A Few Pounds Short Of My New Alienware!

**kanoakavirus** · #1 29th May 2008, 12:56 AM

Around £7,086.42 to be exact

This is what i ended up with once i customized the ALX CrossFireX originally costing £3,251... Is it me or is this wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy over rated, i mean i just got through matching the components piece by piece to its equivalent on newegg and came out little under £1000 to build it yourself.
Ive been keeping my eyes out for a second hand or new alienware case as I'm absolutely in love with the design but thats all ill be buying that is made by alienware.
Opinions on the prices of this machine are welcomed. I personaly would rather live without then fork out for this thing.

**thingie2** · #2 29th May 2008, 01:40 AM

well I like a good case, but paying £6000 for a case is way over the top, I would just build it yourself and like you said look for a second hand case.

**alex** · #3 29th May 2008, 01:55 AM

Moved.

**Dave Hybrid** · #4 29th May 2008, 02:04 AM

£6k is a very steep profit margin...

You'd have to be a few pounds short in the brain department to buy one.

**thingie2** · #5 29th May 2008, 02:48 AM

£6k isn't the way to look at it as some companies will make more than that, on expensive cars for example. But if you think of it as 600% profit, then you know there is something wrong lol

**Carbon** · #6 29th May 2008, 04:17 AM

Terrible time to buy a high-budget machine with Nehalem on the horizon. I imagine it's gonna be pretty expensive to buy one of those in November but damn if it isn't gonna be worth it.

**thingie2** · #7 29th May 2008, 05:23 AM

Originally Posted by Carbon

Terrible time to buy a high-budget machine with Nehalem on the horizon. I imagine it's gonna be pretty expensive to buy one of those in November but damn if it isn't gonna be worth it.

What's that then?

**alex** · #8 29th May 2008, 11:58 AM

It's Intel's forthcoming range of cpu's. 45nm, no fsb (so no need for stupidly large cache's anymore due to bandwidth bottlenecks). Hyperthreading also makes a return I believe.

**thingie2** · #9 29th May 2008, 12:08 PM

ooo, I was thinking about getting one of those, if those are the ones mentioned in the newsbot post a while ago, I didn't know that was what they were called though.

**Krlll** · #10 29th May 2008, 05:43 PM

Originally Posted by Dave Hybrid

£6k is a very steep profit margin...

You'd have to be a few pounds short in the brain department to buy one.

You sure would.

Anyway if all you like is the case design why not just buy a cheap copy?
Like this.
Maybe there are better imitations I just found that in 2 minutes.

**kanoakavirus** · #11 29th May 2008, 06:43 PM

Cheers KrIII, i cant belive ive never thought of a copy/imitation case thanks

**Carbon** · #12 29th May 2008, 09:32 PM

Originally Posted by thingie2

ooo, I was thinking about getting one of those, if those are the ones mentioned in the newsbot post a while ago, I didn't know that was what they were called though.

Nehalem, because apparently Intel's naming department decided the properties of a new architecture had similar attributes to a tribe of Native Americans.

(kidding, that's the code name)

**serverguy** · #13 30th May 2008, 07:09 AM

Originally Posted by Carbon

Nehalem, because apparently Intel's naming department decided the properties of a new architecture had similar attributes to a tribe of Native Americans.

(kidding, that's the code name)

You had me wondering then... till I read the second line lol.

**xactly** · #14 8th Aug 2008, 06:02 AM

raidmax ninja for about £50