Asus ROG Vs. Dell Alienware

[Sensei P]

Generally which one do you guys think is better?

[Azza ☠]

Asus ROG (Republic Of Gamers)

However, what's the purpose, what's the models/products your comparing?

Dell Alienware creates huge bricks gaming rigs which run well, but weight a ton and cost a lot, they still consider it a laptop. Good luck being a kid, carting that around. Dell also tends to designs systems in a certain way, making it prebuilt with little in the way of upgrade room.

[Sensei P]

Originally posted by Azza ☠:

Asus ROG (Republic Of Gamers)

However, what's the purpose, what's the models/products your comparing?

Dell Alienware creates huge bricks gaming rigs which run well, but weight a ton and cost a lot, they still consider it a laptop. Good luck being a kid, carting that around. Dell also tends to designs systems in a certain way, making it prebuilt with little in the way of upgrade room.

Just in general which do you like more

[SundownKid]

It depends on whether youre talking about the laptops or the desktops. Alienware desktops are pretty bad (value wise).

[Sensei P]

Originally posted by SundownKid:

It depends on whether youre talking about the laptops or the desktops. Alienware desktops are pretty bad (value wise).

Desktops

[Derekuda]

I didn't know ROG made desktops. Anyways, depending on your pricepoint, I really like alienware. You can pick the Alienware Alpha for around $400 on sale. It's quite powerful and you can't even build your own rig for that dollar amount. (And YES, the windows license is a factor in price, which is included in the Alpha)

[Tywin]

Lol @ alienware

[SundownKid]

Alienware desktops are just plain bad. The only decent value they have is the Alpha but dont expect that to play high graphics games.

Asus ROG desktops are not a great idea either, unless you really need a small form factor PC. They are definitely better than the Alienware X51 hardware wise, but getting one of those regular ASUS desktops is usually a better value because they are more upgradeable.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883221136

Cheaper than ROG, more upgradeable, far better value, if you have the space for it.

If I had to choose btwn Rog and Alienware though, ROG wins hands down.

[_I_]

build your own pc for gaming

[Azza ☠]

Originally posted by _I_:

build your own pc for gaming

^ This all the way. Custom Build PCs.

Prebuilt PCs are just limited. Most shave the corners to save money, but allow no room for upgrade. If you are unsure however to custom build, then just ask around and learn.

I thought you meant components...

Asus ROG motherboards, Asus ROG STRIX graphic cards, and Asus ROG monitors, are pretty sweet.

[Seven7]

both overpriced, ASUS ROG have exploit - hacker can upload and reflash bios\uefi, change drivers...

[Azza ☠]

Originally posted by Seven7:

both overpriced, ASUS ROG have exploit - hacker can upload and reflash bios\uefi, change drivers...

What do you mean exploit?

An owner of the graphics card on their own system could flash any hardware Firmware, even their BIOS. That's a good thing, as it doesn't limit you to tweaking it.

However, remotely doing it by a hacker would be more concern. However, I don't see how that's possible? Not without tricking the user to download a driver/flash tool and manually run it themselves, in which Windows will scream warning and attempt to block, unless you manually allow it to perform those actions.

[MancSoulja]

Originally posted by Seven7:

both overpriced, ASUS ROG have exploit - hacker can upload and reflash bios\uefi, change drivers...

You do understand 99.99% of "hackers" are just script kiddies, the chances of one of these being able to write a bios that wouldn't kill your motherboard are highly unlikely... lol

[Azza ☠]

Originally posted by MancSoulja:

Originally posted by Seven7:

both overpriced, ASUS ROG have exploit - hacker can upload and reflash bios\uefi, change drivers...

You do understand 99.99% of "hackers" are just script kiddies, the chances of one of these being able to write a bios that wouldn't kill your motherboard are highly unlikely... lol

The NSA writes firmware rewrites for popular hard drives to spy upon. It's more the government you have to worry about, compared to an actual hacker. The malicious hacker just copies their exploit hole that they leave open. They are more just opportunities, looking for the easiest target.

However, being a security expert, I haven't heard of major exploits of asus rog motherboards or graphics cards, etc. Perhaps their website forums, as they could be easiest injected back a few years ago, with third party Flash and Microsoft Silver Light exploits. Not anymore, as it's been patched.