kinkinkijkin Wrote:I've found that alienware computers can cost anywhere from $100 too much to $700 too much for what they are. Really, that's worse than apple, and apple at least puts together a decent product.
Not even close to apple levels of price inflation.
Back in high school I once did a business project/powerpoint presentation where in one of my slides I compared the cost overhead of different PC manufacturers. I did this by customizing builds with identical specs from each company at various price points, comparing their price against the total parts value, and averaging them together. HP was 25%, dell was 40%, alienware was 60%, apple was 110%.
Note Alienware had not yet been bought by Dell at this point. Their prices have actually gone down comparatively since then.
A lot of my friends at the time had apple computers so I really enjoyed that project
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I haven't seen a system throttle at a temperature as low as 70C is a long time (pentium 4 era). The OP needs to check his clock rates to verify that it is indeed throttling.
kinkinkijkin Wrote:3D modeling is handled by the GPU.
Depends on the program and what exactly you're doing. A lot of stuff is still done on the cpu. And it tends to stress the cpu a lot even for things that rely heavily on the gpu as well.
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