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Originally Posted by YaWhateva
Congrats! but wait....you're saying buying an Alienware is actually cheaper than building a custom built computer?! I've never heard of such a thing!
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not cheaper, they simply had financing available. The $40 or so per month minimum payment - we will pay more on a regular basis - for the $1200ish total (hate paying for shipping) was more viable than the $500+ cash for any reasonably close custom built I could do presently.
It was a bit of a shock to me to find Alienware offering a decent "budget gaming" system for only $799; I added $250 to it by upgrading the RAM, video card, HD, etc.
The other good point was three open PCI slots, one of them will be filled on arrival when my soundcard with the breakout box replaces the included onboard audio.
I was thinking of just transferring the data from the IDE drives to the SATA then placing them in the 1.3 Ghz Athlon system - the beastie that I am using currently until the new one arrives. They would nicely replace that f*&(&&ing 80 GB hard drive that died back in december. This is going to feel sloooooow next to a decent dual core system though;already was next to a 1.6 GHZ Athlon XP with 1 GB of RAM.
I need to find that part online again to just read/transfer data from IDE drives with an easy external connection.
And this
program should work nicely for fixing that monstrous single partition it no doubt ships with. Never have done that previously and not starting now.
one more thing: seeing the matrix affect is "cool looking" as long as it is not present from the first second of your computer starting.
It is possible to turn off the eye candy in Vista and get that win2k look or something close to it?
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Originally Posted by Radio Monk33
I am also curious about the Alienware choice...I didn't know they did lower end computers..
Not better off with a Dell or HP?
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Alienware is wholly owned by Dell now, they sell their "higher end" gaming systems, something I just found out doing pre-purchase research.
I talked to dell online and did not care for some of the details on their lower end system; I spent 30-40 minutes talking to the sales support guy from Alienware about system specs before going that route.
I did tech support for HP back in the compaq/hp merger days and will never buy from them. They got greedy and put out shit products (at least what I supported) for the sake of higher profits.