Help with Alienware upgrade.

Umm, you still can, but MSDN is a subscription service. He probably doesn't want that because a subscription will cost more than the £7 MS wants to mail you one.
 
Ben M said:
Alienware peddle any old crap and say it's performance hardware, their customers will believe them and buy it.
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exactly - making a 'gamer' case that looks like it kills all games dead is one thing - but filling it with tat is just fail


i would go with the above spec - you will notice massive improvements
 
Ben M said:
Where did you pluck that little gem from? The only benefit is being able to use sli if he so wants.
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Thats what I was meaning, should have been more clear, by getting a 260 it allows an upgrade to SLI next year or whenever, if he got a 4870 he has no more upgrade path, he'd have to rebuild - may well want to by the time but it'd surely be better to have the option
 
that was a pretty poorly specced alienware tbh. basically you got a case and a badge and nothing under the hood. hope you got it second hand.

anyway thriftles reco will be a MAJOR upgrade
 
lunarwolf said:
that was a pretty poorly specced alienware tbh. basically you got a case and a badge and nothing under the hood. hope you got it second hand.

anyway thriftles reco will be a MAJOR upgrade
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I bought it two years ago now!
I think the above upgrade is what I'll go for.
I'm a little uncertain on how to flash my mobo though


Also, one final query
XFX ATI Radeon HD 4870 1024MB GDDR5 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) + Company of Heroes Bundle - Retail
would that gpu not be any better than the one above?
 
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PaulE said:
I bought it two years ago now!
I think the above upgrade is what I'll go for.
I'm a little uncertain on how to flash my mobo though


Also, one final query
XFX ATI Radeon HD 4870 1024MB GDDR5 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) + Company of Heroes Bundle - Retail
would that gpu not be any better than the one above?
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still, you should have had chosen 8800gt, 4g ram, a e6600 or q6600 at least, (if not 8800gtx, x6800) which would still be ok today - then all you would need is a second 8800gtx or maybe a gfx upgrade to a 4870 or above. getting an alienware with those specs was like getting a ferrari body with a ford fiesta motor etc... I can understand people who buy alienware because they don't want to hastle building and want some high end PC and can pay for that, but those specs you mentioned were never high spec, I say entry level. anyway just my opinion.
 
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Its on a par with the 260 performance wise, as we were saying before though your board suppports SLI not corssfire, so the advantage of getting the 260 is if in a year or so's time you need a gfx boost you can just buy another card and SLI them, if you got the 4870 you'd have to bin the card and get a completely new one
 
95thrifles said:
Its on a par with the 260 performance wise, as we were saying before though your board suppports SLI not corssfire, so the advantage of getting the 260 is if in a year or so's time you need a gfx boost you can just buy another card and SLI them, if you got the 4870 you'd have to bin the card and get a completely new one
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Just quickly, having never used SLI, there's one element of it i'm unsure of how it works.
There is a port on the back of each Card, so which port would i plug my monitor onto, the port on the first or second card? :S
 
first, but I dont think it really matters
anyway thats an issue for much later down the line, you dont want to try and SLI your old card with a new 260 as in SLI both cards run at the slowest cards spec, and thats assuming you can SLI 2 cards so different anyway. Im not fully genned up on SLI, but with crossfire you can only use cards from the same series
 
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