You on about the Scan one or the Alienware .

The Alienware mate, did you click the link?

I couldn't see a high spec Alienware machine either mate, dodgy link perhaps?

Buy the X version at the top of this page instead mate.

for gaming gpu is king, cpu does help but is secondary.

Also on that scan model you can customise it, so you can add extra storage and upgrade the cpu to an i7 if you want the hyperthreading.

I5 chips per core performance is very similar to i7, they are almost the same, i7 just offers hyperthreading on top which in a highly threaded game as a best case scenarion can maybe give you an extra 30% or so cpu horsepower. But the cost difference betweem i5 and i7 is way more than 30%.

The gpu is not worse its the reason I recommended it. A desktop superclocked 970 with 4gig of vram is not worse than a mobile 8xx chip with 2 gig of vram.

as jorkila said, the top end alienware machine is already obselete. They need to update their product line.

I think you need to look past the brand and just look at the spec.

The model nelly gave you is good also although a lot more expensive.

Roughly £1100 to build an almost identical rig to that Syber steam machine x

Is that all,i will buy 2 then

That was the U.S. price mate. It's only £1145-00 on the UK site.

£1299 on the uk site, syber.

I prefer the price in your link though although it does only have half the ram compared to the one in my link.

Edited by jorkila (Sat 17-Oct-15 22:42:56)

What's interesting about your link is this:

Don't limit yourself to the overpriced and limited selection of console games. With the SYBER PC Console, you'll get access to any of the over 10,000 Microsoft Windows compatible game title from all major publishers. Access major gaming libraries including Steam, UPlay, Battle.net, Origin and the Windows Games Library.

So as you keep telling Timey, you can play games outside of Steam too and they are advertising as such. Yet at the bottom (my bold) it says:

ADDITIONAL:

- WiFi: 802.11ac/g/n
- LAN Networking: 10/100/1000MB RJ-45
- Power: 600 Watts Power Supply
- Operating System: Steam OS
- Installed Software: N/A

So they're advertising compatibility with all libraries, yet all but Steam require you to install windows and it lists installed software as "not applicable".

I think that's a bit misleading.