I'm looking at buying a prebuilt PC, primarily for gaming, and keep coming back to Alienware. I'm hesitant because I've always considered Alienware overpriced and never had a lot of respect for Dell builds. Now that Alienware is Dell I'm even more meh about the whole thing. There's not, however, a whole lot of choice in Canada and I'm not finding much feedback here. Hence, back to trusty Geekzone to ask - is Alienware worth it these days?

I'm looking at spending around the $2000 Canadian mark. Annoyed that I need to buy now, right after all the issues with meltdown, etc surfaced, but needs must. 

If not Alienware, what other suggestions? As I said, mainly gaming, some video work, some programming, some other work stuff, but its the gaming specs that are the most important. Ideas? Reasons I shouldn't touch Alienware?