April 5, 201313 yr Ordered a new Alienware Aurora last night that is already in production. (Next system will be built by my hands, promise!) Specs are: Aurora R4 i7-3820 OC'd @ 4.2 Water Cooled 8GB DDR3 1600 Win 7 64 Bit GTX 660 1.5GB 500GB SSD for W7 and FS 1TB 7200RPM for everything else. Onboard Sound CD/DVD 1,622 was the total after tax and shipping. I was just poking around Dell's website and now I see this: Refurbished R4 i7-3930k @ 3.9 1TB HDD 8GB DDR3 1600 1.25 gig GTX 560 ti. Main differences from my order? CPU, SSD and the 560 ti for a much lower 1,163 after tax and shipping. Should I pick up the refurb and just send my original back after it arrives? I'd have the benefit of an unlocked i7, but I'd be loosing my 660 and SSD (which I can turn around and upgrade anyways). Do the pro's outweigh the cons here? Chase Barnett
April 6, 201313 yr Alienware=overpriced you could build your own system muchr cheaper ATP MEL,CFI,CFII,MEI. Type Ratings B-737, ERJ-190,ERJ-170
April 6, 201313 yr If it were me, at this point - I would keep it. Forget the Dell and stop looking around. You have quite a nice system. It was expensive, but it's complete. Just fire up FS and enjoy. Bob Donovan - KBOS
April 6, 201313 yr Author If it were me, at this point - I would keep it. Forget the Dell and stop looking around. You have quite a nice system. It was expensive, but it's complete. Just fire up FS and enjoy. Ehhh... I hope you're right! Hopefully the AW will run FSX well. Expensive? IMHO, yes. More than I wanted to realistically spend but thankfully I have in home tech support in the event that anything goes wrong and no RMA's to worry about. That is just total peace of mind for me, enough to earn my business again. I wish I could find someone with the exact or a similar system to comment on performance. Alienware=overpriced you could build your own system muchr cheaper I wish I had a nickel for every time I heard that... Chase Barnett
April 6, 201313 yr Alienware=overpriced you could build your own system muchr cheaper Ohhh Yeh, I have two PCs that I built both and I`m getting 4.7 Ghz with Intel i7 2600K.
April 6, 201313 yr If I were you I would cancel your order and pick up the refurb unit. Price difference on the CPU alone makes it worth it in my opinion. GPU on the refurb unit is marginally slower but you would probably barely notice and could swap it out later.SSD's are getting cheaper these days and could be easily added. -Anthony Young- "For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return." - Leonardo da Vinci
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