| Dodece said: UPDATE I am looking at an Alienware Aurora desktop right now. Low end specs obviously. Would anyone here happen to have any experience with this particular model, or with the brand itself in general. Here are the specs if you have any thoughts about them. 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3820 (10M Cache, Overclocked up to 4.1 GHz) Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64Bit, English 8GB2 Q DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3Gb/s 1.5GB GDDR5 NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 660 |
Build your own, it will be cheaper, you get more choice and it is fun
A few things to consider about that build
You might want to get a small SSD for the OS to make boot times much faster and the system generally quicker
Intel are now on their 3rd generation of i5,7 or maybe even 4th (I am not sure if they have come out yet). You also don't really need an i7, there is very little gain beyond an i5. Certainly for a 660, there is no point in having anything better than an i5
There might well be some new video cards out soon, so that may be worth considering, though a 660 is a decent comprimise between price and performance.
As for your choice to abandon consoles, as others have said, Microsoft is just getting closer to Steam, for me that is quite good
