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Posted July 16, 2019
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clarry: Dunno about that. My laptop has 8GB and I run out of RAM all the time. Work laptop has 16GB and I run out of RAM every once in a while. My desktop has 32GB and I've run out of RAM a few times..
Right now desktop is using ~16GB.
Really? Are you using some special resource-heavy software?
Or maybe it's just Chrome and you're not even using a pagefile?
IMO your system has some problem\bad config if you're exhausting 32GB of RAM with a normal usage O_o
Post edited July 16, 2019 by phaolo
Posted July 16, 2019
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clarry: Dunno about that. My laptop has 8GB and I run out of RAM all the time. Work laptop has 16GB and I run out of RAM every once in a while. My desktop has 32GB and I've run out of RAM a few times..
Right now desktop is using ~16GB.
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phaolo: Really? Are you using some special resource-heavy software?
Or maybe it's just Chrome and you're not even using a pagefile?
IMO your system has some problem\bad config if you're exhausting 32GB of RAM with a normal usage O_o
Usually browser consumes the most, but sometimes I need quite a lot of ram on top of that for games, compilers, photo editing or such. This is how it looks right now: https://0x0.st/z94G.txt
Posted July 16, 2019
Price isn't bad assuming you'd need a case, power supply and other things like that. I think a liquid cooled processor is super overkill with an RTX 2070 though, and keep in mind the new "super" cards are out and better for the same price.
Posted July 16, 2019
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phaolo: Really? Are you using some special resource-heavy software?
Or maybe it's just Chrome and you're not even using a pagefile?
IMO your system has some problem\bad config if you're exhausting 32GB of RAM with a normal usage O_o
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clarry: Usually browser consumes the most, but sometimes I need quite a lot of ram on top of that for games, compilers, photo editing or such. This is how it looks right now: https://0x0.st/z94G.txt
Ah wait, are you on Linux? I don't know much about it, sorry.
Not sure if it's correct that "GPU Process" uses 32% and "Web Content" 40% of RAM (whatever these are).
(it feels very strange to me tho)
Post edited July 16, 2019 by phaolo
Posted July 16, 2019
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phaolo: Not sure if it's correct that "GPU Process" uses 32% and "Web Content" 40% of RAM (whatever these are).
(it feels very strange to me tho)
Those are all part of firefox.
Posted July 16, 2019
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phaolo: Not sure if it's correct that "GPU Process" uses 32% and "Web Content" 40% of RAM (whatever these are).
(it feels very strange to me tho)
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clarry: Those are all part of firefox.
This is becoming too much OT, but FF here is using like 1.6GB in total at the moment (8\40 tabs loaded).
Do you open a massive amount of resource-hungry tabs and keep them loaded?
Your numbers are insane.. you should really ask some linux users about it.
Post edited July 16, 2019 by phaolo
Posted July 16, 2019
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: Why not just buy all the parts yourself and then pay a local technician $50-75 or whatnot to assemble it for you? That's what I do when I buy a new computer.

No doubt that way you can buy all good parts and at better prices than prebuilders like Alienware would give you for comparable parts, even if their prebuilt system is sold at a discount.
It takes about an hour to make a computer from scratch. Two if you're unlucky or have to move cables a lot.

Then it takes an hour-ish to get the OS installed.
Posted July 16, 2019
You're paying that much for those spec? I knew Alienware was overpriced after the buyout, but yikes.

If you insist on a Dell, why not buy one off lease for a cut price?
Post edited July 17, 2019 by Darvond
Posted July 17, 2019
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Mr.Mumbles: While I haven't been actively looking for a new gaming rig since my old one died, I've been occasionally browsing what's currently out there, and right now this particular (on sale) Alienware Aurora model seems quite enticing:

i7-9700k (3.6-4.9) - Closed-loop liquid cooled
NVIDIA RTX 2070
16GB RAM
256GB NVMe SSD

Yeah, Alienware is typically overpriced but for the current $530 off at ~$1400 that seems to be a pretty decent deal. Sure that SSD is paltry in size, but I may use it as a system drive only while adding a separate 1TB SATA SSD for another $100 rather than paying those ridiculous "upgrade" prices.

No, I'm not interest in building a system from scratch, and going this route is still way cheaper than going the premium boutique route a la Falcon Northwest or Puget Systems that I've been considering, too.

So I'm wondering what some of you guys think of this being worth it or not. Any input is much appreciated.
None if that tells you if you'll be getting your money's worth, and at the end of the day, it's a Dell, which means you probably won't.
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