Microcenter (I think it’s local to Georgia, but if not...) is very VERY good. Dell used to be amazing, but they abandoned people for corporations. Microcenter filled that ‘civilian market’ out our way. Build if you must, but I had them make me a machine for nearly the same price as a manual build.
High end: Alienware machines. WATER COOLED. Oh yeah.
Thanks for the thread, I just picked up this Area 51 and realized all I play is TFT2 and Total War, so I was looking for a good game to run on this system and will be looking at Fallout 4.
The 2 GTX 960’s SLI will yield about the same framerate as a single 970 so I went with the cheaper 960’s and was able to get it from Alienware with an 17-5820 CPU for just over 2 grand.
Next year I will swap out the 960’s for Titan z’s if they are affordable, otherwise go with 980’s.
Quantity Item Number Description Unit Price
1 210-ADHC Area 51 Base $2026.13
1 370-ABWO 8GB Dual Channel DDR4 2133MHz (4GBx2) $0.00
1 580-AAOJ Alienware Standard USB 2.0 Keyboard (English) $0.00
1 490-BCNN Dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 graphics with 4GB total (2x 2GB) GDDR5 - NVIDIA SLI Enabled $0.00
1 658-BCKI 7260 AC Driver $0.00
1 400-AFON 128GB SSD 6Gb/s Main + 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s Storage $0.00
1 619-AHCY Windows 10 Home (64bit) English $0.00
1 570-AACL Alienware USB Optical Mouse $0.00
1 429-AAMV Slot-Loading Dual Layer DVD Reader $0.00
1 555-BCFD Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 @ 5GHz + Bluetooth $0.00
1 450-AAGO US Power Cord $0.00
1 340-AGUD Safety/Environment and Regulatory Guide (English/French) $0.00
1 801-1894 Onsite/In-Home Service After Remote Diagnosis, 1 Year $0.00
1 801-1893 Dell Limited Hardware Warranty Plus Service $0.00
1 340-ACUM System BOOT for Windows, AW51 $0.00
1 340-ANMJ Resource DVD W7/W8.1 $0.00
1 340-ALTG Ship Group,ANW-DT,Dell Americas Organization,CENTAURI $0.00
1 340-AMZI Placemat (English,French,BRPT,Spanish) $0.00
1 332-0550 Dell.com Order $0.00
1 332-1286 US Order $0.00
1 321-BBLW Alienware(TM) 850 Watt Multi-GPU Approved Power Supply $0.00
1 338-BFPQ Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5820K (6-cores, 15MB Cache, Overclocked up to 3.8 GHz w/ Turbo Boost) $0.00
1 412-AAEX Centauri CPU heatsink $0.00
1 332-1530 Dell.com Order $0.00
1 340-ALTH Shipping Material $0.00
1 817-BBBB No FGA $0.00
1 658-BBTV Cyberlink Media Suite Essentials for Windows without Media $0.00
1 525-0016 Dropbox, Digital Delivery, 20GB for 1 year Promotion $0.00
1 750-AALQ No Controller $0.00
1 389-BFSO Regulatory Label, 850W $0.00
1 338-BDFP Intel(R) Core(TM) I7 CPU Label $0.00
1 658-BCSC Microsoft Office Software Image $0.00
1 658-BCUO Additional Software $0.00
1 817-BBBP None Included $0.00
1 340-ACQQ No Option Included $0.00
Item Sub Total $2026.13