" I am not very good at building PCs so could someone help me with bulding a high end PC under $4,000 that will last me around 4 - 5 years or more. When I mean help I mean if someone could give me a link to all the parts when you name them so I know where to buy them cheapest, could you also give me a rating out of 10 on how good the PC is and also when I have the parts can I just take it to a local IT store and get them to put it together for me? "
See, this is totally the wrong attitude. You do NOT want to buy a super-expensive PC. What makes more sense- buying a sub-1500 USD machine, which can play EVERY game on the market, for at least 3-4 years, and then after 3 years, upgrade a few things: or, buy some insane PC, which will give you unnecessary frame rates NOW, but in 5 years, it will be substandard. Don't let the temptation of buying cutting-edge hardware get to you- this is what the hardware manufacturers want, and from a consumer's perspective, it makes absolutely no sense. I can play essentially every game on very high settings (even Crysis, although that one slows in places) with my machine with a GTX260 and a far inferior CPU to that one, and 4GB of DDR2800 memory. Buy economically, upgrade occasionally, don't pay attention to marking bullshit and Alienware's sugar-coated nonsense. "
I totally agree with this.
There's definitely a sweet spot with pc hardware in terms of price to preformance, but having had little to no contact with the industry for 2 years I'm horribly out of date. The only other advice I could give you is the first time around pick up a decent (well built) case and quailty psu that will last, upgrading from there will be easy.
Plus how well can Alienware pc's be upgraded? Does opening the case void that 3 year warranty you are paying for? I'm imagining it will be an absolute nightmare claiming warranty should anything go wrong, with the whole purchasing it from america thing. Call me crazy as well, but I'm not into buying hardware over the net, I like going into a store. I don't like the idea of my new bits and pieces going through the post.or holy crap, what would happen to an entire system.
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