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Old 11-30-2016, 01:49 PM  
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I need a VR-Ready (Processor: Intel™ Core™ i5-4590 or AMD FX™ 8350, equivalent or betterGraphics: NVIDIA GeForce™ GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon™ RX 480, equivalent or better. ) PC for Christmas. Would like to get the best gaming PC I can get for around the $1200 range. Here are specs on the Alienware Aurora I'm looking at. Decent rig or is there better for the money? TIA.





Intel® Core™ i7-6700 Processor (4-Cores, 8MB Cache, Turbo Boost 2.0, up to 4.0GHz)

Windows 10 Home 64bit English

16GB DDR4 at 2133MHz

NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1070 with 8GB GDDR5

1TB (64MB Cache) 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s

Intel Z170 Chipset

Intel® 3165 1x1 802.11ac Wi-Fi Wireless LAN and Bluetooth 4.2

Ports
Front
1 Headphone 1/8" Port
1 Microphone 1/8" Port
4 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 (two are enabled for charging)

Rear
1 SPDIF Digital Output (TOSLINK)
1 SPDIF Digital Output (Coax)
6 Hi-Speed USB 2.0
1 SuperSpeed 10Gbps USB 3.1 Type-A
1 SuperSpeed 10Gbps USB 3.1 Type-C
3 SuperSpeed USB 3.0
1 RJ-45 Killer Networks e2400 Gigabit Ethernet Port
1 Full Size DisplayPort
1 Audio-In / Microphone
1 Front L/R surround line-out
1 Side L/R surround
1 Rear L/R surround
1 Center/subwoofer LFE surround
1 Line-in

Form Factor
Mid-tower desktop with MicroATX dual-graphics motherboard

Software
Alienware Command Center
AlienFX™ exclusive lighting controls
AlienFusion advanced power management controls
AlienAdrenaline featuring:
- Game Mode custom game and application launcher
- Accelerator performance optimizer
- In-game and system Performance Monitoring
Thermal Controls
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Old 12-01-2016, 12:28 PM   #16
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While this won't help you in time for Christmas, the next generation of CPU will be released first quarter of 2017. Patience could get you an i5 or i7 for a lot cheaper than they are now.

Basically what I'm waiting on until I upgrade my 5 year machine.
Dammit!
Thanks for that info; it gives me pause to think.
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Old 12-01-2016, 12:29 PM   #17
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The PSU in my list is actually a 650W PSU. It's probably overkill for you if you aren't going to be doing overclocking, but it was cheaper than the 500W PSU so I included it. The main thing with PSUs is to look for the different tiers of quality. The EVGA PSU delivers really clean power with minimal spiking or dips, which is what you want for computers. People new to computer building tend to go cheap on PSUs, which is a big mistake. Your power supply is probably the most crucial single component of any computer build.

Liquid cooling is not a must have. In fact, I'd say most air cooling solutions are better than the all in one liquid cooling solutions offered by Corsair, etc, unless you are willing to drop 150+ on a CPU cooling solution. Liquid cooling is more beneficial to people who like to do extreme overclocking of the CPU and video card. Otherwise, don't bother with it.
All things I did not know. Thanks man.
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Old 12-01-2016, 01:03 PM   #18
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Dammit!
Thanks for that info; it gives me pause to think.
If you are always waiting for the next big thing that is right around the corner, you will never get a new computer!
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Old 12-01-2016, 01:12 PM   #19
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If you are always waiting for the next big thing that is right around the corner, you will never get a new computer!
Waiting a month (new Intel chips set to release in Jan. 2017) to get a cheaper current gen i5 or i7 isn't really waiting that long.
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Waiting a month (new Intel chips set to release in Jan. 2017) to get a cheaper current gen i5 or i7 isn't really waiting that long.
And AMD's new video card and CPU are coming out soon. You will never find a time where the next big thing isn't right around the corner. Besides, he wont save that much. Maybe 30-50 bucks at the most.
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Waiting a month (new Intel chips set to release in Jan. 2017) to get a cheaper current gen i5 or i7 isn't really waiting that long.
There is always something coming out in a month you could wait on. **** it, pull the trigger.
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And AMD's new video card and CPU are coming out soon. You will never find a time where the next big thing isn't right around the corner. Besides, he wont save that much. Maybe 30-50 bucks at the most.
I just bought all my stuff on Black Friday. Built a hell of a machine for under $1500 excluding my new monitor. Surprisingly my monitor was my most expensive piece in the entire setup. I was not expecting that.
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There is always something coming out in a month you could wait on. **** it, pull the trigger.
As someone who has been pricing and planning a pc for the last 6 months (I take a long time to buy expensive things. I wasn't ready to buy then, but wanted to have context to what is a good price), I really don't think this whole "always something coming out" is really true, especially when considering we are talking about a entire new generation of processors.

Processor prices are outrageous nowadays since Intel really doesn't have any competition from AMD. AMD should be releasing in Jan as well, which will help push prices down.

If this was 6 months ago, I would agree with you guys, but we are talking about an entire new generation of chip from both companies in one month in a market that Intel currently has kind of cornered.

Plus, I anit waiting to get new technology, the current i5 or i7 will play everything for foreseeable future, so I'm fine getting those. I'm just waiting for those pieces to drop in price.
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I just bought all my stuff on Black Friday. Built a hell of a machine for under $1500 excluding my new monitor. Surprisingly my monitor was my most expensive piece in the entire setup. I was not expecting that.
What did you get? I built my computer in March for about 1300 bucks so I'm set for a while. I did get myself a new monitor though. 27", 144hz, 1440p Freesync monitor. It set me back just under 400 bones but it sho' is purty.
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What did you get? I built my computer in March for about 1300 bucks so I'm set for a while. I did get myself a new monitor though. 27", 144hz, 1440p Freesync monitor. It set me back just under 400 bones but it sho' is purty.
i7 6700k processor
Gigabyte GTX 1070 gaming edition video card
ASUS ROG MAXIMUS VIII HERO/Whetstone motherboard
32 gb ddr4
2x3TB hard drives
Got my SSD from my other PC
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ASUS 27" 2k 144Hz with G Sync monitor - the G Sync vs Freesync prices were ridiculous. Only bad part about NVIDIA.

Still waiting on all the parts. I am a little giddy right now.
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Is faster start up time the main difference in upgrading memory from

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256GB M.2 PCIe SSD (Boot) + 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s (Storage)?
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