Finally Got A New Rig

[ictponder]

I mainly got this because I do a lot of rendering with After Effects and I wanted to upgrade to a 64bit platform. The 30" monitor has been on my wish list for a long time so this is gonna be awesome. My current desktop (P4) was SEVERELY limiting what I could do. Comes with Eve Online and Battlefield 3. I'm really excited, but still have to wait for it to be delivered.

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Alienware Aurora X79 with ALX Chassis

Ultrasharp U3011 30" Monitor

Intel Core i7-3960X (Six Core Extreme, 15MB Cache) Overclocked up to 4.2Ghz

16GB Quad Channel DDR3 at 1600MHz

Alienware TactX Keyboard, US

Dual 2GB GDDR5 AMD Radeon HD 6950 - AMD CrossFireX Enabled

2TB RAID 0 (2x 1TB SATA 6Gb/s) 7,200RPM

Genuine Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, English, w/Media

Alienware TactX Mouse

Single Drive: 24X CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) w/double layer write capability

[IPD]

no offense, but you wasted money on an alienware? why not build it yourself?

p.s.

dual GPU's is nice...though for the price alienware charges, you could probably swing a brand new 7970

[stealthify]

How much did you end up spending?

Also, you should be pretty happy with that monitor. The Ultrasharps are quite nice.

[nodoze]

makes me think my rig is sad now lol, do you like the single thirty ? i have dual twentys and i love the dual factor for multitasking

[Zaroth]

Should have at least bought it from Ibuypower.com instead. Alienware prices are ridiculously inflated. They do make a VERY nice product though. You will not be disappointed with it.

[ictponder]

I bought it through Dell and yes I will be spending way more than I could somewhere else but I had enough Dell credit so I got it. I had dual 19s before and prefer a large single. All in all it was just over 6k, I'd rather not dwell on the cost though lol

[eljefefx]

$6,000?


That's fucking ridiculous.

[Telionis]

$6,000?

That's fucking ridiculous.

Holy Shit! I guess if you have the money to burn why not? No one ever needs a Ferrari either. But seriously, could it possibly be that much better than a $2500 machine?

Also, you spent that much and use raid 0? Why not raid 10? If you're going to spend $6k, at least buy another two hard-drives, what is that an extra $150? I'm also surprised you didn't go with an SSD for the boot drive.

Congrats, it's an incredible machine!

[ictponder]

Holy Shit! I guess if you have the money to burn why not? No one ever needs a Ferrari either. But seriously, could it possibly be that much better than a $2500 machine?

Also, you spent that much and use raid 0? Why not raid 10? If you're going to spend $6k, at least buy another two hard-drives, what is that an extra $150? I'm also surprised you didn't go with an SSD for the boot drive.

Congrats, it's an incredible machine!

I read that the difference between SSD and HDD isn't really that noticeable especially when these 2 drives are going to be doing 6Gb/s.

[Zaroth]

I read that the difference between SSD and HDD isn't really that noticeable especially when these 2 drives are going to be doing 6Gb/s.

6Gb/s is your bandwidth, not your speed. Those two harddrives will not be anywhere near the 6Gb/s speed level. SSD are nice because their access time is significantly faster than HDD expecially once raided. That being said, I rock a 3 HD Raid 0 myself and love every second of it.

radeon 5870 in my laptop. what games can't i play?

I imagine BF3 with the graphics about medium would make your computer stutter pretty well. You would definetly be able to play it though. The fact that all I need to do is spend 5 minutes swapping out hardware to get several years of increased playability along with desktops being more cost efficient means I will never buy another gaming laptop. Not worth the money unless you do a lot of traveling IMO.