So my cousin's new ALXs cooling system totally goes insane after a couple months of having it, and now the temperature rises insanely high and the system shuts itself off before it can even reach Windows. Go ALX, go alienware, he now has to send it in, get a big enough box, package it himself, then go out and send it himself.
My even newer expensive Aurora with the whole bit (FX55, 6800, etc.)'s lighting ice eyes go out, and while this does not affect performance, I still paid for it, and expect it to work for more than a few months. The phone technicians were all but useless, had to refer to their computer for EVERY question, which took 10 minutes wait for each averagely, and their english was lousy to say the least. Half of my conversation consisted of me asking "Excuse me?" I am not trying to be nasty, but me and my cousin did not pay so much money for a mediocre, crappy system. Upon obtaing his ALX, his DVD burner drive DIDN'T EVEN OPEN. THis is not acceptable considering how long it took to make, and ship, and pass through all that quality control (quote unquote). I am VERY unhappy with this turn-out, and I expected to be treated better, now we both must send in our computers and will have to wait Two+ weeks to get it back, and with Alienware it's ALWAYS the +, never an early ship. I very much may soon regret my purchase, I post this here, because I have no other real way to vent my frustration.
"Plays crappy on Alienware."
My even newer expensive Aurora with the whole bit (FX55, 6800, etc.)'s lighting ice eyes go out, and while this does not affect performance, I still paid for it, and expect it to work for more than a few months. The phone technicians were all but useless, had to refer to their computer for EVERY question, which took 10 minutes wait for each averagely, and their english was lousy to say the least. Half of my conversation consisted of me asking "Excuse me?" I am not trying to be nasty, but me and my cousin did not pay so much money for a mediocre, crappy system. Upon obtaing his ALX, his DVD burner drive DIDN'T EVEN OPEN. THis is not acceptable considering how long it took to make, and ship, and pass through all that quality control (quote unquote). I am VERY unhappy with this turn-out, and I expected to be treated better, now we both must send in our computers and will have to wait Two+ weeks to get it back, and with Alienware it's ALWAYS the +, never an early ship. I very much may soon regret my purchase, I post this here, because I have no other real way to vent my frustration.
"Plays crappy on Alienware."
). If you can learn to change your engine oil on your car, you certainly can learn how to refill a WC system. 
There's a lot to know about WC: tubes, fittings, cpu/gpu/northbridge blocks, radiators, pumps, reservoirs, water flow, how to chain blocks, water additives, water dyes, corrosion, algea, sediments, water types, evaporation... But it's not harder than knowing what FSB, dual channel, ddr1 vs ddr2, cpu, gpu, etc are ^^ 
