PC Pre-Build Help

[EndlessAces]

Hello all, wanted to pick up a gift for my brother who is graduating at the end of the year. Narrowed it down to these two choices in the pictures attached. Have to choose from Best Buy sadly)

 

Was leaning more towards the Alienware, with it having 32gb of ram, and the liquid cooled i9 for a decent price despite the 3080...

 

What do you think the best price-to-performance desktop is? He really wants to run Alan Wake 2 max settings, preferably 1440+ at 60fps.

 

Thank You!!!

and I apologize if this is the wrong place to post a question like this.

[mariushm]

If you have to go with one of those two, go with the first one.

 

The second is open box, the case is HORRIBLE, leaves little room to upgrade to long video cards, and the watercooling is a joke  : it's a single 120 mm fan and radiator, it gets hot inside.

 

You can find reviews of this system on GamersNexus

 

The first one is more balanced, better video card as well. The unknown is the quality of the power supply.

 

Alternative, I would recommend this system : https://www.bestbuy.com/site/ibuypower-tracemesh-gaming-desktop-amd-ryzen-7-7700-32gb-ddr5-ram-amd-radeon-rx-7800xt-16gb-2tb-nvme-ssd-black/6567018.p?skuId=6567018

 

iBUYPOWER - TraceMesh Gaming Desktop - AMD Ryzen 7 7700 - 32GB DDR5 RAM - AMD Radeon RX 7800XT 16GB - 2TB NVMe SSD - Black

 

$1300 now, $300 off.  - the 7800XT is comparable with 4070, even better in some cases, just weaker at raytracing.

 

This one would also be a decent build / price, IF you sell the 4060ti and get a 7700XT or 4070 for around $350-400 :  https://www.bestbuy.com/site/ibuypower-scale-gaming-desktop-pc-amd-ryzen-7-8700f-nvidia-geforce-rtx-4060-ti-8gb-32gb-ddr5-rgb-ram-1tb-nvme-ssd-black/6594148.p?skuId=6594148

 

Here's the Aurora R13 system ... with more powerful hardware, but the case, motherboard, coolers, usually are very similar.