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I just ordered a Alienware computer! Can anyone who's ordered from there before give me any tips and tricks? Or do you just want to congratulate me for now being able to play bf2? :)
And if anyone wondered:
Aurora™ 7500
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional UK with SP2 Warranty: AlienCare 1-Year Free Phone 24/7 and Collect & Return Chassis: Alienware® Full-Tower Case - Space Black Chassis Upgrades: AlienIce™ 2.0 Video Cooling System for Alienware case Power Supply: Alienware® 650 Watt ATX 2.0 Power Supply with Active PFC Motherboard: Alienware® nForce™4 SLI™ x 16 Motherboard Processor: AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 - 4400+ Processor with HyperTransport and Dual Core Technology Memory: 2GB Dual Channel Low Latency DDR PC-3200 at 400MHz - 2 x 1024MB Video Card: 512MB PCI-Express x16 NVIDIA® GeForce™ 7900 GTX System Drive: 250 GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s, 7,200 rpm w/ 8MB Cache - Quantity 1 Optical Drive One: 16x Dual Layer DVD±R/W Recorder Sound Card: Alienware® Edition Sound Blaster® X-Fi® High Definition 7.1 Audio with XRAM Technology Network Card: Integrated High Performance Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (DSL-ready) Removable Storage: Alienware® 28-in-1 Digital Media Reader / Writer Floppy Drive: 1.44 MB Floppy Drive - Black Monitor: (None) Keyboard: Logitech Internet Keyboard UK - Space Black Mouse: Razer Diamondback Mouse Speakers: Creative® 5.1 Inspire™ T6060 - EU Power Supply Headphones: Sennheiser PC160 Multimedia Headset Security Software: Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal Professional - English AlienInspection: AlienInspection - Exclusive Integration and Inspection - £50 Value - FREE! AlienWiring: AlienWiring - Exclusive Internal Wire Management - £50 Value - FREE! Free T-Shirt: Alienware® T-Shirt - Black - XL Free Alienware Mousepad : Free Custom Alienware® fUnc Mousepad Free Desktop Enhancements: Exclusive AlienGUIse Theme Manager
. my advice, break it when it arrives, say u got a defective unit and want your money back and build yourself your own for muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch cheaper or recycle the money to build a muuuuuch better pc. but congratulations, i'm happy for you, heres a smiley
tips? should built one yourself for half the price.
"Floppy Drive: 1.44 MB Floppy Drive - Black" ????
1980 called, they want their drive back.
I think you're forgetting that in order to install Windows XP Professional on a RAID (or even larger than 120GB hdd) array of hard drives, you're going to need a floppy disk drive to install the drivers.
I think you're forgetting that in order to install Windows XP Professional on a RAID (or even larger than 120GB hdd) array of hard drives, you're going to need a floppy disk drive to install the drivers.
There are multiple ways to work around this problem, try google. I know cause none of my friends have a floppy and they alll have xp raid set-up. Since this is bascially the ONLY reason why people would still have a floppy in their computer.
As to why it is the way it is? one word: Microsoft
Originally posted by scknight
lol... I feel sorry for this guy after 4 pages of people telling him he overpaid
Well. I don't mean to be, urgh, mean. But telling people you just got a system from Alienware is like telling your friends to check out you new Buick. It might be cool 10 years ago but not today. Even more so since it is part of DELL now.
I think you're forgetting that in order to install Windows XP Professional on a RAID (or even larger than 120GB hdd) array of hard drives, you're going to need a floppy disk drive to install the drivers.
I was told that this was not the case and that you can make a slipstream install disk for windows which will have all the required drivers so no floppy required
Have to say it is an impressive set up and hope that you have lots of fun playing on it hell if i had the money i would like to buy one just for the bragging rights and they always look so neat and tidy inside.
Overpriced - yeah but hell if you got the money and you cant be arsed to build one yourself why not
Don't listen to all these people. If you felt comfortable building/configuring/tweaking your own system I'm sure you would have.
With that system you also bought support. If ANYTHING goes wrong you have support to call thats open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. That means ANYTHING. And if you have problems it's a ONE POINT contact for repairs.
I'll probably get flamed for that. The way I see it is that if you have the experience, tools and are comfortable building/doing something then by all means proceed. If not then it's probably better to have it done professionally.
Don't listen to all these people. If you felt comfortable building/configuring/tweaking your own system I'm sure you would have.
With that system you also bought support. If ANYTHING goes wrong you have support to call thats open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. That means ANYTHING. And if you have problems it's a ONE POINT contact for repairs.
I'll probably get flamed for that. The way I see it is that if you have the experience, tools and are comfortable building/doing something then by all means proceed. If not then it's probably better to have it done professionally.
I know it applies to plumbing :)
defintely applies to plumbing dont you just hate the look you get when the plumber has to come and fix a job you totally botched :/
aleinwares are ok you can build one for much cheaper, it may not look as cooll but who buys pcs for their looks. I built one last summer P4 3.06 ghz, ati x800xl, 2 gigs of ram, 200 g hard drive, hp dvdrw with lightscribe. Pretty beasty ass comp. for the time. Cost to me 1100 dollars. How much is an alienware????
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