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[artzelda]

What do you think of this system??? Would you recommend any changes???


Aurora™ 7500

Warranty: 3-Year AlienCare Toll-Free 24/7 Phone Support with Onsite Service Bundle with AlienAutopsy and Respawn

Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional with Service Pack 2

Chassis: Alienware® Full-Tower Case - Saucer Silver

Cable Management: Alienware® Cable Management System

Power Supply: PC Power & Cooling 510 Express 650 Watt peak power

Processor: AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 4800+ Processor with HyperTransport and Dual Core Technology

Motherboard: Alienware® nForce™4 SLI™ Chipset Motherboard PCI Express

Memory: 2GB Ultra Low Latency DDR PC-3200 SDRAM at 333MHz - 4 x 512MB

Graphics Processor: Dual NVIDIA® GeForce™ 6800 Ultra PCI Express 256MB DDR3 with NVIDIA SLI Technology

Video Optimizer: AlienAdrenaline: Video Performance Optimizer

Chassis Upgrades: AlienIce™ 2.0 Video Cooling System with Acoustic Dampening - Astral Blue

System Drive: Extreme Performance - Serial ATA RAID 0 - 500GB (250GB x 2) Serial ATA 7,200 RPM w/16MB Cache

Optical Drive One: NEC® ND-3520 16x Dual Layer DVD±R/W Drive

Optical Drive Two: Plextor® PlexWriter Premium 52x32x52x CD-RW Drive

Floppy Drive: 3.5" 1.44 MB Floppy Disk Drive - Black

Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster® Audigy® 2 ZS High Definition 7.1 Surround Firewire (IEEE® 1394)

Network Connection: Integrated High Performance Gigabit Ethernet

Display One: No Monitor
Display Two: No Monitor

Speakers: Logitech® Z-5300e 5.1 280-Watt Speakers

Keyboard: Microsoft® Multimedia Keyboard - Saucer Silver

Mouse: Razer Diamondback Mouse

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[Audiyoda]

Considering you could build it for about a grand less - AND get a better rig out of it - yeah, I'd say you're overpaying. Of course this is all on the premise that you are comfortable with building a system of this magnitude. From what I've heard, dual SLI systems can be a real pain in the arse to setup - and the dual core Athlon64 also a bit flakey about setup.

If it were me, I'd build it - I've built dozens of systems and I'm just bidding my time (and waiting for a SLI alternative from ATI) before I put together my own little gaming monster.

But like I said, on yours, I'd make those changes - you could even save some money doing it - get a 100Gig S-ATA HDD for your OS/Programs and a 300Gig S-ATA HDD for files, should be cheaper than two 250Gig S-ATA drives. You don't really need the acoustic damping foam, get Lite-On drives over the NEC & Plextor, you could even get a 'lesser' case than the Shark - I only used it because it's every bit as much eye candy as the Alienware case.

Oh...and if you're worried about 'tech support', just get everything in retail packaging (I quoted some OEM stuff) - with retail packaging you get longer/better warranties (AMD's OEM warranty is 90 days, retail package is 3 years).

This post has been edited by Audiyoda: Jun 22 2005, 08:21 PM