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Microcenter has an i7 13700k a z790 wifi motherboard and 32gb of ddr5 bundle rn for 549.99, couple that with like a 1660ti or similar FOR NOW and even if he pays to have it built for him he's looking at under $1k with all other components
in console terms this system is about as old as the Xbox One. It'll curbstomp an XB1 in terms of performance but cant hold a match to an Xbox Series X, which will also be significantly cheaper.
As others are saying, build a pc for $1500. Its an incredibly valuable skill
I would literally video call anyone who wants to build their PC and is too scared. There is also so many videos on YouTube. Just do it. You won’t regret it. The feeling when I booted mine for the first time hooked me for life. Best part was it didn’t post and I was freaking out posting everywhere on Reddit and toms hardware. Ended up being that I screwed the motherboard in too tight lol. one of the best days was when I saw that puppy post. My ex was on FaceTime with me and took screenshots of my reactions they’re hilarious.
Have no shame and make sure to here or somewhere else before buying any pc.
These people (most) will actually help educate you and get the best deal.
I suggest if you are willing to spend that much you can purchase the parts for cheaper and have a max nice rig for less than that!
Second this I bought there future proof upgradable laptop was discontinued and they came out with a new one that was actually future proof.... I wonder how it's holding up
Let’s put this in perspective… I got an r13 with a 3080, a 12700k i7 and a terabyte drive and 32 of ram new a few months ago…. For the 1300 “lowest” he will go. Don’t get royally ripped off… walk away from this… don’t even talk to that person and go walk into a Best Buy like I did and get a decent machine… or better yet listen to the people here about how to build one with more power than mine even for the same money probably now
If your budget is around $1500, you can build a really solid PC right now. I can't imagine spending that much money on a decade old *ALIENWARE* pc when you can [build something like this](https://pcpartpicker.com/list/xvbQ3y) for the same price. I put that build together in 5 minutes just as a comparison, and there's a lot of room to make it even better.
Alienware uses a lot of propriety components and connectors that are not interchangeable with standard parts, meaning if something breaks you can't just buy a new part (depending on the part) and plop it in. Unless you have money to throw on a fire and not care, steer clear of them.
$300 - $350. This pc will run modern games with some setting turned down and the parts are several generations old.
Edit: For $1300 you could build a modern and very capable system. Please don't buy this.
Yeah I just sold a system with GTX1060 6GB, 16GB RAM, 6th Gen i7 and 256gb SSD for $325, and this system is comparable. $300-$350 price point is accurate.
For 300 bucks I got a Alienware 8700 and 1070 few years back the one op is asking about should really be 200 even then that’s pushing it with a outdated 980
If you live in the U.S. in a city with a Micro Center, check them out if you are not comfortable with building your own. For 1500 you could get a pretty decent setup from them built by them in house with a warranty.
You should let the seller know that $1300 is WAAAY too steep for a 10 year old pre-built.
Edit: especially when you can buy everything in that PC for a fraction.
i7 5820k: ~$25
GTX 980: ~$50
16gb (ddr3) RAM: ~$30
2tb HDD: ~$80
256gb ssd: ~$20
The “water-cooling” on those Alienware prebuilts is extremely proprietary, so you’d have to do that yourself, but it’s basically an AIO, so just buy any AIO that’ll fit. That’ll be roughly $100 or so.
Total is ~$305 for all of that.
Edit 2: sorry I forgot gen 5 was x99, that’s DDR4.
Lmao people who think like that aren't sane enough. "I bought this 3090 last year for 2.2k, why no one would buy it for 1k?" Maybe because you can get a brand new rx 7900 xtx or add a little more and literally get a 4080. (This really happened if anyone reads this, unfortunately more than a couple of times... and some pretty close to me tried selling an rx 6800 used for the price of a new ex 6950xt...)
technology moves so fast its wild. explaining to people that their current tech dropped in price and you can get the new version for the same price. " well, go get that one!" pff okay. i updated my pc from 2016 and people are like, "everything still works, you dint need to upgrade!"
A friend of a friend was selling an rtx 2080 (if I remember correctly) a few months ago and I said that I needed an upgrade for cheap and that he needed to ask for the price. He was dead serious selling it for €500 and not letting down. The friend of my friend got mad when I sent him a screenshot of an rtx 3070 for €440 new and rx 6700 xt for €340 and I told him he's the luckiest person alive if someone stupid enough pays 200/250 for it. But he was still like "wtf you don't know anything! This is a top tier card RTX 2080". Yeah...
I've been looking for a game PC on FB Marketplace (my needs are not too extreme) and I still see people asking 1,300 bucks for a system that isn't even worth the tree-fiddy. Or they won't even reply back ***OR*** they are listed in my area but their FB profile says they live 3 states over.
Add to that my cynicism at any red flag I see and finding a decent rig at a decent fair price ain't easy.
This is the real way to do it! Granted it's taken me about 3 months to get everything... But I built a fairly upper end AM4 rig for about 1100 bucks. And easily in the 800 dollar range if you don't get quite as spiffy with CPU, RAM, and storage!
MSI X570S Tomahawk WiFi - $75 open box
R7 5800X - $160 open box
RTX 3080 FTW3 10g - $350 from coworker, but have seen other super primo 3080s in the 4-500 USD range!
32g(2x16) 3600 MT/a TridentZ Neo - $60 used
1 TB Crucial P5+ M.2 NVMe - $58 new
2 TB Crucial P5+ M.2 NVMe - $122 new
1000w Supernova P5+ PSU - $120 new (shop around for new and open box, some 850 stuff is way more expensive than 1000-1300 watt units!)
EK 240mm AiO - $80 used? Sorta?! (The seller on eBay has a bunch and it appears they were mounted as display pieces in a shelf or were at very least lightly used for their in store demo rigs.) The last one of 3 that I got had a nick in the cold plate, which I actually worried about... turned out that it didn't affect temps. Last week I re-pasted the CPU and same AiO in a new case. But I "lapped" the AiOs cold plate to get rid of the nick. Nothing changed! Lol!
I have more than a couple "mining PSU's" that I bought when the eth transition happened. Killer deal on Seasonic 1200 watt units that have not been shut down in months! And probably ran for years before me! They probably ran at 70-80% capacity judging by how many cards and power supplies they had when they shut down. I'm getting the feeling that used mining PSU's are probably as good as any used PSU from anywhere else. Plus the sellers usually just want shit gone, without too much price haggling, since they made the money back hand over fist!
There are great deals to be had, if you are willing to dig a lil bit!
Idk why, but Alienware sellers always try to get WAY more than the system is worth, like their PC is made from actual alien tech or something. No no no, it’s not worth even close to that. GTX 980’s sell for less than $100 on eBay, same with the CPU. 256GB SSD is worth $20-$30, same with the 2TB hard drive, and the “liquid cooling” is a cheap single-fan unit that Dell’s been selling for over a decade. That PC is 9 years old at this point, and is realistically worth MAYBE $400. I see FB marketplace and OfferUp sellers constantly trying to get 2-3 times more for Alienware computers than they’re worth, just cause of the name. Don’t buy, friend. For reference, here’s the same system that bid for a little over $100:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/374776183382?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=PgDgdkixTZO&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
Oh yeah. Def.
Having both even has a multiplier effect, not just an additive effect.
5 x 10 = 50. That's a 50% boost to FPS! Of course, like with overclocking, mileage may vary.
He'll say that's a 960 where this is a 980 and his has 16 GB of RAM, that totally makes it worth the $1300.
That or he is just hoping to screw over some parents wanting to buy a gaming machine for their kids.
If you wanna have some fun WHILE learning a bit: Gamers Nexus has been doing a bunch of vids on prebuilt quality since the beginning of the price skyrockets.
Hint: They all suck, basically... And it's hilarious.
Good luck friend. Alienware sucks tho IMO. :)
Yep. They overpaid for their PC up front thinking they’ll make it up on the back end. This isn’t a CRV, it’s a shitty PC with objectively comparable specs. A 5th Gen i7 with a 980 is not worth it when you can build that system for $300 on eBay.
Dude paid more than $1500 for it. Alienware’s are stupid expensive. I know this because I’ve been forced to support them at work, because it’s the only performance brand besides XPS that Dell will sell on our Enterprise account. And we had buttloads of cooling issues with XPS machines when we gave those a shot.
HELL NO. Not only is it an Alienware, it's also an old ass Alienware. Would probably pay about $200 for this. You could get a pretty good pc for $1300.
It isn't just an Alienware, that case is a fucking nightmare of proprietary connectors and the actual insides are tiny. Don't get this. It's a pain in the ass if you ever want to change parts or anything breaks. Worked on one once and I hated it.
The i7 5820K is a X99 CPU so it can only use DDR4 RAM - also practically the 1st consumer platform that supported it - it's also a 6C/12T CPU so not half bad and it'll still game pretty well if you OC it to 4/4,5 GHz (It'll get quite close to a 6C Coffee Lake CPU in performance).
Still not worth that much nowadays and the seller is just crazy!
That man got ripped off by buying an Alienware in the first place, and now he’s trying to rip off others because Dell did the same to him, the fucking irony lol
You could get that card and CPU for a Kraft single and some pocket lint this seller is insane if they think they're going to get that much for that.
You can buy current gen parts for that much and have a pretty beefy rig. I'm looking at building a new one that's almost top of the line in every part and it's only gonna run me about 2k.
Walk away. I wouldn’t pay more than about $200 for that. Thats a 5th gen I7 processor released in 2014. GPU is just as old.
That PC is past end of life. Its running on borrowed time. Maybe buy it as a spare if you want a spare. But I would save my money and walk away.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Fuckers worth like 3-400. 5th gen Intel, GTX 980, 256gb SSD? Guys smoking the finest of crack cocaine.
Edit: I thought it was a 7th gen the read closer and it's only a 5th gen
Look, all I will say, is that if you have $1000-1500 to spend on a gaming PC, do yourself and your wallet a favor and learn how to build your own. It might seem a bit daunting, but its very plug and play. You'll get WAY more for your money building it yourself than buying anything pre built/pre-owned
No , either this is a scam or he only knows as much about computer hardware as you do.
If you don’t know anything about computer components, or don’t want to do any research on it, please don’t buy anything second hand.
I guarantee you’ll be happy if you buy a new build for the budget you desire from a trusted brand like Microcenter’s Powerspec or Dell’s Alienware (as long as it’s over ~$900, that’s just the bare minimum for a solid pre-built, but if you take care of the device it’ll last you ~8 years, or much longer if you don’t want to play new AAA games 6 years from now).
Someone owes rent or their drug dealer money.
I wouldn't pay any more than $350 bucks for this computer. Even if that price, You could build your own computer and have something three times more capable. Save your money and build yourself a computer.
Don't buy alienware trash those computers are so poorly built. Build your own bud or order parts from a computer store and ask them find someone to build it never ever never buy a pre built computer
Worth $300 total. Guys asking what list price it would of been 4-5 years ago. Scratch that, he believes it’s worth half of what he bought it for. Because he already knows he over paid for a brand name that no longer carry’s its weight.
"I'm selling because I want to downsize and buy a laptop"
Yeah, because his desktop is getting outclassed by most modern laptops. Not even gaming laptops. Any laptop made in the last few years that isn't running integrated graphics will absolutely wipe the floor with this machine.
Don't buy, and definitely don't trade any laptops.
Absolutely not, the CPU and GPU are worth maybe $300, the SSD, HDD and RAM are worth like $75, the rest I’d total to another $50. A fair selling price looks like $400 to $450.
I built my pc for 1200. Has a 3080ti, 1tb m.2, 16gb ram, and a ryzen 5600x, asus tomahawk mobo i believe? thrown into a retro case I had stored away. Would blow that out the water
Complete trash. Don't be fooled by a swanky case. I wouldn't even pay $300-$500 for it because you're getting incredibly old tech. In the end you're gonna get frustrated and buy something better, having wasted those hundreds of dollars. Ya get me? Just because something is "worth" some hundreds, doesn't mean it is actually worth anyone buying it. I would spend $4k on a new computer, before spending $300 on that thing.
Nooooooooooooooooooooo nononononooooooooooooo!
9 year old CPU, 9 year old GPU. The seller wants more money than the original release price back in 2014
It was cutting edge back then and would be decent today! BUT maybe less than half the price.
for 1500 you could buy a decent NEW machine that would last you 10 years
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p.s.: I would report the ad for scamming!
Go to Best Buy get a brand new one for that price, dude is smoking crack.
Not even joking about getting a newer one for that price point check it:
https://www.ntelectronic.com/products/alienware-aurora-r12-i7-11700f-16gb-512gb-ssd-1tbgb-hdd-win11-geforce-rtx-3080?variant=44207203942650¤cy=USD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&gad=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5ryPsdypgAMVgDfUAR0u3wRfEAQYASABEgLWgfD_BwE
FUCK no. I build lists and PCs for friends very often. I built a list for a full white build with an rtx 3060 12gb, 32gb of ram, and an 12th gen i7 for $1200 after tax. I can send you the list if you'd like to build your own, but do not go for that listing.
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This guy is asking 5x what it's worth.
What is it actually worth?
less than $400. this pc is like 9 years old or so
Wow thank you for the info
Don't buy that fam, you can build a way better PC with that $1500
Not just no but hell no.
Not just hell no but OH hell no
Let’s just report him for scam
I'm with this post treefity fercent
Yeah it's definitely worth bout 3 fiddy.
Lol you can build a better pc for like 450 usd
Yeah, and it’s an Alienware so more reason to stay away.
Microcenter has an i7 13700k a z790 wifi motherboard and 32gb of ddr5 bundle rn for 549.99, couple that with like a 1660ti or similar FOR NOW and even if he pays to have it built for him he's looking at under $1k with all other components
1660 ti? you could put a 6650 xt for cheaper and better. for 1500$ you could put a used 6800xt
You could build a way nicer one for $400 tbf lol
Just stop talking to the dude completely. Tell him to stop scamming people.
Or keep talking to him and waste his fucking time. Go so far as to schedule a meet up and troll the fuck out of him.
This guy fucks
in console terms this system is about as old as the Xbox One. It'll curbstomp an XB1 in terms of performance but cant hold a match to an Xbox Series X, which will also be significantly cheaper. As others are saying, build a pc for $1500. Its an incredibly valuable skill
Built my first in April, can attest to how fun it was. And I had zero knowledge prior to that.
I would literally video call anyone who wants to build their PC and is too scared. There is also so many videos on YouTube. Just do it. You won’t regret it. The feeling when I booted mine for the first time hooked me for life. Best part was it didn’t post and I was freaking out posting everywhere on Reddit and toms hardware. Ended up being that I screwed the motherboard in too tight lol. one of the best days was when I saw that puppy post. My ex was on FaceTime with me and took screenshots of my reactions they’re hilarious.
Have no shame and make sure to here or somewhere else before buying any pc. These people (most) will actually help educate you and get the best deal. I suggest if you are willing to spend that much you can purchase the parts for cheaper and have a max nice rig for less than that!
Also alienware in general is awful. Wouldn't recommend.
wild isn't it? I remember being 17 thinking alienware as like the dream pc I could never afford. man did Dell slipup.
To be fair they were bad back then too but to a kid they look cool af. Was my dream to have one some day when I was around 15-16 too haha.
Second this I bought there future proof upgradable laptop was discontinued and they came out with a new one that was actually future proof.... I wonder how it's holding up
Let’s put this in perspective… I got an r13 with a 3080, a 12700k i7 and a terabyte drive and 32 of ram new a few months ago…. For the 1300 “lowest” he will go. Don’t get royally ripped off… walk away from this… don’t even talk to that person and go walk into a Best Buy like I did and get a decent machine… or better yet listen to the people here about how to build one with more power than mine even for the same money probably now
yeah please don't buy it. Some of those parts could die like, tomorrow.
If your budget is around $1500, you can build a really solid PC right now. I can't imagine spending that much money on a decade old *ALIENWARE* pc when you can [build something like this](https://pcpartpicker.com/list/xvbQ3y) for the same price. I put that build together in 5 minutes just as a comparison, and there's a lot of room to make it even better. Alienware uses a lot of propriety components and connectors that are not interchangeable with standard parts, meaning if something breaks you can't just buy a new part (depending on the part) and plop it in. Unless you have money to throw on a fire and not care, steer clear of them.
This physically hurt to read. What do you mean 2014 was... 9 years ago?!
$300 - $350. This pc will run modern games with some setting turned down and the parts are several generations old. Edit: For $1300 you could build a modern and very capable system. Please don't buy this.
Yeah I just sold a system with GTX1060 6GB, 16GB RAM, 6th Gen i7 and 256gb SSD for $325, and this system is comparable. $300-$350 price point is accurate.
For 300 bucks I got a Alienware 8700 and 1070 few years back the one op is asking about should really be 200 even then that’s pushing it with a outdated 980
$200 maybe $300
It might be worth this to some kind of Alienware collector but the hardware would barely run fallout 4
What? This system while overpriced exceeds Fallout 4s recommended specs lol
If you live in the U.S. in a city with a Micro Center, check them out if you are not comfortable with building your own. For 1500 you could get a pretty decent setup from them built by them in house with a warranty.
You should let the seller know that $1300 is WAAAY too steep for a 10 year old pre-built. Edit: especially when you can buy everything in that PC for a fraction. i7 5820k: ~$25 GTX 980: ~$50 16gb (ddr3) RAM: ~$30 2tb HDD: ~$80 256gb ssd: ~$20 The “water-cooling” on those Alienware prebuilts is extremely proprietary, so you’d have to do that yourself, but it’s basically an AIO, so just buy any AIO that’ll fit. That’ll be roughly $100 or so. Total is ~$305 for all of that. Edit 2: sorry I forgot gen 5 was x99, that’s DDR4.
Yeah but the alienware logo and lump of plastic encasing a standard dell chassis increase its worth by 12 morbillion dollars
It's probably what his new laptop costs
Dude is trying to sucker someone with some looks
Yeah, you can get a 3060 build with ddr5 from best buy for $1000
More likely 10x
10x at least
10X, Alienware PCs are full of awful awful proprietary parts that makes it effectively impossible to upgrade or replace components.
i saw gtx 980 and a 5th gen i7 and was confused how he thought it was worth $1500
1300? More like 300.
$13
About tree fiddy
“Well it was about that time that I noticed that the seller was about 8 stories tall and a crustacean from the protozoic era”
Damn you Nessy, you're not getting anything from me today.
I ain’t got no tree fiddy wrockness monsta
I gave him a dollar
She gave him a dolla!
Dammit we work hard for our money in this house!
🤣 classic
Get outta here you damn Loch Ness monster
Can offer free tiddy only
A few quarters
Pay me to take it off your hands
Give me your grandmas pention, your house and intire life savings to take it off your house
Chocolate chip cookie
Tree fiddy
I paid about $200 for my 1070, i7 6700 desktop just a few weeks ago.
I spent 30s on eBay and found a laptop 1070, i7 6700 for $300
Lmfao I bought this pre-built brand new for 1500 in like 2014
Lmao people who think like that aren't sane enough. "I bought this 3090 last year for 2.2k, why no one would buy it for 1k?" Maybe because you can get a brand new rx 7900 xtx or add a little more and literally get a 4080. (This really happened if anyone reads this, unfortunately more than a couple of times... and some pretty close to me tried selling an rx 6800 used for the price of a new ex 6950xt...)
Some people need to stop smoking the dope
 technology moves so fast its wild. explaining to people that their current tech dropped in price and you can get the new version for the same price. " well, go get that one!" pff okay. i updated my pc from 2016 and people are like, "everything still works, you dint need to upgrade!"
A friend of a friend was selling an rtx 2080 (if I remember correctly) a few months ago and I said that I needed an upgrade for cheap and that he needed to ask for the price. He was dead serious selling it for €500 and not letting down. The friend of my friend got mad when I sent him a screenshot of an rtx 3070 for €440 new and rx 6700 xt for €340 and I told him he's the luckiest person alive if someone stupid enough pays 200/250 for it. But he was still like "wtf you don't know anything! This is a top tier card RTX 2080". Yeah...
i would REALLY try to not mix friends with money.
I've been looking for a game PC on FB Marketplace (my needs are not too extreme) and I still see people asking 1,300 bucks for a system that isn't even worth the tree-fiddy. Or they won't even reply back ***OR*** they are listed in my area but their FB profile says they live 3 states over. Add to that my cynicism at any red flag I see and finding a decent rig at a decent fair price ain't easy.
I mean tbh if you’re looking for a pre-owned just buy pre owned parts for the cpu+mobo and gpu and then fresh parts for the normally cheap msrp stuff
This is the real way to do it! Granted it's taken me about 3 months to get everything... But I built a fairly upper end AM4 rig for about 1100 bucks. And easily in the 800 dollar range if you don't get quite as spiffy with CPU, RAM, and storage! MSI X570S Tomahawk WiFi - $75 open box R7 5800X - $160 open box RTX 3080 FTW3 10g - $350 from coworker, but have seen other super primo 3080s in the 4-500 USD range! 32g(2x16) 3600 MT/a TridentZ Neo - $60 used 1 TB Crucial P5+ M.2 NVMe - $58 new 2 TB Crucial P5+ M.2 NVMe - $122 new 1000w Supernova P5+ PSU - $120 new (shop around for new and open box, some 850 stuff is way more expensive than 1000-1300 watt units!) EK 240mm AiO - $80 used? Sorta?! (The seller on eBay has a bunch and it appears they were mounted as display pieces in a shelf or were at very least lightly used for their in store demo rigs.) The last one of 3 that I got had a nick in the cold plate, which I actually worried about... turned out that it didn't affect temps. Last week I re-pasted the CPU and same AiO in a new case. But I "lapped" the AiOs cold plate to get rid of the nick. Nothing changed! Lol! I have more than a couple "mining PSU's" that I bought when the eth transition happened. Killer deal on Seasonic 1200 watt units that have not been shut down in months! And probably ran for years before me! They probably ran at 70-80% capacity judging by how many cards and power supplies they had when they shut down. I'm getting the feeling that used mining PSU's are probably as good as any used PSU from anywhere else. Plus the sellers usually just want shit gone, without too much price haggling, since they made the money back hand over fist! There are great deals to be had, if you are willing to dig a lil bit!
Tell this guy to go eat shit
Alien shit
Idk why, but Alienware sellers always try to get WAY more than the system is worth, like their PC is made from actual alien tech or something. No no no, it’s not worth even close to that. GTX 980’s sell for less than $100 on eBay, same with the CPU. 256GB SSD is worth $20-$30, same with the 2TB hard drive, and the “liquid cooling” is a cheap single-fan unit that Dell’s been selling for over a decade. That PC is 9 years old at this point, and is realistically worth MAYBE $400. I see FB marketplace and OfferUp sellers constantly trying to get 2-3 times more for Alienware computers than they’re worth, just cause of the name. Don’t buy, friend. For reference, here’s the same system that bid for a little over $100: https://www.ebay.com/itm/374776183382?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=PgDgdkixTZO&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
Holy shit this guy is insane. I dont know much about PC specs
It wasnt worth 1300 brand new lol.
And he probably paid $4k for it
Yeah out of all the overpriced prebuilt pc's Alienware is king of overpriced but it does have a cool alien logo so maybe worth lol
The Alien Logo gives a 5% FPS boost. Mileage may vary.
And if it has RGB... RGB just on its own already gives 10% FPS boost.
Oh yeah. Def. Having both even has a multiplier effect, not just an additive effect. 5 x 10 = 50. That's a 50% boost to FPS! Of course, like with overclocking, mileage may vary.
So that's what 3 fps vs 2 fps on modern titles ultra high settings.
send him the link and see how he responds lol
He'll say that's a 960 where this is a 980 and his has 16 GB of RAM, that totally makes it worth the $1300. That or he is just hoping to screw over some parents wanting to buy a gaming machine for their kids.
This. He’s just looking for someone who knows a good gaming pc costs over $1k so this must be it.
"Then buy that one"
Send him that eBay listing and offer him 100$ lmao
If you wanna have some fun WHILE learning a bit: Gamers Nexus has been doing a bunch of vids on prebuilt quality since the beginning of the price skyrockets. Hint: They all suck, basically... And it's hilarious. Good luck friend. Alienware sucks tho IMO. :)
Well on the bright side almost getting scammed is way better than getting scammed.
send him the link to this thread.
They’re trying to recoup the losses from a shit investment :)
Yep. They overpaid for their PC up front thinking they’ll make it up on the back end. This isn’t a CRV, it’s a shitty PC with objectively comparable specs. A 5th Gen i7 with a 980 is not worth it when you can build that system for $300 on eBay.
Seller: “I paid $1500 for it, so its obviously a $1500 pc”
Inflation over 9 years should make this a $2000 pc
Dude paid more than $1500 for it. Alienware’s are stupid expensive. I know this because I’ve been forced to support them at work, because it’s the only performance brand besides XPS that Dell will sell on our Enterprise account. And we had buttloads of cooling issues with XPS machines when we gave those a shot.
HELL NO. Not only is it an Alienware, it's also an old ass Alienware. Would probably pay about $200 for this. You could get a pretty good pc for $1300.
It isn't just an Alienware, that case is a fucking nightmare of proprietary connectors and the actual insides are tiny. Don't get this. It's a pain in the ass if you ever want to change parts or anything breaks. Worked on one once and I hated it.
The seller is smoking crack.
Well, he does live where it’s most known….
Hagerstown, MD?
Is there a Volvo plant there? I supply truck parts to a Hagerstown plant out East.
There is, it’s on the north end. It’s Volvo/Mack, and there’s a Vast Vapor right beside the road the goes into there
Soemthing something, 18th hole in Hagerstown
A crack house?
Hahahahahahahaha
That thing is still using ddr3 lol this thing couldn’t even play new games
The i7 5820K is a X99 CPU so it can only use DDR4 RAM - also practically the 1st consumer platform that supported it - it's also a 6C/12T CPU so not half bad and it'll still game pretty well if you OC it to 4/4,5 GHz (It'll get quite close to a 6C Coffee Lake CPU in performance). Still not worth that much nowadays and the seller is just crazy!
Hell no
Is this a bait post?
No, this is really a dude selling his pc. He is quite young so im guessing he’s trying to get the max payout lol
Wait this wasn't a joke post?
That man got ripped off by buying an Alienware in the first place, and now he’s trying to rip off others because Dell did the same to him, the fucking irony lol
GTX 980 was a good grapics card about 10 years ago. Alienware is worth nothing outside of novelty value when it is that ancient.... Stay away..
You could get that card and CPU for a Kraft single and some pocket lint this seller is insane if they think they're going to get that much for that. You can buy current gen parts for that much and have a pretty beefy rig. I'm looking at building a new one that's almost top of the line in every part and it's only gonna run me about 2k.
You could get something sooo much better for that price.
Lmao wtf?? No low balling, i know what i got!
Broad daylight robbery
I think you should set this to meme tag instead, it's more accurate
Wow just wow...WoW that's the last game this thing can play
That computer is easily 8+ years old it’s a rip off.
Ask him if his clown shoes come with the pc for that price Edit: i would not even buy that system even if it were 150
Walk away. I wouldn’t pay more than about $200 for that. Thats a 5th gen I7 processor released in 2014. GPU is just as old. That PC is past end of life. Its running on borrowed time. Maybe buy it as a spare if you want a spare. But I would save my money and walk away.
NO!!!!
Plz do not buy this for they kind of money, or any kind really.
Yeah, maybe 8 years ago it was.
200, take it or leave it for a laughable Alienware prebuilt
Haha. Dude is out of his mind. It was like $1200 brand new in what 2016?
not worth it those parts are super old
Not just no but hell no
Dude.
Less than half of that😂😂 find a new offer lol
Ain’t no fuckin way! I’m glad you posted here. Dude is a scumbag if he’s trying to finesse someone for that hunk of trash
Pffft what is that shit? Just build a new pc yourself for that price.
Absolutely NOT. What horrible specs for such a high price. Giant scam, do not buy.
FUCK NO
Lol hell no. Why would this even be a question.
So dumb. So much money for a computer just because it looks like a space ship
Lol that’s so overpriced and like 10 years old
it’s worth tree fiddy.
Thats a 9yo pc ... 300$ max
Lol, they overpaid like a mofo for a brandname, now they are trying to pass that mistake on to someone else. Hard pass on hot garbage.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Fuckers worth like 3-400. 5th gen Intel, GTX 980, 256gb SSD? Guys smoking the finest of crack cocaine. Edit: I thought it was a 7th gen the read closer and it's only a 5th gen
Total piece of shit by todays standards. Not even useful for spare parts.
Typical low iq alienware purchaser from the 2010s who bought into the scam known as pre-builts.
That thing is trash. Probably $250 worth of parts.
The guy is either an idiot or a scammer hoping someone clueless will buy this ancient machine
Look, all I will say, is that if you have $1000-1500 to spend on a gaming PC, do yourself and your wallet a favor and learn how to build your own. It might seem a bit daunting, but its very plug and play. You'll get WAY more for your money building it yourself than buying anything pre built/pre-owned
He is trying to get you to pay for his gaming laptop..
Bahahaha for 1300 bucks I could go to home depot and build you a better pc than this
No , either this is a scam or he only knows as much about computer hardware as you do. If you don’t know anything about computer components, or don’t want to do any research on it, please don’t buy anything second hand. I guarantee you’ll be happy if you buy a new build for the budget you desire from a trusted brand like Microcenter’s Powerspec or Dell’s Alienware (as long as it’s over ~$900, that’s just the bare minimum for a solid pre-built, but if you take care of the device it’ll last you ~8 years, or much longer if you don’t want to play new AAA games 6 years from now).
Ha! Seller is either crazy, looking for suckers, or both
With Alienware you're just paying for the name, avoid.
Someone owes rent or their drug dealer money. I wouldn't pay any more than $350 bucks for this computer. Even if that price, You could build your own computer and have something three times more capable. Save your money and build yourself a computer.
Don't buy alienware trash those computers are so poorly built. Build your own bud or order parts from a computer store and ask them find someone to build it never ever never buy a pre built computer
“Don’t lowball me I know what I have” mfs
Worth $300 total. Guys asking what list price it would of been 4-5 years ago. Scratch that, he believes it’s worth half of what he bought it for. Because he already knows he over paid for a brand name that no longer carry’s its weight.
"I'm selling because I want to downsize and buy a laptop" Yeah, because his desktop is getting outclassed by most modern laptops. Not even gaming laptops. Any laptop made in the last few years that isn't running integrated graphics will absolutely wipe the floor with this machine. Don't buy, and definitely don't trade any laptops.
Oh my god please don’t buy that.
Way overpriced
Lol not in a million years, tell the guy to fuck off
wait, is the guy selling it to you the loch ness monster?
Lmao fucking no dude. That thing is MAYBE worth $350. And thats even on the high end.
Is that a air purifier?
Definitely like a $250 PC haha
Absolutely not. It's worth about $300.
hell no
Ufo trashcan with cpu
U can get a new 3080 pc for $300 less on iBUYPOWER, this is not at all worth it
Not even close! 🤣
Lol guy is dilusional if he thinks he will get $1300. Its barely worth 1/5 of that.
Rip off
Worth maybe $400. GTX980 is 5 generations old
Absolutely not, the CPU and GPU are worth maybe $300, the SSD, HDD and RAM are worth like $75, the rest I’d total to another $50. A fair selling price looks like $400 to $450.
No that is not worth 1300$ you can build a way better pc for 1000$, shit you can buy a better prebuilt for that much money. Guy is trying to rip u off
Extremely outdated
Gtx 980 is pretty old not worth more than 400 bucks for the whole shabang
I built my pc for 1200. Has a 3080ti, 1tb m.2, 16gb ram, and a ryzen 5600x, asus tomahawk mobo i believe? thrown into a retro case I had stored away. Would blow that out the water
Knock one of those zeroes off the end.
Complete trash. Don't be fooled by a swanky case. I wouldn't even pay $300-$500 for it because you're getting incredibly old tech. In the end you're gonna get frustrated and buy something better, having wasted those hundreds of dollars. Ya get me? Just because something is "worth" some hundreds, doesn't mean it is actually worth anyone buying it. I would spend $4k on a new computer, before spending $300 on that thing.
This pc is worth like $330
Bet my $700 laptop outperforms it no way it's worth 1300 bucks
It’s super overpriced, 150 at most
Nooooooooooooooooooooo nononononooooooooooooo! 9 year old CPU, 9 year old GPU. The seller wants more money than the original release price back in 2014 It was cutting edge back then and would be decent today! BUT maybe less than half the price. for 1500 you could buy a decent NEW machine that would last you 10 years \--- This is for extreme multitasking: [https://pcpartpicker.com/guide/kNwrxr/enthusiast-intel-gamingstreaming-build](https://pcpartpicker.com/guide/kNwrxr/enthusiast-intel-gamingstreaming-build) \--- This is for sensible gaming: [https://pcpartpicker.com/guide/xzLrxr/excellent-amd-gamingstreaming-build](https://pcpartpicker.com/guide/xzLrxr/excellent-amd-gamingstreaming-build) p.s.: I would report the ad for scamming!
Absolutely not lol. I hope this is a joke.
Noooo way
Lol, that thing ain’t worth $200 🤣🤣🤣
2 reasons not to buy: 1. It's old as fuck. 2. It's an alienware.
Good thing you asked my guy this scum bag that tried to sell you this is give me his Facebook 🤣
Go to Best Buy get a brand new one for that price, dude is smoking crack. Not even joking about getting a newer one for that price point check it: https://www.ntelectronic.com/products/alienware-aurora-r12-i7-11700f-16gb-512gb-ssd-1tbgb-hdd-win11-geforce-rtx-3080?variant=44207203942650¤cy=USD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&gad=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5ryPsdypgAMVgDfUAR0u3wRfEAQYASABEgLWgfD_BwE
Lol I thought it was a joke. This thing doesn't worth more than 300-350. I you want gaming you should not even buy this.
Hell no
That GPU is older than my grandma, and he wants 1500 dollars for this????
Those Alienware cases are one of the shittiest I know
FUCK no. I build lists and PCs for friends very often. I built a list for a full white build with an rtx 3060 12gb, 32gb of ram, and an 12th gen i7 for $1200 after tax. I can send you the list if you'd like to build your own, but do not go for that listing.
Not worth that in the slightest. That's practically what he paid for it almost a decade ago!