Alienware Alpha 4th Gen

fuzydoggy · January 11, 2021

So...I have this gen 4 Alpha with an i5-4590t processor in it. I play a alot of DOTA2 even though I'm pretty bad at it. lol. I actually have 2 questions. 1. Is it worth it to upgrade to the i7-4785T or i7-4790T. 2. Why are these processors going for as much as they do? I assumed they would be under $100.00 by now with 9th gen intel chips out there.

the_lane · January 11, 2021

8 minutes ago, fuzydoggy said:

So...I have this gen 4 Alpha with an i5-4590t processor in it. I play a alot of DOTA2 even though I'm pretty bad at it. lol. I actually have 2 questions. 1. Is it worth it to upgrade to the i7-4785T or i7-4790T. 2. Why are these processors going for as much as they do? I assumed they would be under $100.00 by now with 9th gen intel chips out there.

What are your current framerates in Dota, and what is your GPU usage like? What are your target framerates? If you need help looking this up just ask.

Don't know how cpu/gpu upgrades affect Dota so can't comment there.

As for secondary market on Intel parts: 4th Gen parts are finally starting to not be enough, at 1080p, and the secondary market has almost always been ridiculous with higher end Intel parts.