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Alienware - Not worth the money...
Just quickly worked out how much an Alienware Area 51 would cost to actually build using parts from Newegg.
Newegg.com - Intel Core i7-990X Extreme Edition Gulftown 3.46GHz 6 x 256KB L2 Cache 12MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 130W Six-Core Desktop Processor BX80613I7990X
Newegg.com - EVGA 03G-P3-1596-AR GeForce GTX 590 (Fermi) 3072MB 768-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
Newegg.com - Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit - Operating Systems
Newegg.com - G.SKILL Sniper Gaming Series 12GB (3 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9T-12GBSR
Newegg.com - ASUS Sabertooth X58 LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
I put together some decent parts that are more or less the same as an Area 51's and the total price ended up at about $3026. Sure, I didn't add in a case, optical & CD drive or water cooling but even if that adds up to about $1000 (which it wouldn't) you would still be saving a $1000. I knew that Alienware was a rip off, but not by this much. And yet, one of my friends is insistent that they're better then actually building one yourself.