Just did something stupid! Bought a 4800+ DC

[ribbon13]

6k and no vapor-phase...

 

[Viditor]

Just to keep things in perspective, I once was hired to train a Doctor in Beverly Hills CA on his brand new home video editing system...
Forget the fact that I charge over $1K/8hrs of training, the guy had installed a $650K post production system into his basement JUST TO EDIT HOME MOVIES!!

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

 

[phantom404]

Ok heres the deal. Alienware called me saying they came out with a new system called the Auruora(somehthing like that) 7500. They configured it with exactly what i had on the ALX and it was about 1500 dollars cheeper so i switched to the 7500 while moviig my HD space up to 1TB insteas of 500GB, got a 20GB MP3 player, wireless joystick and gamepad and a ups system all for less that the orignal alx system cost. Thanks Alienware for updating me on the new system!

 

[DrMrLordX]

Neat, that was nice of them.

 

[OneOfTheseDays]

anyone notice that alienware's site looks a lot like Dell's now? anyways, congrats on your new purchase. for all those that are knocking this guy, leave him alone. he has the money to spend, and alienware makes great systems for those that can afford them.

 

[Undisputed]

1. Processor
AMD Athlon 64 FX57 San Diego 1GHz FSB Socket 939 = $1,011.00

2. Power Supply
PC Power & Cooling 850 SSI SLI, EPS12V, SSI 850W Power Supply= $430

3. Motherboard
Abit AN8-SLI Fatal1ty= $179

4. Liquid Cooling
Swiftech H20-120-SB LIQUID COOLING KITS= $189*

5. Highest performance memory
GeIL ONE Series 1GB (2 x 512MB)(CAS 1.5!)= $207 x 2

6. Tbyte hardrive in Raid 0
HITACHI Desksta 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive= $362 x2

7. Gaming Mouse
Logitech G5 Laser gaming mouse= $55

8. Sound Card
Creative X-Fi (7.1) X-Fi Elite Pro= $362

9. Case
Thermaltake Tai-Chi Black/ Silver Aluminum= $399

10. Multimedia Logitech bluetooth
Logitech diNovo Media Desktop 2= $198

11. SLI Video Cards
eVGA Geforce 7800 GTX (1300 memory, 490 clock)= $580 x 2

12. Surround Sound
Creative GigaWorks S750 700 Watts 7.1 Speaker= $437

13. DVD Roms
Asus DVD rom= $27
Plextor DVD burner= $145.50

14. Operating Systems
Microsoft Windows XP Professional X64 Edition 1= $142
Microsoft Windows XP Media Center 2005= $125

15. Monitor
NEC Display Solutions Black 21" 8ms 1600x1200 resolution= $1,090

16. $100 Assembly

And there you go the Ultimate gaming setup for 6k,
all I left out was the TV tuner because I think they give bad performance unless you have
the x850 all in one. All prices came from www.NewEgg.com

 

[ElTorrente]

This kinda reminds me of automobile message boards.

Go check out a Porsche board, or Ferrari, and there are always some lame-arses that post on there saying, "You guys are idiots for buying Porsches! My Mustang is way faster- you wasted your money! Why do you need a 190mph car to drive to work in? jeez.. nothing like a fool and his money..." And the Porsche guys are like "uhhhh... go away please."

Money is all relative.

I remember when 100bucks was like A LOT of money, and a thousand may as well have been a million, because it took a looooong time to save up that kind of cash - and I certainly wouldn't have spent it on a CPU or something for my computer of all things. Now.. well, a thousand seems like a lot less than a hundred used to be.. It's all relative folks - not everyone is in your financial situation.