Clylor

Thanks for the advice but can someone tell me the price to upgrade the screen?

Well that's like the max I'm willing to spend on this thing. lolz. I'd love to spend no more than maybe 900 dollars but this IS alienware after all so I expect to spend alot. But I still haven't been answered yet. Is the computer decent with the default configuration? I'm not gunna be playing any Crisis 2 or any outragous game like them I just need a configuration that can run games at medium grahpic settings. Also this computer is for college. It's going to be a graduation gift to be exact. I'm going into computer programming and such so I thought a rig like this would be perfect since I'd be doing classes online majority of the time. Sad part of this is I'm asking famliy to get it for me while I pay for the upgrades they pay for the laptop itself. So how would this thing be if I just got the screen thing and the GPU? And how much would it cost? I know alienware are for people who are good with computers but I'm striveing to be just that through college. lolz

My budget is a bit tight but I'd say I have about a 1,400$s to spend on this thing, hopefully. But if I can spend less that would be great.

Uhh, Arma, Oblivion, Fallout 3/NV, Shogun 2, and Left For Dead. Nothing to graphiclly demanding besides Shogun 2. As for the resolution I have no idea, my current laptop barely runs anything. But like I said I'm willing to put extra money into this thing to make it run as smoothly as possible as long as it's no more than 300-400 dollar upgrades. But your gunna have to dumb down some of your tech talk for me. lol I'm pretty new to this.

Okay so I'm new to the gameing computers and I'm not the brightest when it comes to the graphics cards and etc. I asked around and I was sent here so I really hope you guys can help. So my question is how does the laptop come and what parts should I upgrade for it to run games smoothly? And whe I order it am I given options for what parts I'd prefer? I just don't want to blow the money on it then have to spend even more on parts that need improveing. lolz.