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I bought an aurora in spring 2005. It shipped with defective ram, all the case lights burnt out in 2 weeks, my video cards are so dangerously hot that I had to add my own fans to the "cool" system. It's pretty much unchecked, so build your own.

Bertster7 wrote:

Bell wrote:

hate&discontent wrote:

falcon nw makes the best pre-built computers in my book, but they also cost an ass load of money!!  my next pc will be one that i will build, i'm not that computer literate, but it will be a learning process

I like the Vodoo's, dam I want that case made of GOLD! $15,000 fully speced muahahahaha!

Martyn

What a rip off. You could get an 8 Core Xeon system with about 16GB of RAM and 8800GTXs in SLI for that. I bet their specs are far lower than that.

http://www.voodoopc.com/transactions/qk … 5bf009e161

Make that near $20,000 :S.  Note on the bottom

$19411.64 as low as $582.35/mo.    $22312.23 as low as $847.86/mo.    ~€15172.32  N/a

LMAO!  Aye thanks very much, there practically giving these things away 8-)  I wonder if anyone has bought one :S  For some reason though, that version doesnt support the new DX10 card, need to settle for 2x x1950xtx in crossfire.  Similar spec non gold is a far more sensible, $8000

Hell I still want it!

Martyn

I know this is a few days old but I've been having some problems with my Alienware & have been talking to tech support the past 2 days on & off. I had to modify my case the very first night because the tempatures were so hot, besides that I've added more RAM, water cooling & a new processor, any one of which voids the warranty. I never thought adding the exact same RAM would void a warranty, especially since Alienware advertises the "expandability" of their systems. I've been reading through said warranty to see exactly what I can & can't do & basically your allowed to open the case but not touch anything.

So my point is if your still looking for a computer, the reason to buy pre-built is for the warranty, tech support & ease, right? If you ever plan on upgrading anything or doing anything at all to your computer then don't buy Alienware. I'm not sure if other companys re like that or not, I know Sony is but anyway I just wanted to point that out.

MagikTrik wrote:

So my point is if your still looking for a computer, the reason to buy pre-built is for the warranty, tech support & ease, right? If you ever plan on upgrading anything or doing anything at all to your computer then don't buy Alienware. I'm not sure if other companys re like that or not, I know Sony is but anyway I just wanted to point that out.

Hmmm that is a really good point actually, especially, as you say they advertise for how expandible it is.  I imagen dell are the same (as we know dell owns alienware) and there 710, one of the major selling points is you can add and replace with ease, no tool kit.  Waranty?  VOID MOFO ahahahahaha 

+1

Martyn

AlienPubes™ - State of the art pubic cooling.

Last edited by leetkyle (2007-01-20 10:15:48)

If set on OEM, just catch a plain Dell on sale and customize it yourself (more ram, video....<10 minute install), and be done with it.  You'll save money and you can use that savings to increase the rate at which you upgrade.  I build my own PCs, but honestly, I could save money myself by doing this.  I don't think I'd notice the 5% performance decrease nearly as much as I'd notice saving a few hundred bucks.  I've already planned to start doing this with my other machines (wife's pc, laptop, servers), leaving just my gaming desktop and my tinker box as custom jobbies.

I've got to consider taking care of a house full of equipment though, so I have to control my budget so I have money for other hobbies as well.

Learn to build your own. You will pay half the price for a much better computer.