[choctaw111]

I bought an Alienware in late 2003 for Il2 so I will say this.
Alienware doesn't make their own hardware so that being said the Alienware hardware is "off the shelf" stuff.
Stuff that you can buy yourself.
Perhaps there is the finetuning aspect of Alienware but even then the performance increase is marginal.
Sure, I had bragging rights for a little while but looking back it was not worth what I paid for it.
What did I pay for exactly? The name? Two extra FPS? Who knows but I do know I won't do it again.
I do keep the Alienware Case as a souvenir and conversation piece.
I could have saved a lot of money by building something myself that was just as good, or darned close.
That;s exactly what I did for my last build in 2007. It's time for yet another sometime soon.
Oh, by the way, my Alienware was a P4 3.2EE with a GeForce5950!
That was "da shiznit" back then LOL