Did i get a good deal on this AlienWare desk top?

I understand people told me to just build my own PC it's cheaper and such, but in the end I decided to just buy a pre built one from AlienWare. So here are the specs.

Intel Core i7 930 QC (2.8GHz, 8MB Cache)

6GB Triple Channel 1600MHz DDR3, 3X2GB RAM

Single ATI Radeon HD 5970, 2GB GDDR5

300GB - SATA-II, 3Gb/s, 10k RPM, 16MB Cache HDD

Liquid Cooling and an 875 Watt power supply.

So i paid $2,200 for it. Is this a reasonable amount? if not why not.

I reckon they made at least a $300 profit off that. You should have gone to Falcon Northwest and got this built for you: NOTE: The Configurator even tells you what isn't compatible,etc. It Even has a better CPU: PSU: 1000W Motherboard: Rampage III Extreme Processor: i7 950 @ 3.06GHz Liquid Cooling 6GB RAM 5970 2GB HDD: 500GB -7200RPM -3GB/s 24x DVD Writer Windows 7 Home Premium 3 Year Warranty. Its a better build for $2634, Then again, Even Falcon NW have to make a profit, otherwise its not viable. Building a PC is ALWAYS the cheapest option if you know what your doing and what parts to use/buy. The reason this build is more expensive is the better CPU, Bigger Hard Drive, Bigger PSU, The CPU also is at a higher clock, This CPU ISN'T OC'ed.DeX2010

thanks for the suggestion. I never built my own PC so I'm afraid i'll mess it up, and if i do mess it up I have no real life friends to ask cause they don't know about computers. Do you think my specs are good?

No, you got ripped off. You could have built this. It's better in every way.

edit: and I have no idea why there's a 512MB of stick of DDR400 in addition to the 6gb kit, I didn't add it.

No, you got ripped off. You could have built this. It's better in every way.

Animatronic64

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No, you got ripped off. You could have built this. It's better in every way.

DeX2010

NO!! and I didnt even read the thread!

No, you didnt get a good deal, ive build better computers than that for 1k

Thats actually not to bad for an alienware. It is still a rip off, but not as much as alienwares usually are.

ALIENWARE IS NEVER A GOOD DEAL.

AlienWare= Fail except for their labtops i have heard good things about them :P

You are paying 2x as much as you should have because of the BRAND.DeX2010

Really? A 5970+Ci7 system strikes me as being rather hard to build on a $1.1K budget.

[QUOTE="DeX2010"]You are paying 2x as much as you should have because of the BRAND.MaoTheChimp

Really? A 5970+Ci7 system strikes me as being rather hard to build on a $1.1K budget.

My system cost about the same as your's OP. Notice, however, that I have a huge SSD, a 1TB HDD, a 1200w name brand PSU (which was overkill and rather pointless unless I make one of the large upgrades I was planning on when I bought it), and name brand RAM (the reason I keep mentioning name brand is that IIRC Alienware uses cheap off-brand RAM and PSUs). I'd imagine my case is also a lot larger than your's and has better airflow as well. If I made my rig closer to your specs, I would have saved about $550 just on the PSU and SSD alone.

That should give you an idea of how much you overpaid by using Alienware. However, that's par for the course with pre-builts.