Originally Posted by
tielknight
I'm fairly certain you could get one from a place like Ibuypower/Cyberpower for cheaper with similar/better specs. Sure they may not be "badly built" but this is Dell we are talking about, they earned their place overpricing cheap computers. Alienware is akin to Apple, popular and with a price-tag to match. If you can find a good config, post it so we have something to compare to.
Chaos's build is very good and hardly skimping on anything.
I went and picked similar/close to similar parts at Ibuypower and the priced ended up at $1618, that is with these options.
Which is damn close to buying them separate.
The aurora doesn't even allow you to pick from the haswell processors for cryin out loud.