This is what dumb people buy from alienware...16,000+

This is what dumb people buy from alienware...16,000+

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hahaha I wonder if anyone really has this build??!!!

Hmmm, Car, Computer, or Child Support?

Well Ryan, I'm guessing that rig in your sig didn't exactly come cheep, so I'm already a little green. Had you said you had bought that alienware job, I'd positively hate you.
btw, why do you have 4 gigs of ram on a 32 bit os?

remember, you cant upgrade to a 64bit os from a 32bit os

in their defense, you did add like every game, the best speakers, mouse, god knows how many terabyte drives, etc. Even if you did that **** over at Dell, it would come up to $10k+.

See:

I'm no Alienware fanboy, but it annoys me to death when people go on the internet "Lol, he prolly bought an Alienware, amirite?!"

Well if you carefully read what everything is in that order, no doubt this price.
Ofcourse its litle overpriced as all alienware, but i doubt you will save more then 20-30% buing good quality components.

Dell own Alienware(so technically they do offer 4yr support....), its their premium brand, similar to Toyota and Lexus. Obviously some things are gonna be better if your buying the premium brand product.

However if I had 10grand to spend every four yrs on a computer, the smart thing to do would be buy a new computer every 2yrs for 5grand or every year for 2.5 grand, and not bother at all with 4yr support.

Maybe we can suggest this alienware rig to the pigheaded poster (NeoxBlu1) wanting to buy the 4000usd rig.

This one looks much better then his crappy 4000usd build.

Might be JUST outside his budget....
Unless he can score more cash from daddy....

4 years support. For a company that's fine, but for gamers? Do they include free upgrades to cpu, ram and video cards?

You know, 4 years ago is like ancient. Most games run at medium or low on high end computers from back then.

I wanted to lease a printer for my company. The same shop also leased computers. I asked them, do I get upgrades with computers. No was the answer. I'm not going to lease computers for 3-5 years without upgrades, even for my office. I can build cheaper, more reliable systems.

I say every 2 years you need to buy a new system if you want to game. More then 2 years is useless. I would even say, get the standard package for 1 year and with the money you safe buy a new one/components again.

It's all relative. Remember when Bill Gates built his $50,000,000 home? If he had to make a house payment vs his income, it would be like the average Joe having $50 mortgage payments.

Moto 2 phone? $100 now? You can buy one now that is covered in diamonds for a sweet $160,000. Or 4 diamond 24" Dubs for 1.2 mil, they throw a low end Bently in free!

Peeps do spend that kinda money, and it's all about how much they have and what I don't have.

Actually I know that Voodoo and Falcon both will do hardware upgrades for you and in some cases, give you discounts and rebates for the old hardware.

I suppose its OK to buy a PC ready built for $16000 if you can afford it lol... but even if i could - think i'd still prefer to build my own, theres nothing like the satisfaction ya get when ya power on for the first time and get a successfull POST.

Alienware has it's place in the world. It is meant for the people that have more money than they know what to do with. But, that doesn't mean that they are not a waste of money... they really are. You can save a lot of money building yourself, or having some other PC company build it for you. Do you get the "cool" case (I quoted that, because I don't think they are really that cool anymore) when you buy from Ibuypower or Monarch? No, but who cares. I mean, you will get more performance per dollar from these other companies, so why bother with Alienware?

It's even sadder when you realize that in 2 years, a $4000 system will stomp it into the ground.... or in 4 years it'll be a worthless pile of crap.

Check out e-bay. You can pick up an Alienware there fairly cheap and have their case. I've seen them for as little as $400, including a water cooling system. Of course, you still have to add a new mobo, cpu, etc to bring a used one up to date, but that's a place you can get a case.

I bet its a bug.

However when it comes to super-high-end pcs, some people want BOTTOM DOLLAR and assemble it themselves for a few grand.... then again my co-worker just bought a comp almost identical to the one i pieced together for same price. He spent no time assembling, installing, hardware issues, i spent lots of time. So question is: should we save a hundred bucks or should we avoid the headake?

Plus as you guys said in a few yrs the comp is garbage, and in that time they will probably buy another one for that price. They don't care that you guys can make a comp last 4 yrs for bottom dollar, much like I don't care that you can make your car run on peanuts and cotton candy, I simply don't have the know-how to do anything with a car engine, just as someone inexperienced may not know that you pay 1000 dollars for the ailenware brand.

There's only three types of people that buys those overpriced pc: Ignorant, stupid, or just plain rich. I think people who buy em buys them for the name. Alienware do sell budget pcs you know, but they aren't worth it.

I did a bit of research when building my current rig at Alienware/Dell/Falcon so on and for what would have been top end(minus the dual video cards) but a QX6850, 4GB DDR2 PC8500(crappy brand too), 1TB hard drives, no monitor keyboard or speakers would have cost $8500.

I went to Newegg and built the same system with a better mobo, better ram and better(faster too) hard drives for $3000. A $5500 savings and I even decided to water cool it too and it was still $5000 cheaper. Funny thing is that build would have smoked anything Alienware puts out since it would have had a better mobo, better ram and faster harddrives.

Anything built by some company is over priced except their low ends. Hell I spent $1500 on my current rig and it would have cost $2500-$3000 through Dell/HP/Falcon/Alienware. Its the name. Just like a Lincoln. Same as a Ford just a pricy name. Same goes for Chrysler(Dodge), Cadillac(GM/Chevy), Infinity(Nissan), Acura(Honda), Lexus(Toyota). Only thing is your case doesn't come with leather trim.

Duplicated thread I see...

Anyway my post from the other thread.

If you look at it carefully what jacked up the price are those solid state disk drives.
Takes those out and replace them with Raptors and you'll see the price drop dramatically.


On newegg 2 128GB SSD cost $6,998.00!