• Alienware Alpha - is it worth it for the casual gamer?
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My friend is looking for a inexpensive rig to play games like Civ, Payday, Saints Row, Skyrim, Fallout, etc. He's not too tech savvy so I was curious to know if the Alienware Alpha was a smart purchase for his needs. He's a couch gamer, uses a controller mostly, and isn't willing to spend more than $600. Thanks!
Depends on which version he's getting, AFAIK there are four different ones, each with better hardware than the last. It would help if you could post a link to the specific one he's looking at.
[url]http://www.dell.com/us/p/alienware-alpha/pd?~ck=mn%E2%80%8B[/url] The two lowest priced models.
I'd pick the $650 model just because it comes with 8GB of RAM and a 1TB hard drive, as opposed to 4GB and a 500GB HDD. Otherwise, they seem to be identical. Kind of shitty that they don't list the actual name of the graphics card, but if I had to guess, the $650 model has a slightly better chip.
The GPU is a modified/custom GTX 860M
[QUOTE=Lordgeorge16;47047641]I'd pick the $650 model just because it comes with 8GB of RAM and a 1TB hard drive, as opposed to 4GB and a 500GB HDD. Otherwise, they seem to be identical. Kind of shitty that they don't list the actual name of the graphics card, but if I had to guess, the $650 model has a slightly better chip.[/QUOTE] The Gamespot review says it has a Modified Nvidia GTX 860M [editline]31st January 2015[/editline] Will the 4 extra gigs of ram really make a huge difference though?
[QUOTE=redBadger;47047656]The Gamespot review says it has a Modified Nvidia GTX 860M [editline]31st January 2015[/editline] Will the 4 extra gigs of ram really make a huge difference though?[/QUOTE] It usually does. 8GB of system memory has been the standard for gaming for many years now.
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