dell or alienware?
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Originally Posted by seung,May 20 2005, 08:16 PM
oh, yea...
about g5...
i play with it 50 hours a week.
home i need a pc because i need to run all my cad programs.
about g5...
i play with it 50 hours a week.
home i need a pc because i need to run all my cad programs.
Although isn't Vectorworks supposed to be a killer CAD app for the Mac? If you already have a ton invested into cad software for the PC (not hard to do), I could see why you wouldn't want to do that.
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i remember when dell used to be the end-all, high end PC builder. back when their support was extremely competent. back when they would laugh at the idea of building a celeron. Dell went downhill in their quest for marketshare. Enthusiasts used to recommend Dell or Gateway first, now they laugh.
honestly, if i had to choose betwen the two, i would pick alienware. their support is just much better, which matters if you are a novice. they also use Athlon64s, which trash P4's in gaming by a pretty hefty margin. Next month you'll be able to order systems from alienware with 2 CPU cores AND 2 graphics cards...just awesome. You could build it yourself for less, of course.
since this is ME, i would build my own. You can't beat dell for a mass-market system, but for a gaming machine, you can. by far. assuming equal components, figure $500+. You can't get an SLI system from Dell, at least not yet (and the Intel Nforce4 don't compare to the AMD Nforce4).
if the pc you want is for gaming, the athlon64 architecture is just superior. AMD's dual core implementation is also much better.
honestly, if i had to choose betwen the two, i would pick alienware. their support is just much better, which matters if you are a novice. they also use Athlon64s, which trash P4's in gaming by a pretty hefty margin. Next month you'll be able to order systems from alienware with 2 CPU cores AND 2 graphics cards...just awesome. You could build it yourself for less, of course.
since this is ME, i would build my own. You can't beat dell for a mass-market system, but for a gaming machine, you can. by far. assuming equal components, figure $500+. You can't get an SLI system from Dell, at least not yet (and the Intel Nforce4 don't compare to the AMD Nforce4).
if the pc you want is for gaming, the athlon64 architecture is just superior. AMD's dual core implementation is also much better.
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Originally Posted by no_really,May 19 2005, 11:14 PM
that is not entirely true. I'd even go so far to say it is blatantly false. Building your own system is fine for people who want to, but despite what you might hear on internet forums, white box parts are not superior to retail boxed parts, or the same parts from Dell or Gateway or anyone else.
If you know what you are doing, you can easily spec out a custom machine, have it built by someone like Dell, get their warrantee, and save money to boot. You can always find a way to spend too much no matter which way you go, but buying parts and assembling a system is not the way to save money on a high-end system. You have to know what you are doing either way, but you can get the same parts in a commercially built system with a bit of research. Not every company offers every part you might want, and you won't get a motherboard you can overclock, but you cannot just throw random parts together on your own and expect it to work, either.
If you know what you are doing, you can easily spec out a custom machine, have it built by someone like Dell, get their warrantee, and save money to boot. You can always find a way to spend too much no matter which way you go, but buying parts and assembling a system is not the way to save money on a high-end system. You have to know what you are doing either way, but you can get the same parts in a commercially built system with a bit of research. Not every company offers every part you might want, and you won't get a motherboard you can overclock, but you cannot just throw random parts together on your own and expect it to work, either.
Build the best and fastest computer from Dell, or ANYONE ELSE, and I will build you a faster one, for AT LEAST $1000 less.
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