After having to cancel my M17x due to Dell not having the GFX card anymore..
I ordered the x51 fully upgraded .. i7

They discounted the tactx key bored down to 0 and the tactx mouse down to $40 (deducted from rig price) But came out to be $1,528.54 (with monitor)

What do you guys think? i hope i made the right choice



Alienware X51 BTO $1,141.72

Intel Core i7-2600 3.4GHz (8MB Cache) with Hyper-Threading and Turbo Boost Technology 2.0
8GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 1333MHz (2 DIMMS)
No Keyboard
No Monitor
1GB GDDR5 NVIDIA GeForce GTX555
1TB SATA 6Gb/s (7,200RPM) 32MB Cache
Matte Stealth Black with Dark Chrome Accents
DELL RESOURCE DVD,BACK-UP,Andromeda
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit, English, w/Media
Alienware Documentation - English
Dell Support Center 3
DELL-DOWNLOAD-FLAG
DataSafe Local BackUp
No Mouse
AlienFX Color, Quasar Blue
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Single Drive: 8X CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) w/double layer write capability
DW1502 Wireless-N WLAN Half Mini-Card
330W External Power Supply
Dell Hardware Warranty Plus On-Site Service, Initial Year
Dell Hardware Warranty Plus On-Site Service, Initial Year
Accidental Damage Service, 1 Year
No Warranty, Year 2 and 3
Soft Contracts Service Hardware Agreement for Alienware
Soft Contracts Consumer Accidental Damage Agreement for Alienware
Warranty Support, Initial Year
Alienhead Chrome Blue
Steam and Portal Factory Installed
Thank you for choosing Dell
*-DISCOUNT $22.52
*-DISCOUNT/COUPON APPL

Subtotal: $1,021.95
Shipping and Handling: $0.00
Sales Tax: $61.43
Total: $1,083.38


Estimated Delivery Date: 04/25/2012

Quantity Item Description
Dell 24-inch Wide ST2420L Flat Panel Monitor, Customer Install
1-Year Advanced Exchange Service
Dell MG900 USB Mouse, CustomerInstalled
Dell KG900 Keyboard,Customer Installed
Subtotal: $418.97
Shipping and Handling: $0.00
Sales Tax: $26.19
Total: $445.16

At the risk of sounding like I am trolling ... only you can decide if you made the right choice. If you think the rig gives you what you want and think the price was fair then you did the right choice.

You will always find people who will tell you that:
-X51 is not the high end performance
-X51 is not that easy to upgrade (limited by size and PSU)
-you could have build a better, faster, more upgradable computer for much less

and so on and so forth.

Outstanding rig, dude:-)
You will smoke any game title out there with no prob...enjoy the Beast~

Thanks ! i can't wait to receive that ! i hope 24 inch monitor is nice :]

Yeah thats a good buy.

This is a great rig. $1500 including the monitor and peripherials is also a very good price. You will enjoy the performance, this rig will play BF3 on high settings. Great buy

I been reading a lot about people recieving their enw x51 and having issues right out of the box ! now im a little worried -_____- ..


I hope i don't get a faulty one specially since im spending over 1,500 on all of this, what are the odds?

That is hard to determine. Only those that have issues are the ones that complain. We don't have an idea of how many units have been sold to determine the percentage of good and bad units.

Some tips to getting started.
1. Open the case and make sure everything is seated properly. Gently, but firmly push on the components (Graphics card, RAM, connectors).
2. After hooking everything up, and powering up. Update all drivers.
3. Install all updates.
4. Install an AV. Some recommendations: Avast, AVG, MSE, all are free and very good.
5. Install your programs and games.

Anything goes wrong or issues arise, you have a warranty. Use it.

When you get it, enjoy your new rig.

Some of these issues are a result of disconnected hardware, which may happen during transport. You have to be unlucky to receive a faulty computer. It happens but its a small % so don't worry

Thanks Wilby ! Is it difficult to update all my drivers? or is there an easy way to update all at once? do i have to manually update each one by one?

& sweet ! so you actually answered one of my future questions .. about AV, so those are all free? and won't slow down my computer much?

Will also keep me safe of virus? (Well most at the least)

But yea i think im going to have to buy a game just to test out the rig because the game i really want to play isn't out yet but i don't want to wait till then to find out my machiene is faulty. How many days will i have to get my full refund? (just in case)


edit: @ KRISH so you recommend i open it up as well? to check if anything is out of place? i was hoping to just connect it right out the box

no, just conenct it out of the box, it probably will work fine, but if it beeps or something doesnt work right, it is best to open it and check everything is well connected. But first connect it out of the box.

Driver Genius is a great program for updating drivers. I use it. All of the AV's listed are free and wont slow down your rig. I use Avast and MSE together. This works for my system, I recommend that you use one or the other.

I know that Avast and MSE use real time scanning. Meaning that as you browse the web, open an email, or download a file, it scans it and if it is infected or suspicious it will tell you.

For some other protections Spybot Search and Destroy, and Malwarebytes are good on demand scanning programs that search for spyware and malware. Both are free.

Awesome setup there, mate! You've got a real gamer there!

Nice system there, have fun man

Nice I only got the i3 :/ but I can still run skyrim on ultra you should be able to smoke all of the current games hopefully your order isn't delayed like mine was