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So I just found out that my BIL, got an Alienware. I knew his older gaming PC was getting older, old enough that it might have been overheating or failing by now.
Was thinking of building him a SKL rig, and giving him my two 7950 video cards. Well, when I get more money.
Maybe he wasn't happy with his older rig?
I built it with a Gigabyte X48-UD5 board, 8GB DDR2, Q9550 (OCed to 3.5Ghz @ 1.3v), dual HD6870 cards (they were literally the newest GPUs on the market at the time), a 64GB SSD, and a 1TB WD Green HDD. With an Antec TP Classic 750W PSU (Japanese caps).
I know that he had trouble with certain games not supporting CF, and in fact, crashing if it was enabled. So AMD's drivers and game support for CF was definitely an issue.
Or maybe he just wanted to be cool and say he had an Alienware. I don't know.
A little disappointing for me, I would have loved to build him another custom rig.
Edit: I don't know who they're fooling, but the X51 pre-configured models are nothing to write home about. Locked i5, 8GB DDR3, 750ti, 256GB SSD + 1TB HDD, $900??? Ouch.
Was thinking of building him a SKL rig, and giving him my two 7950 video cards. Well, when I get more money.
Maybe he wasn't happy with his older rig?
I built it with a Gigabyte X48-UD5 board, 8GB DDR2, Q9550 (OCed to 3.5Ghz @ 1.3v), dual HD6870 cards (they were literally the newest GPUs on the market at the time), a 64GB SSD, and a 1TB WD Green HDD. With an Antec TP Classic 750W PSU (Japanese caps).
I know that he had trouble with certain games not supporting CF, and in fact, crashing if it was enabled. So AMD's drivers and game support for CF was definitely an issue.
Or maybe he just wanted to be cool and say he had an Alienware. I don't know.
A little disappointing for me, I would have loved to build him another custom rig.
Edit: I don't know who they're fooling, but the X51 pre-configured models are nothing to write home about. Locked i5, 8GB DDR3, 750ti, 256GB SSD + 1TB HDD, $900??? Ouch.
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