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    OMG 6000 Dollars Customized Alienware Laptop

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by GalaxySII, Feb 5, 2012.

  1. GalaxySII

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    GalaxySII, Feb 5, 2012
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  2. davepermen

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    only 8gb of ram? :)

    gaming laptops are ridiculous anyways. half the price, more power from any desktop. now here.. not even half the price.. a quarter, or less, for more power..

    but for those with too much money, a nice useless huge fat laptop to buy :)
     
    davepermen, Feb 5, 2012
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  3. GalaxySII

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    ? 8GB RAM is enough no one game requires more than 2GB RAM ..
     
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    it's not enough for a 6000$ computer. and yes, there are games requiring more.

    i have 16gb of ram in my 500$ desktop.
     
    davepermen, Feb 5, 2012
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  5. GalaxySII

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    if u check all games are automatically saved in p files x86 that means they will never utilize more than 2 or 3GB RAM believe me
     
    GalaxySII, Feb 5, 2012
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    This has made me chuckle before, I too thought this was the case. it wouldn't use more than that amount.
     
    pengy_666, Feb 5, 2012
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    Well, I personally love the portability and snugness coming in laptop form, but I have to agree that the artificial price gauging on laptops compared to desktops is beyond stupid.
    Realistically, laptops should effectively cost no more than desktops... if even that because they offer lower performance.

    As for games being limited to 2GB... very accurate, but not so for programs such as Photoshop or 3dsMax.
    :D

    Aside from that, the DELL monster in the first post is horribly priced.
    Then again, DELL is playing a game of price gauging while giving you less on the performance.
    It reminds me of the Razor Blade (the 'first gaming laptop') :D
     
    Deks, Feb 5, 2012
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  8. Generic User #2

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    laptops DO use binned parts. so theres a reason for a premium. this is not accounting for extra design and assembly effort for lappys.

    but ya, the margins are gargantuan....supply and demand [and mega-corporations] though ;)
     
    Generic User #2, Feb 5, 2012
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  9. Karamazovmm

    Karamazovmm Overthinking? Always!

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    Seriously?

    A single 512gb SSD retails around 800 bucks. There are 2 of them in that build.

    Not to count a 1k cpu...

    Dual high end mobility gpus.... that retail for more than 1k

    there is price gouging? yes just look at the ram prices... however when you are into the extreme high end gaming notebook market there is a tax for that alone.

    the parts cost a lot, the design efforts are for single models, and those models dont sell a lot.
     
    Karamazovmm, Feb 5, 2012
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    yeah what do you expect when you put in all the highest end stuff in there? a pony?
     
    long2905, Feb 5, 2012
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    its called memory leak :D
     
    Zero989, Feb 5, 2012
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  12. Vogelbung

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    I don't get these 'OMG L@@K AT THIS LEET CONFIG I MADE'.

    There's always going to be high-priced computers. On some Apple forums I occasionally grace, people would price up the top config when a new Mac Pro would come out and present it in the same manner. When I said I ordered them in that trim, they profess disbelief - Apparently they can't step out of their broke student heads.

    $6K notebook is relatively little if we're getting to power DTR's with factory supported parts - I'd say all the M6400's, M6500's, 8740W's and the current 8760W's I've had have easily blown past $7K list each. It's a shame that even then unfortunately, they can't go anywhere near touching a similarly priced desktop.
     
    Vogelbung, Feb 5, 2012
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    You could save around $1000 by getting the parts aftermarket.

    However, such prices are to be expected when maxing out a high-end laptop.
     
    5482741, Feb 5, 2012
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    Thank you. Yes, this is why I don't even bother to read the Sager/Clevo forum anymore.
    Lets please not bring this stuff to the main forum sections, lol
     
    niffcreature, Feb 5, 2012
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  15. Syberia

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    Does anyone actually buy a laptop with every option maxed out? Maybe you'll max out one or two things, depending on what you need, but there's nothing out there right now that requires a 4ghz CPU (yes, I have one, but it's a desktop chip that cost less than $200) and 2 580s.

    It would make much more sense to buy something more "low end" (oh no, maybe you'll have to run BF3 on medium!) and by the time games require as much power as is in this $6k notebook, you'll be able to buy something that will run them for $1k or less, and will also run cooler and actually have something resembling battery life.
     
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  16. Vogelbung

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    Yes. Some do. But not, in my case, for gaming. (I'd buy/build a desktop - maxed or not - for that)
     
    Vogelbung, Feb 5, 2012
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    ? its a legit article
     
    Zero989, Feb 5, 2012
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  20. wild05kid05

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    That config with clevo is about ~3000 or less lol. Aw overrated and so colorful
     
    wild05kid05, Feb 5, 2012
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  21. GalaxySII

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    What does it mean ''curb'' ? :eek:
     
    GalaxySII, Feb 5, 2012
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    Although games like Battlefield 3 which is a 32bit process and can never use more than 4GB anyways, we have games like Metro 2033 which do benefit from more RAM. The official specs says "As much RAM as possible (8GB+)"

    Not shure how many games there is that needs more than 4GB though. My guess, very few
     
    Cloudfire, Feb 5, 2012
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  23. tijo

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    What saturnotaku means is that according to the forum rules, you shouldn't post multiple posts in a row without any replies between them. It falls into the rule about bumping a thread before 24h. There is an edit button, it is there for the eventuality that you need to add something to your last post if it still is the last post of the thread.

    tl;dr: don't double post, triple post or above and use the edit button instead. ;)

    EDIT: Merged the triple post from GalaxySII (leaving the note so that people don't go :confused: when they read some of the replies)
     
    tijo, Feb 5, 2012
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    not all anymore, and for 6000$ i should not have to care for YEARS about anything. it's the luxury model. there should not be a "it doesn't have that because you don't need that yet" situation. for 6000$ it should come with 32gb ram or something, just because it can. that's what one pays so much money for: to get MUCH MORE than what's needed.

    yes. for 6000$, yes, there should be a free pony. (and i'm not even joking here, really, because that laptop is not worth 6000$)
     
    davepermen, Feb 6, 2012
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  25. GalaxySII

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    yeah thing is when i postin in nvision forum it automatically merge posts in this forum seems to not working..
     
    GalaxySII, Feb 6, 2012
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    There is no automatic function to merge double/triple posts at this time on NBR, so it is normal for it to be not working. I don't know if there is a reason for this so i'll suggest it as a future feature, but that doesn't mean it'll get implemented. In the mean time, the edit function is the way to go.
     
    tijo, Feb 6, 2012
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  27. pengy_666

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    A friend of mine used a desktop machine today that would make your eyes water,

    It including 96gb of Ram! 12X8Gb
    24 x 512Gb Samsung 830 SSD Raid 0
    4 x ATi HD 7970
    Dual Xeon eXtreme CPU's

    All top secret stuff I believe. Of course, Anyone would just dismiss this. I was very interested in the machine and we spoke about it a lot. This was in excess of £10,000
     
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    $6000. Meh. Child's play. I can build a Clevo P270WM/Sager NP9270 w/ 32GB RAM, 2 nVIDIA GTX 580M SLI, 4 480 GB Intel 520s. Price ~$8000

    Not sure anything in the post is groundbreaking info.
     
    jclausius, Feb 6, 2012
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    Wonder how big the electric bill is going to be on that one :p
     
    Cloudfire, Feb 6, 2012
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  30. Aikimox

    Aikimox Weihenstephaner!

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    play your cards smart and you can get the same config for way less.

    As for the specs, grab the basic ram/hdd and upgrade yourself, will save hundreds.

    Great choice though. very powerful and extremely reliable gen. Been using mine for 8 months, OC'ing, gaming, benching. Not a hitch. highly recommend.
     
    Aikimox, Feb 6, 2012
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    You would think this to be true, however try running a game at 1600p and tell me 2GB of spare ram is enough. I've seen games draw up to 4GB of system ram in DX11. o.o And not even the demanding DX11 games either, like AvP where it's merely layered over the DX9 shaders.

    8GB of RAM is awesome for any gaming laptop. To have any less is somewhat, unimpressive. :p
     
    imglidinhere, Feb 6, 2012
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  32. Krane

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    Come on dave you know better than that. Have you checked out the practicality on in going to the supermarket or mall in a Ferrari?

    Gaming laptops are a niche and they give their owner eve bit the pleasure they ask for. In think you know a desire does not always have to be practical one.
    Huh? By definition a gaming laptop has to be more rugged than one that sit of a desk all of its life. That means much tougher material and connections. An arduous task to achieve particularly when you consider the significant amount of miniaturization involved.

    This one is a no brainer. Two GB is unacceptable in anything north of a netbook.

    Comparison shopping my man: I see nothing unusual about this price compared to the competition.
     
    Krane, Feb 6, 2012
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  33. Krane

    Krane Notebook Prophet

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    Please delete dupl. post.
     
    Krane, Feb 6, 2012
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    why so surprised cpt obvious?

    in a few secs.
    [​IMG]
    $2,878

    +$950 i7 2960XM
    +$1600 2x samsung 830 512gb
    +$130 4x 2gb ddr3 1866mhz

    =$5,558

    AND

    you can sell:
    2670QM 2.2GHz
    4GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 1600MHz (2DIMMS)
    750GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s

    about $1000 overprice.

    I wonder how many people really buy this crap at this price.
     
    __-_-_-__, Feb 6, 2012
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  35. Nick

    Nick Professor Carnista

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    This thread is pointless.

    /thread
     
    Nick, Feb 6, 2012
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  36. leslieann

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    What's the battery life like on that? 20 minutes? It probably weighs 10 pounds.

    Need it or not, the only computer I would buy today with less than 8 gigs is a netbook.
     
    leslieann, Feb 6, 2012
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    Actualy the battery life is great on the m18x it has a intragrated GPU so it can pull 4+ hours when your not plugged in ;)
     
    EtownsFinest, Feb 6, 2012
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    Up to six hours, I've heard.
     
    5482741, Feb 6, 2012
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    This config makes a lot more sense...Ram and SSd's can be easily upgraded yourself in the Alienware at a fraction of the cost

    Dell kills you on SSD upgrades and ram upgrades. Getting an extreme processor doesn't help either. $6k is easy when you start with all the options
     
    SlickDude80, Feb 6, 2012
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  40. Vogelbung

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    Yay! Even longer time to get a hernia!

    :p
     
    Vogelbung, Feb 6, 2012
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    So, that's supposed to be a lot?

    Gaming PC Dual Six-Core Xeon® 5600 / 5500 SLI® CrossFireX™ Custom Gaming System / Workstation by AVADirect

    this next one has 192gb of memory

    http://www.avadirect.com/gaming-pc-configurator.asp?PRID=13862

    http://www.originpc.com/thebigo-features.asp#.TzBSeHJAOSp

    http://www.digitalstormonline.com/comploadsyndicate.asp?id=457562
     
    Gamer872, Feb 6, 2012
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  42. long2905

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    so now this is a "who has the most espensive rig" thread
     
    long2905, Feb 6, 2012
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  43. GalaxySII

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    Exctly what i been doing since i started with laptops..
    Purchase desirable basic laptop that supports quite stuff of today and upgrde it by yourself and look up on ebay .. cheapest way (not always but mostly)
     
    GalaxySII, Feb 6, 2012
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  44. GalaxySII

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    yeah and when I was one of first people in 2009 I purchased 8GB RAM DDR2 and everybody was just saying : what ?? why?? are u crazyy?? what for u don't need that etc ..
     
    GalaxySII, Feb 6, 2012
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    This is wat am doing mut in in totally less amount of monies
    but i'll tell you selling is more and more time difficult than buying ..
    am selling old stuff now 6 months just sold RAMs and HDDs for now ..
     
    GalaxySII, Feb 6, 2012
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    [​IMG]
     
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    $30,000 desktop

    INTEL 2 x Xeon® X5690 Six-Core Processor 3.46GHz, LGA1366, 6.4 GT/s QPI, 12MB L3 Cache, HT EIST EM64T TB VT-x XD, 32nm, 130W, Retail w/o Fan
    THERMALRIGHT Ultra-120 eXtreme 1366 RT CPU Cooler, Socket 1366, Aluminum
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    INNOVATION COOLING Diamond 7 Carat Thermal Compound, Electrically Non-Conductive
    CUSTOM Premium 2xCPU + 2xGPU Liquid Cooling Kit, Installed (Dual Loop)
    CUSTOM Coolant, NightClub Blue
    SUPERMICRO X8DA3, LGA1366 /2, Intel® 5520, 6.4 GT/s QPI, DDR3-1333MHz ECC/UECC 192GB/48GB /12, PCIe x16 CF /2, SAS RAID 10 /8, SATA 3 Gb/s RAID 5 /6, HDA, GbLAN /2, EATX, Retail
    KINGSTON 192GB (12 x 16GB) ValueRAM™ Quad-Rank PC3-8500 DDR3 1066MHz CL7 SDRAM DIMM, ECC Registered
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    SERVICE Overclocking, Dual GPU, Optimal and Stable Performance
    OCZ 1.2 TB VeloDrive SSD, MLC, 950/1000 MB/s, PCIe x8, Retail
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    RAID RAID 0 (striping), min 2 hard drives required
    SABRENT CRW-UINB Black 65-in-1 Card Reader/Writer Drive, 3.5" Bay, Internal USB
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    LIAN LI PC-A70F USB3.0 Black Full Tower Case, EATX, 7 slots, No PSU, Aluminum
    CUSTOM WIRING Standard Wiring with Precision Cable Routing and Tie-Down
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    MICROSOFT Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Edition w/ SP1, OEM
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    $30574.51

    Do I win?
     
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  48. tijo

    tijo Sacred Blame

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    Alright, i think this thread has run it's course.

    closed
     
    tijo, Feb 7, 2012
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