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    help me decide please! *best bang for bucks*

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by ebay111, Mar 13, 2012.

  1. ebay111

    ebay111 Notebook Enthusiast

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    hey guys,

    which one is a good deal?

    #1 offer :

    #2 offer :

    #3 offer :


    so tell me which one would you guys choose?


    and reason. time till this friday :)
     
    ebay111, Mar 13, 2012
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    3rd offer for sure, because it has 6990M videocard.
     
    Heihachi88, Mar 13, 2012
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  3. ebay111

    ebay111 Notebook Enthusiast

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    but the 2nd one has 256gb ssd, and hybrid 500gb hdd, plus freebies on gaming mouse
     
    ebay111, Mar 13, 2012
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  4. Heihachi88

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    Hybrid HDD+SSD like momentus XT - they sux no difference at all. I said 3rd because upgrading hdd is easier than changing videocard. You better stick to 6990M and buy urself SSD. 6990 is alot better than 6970
     
    Heihachi88, Mar 13, 2012
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  5. SlickDude80

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    I'd go with the third one also because it has the best video card, and you have complete care till 2014.

    The 2nd does have the SSD but you can get that after the fact. Its a lot harder and more expensive to get the video card upgrade if that's important to you
     
    SlickDude80, Mar 13, 2012
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    This.

    A 256GB SSD is likely overkill also, you could get a 64GB or 120GB one which I find is plenty for OS and programs + games. This would cost you around $1GB for a respectable SSD.
     
    DC87, Mar 13, 2012
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    256gb is not overkill :) games like wow, diablo 3 would take atleast ~20 or more gigs.
     
    Heihachi88, Mar 13, 2012
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    In my opinion the 3rd, get the best video card. SSD's and ram can usually be gotten cheaper then dell anyway
     
    Luthair74, Mar 13, 2012
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    Third as well.
    The SSD is nice and I absolutely love mine, but its an easy add-on, and in the mean time, the 3rd one has a 750gig so your only losing 6gig's space wise, giving you the option to indeed get a low-space compacity SSD since the 750gig covers all of your storage.

    Plus its black, which I prefer.

    Plus you have full coverage for another year and 10 months which is actually a giant plus over the other ones, like the others above me have mentioned.
     
    SemiGamer, Mar 13, 2012
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  10. maxheap

    maxheap caparison horus :)

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    3rd offer is about 2x better than others, go with 6990m!
     
    maxheap, Mar 13, 2012
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    You can buy a 512GB SSD for what you'd spend on replacing that 6970 with a 6990m. I vote on the 3rd one too. Although I would price that out on the Dell site. I bet you can get awful close to that price brand new. Mine was $2136 and that was with a 2 Year Accidental Protection warranty, 3D, and the NVidia card was $100 more than the AMD card at the time. You take $450 off my price for the 3D kit and GPU and its the same price. I got a 15% discount in February plus a $50 coupon and then haggled a little with the sales rep but I bet you can get close to my deal or better. Other people have done better than I did. At least call and price it out with a rep before you plunk down $1600 on a used one.

    On second thought I got the 15% because I spent more than $2499 so that may not be a fair comparison but still, you get get within a couple hundred brand new I bet.
     
    Jody, Mar 13, 2012
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