Alienware Area-51 ALX (QX9770) - PC Mag
PC Magazine have published a review of the Alienware Area-51 ALX (QX9770) multimedia PC. 'The Alienware Area-51 ALX (Q9770) ($6,829 direct) has heady performance numbers and a price tag to match. Previous Alienware systems have primarily been about their presence on your desk, with quite a bit of performance thrown in. Some Alienware desktops have aspired to performance greatness, only to fall just short. With the ALX (Q9770), Alienware has finally hit the mark, shipping us a lust-worthy system that blew the roof off our benchmark tests. This is a system you'd want to put on your desk to admire and to show off—provided you have the funds for a $7,000 PC.
The ALX (Q9770)'s case isn't subtle. It's light years ahead of the old Alienware cases, which looked pretty from a distance but seemed somewhat cheap when you got closer. This case's black visage with chromed accents announces that you are either a rich hardcore gamer or a well-funded poseur. Inside are components worthy of any tech connoisseur's checklist: a liquid-cooled 3-GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 (aka Yorkfield XE) processor overclocked to 4.0 GHz, 4GB of 1,600-MHz DDR3 SDRAM, dual nVidia GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics cards (with each card containing two GPUs) in a Quad SLI configuration, and a Blu-ray burner.'
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