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Comming from an owner of an aurora R4 alx 

 

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I feel there pretty expensive buying them straight from dell for what you get.

That saying I bought my setup off of a friend about half a year ago for 500.

Nowback in 2009 he paid about 2800$ brand new.

 

What I don't understand for the life of me is why they still use this fucking spinal cord POS excuse for cable MGMT.

In fact there cable management (for lack there of) in general is complete shit out of the box and its just ridiculous where the MIO board is. 

 

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Granted this was back in 09 I can let it slide but they STILL to this day do it this way. And it is possible to get behind the mother board tray.

 

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not there's a cut out back there or anything, not to mention lack of any cable cutouts.

But you could also clean alot of this up with a fully modular PSU or just mod the hell out of the internals, or both :lol:

But in the end, shes still sittin pretty on my desk  B)

 

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I laugh and then tell them to learn what a good gaming laptop/desktop looks like. and show them the Razer blade 17"

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Something that you need to remember. The system needs to be easy and fast to service. That is why Dell / Alienware does this. Everything is optimized and calculated for easy assembly, and easy servicing when either you send your system to Dell, or you have the technician coming at your place. The downside of this is what you see. It doesn't look super professional. Another thing, depending on the manufacture, they might do things tend to be colored for visibility (all so that the technician or assembler doesn't need to search to put something), so it might look ugly at the inside.

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Comming from an owner of an aurora R4 alx 

 

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I feel there pretty expensive buying them straight from dell for what you get.

That saying I bought my setup off of a friend about half a year ago for 500.

Nowback in 2009 he paid about 2800$ brand new.

 

What I don't understand for the life of me is why they still use this fucking spinal cord POS excuse for cable MGMT.

In fact there cable management (for lack there of) in general is complete shit out of the box and its just ridiculous where the MIO board is. 

 

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Granted this was back in 09 I can let it slide but they STILL to this day do it this way. And it is possible to get behind the mother board tray.

 

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not there's a cut out back there or anything, not to mention lack of any cable cutouts.

But you could also clean alot of this up with a fully modular PSU or just mod the hell out of the internals, or both :lol:

But in the end, shes still sittin pretty on my desk  B)

 

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Something that you need to remember. The system needs to be easy and fast to service. That is why Dell / Alienware does this. Everything is optimized and calculated for easy assembly, and easy servicing when either you send your system to Dell, or you have the technician coming at your place. The downside of this is what you see. It doesn't look super professional. Another thing, depending on the manufacture, they might do things tend to be colored for visibility (all so that the technician or assembler doesn't need to search to put something), so it might look ugly at the inside.

 

Yes this is very true I forgot about that "Complete Care" warranty from Dell and the whole technician coming to the home. 

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As with any pre-built company, I look at Alienware users (desktops) as lazy PC Enthusiast.  I think there is no better way to be an PC Enthusiast than to build your own PC.  It isn't that difficult of process to build a basic machine (for either gaming or other personal uses) and you also develop a personal connection with your PC that you just can't get from buying one pre-built.

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No-one's done that to me yet. But when it does get recommended...I'm gonna slam them.

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Depending on if I liked the person or not I would keep my mouth shut until it would be too late and prove them wrong.

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No-one's done that to me yet. But when it does get recommended...I'm gonna slam them.

Right on.... Pls curb their teeth.

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Meh, I heard that their support is atrocious, truly the owner's decision, though I do give verbal warnings about how godawful all their products are.

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So long as they're getting valu efor money, I say nothing. If I can build it cheaper and produce a nicer finish then, I'll let them know.

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i feel sorry for how stupid they are and i hope they dont ever work with pc hardware as they clearly no nothing about it 

 

 

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i feel sorry for how stupid they are and i hope they dont ever work with pc hardware as they clearly no nothing about it 

 

 

alienware arora - intel core i7 4770k, 32gb ram, gtx 780, and the price here in the uk as of 2014 is £4000 ($6200)

Now that is just plain retarded. The amount of RAM would be the bait for those who are naive about computers.

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Now that is just plain retarded. The amount of RAM would be the bait for those who are naive about computers.

yea the only way i would pay that much would be if the 4770k was at a stable 50GHZ and the ram was at 9000MHZ also the 780 would have to have 500GB vram and 9000000000 CORES oh and blue LED

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The alienware blind hatred is real...

Wow the ignorance in this thread...

What about those blind to just how overpriced they are?

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Unless anyone specifically asks my opinion I try not to butt in, it too quickly devolves into an internet pissing match so I don't like piling onto those. I've had someone ask me directly what I thought and proceeded to explain the ease and cost savings of building, especially with the vast expanses of the internet at our disposal. It inspired them to do a bit more research and they ended up going with a system built by either ibuypower or cyberpower (I honestly can't remember, one of those big custom places.) Still prebuilt but they did end up seeing the benefits of non-proprietary nonsense, plus they still wanted all the support and warranty and other stuff that comes with it.

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I facepalm myself. Then I just say its overpriced and that if you build a pc yourself you can get more performance for the same price

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I explain how you mostly pay for the looks and the brand.

non techie is confused

non techie hurts themselves in confusion  

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