If you had to choose Alienware vs ASUS which would you chose? I have a few of each. Or something else that is not either of those two? Just curious what most people like. But we are saying if you were forced to choose between an Alienware and an ASUS. I have other brands as well. Last Alienware I bought I spent just over 6k for it. I got an ASUS with near the exact same specs for only about 2k. Alienware is rumoured to be overpriced. They kinda are but still.
I have another one that is made in Switzerland and is mainly only for that country so I dont play any Blizz games on it, but it would outperform the Alienware or the ASUS by a long shot.
Yes. Alienware is massively overpriced now days. I have my own rig but also the other two brands. I collect them. I try to buy the newer versions whenever they come out.
I was like you once upon a time, new GPU on the market… must upgrade!!!
Now i just keep using my PC until it dies or can’t play AAA games at 60 FPS anymore, I’m long overdue right now (7700+GTX1080), but I’m in the early stages of building a place and hoping that this one will keep kicking while it’s essentially working in a construction zone, then i can buy myself a nice new one as a house warming gift
Alienware computers use to be one of the best choices for computers until they were sold, I believe to Dell. Now, I wouldn’t touch a Alienware computer even if you got paid to use their computers over other computers. I personally prefer to build my own system, as a lot of SI company’s limit your choices and charge way more to build it than a DIY system costs. You’re just not getting a warranty other than manufacture of that specific component.
Yea they were. Now they got super greedy and you are more paying for the name than the function. They claim 4 TB needs to be almost 5k dollars because it takes so much space to store it in and is so difficult to do so… but there are phones out there that are now multi TB. A 1 TB phone is not that uncommon now. My best ever one is a computer from Switzerland. I dont do much gaming on it. It would be way overkill for that.
Also, speaking from one of my family members experience with it, they bought a pretty expensive Alienware gaming desktop and we had problems with it for awhile now, from crashing from memory issues, to CUP overheating, to very bad studders even on Bios, to the alienware command center being… bad. It’s fine now, but oof. Never gonna buy from that brand tbh.
Between those two, I’d choose Alienware due to Dell’s customer service. There’s also usually a bunch of coupons floating online to help bring those prices down.
In all seriousness OP familiarize your self with the Build process. Youtube how to videos ect ect. Build your own rig. Pre-Builts are a bigger waste of money then buying sand in the desert
The problem with prebuilts is they often cut corners. Advertise it with a great CPU and GPU but a crappy motherboard and dont mention it at all. More often than not Crappy CPU cooler or PSU. Worst case scenario is C all of the above. Also its over priced.
You can do your own rig for MUCH cheaper. Especially if you buy all your components when they are on sale. I spent a around 3k and bought best parts you can get your hands on when doing my build and I promise you it would retail for well over 5k if it was sold as a prebuilt
To use it as an example. This is My New 4k Rig I did just a bit ago (Bought every single component on sale well under MSRP. Was a slow process)
42" LG OLED 4K G-Sync Screen
Ryzen 9 7950x
ASUS ROG Strix X670E-E Gaming WiFi 6E Motherboard
Gigabyte Gaming OC RTX 4090
32 GB G.skill 6000mhz CL30 RAM
Arctic Liquid Freezer ii 360
Seasonic Vertex GX-1200w PSU
4 Phanteks M25-140 D-RGB fans
Phanteks Eclipse P600s Case
Its 100% overkill for wow but my focus was AAA games @4k
Like the others have said it really comes down to what is the performance you are getting for your money. Both Alienware (Dell) and Asus have their pros and cons.
Dell will have better customer service and reliable production (does not mean good just reliable from a manufacturing perspective) parts. Asus manufactures many of their products including mobos and gpus which in theory should offer better features than Alienware including a more robust BIOS.
Everyone needs a hobby but it’s a rather large investment for something that will lose money constantly the minute you open the box and as time passes from the day of manufacturing.
hey if someone wants to do a build for free for me I’m all for it. I’ve been building my own PCs for decades now but I totally get the reason for buying a pre-built. You can take it out of the box and it just works. No hassle of installing the OS, drivers, formatting hard drives, and trouble shooting re-boots and blue screens. If I wasn’t so cheap (and particular on parts) I would totally go the pre-built route. Also, pre-builds outnumber DIY builds by a large number so most people do go that route.
They are not “cutting corners” so much as they are maximizing the revenue on parts most people don’t rate shop on. They are a business and their business model if you think about it is rather unique. They need to invest a large sum of money into things like cpus, mobos, ram, and GPUs that constantly are on the clock for losing value the minute you purchase them. So you buy a bunch of GPUs for $400 each and three months later AMD has them selling at $300, you have to knock down your prices
Once you add in over head, a lot of times the pre-builts may be selling at very little gain. Many boutique builders have gone out of business thinking they can be profitable in that industry.
I built this because my last system died before I was to upgrade to a AM5 system. Now I’ll have to wait a few years before I upgrade again, as getting access to computer components is VIA mail only as nearest computer store is a 5-hour drive.
Previous Build date July 2014
Current Build date May 2022
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
Lian Li Galahad AIO 360
Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero
G.Skill Ripjaw 64GB DDR4-4000
Gigabyte Eagle 6700 XT
Samsung SSD 980 TB
Toshiba 2 TB
Adata SP900
Adata SP610
Corsair RM850x
Lian Li O11 Dynamic DerBaur
Samsung 4k Smart Monitor x 2
Razor Black Widow wired
Razor Death Adder Mini wired
Only major problem I have is not being able to get my memory above 2666 Mhz. Every profile I try is unstable and all 4 sticks are the same as I bought both kits at same time. I also run Windows 10 and wonder if I should finally bite the bullet and upgrade to Windows 11 as it’s a free upgrade.
Try updating BIOS. It has memory compatibility fixes.
You might need to bump SOC voltage. IOD and CCD as well.
"We had great results with memory overclocking with the Ryzen 9 5900X — we dialed in a 2000 MHz fabric and DDR4-4000 at a 1:1:1 fclk/uclk/mclk ratio, beating the best results we’ve reached with the previous-gen Matisse processors due to the general limit of a 1900 MHz fabric with the previous-gen chips. Just dial up the CCD and IOD voltage to 1.15V (not higher than 1.2V), and you should be good to go to increase the fabric clock to 2000 MHz. "
