PC Gamers: Any thoughts on the Alienware Alpha console? (& steam boxes)

[anthony64641]

Captain_Yuri said:

anthony64641 said:
i agree building a prebuilt PC is pretty much never a good deal but this seem to be an expection to the rule. Alienware claims it can run all games @ 1080p/60fps (im guessing with lower details for some games)

Well the issue at today's gaming thing is that, the Alienware will be in like low settings to medium at best depending on the game. And the real kicker is that u wont be able to upgrade it in the future and instead, would have to buy an entire new computer to do so... Imo, its better to get a custom built one so that in the future, you can at least upgrade it if u want to instead of replacing the entire PC

on the contrary, Ive seen benchmarks for the alpha (i3 model) running games on high and sometimes even ultra on 1028p, given it was less then 60fps but for most games it did over 40, lowest 30. Which is.... surprising to say the least. i feel like a major draw back would be that its duel core, quad is becoming the norm