me, or order a Cyberpower/Ibuypower. I'd never ever even look at an Alienware

Greybeard Croft · Aug 14, 2014

GRUxTSAR :

Greybeard Croft :

If I had zero idea of how computers work and absolutely could not build it myself, I'd either get someone else to build it for me, get NCIX to build it for me, or order a Cyberpower/Ibuypower. I'd never ever even look at an Alienware

No worries, thank you for an unbiased opinion.

Derrick Burnette · Aug 14, 2014

Just an update I'm actually chose ibuypower with this rig now. it was way cheaper.
Got the same exact parts I wanted also.

NZXT Phantom 240 Series White Gaming Chassis

ASRock Z87 PRO3 Motherboard and Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Combo Fan Cooling

G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) Desktop Memory

GENERIC 1TB HDD + 120GB SSD Internal Hard Drive

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB Video Card with 850 Watts Power Supply

Generic CD/DVD Burner

Microsoft Windows 8.1 - 64-bit - OEM

Derrick Burnette · Aug 14, 2014

Thats my update thanks guys.

GRUxTSAR · Aug 14, 2014

Derrick Burnette :

Good decision. That will outperform the Alienware you previously were going to get. The i7 4790k is slightly better than the 4820k and the 780ti is about 10% better than a 780. Ibuypower is actually not that bad when it comes to prebuilt PC pricing while Alienware is overpriced junk

Greybeard Croft · Aug 14, 2014

Derrick Burnette :

I wouldn't get 1333 memory. 1600 and ^

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