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    Advice on my M17x R3

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by darkdomino, Jan 2, 2012.

  1. darkdomino

    darkdomino Notebook Deity

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    Is this system a good way to go for the M17x R3?

    SYSTEM COMPONENTS

    Alienware M17x, Soft Touch Stealth Black, Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit
    Intel® Core™ i7 2670QM 2.2GHz (3.1GHz w/Turbo Boost, 6MB Cache)
    Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit
    4GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 1600MHz (2DIMMS)
    2GB GDDR5 NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 580M
    1 TB RAID 0 (2x 500GB) 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s
    17.3-inch WideFHD 1920 x 1080 60Hz WLED
    Killer™ Wireless-N 1103 a/g/n 3x3 MIMO for Gaming & Video
    Slot-Loading Dual Layer Blu-ray Reader (BR-ROM, DVD+-RW, CD-RW)

    Unit Price $2,378.00
     
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  2. insertcreativity

    insertcreativity Notebook Guru

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    That seems way over priced to me..

    Is this a premade system or did you customize this?
    Do you plan to upgrade RAM aftermarket?
    And where are you ordering from?

    Personally I wouldn't go with this system for that price but that's just me.
     
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  3. darkdomino

    darkdomino Notebook Deity

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    this is direct from Dell's website. Yeah, I'm buying my own RAM. I'm just trying to get the costs down as much as possible.
     
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  4. wingman_214

    wingman_214 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Downgrade the hdd. Buy your self an even better ssd plus Dell ships with the caddy already installed.
     
    wingman_214, Jan 2, 2012
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  5. maxheap

    maxheap caparison horus :)

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    for this amount of money you can do better CPU, downgrade HDD and buy an SSD aftermarket, Raid 0 is something risky anyway, and any SSD beats Raid 0 from what I have heard
     
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  6. darkdomino

    darkdomino Notebook Deity

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    What CPU do you recommend?
     
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