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Originally Posted by goldz28

I am looking to buy a computer. I was thinking about getting a Dell and decided against that. My cousin said Alienware or something like that is really good. I was thinking about this one http://alienware.com/product_detail_...de=SKU-DEFAULT or this one http://alienware.com/product_detail_...de=SKU-DEFAULT

What should I get or is there a different brand???
Thanks in advance

Jeremy

well alienware is certainly a top brand, and between the two you listed I would go with the 5500. The major difference amond them from what i skimed trough is the chipset. and i would go with the tried and true intel chipset. Nvidia is very new at intel hipsets so i doubt their maturity not to mention all the intel mobo chipsets based on them failed during a toms hardware torture test.

So unless you want two cards running in an SLI config go with the 5500 model.

All that being said save yourself a boatload of money and build yourself (or have someone build it for you) the same system. It will probably cost you ~60% of the cost.

Also go AMD, not that intel is bad but one prescott is hot and two are a foundry and very power hungry. not to mention that everyone knows the whole intel netburst architecture is a mess which is why intel is desperate to change it. On the other hand athlon 64s are much more efficient and buit from the start to be used as dual cores: (eg. direct comunication between cores - reason for integrated mem controller and cross bar while intel still uses the northbridge for core-core comunication).