Alienware

[Canadian Eh?]

well i was thinking...ALIENWARE IS SO EXPENSIVE!!! but then again, you can get ageia (splld rite?) physics cards and 4 GB memory w/ Tb's of storage. if you were to compare computers to cars, an Alienware is prob. the equivalent of a ferrari F1 car.i was just wondering if anyone thinks anything else is better, worse or just share general comments :)

[Guardian]

I love alienware. Let the ****fest begin ontop of me.

(Never speak of liking prebuilt computers at a pc modding forum)

But I love Alienware, IDK what it is about them but I love them. If I hit the lotto, i'm buyign a $15,000 alienware as the first thing I do with the money.

[Ironcat]

They are no better or worse than the other high end prefab companies. You're paying for the name. Falcon, Alienware, Voodoo, Dell, Gateway, etc. The difference is the parts they put into it. Hell, if you want to pay enough for it you could build a kickass Gateway... probably... maybe...

If I was personally going to pay that much for a name on my PC I would go with Falcon / Northwest.

[Crimson Sky]

I would personally buy an Alienware before I'd even considered the other companies such as Falcon and Voodoo.

[progbuddy]

I don't like them because they were bought out by Dell (booo!). They're extremely overpriced (in the $XX,XXX) and use the "patented two-part cooling system" (a.k.a watercooling). They give PCs a bad name. Here's my philosophy:

If you want something done right, do it yourself, and save money.

[SgtM]

I don't like them because they were bought out by Dell (booo!). They're extremely overpriced (in the $XX,XXX) and use the "patented two-part cooling system" (a.k.a watercooling). They give PCs a bad name. Here's my philosophy:

If you want something done right, do it yourself, and save money.

I agree. I much prefer to build a system myself. But anyway, alienware boxes are pretty sweet in their own respect.

[azminisk8r]

yeah the boxes are sweet but its fun to build comps, plus then you arent limited to the items on a list

[GT40_GearHead]

oh, welcome back Canadian Eh?...! didn't see you around here for a while

[simon275]

They are like gaming PC's for celebs.

What I love is you can buy knock off alienware cases. Just the cases and put your own parts in it. A be like yeah I got an alienware PC.

[Drew]

I don't like them because they were bought out by Dell (booo!).

So Alienware is like an expensive Dell? ****.

Like Lexus is an expensive Toymota?

That sucks.

[Canadian Eh?]

Thnx GT40! Yeah and on top of having the high-end parts, they sell mind-blowing gear too, like 2.5 Tb ext. hard drives and you can also choose to have a single monitor, dual or quad!

[Nagoshi]

ACtually, yes an Alienware is an expensive Dell, but with a bit more quality and technology in it.

And, if you want similar cases, look at the Nikao Ogre, they come in either silver and black and resembles the second gen Alienware cases (not the new cases, jsut before them), with a duct over the CPU for better airflow. And a nice car paintjob, too.

http://www.nishtek.com/Pics/Cases/cse-ogre-bk-nik.jpg

Or, if you absolutely want an AW case, head over eBay.com :) And these links are for a few AW cases I found, you jsut have to search Alienware and you'll find them... lol

http://cgi.ebay.com/ALIENWARE-FULL-TOWER-BLACK-BAREBONES-PC-CASE-1-5-NR_W0QQitemZ220092128556QQcategoryZ80166QQrdZ1QQcm dZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com/ALIENWARE-FULL-TOWER-BAREBONES-BLUE-PC-COMPUTER-CASE_W0QQitemZ220090683072QQcategoryZ80166QQrdZ1QQ cmdZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com/ALIENWARE-FULL-TOWER-BLUE-BAREBONES-PC-COMPUTER-CASE-1_W0QQitemZ280092160534QQcategoryZ80166QQrdZ1QQcmd ZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com/ALIENWARE-ALX-FULL-TOWER-SILVER-BAREBONES-CASE-1-5-N_W0QQitemZ280094222750QQcategoryZ80166QQrdZ1QQcmd ZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com/ALIENWARE-CYBORG-GREEN-BAREBONES-PC-TOWER-1-5-CASE_W0QQitemZ280093846621QQcategoryZ80166QQrdZ1QQ cmdZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com/ALIENWARE-ALX-FULL-TOWER-SILVER-BAREBONES-PC-CASE-NR_W0QQitemZ220092597703QQcategoryZ80166QQrdZ1QQcm dZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com/ALIENWARE-FULL-TOWER-BLACK-BAREBONES-PC-CASE-1-5-NO-RES_W0QQitemZ220092612399QQcategoryZ80166QQrdZ1QQc mdZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com/ALIENWARE-FULL-TOWER-SILVER-BAREBONES-PC-CASE-1-5-NR_W0QQitemZ280094205838QQcategoryZ80166QQrdZ1QQcm dZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com/ALIENWARE-FULL-TOWER-BLACK-CASE-1-5_W0QQitemZ220091518065QQcategoryZ80166QQrdZ1QQcmd ZViewItem

[d_stilgar]

Alienware is not overpriced in their laptop dept. If you look at other companies doing the same specs, you will pay the same amount, but the Alienware will look cooler. I was looking into it the other day and was surprised at what I found.

[Spawn-Inc]

as awsome as alienware is i would rather spend the 10k+ on fully water cooled (ram, hdd, chipsets, cpu , both 8800GTX's, power supply and then setup a "air condition" type setup for the case. so have one rad run out in the open and one blowing air through the other then blowing into the case. like a condenser and evap. i also check out alienware for the lastest technology thats out. thats where i first heard about sli, quad sli, and the physics card.

[Maz]

one of my friends maxed out a laptop for alienware, cost him around 5k.
i spent less than 1k on my desktop and it plays better. go figure laptops aren't meant to be high end gaming machines.

[Canadian Eh?]

Same here Spawn-Inc, that's where i first heard about the physics card and quad sli. Alienware always has the new and best stuff. That's why it's so expensive. Their servers can get very pricey though.

[DaJe]

They are like gaming PC's for celebs.

What I love is you can buy knock off alienware cases. Just the cases and put your own parts in it. A be like yeah I got an alienware PC.

Or build your own knock off case!

[Ronyx]

I love Alienware cases.
Apart from that I'd say there's nothing special about them. I agree with Nagoshi, Alienware is just a pimped up Dell built for gaming instead of business / office use. Their parts are more expensive and more high end then Dell's.

[Nagoshi]

I love Alienware cases.
Apart from that I'd say there's nothing special about them. I agree with Nagoshi, Alienware is just a pimped up Dell built for gaming instead of business / office use. Their parts are more expensive and more high end then Dell's.

That's only because they always have the latest stuff, now you want some 6 months old technology and you can't have it, or you will have to pay by having a 1 year old video card. By that I mean that, if you want a rig from them, you have to be full of cash to spend on latest technology that you COULD buy yourself if you find hard, but if you want a just-under-top-notch technology you won't be able to find anything between a mid performance class and top performance class rig.

[luciusad2004]

Maybe its just me but all of the cases in the ebay links above look sort of bland. Im not saying they suck, just that visually there is nothing overwhelming about them. Maybe its just from hanging out around here so long, I expect an expensive case to look good. They probably have nice features though or at least i expect they would.

Edit: I just quickly skimmed through their website and i can say that i dont like the appearance of any of their cases