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

[HoloDust]

This might help you, if you haven't already checked that article:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-alienware-alpha-review

Alpha seem relatively ok, specially if you care for small form factor and those bundled games, but for that price it's a bit tough sell for just 4GB of RAM and 500GB HDD...and not being able to upgrade GPU in the future is major no.

If you choose to build, definitely don't go with anything less than i3 or AMD 6300 for CPU. And don't go berserk with PSU - this calculators will help you, don't believe that Newegg's overbloated pos:

http://www.extreme.outervision.com/PSUEngine
http://powersupplycalculator.net/