Alienware.co.uk

Alienware as brand is often featured in computer gaming magazines and websites, and is now well known for its bespoke and immensely powerful gaming Pc's and even gaming laptops. It is marketed at die-hard PC gamers, and users who require the ultimate performance computers, and it has a repuation for being the best at what it does. I noticed when looking at other reviews of alienware.co.uk that a lot of people have had tech support problems and breakdown problems with their Pc's. Importantly i would like to say straight away that my PC has been perfect for over 12 months now, and i also know ... more

Alienware is a website that sells high-powered gaming Desktops and Laptops. This is a review for the website, and that is mainly what I will talk about, as I don't really want to stray into talking about the computers themselves as many other reviews have done, although I will outline briefly the different items which Alienware sell. The website is extremely good looking, it has futuristic themes that suit the name of the website, as well as the products which they sell and the company logo. The navigation of the website is also very easy to use. The links are easy to find, and everything is ... more

-- VERY IMPORTANT, MUST READ BEFORE PURCHASING. -- You read poor reviews, you think; 'Ahh its a one off'. You read good reviews, you think; 'Ahh, see they are okay!' DONT BE FOOLED. I spent £2000 on my system... Thats a lot of money! Was it worth it? Basically, i'd do ANYTHING to get that money back.... My graphics card has broken 2 times, my system operates at 85-95 degrees C.. This affects gaming and causes lag. My system cant run fifa 2008 smoothly, it has lag frequently after playing for a while... You could easily pay the same amount of money, on a local small business, who would make you ... more

Soon after I had received the computer, it was unstable in many ways, Alienware's "online" technician encouraged me to"keep going, leave the computer on, it's problems will fizzle out" and my computer needed to do this as it was new, he also advised me not to change anything on my computer to "get the value" of what I had paid for. I ran a long series of tests to see whether the computer had sorted it's self out the next day. It had not. I was getting errors working with Adobe Accrobat and other errors including problems with windows. I left it for a week, still very unstable, i called there ... more

I'd been dying to get my hands of an Alienware PC for over year and eventually I splash out the cash for the new shape case in Feb04, it was a expensive but worth it. Alienware have a quality control checklist that they update for you so you can check the status of your system, although its not very accurate it does give you some idea about the status of your PC. Anyhow, it eventually turned up very well packaged and right on the 15th day, perfect I thought, but this is where the problems started. As soon as I had set up the system I noticed that the Alien Eyes did not light up and the ... more