[jujumantb]

Originally Posted by Poseidon

That way you could have had an IDENTICAL system, with a different case, for a hell of alot cheaper.

I guess I dont know much about what alienware does to their comps, but I'd assume they do ALOT of research into what exactly to tweak for optimal performance after simply dropping hardware into a crazy case. Then you will also get their tech support and whatever warranty's and other goodies come with ownership as opposed to tweaking your own hardware and perhaps voiding the manufacturers warranty... Whether that is all worth the price will depend on the person, I just think you guys are trying to simplify it too much, maybe I'm wrong.