Customized Alienware Aurora r7, should I buy it?

[isaac9008]

I have been working on a customized Alienware Aurora r7 from Dell.com. it looks good to me but I'm not entirely sure if it is a good purchase. I plan to use it as a general use PC as well as for some semi-serious gaming, mainly AAA titles but maxed out graphics are not my main concern. The specs are as follows...

CPU: intel® Core™ i7 8700 (6-Core, 12MB Cache, up to 4.6GHz with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology)

Chassis: Alienware™ 850 Watt Multi-GPU Approved Power Supply with High Performance Liquid Cooling

Video Card: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 with 6GB GDDR5

RAM: 16GB, 2666MHz, DDR4 up to 64GB

Hard Drive (dual drives): 256GB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD (Boot) + 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s (Storage)

Wireless: Killer 1535 802.11ac 2x2 WiFi and Bluetooth 4.1

This setup came to a total of 1,685$ (tax included)

I have three questions

1. Do you think that this is a good purchase or should I look elsewhere?

2. I plan to upgrade to a GTX 1080 when possible, would that be interchangeable with the 1060?

3. Will the dual drives come pre-configured as such, or is that something I would have to do myself through the BIOS?

Thank you for your time and consideration, -Isaac

 

[gussrtk]

honestly if you have the money for this purchase then you should go custom.

My brother-in-law has an alienware Aurora... although from maybe 2012... it's quite pretty on the outside, but not so pretty on the inside, seemed to be filled with more low quality parts than good. So just from that one experience I would strongly suggest custom. But if you have payment plan going, then that's understandable, plus their warranty program should cover those things?

What would be the use of this PC? Gaming? OR heavy editing work?

Here is an Example of a system that would be not stingy on pricing, yet I assume it may be around the Alienware price. (would be a bit more expensive add 90$ on windows license, 40$ on some extra cooling fans)


PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i7-8700K 3.7GHz 6-Core Processor ($414.89 @ B&H)
CPU Cooler: Noctua - NH-D15 82.5 CFM CPU Cooler ($89.95 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Asus - ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($179.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory ($194.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($139.99 @ B&H)
Storage: Toshiba - 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($61.88 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: MSI - GeForce GTX 1080 8GB GAMING X 8G Video Card ($549.98 @ Newegg)
Case: Fractal Design - Define R4 w/Window (Black Pearl) ATX Mid Tower Case ($149.89 @ OutletPC)
Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($88.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $1870.55
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-11-29 19:48 EST-0500

also an 850w psu, incase you want another gtx1080 later (although most likely you will not lol)