customsteve01 Posted September 19, 2007 Share Posted September 19, 2007 This looks like a really cool HT Computer. With 2 terabytes of hard disk space you could put alot of movies, music and pictures in there. I don't know about the onboard amp but everything else looks really good. http://www.alienware.com/product_detail_pages/hangar18/hangar18_overview.aspx One thing I notice was that they claim "Alienware only carries the best in Home speaker sollutions, Klipsch." but a little searching in thier Gear Shop there were no Klipsch speakers to be found, so I shot them an e-mail asking them "what gives" I think we all need to ask them where's the Klipsch... heres the email address I used sales@alienware.com Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid22 Posted September 19, 2007 Share Posted September 19, 2007 If you scout thier website you see for sound klipsch 5.1 thx certified(for $350) I to looked into the AW surround sound but i own a laptop from them and by far the worst customer service and quality or product and timely repair of said product I have ever seen. AW claims they are a small corporation owned by dell, well when dell took over 6 months ago 1 day i was talkin to texas to get my laptop fixed next day india. Thats only my experience with them but i doubt im the only. the $2000 dvd dvr is what you get for the package you have to upgrade to get the klipsch speakers $350 and that seems to me to be insanely over priced being the fact they are using a discontinued cpu in it. I would get a tivo befor ei would jump into that. My 2 copper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCOOTERDOG Posted September 19, 2007 Share Posted September 19, 2007 Looks pretty nice but I think mine is just as pretty and it beats the crap out of the Alienware. I built mine for about a $1100.00. Mine Thelmaltake Bach Case Biostar TF 7050-M2 Motherboard with HDMI outputArtic Cooler 64 CPU cooler AMD Dual Core 4200+ 2 gigs Ram XFX 7600 GTXXX OC 590mhz 256 meg video card 2-250 Gig SATA HDD Dual layer SATA DVD burner with Lightscribe Single layer DVD Player Nvidia Dual TV Tuner ATI HDTheater Pro tuner Creative Labs XFi ExtremeMusic 7.1 sound card It may look really HOT and have the Alienware name but you can do a whole lot beter for a whole lot less. scooter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEAR Posted September 19, 2007 Share Posted September 19, 2007 Not bad...here is mine... Intel Quad Core 6800 ASUS P5K Deluxe WiFi Crucial Ballistix PC6400 4x1GB for four GB eVGA 8800Ultra 768MB Antec P182SE case with PC Power & Colling QUAD 750W WD Raptor X 150GB times two in RAID(stripe) Hitachi 750GB times two for storage Creative XFi Platinum Pro (external module) Logitech G9 corded mouse,Logitech G7 cordless mouse and Logitech DiNovo EDGE cordless keayboard. Klipsch RF7 mains,RF7 rears,RC7 center,RSW 10.12.15 tower and two JL Audio Fathom f113 subs plus a giant DIY TC Sounds dual TC-3000 15" sub(Crown XTi 4000 for power),Sunfire Theater Grand pre/pro and ATI 1505/2505 power amps...Sharp AQUOS 46" LCD screen.. How's that Alien Ware? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian_Dude Posted September 19, 2007 Share Posted September 19, 2007 Not bad...here is mine... Intel Quad Core 6800 ASUS P5K Deluxe WiFi Crucial Ballistix PC6400 4x1GB for four GB eVGA 8800Ultra 768MB Antec P182SE case with PC Power & Colling QUAD 750W WD Raptor X 150GB times two in RAID(stripe) Hitachi 750GB times two for storage Creative XFi Platinum Pro (external module) Logitech G9 corded mouse,Logitech G7 cordless mouse and Logitech DiNovo EDGE cordless keayboard. Klipsch RF7 mains,RF7 rears,RC7 center,RSW 10.12.15 tower and two JL Audio Fathom f113 subs plus a giant DIY TC Sounds dual TC-3000 15" sub(Crown XTi 4000 for power),Sunfire Theater Grand pre/pro and ATI 1505/2505 power amps...Sharp AQUOS 46" LCD screen.. How's that Alien Ware? Not a bad way to spend $3800 I guess... Thats what it would cost me here in Canada($.98 to the dollar right now) and thats not including power supply, disc drives, etc... I thought I was nuts to spend 2000 on mine. Edit: I see now that you are in Canada so exchange rate doesn't matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay481985 Posted September 22, 2007 Share Posted September 22, 2007 Not bad...here is mine... Intel Quad Core 6800 ASUS P5K Deluxe WiFi Crucial Ballistix PC6400 4x1GB for four GB eVGA 8800Ultra 768MB Antec P182SE case with PC Power & Colling QUAD 750W WD Raptor X 150GB times two in RAID(stripe) Hitachi 750GB times two for storage Creative XFi Platinum Pro (external module) Logitech G9 corded mouse,Logitech G7 cordless mouse and Logitech DiNovo EDGE cordless keayboard. Klipsch RF7 mains,RF7 rears,RC7 center,RSW 10.12.15 tower and two JL Audio Fathom f113 subs plus a giant DIY TC Sounds dual TC-3000 15" sub(Crown XTi 4000 for power),Sunfire Theater Grand pre/pro and ATI 1505/2505 power amps...Sharp AQUOS 46" LCD screen.. How's that Alien Ware? way to loud for a home theater pc in which I am going to make soon. the 8800 ultra won't fit in most cases the raptor is totally unnecessary and loud for htpc I am thinking the terabyte hd since they have 32 meg cache Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay481985 Posted September 22, 2007 Share Posted September 22, 2007 btw alienware I believe is owned by dell..... and they usually always charge much more than needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEAR Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 Way too loud,you have not heard this configuration plus I have sound absorbing mats installed.The PC is very silent,and for fans I have all Pabst 120mm ultra quiet units so...[] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay481985 Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 the 8800 ultra is not loud? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j-malotky Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 Odd that the Allienware uses AMD. Most good HTPC software is compiled to run on Intel. Must be relying on MS and Vista for the DVD playback. I love the EVGA Nvidia cards. I have an 8600 GTS 512M DDR3 on my gameing PC. I would love to be able to afford the 8800. I think my ATI has better color quality though and use that in my HTPC. But game on for sure with Nvidia [] JM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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