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On 2/7/2017 8:33 AM, rms wrote:
>> Video Card NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1070 with 8GB GDDR5
>
> I have two complaints about this system.  The first is *no SSD*.  It's
> simple enough to buy one yourself and clone the OS to it (a 1hr job),
> but disappointing to not see it included in a new machine.
>
> Secondly, and here's where the 'namebrand' is biting you:  they're
> putting in a mid-tier videocard at an effectively large markup.  Here is
> a different offering with a GTX 1080 at (mostly) the same price:
> http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/system/Gamer_Infinity_XLC
> This one could use a bigger HD (& SSD) also, but with the same price
> point and 1yr warranty, the better videocard is a major upgrade.  You
> are giving up the brandname, shrug.
>
> Also, you haven't said what monitor & resolution you are targetting,
> which are key.  Anything 100hz or 1440p+, and a 1080 over a 1070 looks
> better and better.
>
> rms


I pretty much agree with all this.

I'd add, I always build my own, so I've no experience with Alienware 
(though it's an arm of Dell which is near bottom of the barrel) or ASUS 
(other than MB, which are o.k.  I love my new MSI so far though, seems 
much better than usual ASUS fare).

You can get exactly what you want through a build your own site and 
they'll put it together, without the crapware this apparently has 
installed (M$ Office trial & McCrapy) I had a look at one and getting 
something like that was considerably more though at $2700 so I'm not 
sure about it after all.

If you don't want to shell out for an SSD, at least get a Hybrid drive, 
which is near the performance of an SSD.  Spending this much I can't see 
why you'd not get an SSD though.

I looked into the CPU, it looks like a pretty good deal, it's not much 
faster than the i7-6700 (only 3% faster FPS) or i7-4970 (6% faster FPS) 
at 1080p (comparatively faster if higher res) but it's not much more and 
will provide some future proofing vs. the cheaper CPUs.

- Justisaur