[citation][nom]marcdiana12[/nom]Hello, my name is Marc Diana and I work for Alienware. [...] I commented a while back on this same subject matter here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3- [...][/citation]there says:
[... "If I was looking to invest in one component over another," Diana said, "I would probably invest in a really good motherboard," and after that, a dual-core processor and a midrange graphics card ...]
motherboards benchmarks do not show much performance advantage between mid range motherboards, and the most expensive ones, but there is a noticeable difference between mid range processors, and a world of difference between mid range video card, and good ones.
I totally disagree with you. The money should be spend first in video, then in processor, and then in motherboard, although a good SSD disk may be more important that the mother.
It looks like, since Dell buyed Alienware, his quality has fall down.
Surely expensive motherboards are more profitable to Dell, (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1941376,00.asp), but dell PCs are a bad buy. And Dell is known for hiring people to write misleading propaganda in blogs and forums, hidding publicity as comments.