I'm trying hard to understand everything, but I haven't bought a new computer in almost 5 years and am a little lost.
I'll probably go through Best Buy, so when I read threads about "you can build your own!" my eyes glaze over. I am not mechanically inclined and often cheer myself when I remember how to open the hood of my car at the oil change place. No, really.
So I'm looking at these two rigs and to me it looks like the off brand is a much better deal. Am I missing something?
The Alienware...why is it $200 more?
Compared to this one which looks like it would get me through the next five years of gaming. And this is a big investment so if you guys that know about computers see something here that might limit my gaming ability over the next few years please let me know...but I think this is a good value:
The Alienware has a better graphics card, but less graphics memory. Then again it says "dedicated" memory and I am confused by that :(
This is the computer I have now, been very happy with it since about 2008. I had to replace the video card a couple years ago with an ATI Radeon HD 5670:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883113075
» Edited on: 2013-01-07 16:31:25