Just bought an Alienware Aurora

[Archivic]

First off, I do realize that I couldve saved some money on this by building my own, which isn't really an option right now as you'll see later.

 

So I bought an Alienware Aurora pc that comes with the specs in the picture. The system went for 2.8k Canadian but was on sale for 2k, and it has coffee lake CPU, so lmk what you guys think.

 

The reason for me getting a pre built over building my own is dells financing. I don't have the money for it all at once, with me being 16 and recently getting a job, but dell offers interest free over a 12 month payment period, which is roughly 180 per month

[Guest lilbman]

Congrats on your new system.    The main thing that won me over with getting one of their gaming laptops was their customer service.  My only suggestion is to do a clean re installation of Windows as it does come with some of Dells stuff on it.  Just be sure to reinstall the programs like Alienware Command Center, Alienware Sound Center, and their overclocking utility.

[Legolessed]

I actually am not against prebuilts, building your own pc takes time. My main questions is is the financing a thing where you can pay more than your monthly quota and pay it off faster? Cause that would be awesome if I could pay something off in like 3 payments instead of 1 massive one. He specs seem pretty good, the only thing is I would have expected a 1080 or above but with gpu prices right now, you never know. Thanks for sharing!

[Archivic]

Just now, lilbman said:

Congrats on your new system.    The main thing that won me over with getting one of their gaming laptops was their customer service.  My only suggestion is to do a clean re installation of Windows as it does come with some of Dells stuff on it.  

Yah I'm loving their customer service so far, I've bugged them a few times with random questions and such, and my only "complaint" is that it won't be here until the 23rd of next month, but they don't start the payments until it arrives and I've booted it up.

[Archivic]

1 minute ago, Legolessed said:

I actually am not against prebuilts, building your own pc takes time. My main questions is is the financing a thing where you can pay more than your monthly quota and pay it off faster? Cause that would be awesome if I could pay something off in like 3 payments instead of 1 massive one. He specs seem pretty good, the only thing is I would have expected a 1080 or above but with gpu prices right now, you never know. Thanks for sharing!

Yes, they let you choose the amount of each payment (providing of course that its above the minimum, which mine is 57/month), and if you pay for it in under 12 months its interest free! Also yah it wouldve been too much for a 1080 bit i can run sli (not too sure if its better at all)

[Colin Donoghue]

Prebuilts are fine and that is a pretty nice system 

[Crunchy Dragon]

As per usual with every build I see on this site, that's better than my PC!

[Archivic]

Just now, Crunchy Dragon said:

As per usual with every build I see on this site, that's better than my PC!

I'll be upgrading from a laptop with a Celeron processor and 4gb of ram so I feel your pain

[Crunchy Dragon]

Just now, Archivic said:

I'll be upgrading from a laptop with a Celeron processor and 4gb of ram so I feel your pain

I have plans up jumping to Skylake over the holidays so hopefully I'll be in less pain soon haha

[ErrystioT]

Pretty sweet deal I'd say. And with that PSU and case, there's a lot of room for upgrades as well, should be future-proof well.

[Legolessed]

4 minutes ago, Archivic said:

Yes, they let you choose the amount of each payment (providing of course that its above the minimum, which mine is 57/month), and if you pay for it in under 12 months its interest free! Also yah it wouldve been too much for a 1080 bit i can run sli (not too sure if its better at all)

I may be getting a new laptop?? wait correction, I don’t have one at the moment so I’m getting a laptop! Lol

 

maybe...

[Archivic]

Just now, Legolessed said:

I may be getting a new laptop?? wait correction, I don’t have one at the moment so I’m getting a laptop! Lol

When I'm getting close to university age, if I need a new laptop (which I probably will) ill definitely use the payment plan again, providing that this process is smooth

[Legolessed]

21 minutes ago, Archivic said:

When I'm getting close to university age, if I need a new laptop (which I probably will) ill definitely use the payment plan again, providing that this process is smooth

I’m torn right now. I can get a dell xps 13 base model for $24 a month??

[Damascus]

A high school buddy of mine swore on this payment plan back in the day, good luck with it! Make sure to pay back before 12 months are up though, afaik they charge you for every month of interest all at once if you don't pay before then. (21% ×12, ouch)

[Archivic]

Just now, Damascus said:

A high school buddy of mine swore on this payment plan back in the day, good luck with it! Make sure to pay back before 12 months are up though, afaik they charge you for every month of interest all at once if you don't pay before then. (21% ×12, ouch)

my interest rate it actually 14 % and yah ill definitely be sure to pay it

[Archivic]

5 minutes ago, Legolessed said:

I’m torn right now. I can get a dell xps 13 base model for $24 a month??

I would get something better if I were you, but if that's what's in your budget then ?

[Legolessed]

1 minute ago, Archivic said:

I would get something better if I were you, but if that's what's in your budget then ?

Well that’s the crazy thing. I could get the upgraded model for not that much money!!!!!

[Archivic]

1 minute ago, Legolessed said:

Well that’s the crazy thing. I could get the upgraded model for not that much money!!!!!

Yah, I'm thinking of getting a couple of monitors through them, as I currently only have an old acer monitor with VGA / dvi ports

[Evolution.]

If you put it on PayPal credit you get 6 month no interest

[Damascus]

4 minutes ago, Archivic said:

my interest rate it actually 14 % and yah ill definitely be sure to pay it

Gucci, its gone down  lot in the last 7 years

[BryceJonathan]

The only problem I have with prebuilta other than them being a bit more expensive(especially alienware a lot of the time) is the typical cooling solutions for the cpu and general airflow of the system the spec list did not mention any kind of cpu cooler so that would be the only thing that would have me on edge but otherwise its not a bad system at all, a similar speced system you would pay about $1800ish canadian so an extra 200 isn't terrible.

[Legolessed]

26 minutes ago, Archivic said:

Yah, I'm thinking of getting a couple of monitors through them, as I currently only have an old acer monitor with VGA / dvi ports

One advantage to the low end XP’s models though is that they last days on a single charge.

[Guest lilbman]

1 hour ago, Archivic said:

Yah I'm loving their customer service so far, I've bugged them a few times with random questions and such, and my only "complaint" is that it won't be here until the 23rd of next month, but they don't start the payments until it arrives and I've booted it up.

From my personal experience, Dell's estimate of when you'll get it is way longer than what it actually is.  I ordered my 15 R3 when they first came out,  and it said it would come in roughly a month and a week.  To my surprise, I got it in around 14 days.

[Archivic]

10 hours ago, BryceJonathan said:

The only problem I have with prebuilta other than them being a bit more expensive(especially alienware a lot of the time) is the typical cooling solutions for the cpu and general airflow of the system the spec list did not mention any kind of cpu cooler so that would be the only thing that would have me on edge but otherwise its not a bad system at all, a similar speced system you would pay about $1800ish canadian so an extra 200 isn't terrible.

It has a water cooler thing on it, so I don't think I have to worry about coolong