Bought a new computer today.

[thirty-two]

What's Alienware?

edited to add: WTF why is my post the very first one?

This new server is screwy lol!

 

[O]

Alienware Area 51
Here is the basic run down,

Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional with Service Pack 2
Power Supply: Alienware® 480 Watt Power Supply
Processor: Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 550 w/ HT Technology 3.4GHz 1MB Cache
Motherboard: Alienware® PCI Express Motherboard with Intel® 925XE Chipset 1066/800MHz FSB
Memory: 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz - 2 x 512MB
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA® GeForce™ 6800 GT PCI Express 256MB DDR3 w/Digital and S-Video Out
System Drive: High Performance - Serial ATA - 120GB Seagate® Barracuda 7,200 RPM w/8MB Cache
Optical Drive One: NEC® ND-3520 16x Dual Layer DVD±R/W Recorder
Optical Drive Two: Lite-On 52x32x52x CD-RW Drive
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster® Audigy® 2 ZS High Definition 7.1 Surround Firewire (IEEE® 1394)

My current desktop machine would not even run Madden.
It will be a few weeks until I get it but I am still psyched.
What do you think did I do good?

 

[Ryanwb]

Nice!

 

[Chaz]

Alienware

 

[jw7]

Alienware

Alienware rocks. Mine is coming up on 3 years old, and never had a problem with it at all.

 

[O]

Alienware rocks. Mine is coming up on 3 years old, and never had a problem with it at all.

That's good to hear.
A one year warranty comes with the machine, obiviously they push the three year warranty which costs extra.
I feel fairly comfortable with just the one year.
The three year is an extra $265.00
What does everyone else think?

 

[Chaz]

What's Alienware?

edited to add: WTF why is my post the very first one?

This new server is screwy lol!

Alienware is just a brand name like Dell or Compaq.

www.alienware.com

LOL

Your post is first because they reset the clock on the server. It was set 8 hours ahead so posts at 7:00pm yesterday show a time stamp of 3:00am this morning. The thread lists the posts by time stamp.

 

[jw7]

That's good to hear.
A one year warranty comes with the machine, obiviously they push the three year warranty which costs extra.
I feel fairly comfortable with just the one year.
The three year is an extra $265.00
What does everyone else think?

I think its a bad deal.
- You are already covered for a year
- If a part is defective, it will most likely show up within the 1st year
- If its past a year, you would probably want to get a better/faster/cheaper component anyway.

I hate service contracts in general, especially for electronics.

 

[O]

I think its a bad deal.
- You are already covered for a year
- If a part is defective, it will most likely show up within the 1st year
- If its past a year, you would probably want to get a better/faster/cheaper component anyway.

I hate service contracts in general, especially for electronics.

I agree, I'll just stay with the one year.

 

[CaptTurbo]

Have a 150,000 budget at me new job. so I spec'd this out to go along with my out-of-this-world laptop.

Pentium® 4 Processor w/ HT Tech Extreme Edition (3.46GHz, 1066 FSB)
Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional
4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz
256MB PCI Express™ x16 (DVI/VGA/TV-out) ATI Radeon™ X850 XT PE
250GB Data Security RAID 1 (2 x 250GB SATA HDDs)
Dual Drives: 48x CD-RW Drive+ 16x DVD+/-RW w/dbl layer write
20 inch Ultrasharp™ 2001FP Digital Flat Panel (2 for dual monitors)
Dell 5650 5.1 Surround Sound Speaker System with Subwoofer