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[Mark]

Hi Alex, thanks for having such a great and informative web site. I was wondering what you thought of the deal below for $3,700 CAN from Dell. I am a beginner in video editing and rendering and would like to eventually upgrade (perhaps to a threadripper CPU). I am using softwares like Hitfilm Express and eventually will be upgrading to other softwares. I do programming and want to learn how to create VR games, and I also enjoy playing VR.

Base Alienware Aurora R10
Processor AMD Ryzen™ 9 3950X (16-Core, 64MB L3 Cache, Max Boost Clock of 4.7GHz)
Operating System Windows 10 Home, 64-bit, English
Video Card NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3080 10GB GDDR6X
Memory 64GB Dual Channel HyperX™ FURY DDR4 XMP at 3200MHz C
hassis Options Dark Side of the Moon chassis with High-Performance CPU Liquid Cooling and 1000W Power Supply
Hard Drive 1TB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD (Boot) + 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s (Storage) Wireless Dell Wireless DW1810 (1x1) 802.11ac with Wi-Fi, Wireless LAN, Bluetooth 5.0
Processor Branding AMD Ryzen™ 9 Label
Driver Dell Wireless Driver 1810/1820
Service 1 Year Hardware Warranty with Onsite/In-Home Service After Remote Diagnosis

Thanks so much for your time and advice!

Mark

 

[Alex Glawion]

Hey Mark,
The specs on that build are solid for video editing. You get a great GPU, high clocking cpu with lots of cores, a bunch of RAM and ample storage. I see nothing wrong with it!

Of course, as always, you do pay more for pre-builts than when building/assembling yourself.

You wont be able to upgrade to a Threadripper CPU on that Motherboard, but you can buy both a new Threadripper CPU and Motherboard if you think of upgrading at some time.

Cheers,
Alex

 

[Mark]

Perfect. Thanks so much Alex!

Mark

 

[xbigcheezx]

Hot tip, check out the dell outlet, they get tons of refurbs and overpurchases from businesses in there all the time, and you can usually land a pretty close rig that only needs 1 or 2 parts for heavy discounts. There are two, one for the consumer side, which would have gaming rigs, and the business outlet, which tends to carry their workstations.

They are basically like new, and come with better warranties.

And agree with Alex, you are probably spending about $1k more than if you built it yourself.