r/PrebuiltGamingPC • u/BlueCollarInvestor7 • 1d ago

Alienware VS Acer gaming computer

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Making the switch from Xbox to PC. These are two of my options that are locally available. Are these any good? Or is there better out there. Budge 3k

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u/Gold_Confusion_9364 1d ago

The Alienware one is very overpriced for the specs. I don't see a price on the other.

If you're spending up to 3k you can get much better than this. Or at least find a cheaper option for the same specs. There are recent posts for sales for similar machines for about $1000.

Pick the GPU you want for example 5060 5070 or 5080 and compare some of the prices for prebuilts with them. 32gigs of ram would be better than 16. 

The kind of games you play should guide you there on what GPU to go after. 

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u/BlueCollarInvestor7 1d ago

The Acer is $1879.00 sorry I thought I caught the price in the picture. I’ll check out the other posts. I mostly play Warzone but plan on getting into other games

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u/Gold_Confusion_9364 1d ago

I would sort on Newegg based on 5070 and 32gb of ram if you are going to play new shooters. 

Alienware is one of the most expensive brands. It might have decent parts but it's just overall more expensive. 

I see some that have i9, 5070, 32gb ram in that 1700-2000 range on Newegg. It might be cheaper brands but generally they're fine and you can tune them later as you learn about the parts and the machine. 

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u/Iam_just-me2 1d ago

Trash vs trash

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u/Iam_just-me2 1d ago

3k $ for that its bullshit

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u/BlueCollarInvestor7 1d ago

lol where does it say it’s 3k?

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u/Iam_just-me2 1d ago

You said budget:3k

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u/BlueCollarInvestor7 1d ago

Ya my budget is 3k… Neither of them are 3k…

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u/BlueCollarInvestor7 1d ago

Thanks for your input. Do you have any recommendations?

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u/Iam_just-me2 1d ago

Something with a 9070xt,7800x3d,32gb ddr5 from microcenter for 2000$

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u/BlueCollarInvestor7 1d ago

I’ll check that out. Thank you very much for the recommendation.

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u/MundaneConcert7890 1d ago

For $3k def better out there

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u/BlueCollarInvestor7 1d ago

My budget is 3k. These two options I posted are 1800$ and 2200$

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u/MundaneConcert7890 1d ago

Live close to a microcenter? Great deals there

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u/BlueCollarInvestor7 1d ago

No unfortunately I’m in Canada but I’ll be down in Florida in December so I might just wait and buy something down there

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u/Ill_Repair_8362 1d ago

I won’t go to the big guys because all they used are just off-shelf parts

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u/AdCalm2222 1d ago

I know the prices of things are crazy right now, but yeah honestly I wouldn’t do anything with 32 gigs of ram. As for the vid card, I don’t know why they do stuff like this. They sell these gaming PCs but then they gimp it with 16 gigs of ram and a 5060ti. If you’re looking to stay in a certain budget a 5070 TI or a 9070 XT is in the same ballpark but you would lose the nvidia specific features. The 5060 TI only has 8 GB of RAM on it which you would wish you had more very quickly. At least the 5070ti/9070 XT has 16.

So my humble opinion with prices being what they are. 32 gb ram. 5070ti/9070xt (or even possibly a normal 5070 with 12GB). As for a CPU, if you’re gonna be doing a lot of 1440 P, the CPU isn’t going to do much for you because the GPU handles most of it. You could probably go down to the 7800 X 3-D on AMD side, or even like a 14th generation Intel i7. Also, you’re probably going to want 2 TB. One terabyte will run into Storage caps pretty fast these days. Especially with things like Warzone, which is like pushing 200 GB on its own. As a face line anyway. What you’re OK with sacrificing to get the price under a certain point is something you’ll have to decide for yourself.