Alienware laptop to desktop equivalent

[Ruzzilla]

Hey guys,

So a friend at work has told me his son was looking into the alienware m14x gaming laptop but would prefer a desktop alternative and has asked if I could help.

I'm after the cheapest equivalent parts, he already has monitor, speakers, keyboard mouse etc and I have a 1tb hdd already too.

I would like pricing for budget case and internals minus hard drive. Laptop was in the region of £850 and I would like to build this desktop as cheaply as possible without comprising the preformance.

Here is the spec of the laptop:

Processor
3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3630QM (6MB Cache, up to 3.4GHz w/ Turbo Boost 2.0)
3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3740QM (6MB Cache, up to 3.7GHz w/ Turbo Boost 2.0)
3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3840QM (8MB Cache, up to 3.8GHz w/ Turbo Boost 2.0)
Intel® Core™ i5-3230M Processor (3MB Cache, up to 3.2GHz with Turbo Boost 2.0)

Memory
6144MB (1x2GB + 1x4GB) 1600MHz DDR3 Dual Channel
8192MB (2x4GB) 1600MHz DDR3 Dual Channel
12288MB 1600MHz Dual Channel DDR3 (1x4GB + 1x8GB )
16384MB (2x8GB) 1600MHz DDR3 Dual Channel

Video Card
1GB GDDR5 NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 650M
2GB GDDR5 NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 650M

Hard Drive
Up to 750GB* SATA hard drive (7200RPM)
Up to 512GB* Solid State hard drive

Optical Drive
Slot-Loading 8x SuperMulti Drive (DVD± R/RW)
(Standard)
Slot-Loading Dual Layer Blu-ray Reader (BD-ROM, DVD + RW, CD-RW)

Thanks in advance

 

[DaleTheWhale]

A desktop build will dominate the performance of that laptop. £850 can get you a very decent build which will last many years at high spec gaming.

As always: When do you need this build. Haswell is released in 3 weeks and will be the new socket for Intel processors, the current 1155 processors are about the become a dead socket.

 

[4737Joker]

which of those parts is actually in the the £850 build from alienware? And is £850 the budget or are you wanting to spend less?

You have just pasted a list of options, let us know the exact spec

But as above haswell is so close you may aswell wait and see what you can get on the new socket.

 

[Doomedspeed]

FIrst of that isn't a spec, its a spec choice..

Just had a look on the website and £800 gets you:

i5 3230M
GT 650M 1GB
6GB RAM
500GB 7200rpm SATAII HDD

You can easily get better from a £600-£700 Desktop PC

 

[Jony27]

It depends what you want.
For the same price as an Alienware laptop, a desktop build will give you more performance.
Whereas a desktop with the same spec as the Alienware laptop will cost you less.