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New Alienware Comp,thoughts?
Hey guys....i used to play WOW on a POS gateway with shit like a intergrated graphics card and ran okay.....
now that i have my own money i bought a new alienware and i was wondering about ur thoughts....i bought it so i could play a pvp game like maybe darkfall,aion,mortal online(if it comes out).....or whatever floats my boats....i just want max settings and running smoothly....so plz drop ur 2 cents 
PROCESSOR Intel® Core™ i7 920 2.66GHz (8MB Cache) Quad Core Processor
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English
VIDEO CARD Single 1GB NVIDIA® GeForce® GTS 240 (proubly duel in the future)
MEMORY 3GB Triple Channel 1067Mhz DDR3
HARD DRIVE 640GB - SATA-II, 3Gb/s, 7,200RPM, 16MB Cache HDD
OPTICAL DRIVE Single Drive: 24X CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) w/double layer write capability
and of course most importantly......black case with red lighting : D
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You paid to much for it...
Aside from that, go from 3gb ram to 4-6. I dont know why anyone would put in 3, but you will deff want to up that.
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i know its alittle pricey but i dont care...my friends all have alienwares and never had problems and only good things to say so i gladly lay down alittle more. i need comments on the comp,not the price....thank you
sigh should have private built it i did it myself and saved over 500$ with smart buys / black friday deals
Waste of money...if you have it to spare then nice...now pass some down the food chain :P
If someone had came up to me in 1980 when I was on my Atari 2600 and said we will be playing games with thousands of people at the same time.I guess my response would have been,"but I only have 2 joysticks"
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Nice comp, i just built a new one today cost me £600 with pretty much the same specs except i have an AMD processor (AMD Phenom II X4 955 3.2ghz Quad core) and a Geforce GTX 275.
Im also looking for a good pvp mmo, im setting my sites on Mortal Online fingers crossed that it will be good.
Will work OK on max for a few years imo.
yes i do have lots of cash now to spare and yes i did kinda play it safe then doing it myself : / this is my 1st comp purchase on my own so dont be too cruel lol. ya feedback from good pvp games would be welcomed too : P
Eve has quite fun pvp, Aoc's pvp is quite fun sometimes, Eq2 can be fun but lots of twinks and gangbangers lol hmmmmmm..... Not that many good pvp mmo's out atm really. Global Agenda might be fun when thats released, same as Mortal Online.
I think best pvp mmo at the moment is probably Eve.
thanks bud....proubly leaning towards some hardcore pvp like darkfall or aion...remeinds me of some old wow pvp (before the resilence system)
sigh..........hey everyone what do you think of my new car? I just got some cash flow now and I am able to buy something nice.....
...........next guy.....blah.. i got the same car but hella cheaper..........
shit on the price all...
OP-------------nice computer. glad you got something nice and YOU bought it. Hardware will do just fine on max for ahwile. Dont fret the little things, you can always upgrade and fine tune what you have.
good job.
I may give Darkfall a go one day but depends on what happens about these upcoming mmo's. Darkfall's concept is awesome, a bit like Mortal in alot of ways but i heard bad things about it at launch and decided to give it a miss (also it was quite exspensive), i hear that characters in Darkfall just skill up everything so you have people who can basically do everything...... seems a bit rediculous if theres no cap..... if im wrong someone please correct me. :P
I would highly recommend EVE online, especially with a nice rig like that.
However I'm currently playing Darkfall (4 months in), and can honestly tell you I havn't enjoyed an mmo this much in a long time. Since EVE actually, and I started in 2005.
It's a rough game, but if you know what your getting yourself into, prepare for some lovely PVP and much more.
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Aion would be just beautiful on a computer like that.
You short changed yourself on the video and memory. 4 GB is standard and 8 would be better. You should have gotten a GTX 275 or 285 or 295 or the ATI equivalent. I used to have a 285 and it would stutter occasionally in Champions Online at max settings and their graphics aren't even that great, so I certainly couldn't see you maxing out on games like LOTRO or AOC or anything else with more sophisticated graphics engines. I now have an ATI 5870 and it runs AOC fully maxed as smoothly as glass. If you had wanted to save money, you should have done it with the CPU, a Core 2 would have worked just as well if not better for less money and gotten yourself a real video card instead.
Triple channel mem.
Believe you need to put in 3-6-12-24 to make it work triple channel like it is supposed to.
6 meg will be fine for most things would not go over 12 myself.
Not bought or built a new comp in a while myself so still reading up for my next comp. But did read a bit about that as the reason of the new systems having the 3 gb rams as base.
well i looked at th system requirements and comments of other aion players and they sayed 2ram is enough really so i thought 3 would be perfectly fine....darkfall is a way crappier engine so i would think 3 would be cake for this comp
Fundamentally, crappier engines generally take more resources because they aren't optimized to the levels that better engines are.
On to the computer: It's nice, but you paid like $300 for the alienware name.
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Alienware is a Dell with a more gaudy case and increased price tag. If you have the money for a boutique vendor then go with one of the good ones like Falcon Northwest, Mythlogic PC, or PowerPC. The best option is to take the hour to learn to build you own. You would save thousands on a machine.
If you are shopping by brands avoid the big name ones. HP, Dell, Apple, or Compaq. Their build quality is terrible.
nah HPs are great and cheap...my old gateway was fine too actually until the 3rd expansion of wow hitt
Its a decent rig for right now. But you can already benefit from a ram and video card upgrade. But for the immediate future it should handle most games at near high settings. Since you want it for PvP, which usually means lots of people on the screen in your clip plane at one time, with all their individual textures and such, you will most likely see a loss in performance with those system specs when it gets crowded.
Since you already mentioned a potential upgrade, I would go ahead and do an additional 3 megs of RAM ASAP. Then do the video card upgrade or dual them.
Oh, and like everyone else says. Build your own next time, better parts at a better price. You get the warrenties from the parts companies which usually last longer than the one given from a vendor. At at the end, you get to take pride in what you created when it comes to life...and you look to the sky and shout, "Its alive! ALIVE!"
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aion it wont !since the problem is in the game! not many game can be played smootyhly at max setting!yes even with a
ati 59xx quad xfire.you can only go has fast and smooth as the server since there are lot of freaking setting and very few game
do bother to adjust server for direct cache access (intel expensive)dx11 and microsoft donnybrooks(too new techno)
etc etc etc i could go on all day and to top it all nvidia is pulling the blanket on their side,amd/ati does the same and intel in about 12 month away from kicking that bee next with their futur hexacore 32 mm with a 32 mm graphic card the size of a processor chip that will probably fit on the same die as the current intel just a mather of connecting
since they arent new in the server (multiple processor) ,it wont be too hard on them to design a motherboard for it
processor will be on a chip and graphic (=in power to current biggest card )will be on a second similar sized chip plugging in another processor socket (like)
since gcard and processor on one chip for gamer are about 5 years away (intel)
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The GPU is really awkwardly matched with the i7 920. A GT240 doesn't require anything more than a $80 processor to push it to its limit, it's not a very fast card. Getting a faster GPU is the only way to put the i7 920 to use. Right now it's just idling on you waiting for a faster GPU to push, but for WoW you don't really need more than a GTS 250.
But I wouldn't bother SLI'ing the GT 240, just pointless to invest $90 into a 2nd GT 240. You ought to stick with the 240 till the fermi chips come out and see if the Radeon 5850 drops in price or the GTX 300 series are competitively priced (I don't think either of these will actually happen, GTX 300 will cost so much/be so unavailable that Radeon won't slash prices till summer).
The 3GB of ram will do you fine especially with WoW but another 3gb wouldn't be bad in the future after a GPU upgrade.
Cheaper, except cyberpowerpc is terrible in all the ways that alienware isn't.
Also, wow, I didn't even notice that it was only a 240, upgrade that or you're going to cut a whole lot out of the future use of this PC.
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