Alienware Deals & Offers

Haha, thanks for the image :D

Enjoy your new alien computer...

I received the computer yesterday, and couldn't be happier. There is a small scratch on the right side of the case, but other than that it's immaculate. The Alienware still has the official wrapping on too. Thanks again OP for posting this deal!

I agree. I only have an rx 480 so not a lot of point worrying about which cpu, its all the same as long as its 'enough'. People keep banging on about intel gaming lead but unless you use a 1080 ti its little diff. I dont think 10 nm will be up to much before 2020 and even then I doubt its gonna be 'better' than ryzen 7nm. The lappy chips released so far are slower than 14 nm versions.. Intel have only just hired jim keller,thats how far away they are from a new arch. They are cannibalising the big xeons to combat thread ripper 2, (thats gonna be a loser,they are massive dies). No point upgrading a 6700K for years yet anyway. I like the non K 4770 at £125 ish cos the ram costs £40 for 2x8 (if you can walk into a cex and pick it) and you can get new cheap boards but other than that I would go with ryzen. If you settle on a big 7nm ryzen you will be able to get boards for YEARS.It will be many moons before another jump like that occurs. But we shall see. 1st gen ryzen 1600's go ~115 on ebay, maybe 155 with a b350 board. The 2600 new build is~£30 dearer than the i5 8400 build (but has a decent cooler). Laters.

As a deal hunter whose main use of their computer is gaming I'm in a difficult spot. The 9th gen CPU's are coming out soon (Q2/Q3 2018) which is ridiculous and, like you say, makes the current chipset obsolete and no value for money. At the same time, AMD are still behind in gaming Benchmarks but ahead in almost everything else - 7nm won't be out until next year though. However, Intels 10nm is superior to AMD's 7nm....if they ever manage to release it. Things are a bit too unpredictable either way for me personally to invest in either for the long term. I'm still using my 6700k 3 years later. I honestly think the best bet for a budget builder at this point may be to look backwards rather than forward, going down the Xeon Route or just an older i7 3770k if you can find them cheap enough. That, or build a very cheap "This will do for now" Ryzen 2/Coffee Lake. I don't know why I'm even worrying - I game at 4k so my CPU is almost irrelevant for my frames lol

Blast, missed another good pc offer due to work

Where did you find a wife for the same price as this?

good bit of kit, paid the same last year from dell outlet

The Aurora is insane, weighs a tonne and you can see why you pay the premium.

Ideally anyone buying from the outlet should be knowledgeable about laptops really know the specs they are after. The specs are well laid out to see. Also easy to check if deal is good by looking at ebay dell re-sellers that tend to similar specs slightly cheaper. The inspirons tend to come up cheaper on ebay and you still get the 1yr warranty (but check). The Alienware not so much as I have been hanging around for an AWR3 with GTX1060 for teen

Be aware of the graphics card on some of the Alienware "gaming" laptops too. There were a couple of old - i.e. pre-10.xx series - cards in laptops and the rest of the specs were none too impressive and they wanted about a thousand quid for them. (lol)

It depends which aspects you are looking at. A lot of artists want, well an Apple product, for whatever reason they justify. (Though the given reason normally isn't "all my friends in the trendy wine bar have one" :P. Alienware systems will be heavy and screens will likely be predisposed to speed over colour reproduction. Some aspects of digital art will benefit from the speed and graphics card - a pro graphics card will be better, but probably won't offer you better value with the prices these are up for. As discussed - they are big and heavy compared to some options.

Be aware the ‘generation’ of the processors - some are 6th generation . New laptops are now 8th Gen, 6 th Gen are a few years old now.

I agree with a lot of that. Just sold my 4 year old XPS 15 9530 in preparation. Love the fact it's a laptop not a table top like most others..

I bought one from dell outlet website and I will buy another one again if found for less than haft price and I will sell on eBay. I sent over 40 emails with a lot of pictures and videos to show the issues. They only change parts for “refurbished” parts that isn’t fixed. ( the technician told me) He also told to keep my main board because probably they will send another one with bigger issue. At the start I had a very slight issue (USB PORTS) and they changed the main board 3 times. All of them came with big issue (graphic card). Avoid Alienware. Not only outlet. If they have a lot of pc for sale on outlet website is because the new ones came with issues too and customers send it back.

Any suggestions for 4k display output option , ddr5, ssd, 16 or 32 gb ram with good graphic card looking to spend around 1200 pounds any help please would really apprieciate it

But it's got an AlienWare logo on the cover...

as mentioned above, for this price would expect at least a boot drive ssd and possibly 16gb ram.

From what I understand, you're lucky to have got a fully working one. I've bought two laptops from there and both have had persistent issues. I've heard reports from others with the same experience, too, so it's not just me. To be fair, they did eventually swap them for new units, but it took a few rounds of sending them back and forth.

well worth the £20 on steam, buying extra DLC sucks.

I played the beta of Quake Champions and I just couldn't get into it. It's so damn fast I could hardly control the character. And while it was in a pretty early state when I played it, so it may be different now, but the game just seemed to lack "personality".

'fairly easy', absolute nonsense

this was complete bullshit by the way OP. There is a daily level cap on getting to level 2, so you can't. All keys gone in that time. Couple that with terrible site responsiveness. Also, get this, at one point trying to get to level 2 i had all my ARP points removed. I received an e-mail from alienware saying a post of mine was flagged. The link to the post in question, was a trailer for a game i'd never heard of, posted by another user. What.

All keys gone Waste of time I didn't even earn any points even they I posted a few times, commented. Liked. Etc

Got the r3. Yeh when they first came out there were loads of issues with the placement of the heatsink. They sorted it with the 7700k processors but you have a few that still get the problem. Anything up to about 75 you could class as normal depending on how long you've been using it for. Eventhough the gpu and cpu can handle 100°c it shouldn't go that high. Then after market pastes will always be better than any stock paste that is used by any brand. With the 1 year standard warranty it'll be worth itnjust to get them to come out and check it up. If you do have temp issues then its a call & fix or refund scenario and if its the refund then maybe by that time with the new gen proccessors coming out, the other brands should drop in price too. Check the alienware subreddit, its quite usefull. Aw

did you get the r3 or the r4? Thats my biggest worry is how are they going to cool the processors. I use a cooling pad already for my XPS and hate it which is why i want to upgrade.... Apparently they can hit temps up to 90 before they repaste or come out which must be uncomfortable.

Its quite good so far. Haven't done much other than play fortnite and civilization. I got a cheap cooling pad to use. I need to monitor my temps in game with and without the pad but haven't done it so far. It does heat up if i play civ 6 for like 4/5 hours + on max settings and with fortnite on max settings for a couple of hours straight but not burning hot, hits around 65. I need to set up a temp monitor so i can view the temps in game to get a better reading. The left side seems to heat up more than the rest and I'm not sure if thats to do with the fan being on that side. I might give them a call 6 months in and see if they can check it up. Might as well use the 1 year warranty before it expires. Hopefully it doesn't have heating issues like some others have stated and i don't have to calk them up for any serious issues.

how is it? theve given me a delivery date of 8th may!

Got it delivered today. It was dispatched on the 8th

That was a great deal for dual 1080Ti. Well done.

Hello, I didnt notice any new desktops added at 14:45. I'll keep an eye out at 19:45 and post back if I see anything juicy.

Which codes did you stack and how??? I was told codes can't be stacked, that's what I was looking to do with various available.

What were the stacks?

Got the alienware one last week after stacking a couple of different discounts which equated to 25% off

For gaming? If you're highly competitive then TV's aren't great for the response times and other factors, I also use a TV as a monitor and I just play games casually now so it's not an issue for me to spend that extra amount, but when a decent size with decent specs with the right price come along I'll jump on it.

Cool, at full price that's more than I paid for my monitor, looks decent.

fair enough, I didn't have the money or GPU for 1440p 144hz. I ordered this monitor a few days ago when I spotted it on here for £199. Refresh rate is important to me because I like faster paced games like Rocket League, I hope 1440p 144hz drops down in the next couple years though, I do love graphical games like Far Cry (excited)

Distance to monitor makes it easier to see farther away targets/details is what I meant. You can sit really close to a 24" monitor with high fov, there's a reason no cs pros or anyone uses higher than that screen size

No but I'm using a The AOC AGON AG241QX 1440p 144hz monitor. I don't think I could drop to 1080p for more refresh rate.

Get a Logitech mouse, good sensors and plenty of flexibility with button customisation

I think the Alienware laptops are fugly also

That mouse is U G L Y !!! its mum even shuns it

I do not! (shock)

Meh... https://www.tomsguide.com/us/alienware-elite-gaming-mouse-aw958,review-4633.html

And I hate to be the time machine person but if you brought this between last month and last week it was price listed as low as £238.80.

The £390 offer was the G-Sync model.

HOW MUCH FOR A MONITOR!!! (horror) Sorry I forgot... use my internal voice.

Your suspicions are not unfounded...

It doesn't bother me haha I was only jesting, voted hot also

I actually don't see the point in paying extra for gsync when we're talking 1080p - surely anyone buying a monitor to play at 144 or 240 fps will have a decent graphics card to make sure you're hitting the 144/240fps mark, freesync/gsync at this high frame rate doesn't matter, does it?

I have a suspicion you don't like this monitor

The bigger the screen the more area you have to look to see someone shooting at you. I use a large screen for work and a 24" at 144Hz for playing games.

240hz at 4k. yeaaaaaaaaaaaaah mate.... not likely.

What GPU can eve run new games on ultra at over 100fps on 4k? I own plenty 1080ti for miners and test hard test em on new hardware i buy and i could never get past 80fps on superclocked 1080ti at 4k. No point having uber fast Hz if you cant achieve stable fps

Thanks for the clarity on that, wonderful thing about DigDug and Missile Command is I do not have to worry about the refresh!! Reason I asked, is surely ((other than the rate)) the game play would more enjoyable on a higher pixel, bigger size screen for less/equal £ for gamers ((putting aside the awful ping rates etc)) playing stuff? Having seen an abundance of these gaming spec monitors ((obviously not running superchunkmegaping speeds)) it would be clearer to see what you are doing on 4k / 5k / 8k as opposed to squishing it all into a squashed 1440p or less one!! (popcorn) That is interesting matt, so even though gamers want the best of the best, they are using a resolution that a 4k uhd can better by over 3 times? Would it not just jump to 240Hz and above for 4k / 5k ones this year & next, save having to play and squint as the screen is only 24" big ? Thanks for the info by the way.

1080p is finished . Don't waste money on it . Buy 4k now

I had pizza for my tea.....

? The point is that they stopped making them 4 years ago...

Deal expired, now back at £1800. Would have to order direct from Dell, and can then spec it as you like for extra ram and 4k etc.

How much would this cost with 32gb ram and 4k screen and hdmi output

MSI Gaming laptop builds are awful (and Acers). Had a high spec £2k MSI 980m Skylake that was advertised as having “ future upgradable graphics” that they reneged on 6 mths after releases this model cos’ they didn’t do there research to find they couldn’t upgrade to 10 series. Was a main factor I (and others) bought that model. Forgave them and bought another £2k MSI Kabylake 1070 laptop that constantly overheated after less than 3 mins of gaming. Returned and got refund. Now got awesome ASUS ROG laptop that runs cool without issues.

Your experience sounds very much similar to mine....

I've had multiple Alienware machines. All the 18inch laptops (they don't make them now) and 1 17inch, upgrading is a pain in the bum, so you need to buy top spec. When upgrading graphics you can buy from them and they fall in under your existing warranty. It's way easier that way. I buy dell for 1 reason. Their warranty, I must have burned out at least 15 graphics cards 580-880s, each time dell replaced them. Knowing full well it was hyper aggressive overclocking to blame, I went through 3 I7 x90 extreme CPU,'s again aggressive overclocking, I had fans and heat syncs replaced, multiple motherboards. I have photos somewhere of the ic7 Tim actually dried up into like powder on a i7 2940 CPU, I used to call it overcooking not clocking. In the end with the M18x R1 they gave me a 60% refund, on a 2 yr old laptop and 20% off my next one, because they didn't have the sli-680s in stock after 3 weeks waiting. The replace an m18 (no ex) shipped with the wrong graphics card, dell refunded £200 and send me a free goodie bag (dell printer, carrycase, wireless mouse and keyboard, cap) while I waited for an either a new placement an engineer to fit the right cards. If you ever need a company which is prone to mistakes, and kinda hard work, but will bribe you, discount you, and as long as your warranty is adhered too will keep fixing it. Then Dell is worth it. That said, anything less than a 980 or 1060 and your asking for problems with Dell.

I know thanks, you can never entirely trust that sort of thing

This is anything other than outdated. I had it from day it was launched. Also had the previous R1. It is small and compact, much powerful than most of the Nuc' s that sell for more. Regarding the GTX 960, it is better than GTX 1050 TI. It runs GTA5 IN UHD normal settings at 30 fps.

Pretty easy to find a pre-activated version if you know what to Google.

It did; seems the problem is that I have only got cards set up in the Paypal account rather than a bank, so I have now had to add an account to set up DD. We used to have the bank attached until we found that about £800 had disappeared as a Paypal payment and so stopped it.

Should have given you the option to pay over 6 or 12 months before completing the order. Then you need to setup a direct debit with your bank for the relevant amount each month.

Heads up to anyone who bought a laptop after seeing this deal. There is now a 12% code that works on pretty much everything over £799. I bought the £1200 Inspiron (with GTX 1060) on Friday, and it got delivered Saturday. This morning, the code reduced the same laptop to £1055. I'm just off the phone with Dell Customer Care and they have offered me a £120 refund. It's only a 10% refund, however I insisted on 12% as the current offer advertises, otherwise I would return it. She wouldn't budge from 10%, so I went ahead with the return. Called her bluff all the way through to the end, but then bottled it and just took the 10%. Good luck guys. Phone number is 0800 587 1456.

I have owned the 9550 for 2 years when it first came out. and i tell you something best laptop i had. i even spilt red wine on the keyboard. took it apart cleaned it all myself with alcohol and it still works great amazing. Oh and im an achitect so run big programs on it

PS - did the Paypal credit, but it hasn't asked me how I am going to pay, so this will have to be sorted.