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May 25th, 2012 09:00

Out of box experiance Alienware R4 (New)

I am posting as the proud owner of a brand spanking new  R4 computer.

Order took a week to build and arrived with a hole in the outer box, however the outer box had enough separation from the outer box to the inner box that there was not even a mark on the inner box. Good design decision there.

System setup and reading all the manuals took about 2 1/2 hours.

 One issue was with the Razor wireless headset, the kit was for use with an XBOX 360 and so did not have the pair of 3.5mm male to male stereo speaker wires needed to connect the base station to the computer. I salvaged a couple from some of my speakers from old purchases, then made a trip to the store and spent a few dollars buying the new cables. Perhaps sales should offer to sell the wires to make the connection in the online configurator or else get the kit for PC offered there instead of the XBOX 360 kit.

  System flies through the BIOS in about 2 to 3 seconds, have yet to enter F2 in time to get into the BIOS.

  Boot to Windows 7 Ultimate takes perhaps 10 seconds.

System configuration:

Proc Intel I7-220 Over clock to 4.2 GHz 6 cores with liquid cooling.
16 GB RAM
512 GB 6MB/S SSD, 1 TB SATA
Dual BR/DVD R/W
21" flat screen
3 GB Video card
Sound Blaster X-FI Xtreme
Logitech gaming kbd, Razor mouse and Razor wireless headphones

42 Posts

May 25th, 2012 10:00

What did you spend?

Congrats!

777 Posts

May 25th, 2012 12:00

about $4800 USD

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182 Posts

May 25th, 2012 16:00

Wish model? 3 GB Video card  what model?

777 Posts

May 25th, 2012 16:00

3GB GDDR5 AMD Radeon HD 7

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