Choosing An Alienware

Right, I'm in a dilemma right now, i'm going to order an Alienware but I'm stuck on which one! I haven't been able to find any reviews on the X1900 and I don't know how it compares to 7900GS in SLi (because of the processor(Turion), SLi only adds 20% in frame rates with max AA and Anisotrpic filtering on)

Choice 1:
Alienware m5790

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T7400 2.16GHz 4MB Cache 667MHz FSB
Windows® Vista Home Premium
17" WideUXGA 1920 x 1200 LCD
1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SO-DIMM at 667MHz - 2 x 512MB
200GB (100GB x 2) Serial ATA 1.5Gb/s 7,200 RPM w/ NCQ & 8MB Cache
256MB ATI Mobility™ Radeon® X1900

Price: $2,754.00

Advantages:
+DDR2 RAM
+Dual Core Processor
+It's thinner
+Higher Res Screen

Choice 2:
Alienware m9700

AMD Turion™ 64 Mobile ML40 2.2GHz 800MHz FSB 1MB L2 Cache
Windows® Vista Home Premium
17" WideXGA+ 1440 x 900 LCD
1GB Dual Channel DDR SO-DIMM at 400MHz - 2 x 512MB
320GB (160GB x 2) Serial ATA 1.5Gb/s 5,400 RPM w/ 8MB Cache
Dual 256MB NVidia® GeForce™ Go 7900 GS - SLI Enabled

Price:$2,714.00

Advantages:
+It has SLi
+Faster FSB
+Bigger Hard-Drives



So I want to know if any of you know if the X1900 with a decent Core 2 Duocan compete with 2 7900GS's bottlenecked by a single core processor? Because that will probably be the deciding factor. They both ave MXM3 slots but the 9700m has 2 which makes future SLi upgrades more viable, albeit expensive. What would you go for?

 

first one, core2 duo rapes the amd turion

 

neither build one form newegg

better performance for less cost

 

I would not suggest building a laptop....

 

The first one is great and if you have that much money you should have desktop to store your other files I presume. =)

but anyway You can get better laptops for cheaper, unless your going for the alienware look.

btw alien prices are no thanks, kinda like sony selling an LCD 19" for over $400

 

Alienware ftl. You want a review? When I was stationed on the Enterprise, a good buddy of mine purchased a brand spankin new area 51m at a grand total of over $6k. 1 month later, it was given to me because it wouldn't stay running for longer than 10 minutes. The problem? Bad RAM, bad HDD. Other reviews revealed the same defficiency. If I were you, I would go with a voodoo system...

Linky

 

wow voodoo's are expensive... they have a tower that starts at 13,000$

 

Yes, but they are badass... My next door neighbor (a 70 year old retired gent) owns one of the towers. I'll have to see if I can grab his receipt... Grand total of $12900+. But that thing might as well make you a cup of joe, and rub ya down at the same time...

 

I have an alienware spent $2058 on it and it works perfectly fine. I have built many computers and this is the first pc that wasnt constantly pestering me.

 

I need a Laptop because I move around very frequently (travel, school etc.) and surprisingly for high end laptops these are pretty well priced, the XPS is the only other one i've found with a competitive video card but it is a bit more expensive and its got a max of 160 Gigs of storage; The Alienwares can have up to 400 Gigs of storage. Nearly all the other Laptops i've looked at top out at single hard-drives and the 7600. Voodoo's are even more expensive and overpriced, at lest the Alienwares are competitive. jrauck, how much can you run on your PC gaming wise? and if youhave it howlong does it usually take to render a 1600x1400 Terragen image?

 

Build one for around 1/2, maybe a little more just as good. If you want, I'll list the parts.

 

the second oen doesn't have a front side bus(FSB) it has a HTL(hyper transport link) while it runs at 800mhz(bi directional), it's only 16bit vs. the 64 bit(unidirectional) bus of the c2d. It's point-to-point though, so while the c2d has to share that bus between each part, the turion has in a sense multiple buses. Also it's integrated memory controller reduces the use of the system bus. Completely diferent bus architectures(the turions is better though)


as for which to get, I'd probably go for the first one, it would have better batery life and would be all around smoother for things aside from gaming.

SLI in dsesktops is a waste, in laptops, it's a negative as it kills battery life.


for GPu performance, x1900XT>7900GTX in a lot of things, the 7900GS is about 2/3rds of the 7900GTX and two in SLI would come close to the performance of that of a single 7900GTX or an x1900XT but would kill battery life.


Also, the extra harddrive stoarage space doesn't matter worth a damn as you can just use USB harddrives.

 

yeah if it was easy to build a laptop :/

thanks link for the info, my 1st choice woulda been the 5790 but i just wanted some of yous guys opinions

 

I'd get a 1/2 price cheaper laptop from another shop (newegg) with the same parts.