What rapes you is if you do their payment plans... Depends if you used their credit or not of course! Made that mistake myself because I'd had lots of medical bills and my old PC was fried. Didn't want to sit here sick & PC less and did the dirty deed of buying an Alienware on their credit plan. In the end if I'd payed just the minimum payments was something on the order of 16 years and 6,000$... Had to pay it off of course- but won't fall into that trap again.

I'd built my own too at the time but just had to lay out 20,000$ for surgery etc...no medical insurance So was unable to get the parts.

One thing to note- BOTH video cards on my Alienware 2X8800GT's in a SLI went out within a year.