Alienware

[strife]

Through my business, I have a really good credit program with dell. I still need to see if the alienware line is available through the program, but I am stuck buying dell.

I definitely need to upgrade my pc and I was looking at the xps systems as well as the alienware aurora R4s. the xps's piss me off because the video card options suck and are just not high-end enough, so the Aurora seems to be my only route... I don't want top of the line, but of the R4 options out there, what do you think is the best way to go? I want to try to stay around 1700 but could go a bit higher if there was something worthwhile.

I'm confused... I realize you have a good credit program with dell... but why does that force you to use Dell and that credit program? $1900 on a PC is $400 more than I would be willing to pay for a top of the line system.

Like Slamz said, the proprietary parts are an issue for upgrading. If you're the type that upgrades computers by buying a new one, I guess that's not a big deal... but for replacing parts, sometimes that could be an issue. Also they are more expensive and your options are limited.

Just looked at that one through the dell configurator... for $1900 you're not getting any SSD(which IMO should almost be standard as a primary drive), you're overpaying for a video card($405 option on top of whatever the cost of the 560ti it comes standard with... which is about a $150 video card. So that's ~$550 for a $450 video card). The Alienwares you're paying a lot for bells and whistles that don't make the computer work better(mechanical vents that open on the top when it's powered on, a ton of lighting). It appears to have the CPU liquid cooled, but nothing else which annoys me...