Alienware Redefines “World’s Most Powerful” with Relaunch of Area-51 ALX Desktop

PC-Maker Relaunches the Award-Winning Area-51 ALX Desktop with Quad Graphics and a CPU Overclocked to an Industry-First 4.0GHz

The best just got better. Alienware – the leading manufacturer of high-performance desktop, notebook and entertainment systems – has announced the relaunch of its acclaimed Area-51 ALX desktop. Long held as the standard for elite, ultra-high-performance computers, the all-new ALX shocks the industry as the first and only desktop to offer the 3.2GHz Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme QX9770 overclocked to an unimaginable 4.0GHz.

Alienware’s expert engineers have pushed the QX9770 to its maximum stable output for an intense experience that you can get only from an Alienware computer. Every new Area-51 ALX comes standard with Alienware ALX High-Performance Liquid Cooling.

Powering the Area-51 ALX desktop’s graphics, users have their choice between NVIDIA® Quad SLI® featuring dual NVIDIA® GeForce® 9800 GX2 cards or an ATI™ CrossFireX™ configuration with dual ATI Radeon™ HD 3870 X2 cards. Rounding out the system’s performance is up to 4GB of Corsair™ Dominator™ DDR3 1600MHz memory. No other system offers this level of raw power and aggression.

“The performance packed into the Area-51 ALX desktop is flat-out unheard-of,” says Marc Diana, Product Marketing Manager for Alienware. “Alienware has always been committed to building only the fastest, most powerful systems available, and that’s exactly what we’ve done with the new ALX.”

“By enabling the Area-51 ALX to operate at blazing speed with a great mix of performance and energy efficiency, the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 is the heart of a system sure to excite any Alienware user,” said CJ Bruno, VP, GM Americas Sales & Marketing.

For more information, visit: www.alienware.com/ALX.

Operating Systems
Windows Vista® Home Premium
Windows Vista® Ultimate

Processors, Chipset & Memory
45nm Intel “Penryn” CPU architecture
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo (6MB Cache, 1333MHz FSB)
Intel® Core™ 2 Quad (12MB Cache, 1333MHz FSB)
Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme (12MB Cache, 1333MHz FSB)
Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme (12MB Cache, 1600MHz FSB)

NVIDIA® 790i Ultra SLI Chipset

Up to 4GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 1333MHz

4 dedicated DIMM slots for Dual Channel DDR3 Memory

Graphics & Video
Standard Single GPU Graphics Cards
512MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ 9600GT
512MB ATI® Radeon™ HD 3870
512MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8800GT
Optional Dual GPU Graphics Cards
1GB ATI® Radeon™ HD 3870 X2
1GB NVIDIA® GeForce™ 9800 GX2
Optional Ageia PhysX Physics Processing Unit

Connectivity
2x Dual-Link DVI and S-Video Outputs

Storage
Single Hard Drive
7200 RPM – up to 32MB cache and 1TB storage
10,000 RPM – up to 16MB cache and 160GB storage
Dual RAID 0 Hard Drives
7,200 RPM – up to 64MB cache and 2TB storage

Optical Drives
20x Dual Layer DVD Burner (CD-RW/DVD±RW)
Lightscribe technology
Dual Layer Blu-ray Reader (BD-ROM, DVD±RW, CD-RW)
4x Dual Layer Blu-ray Burner (BD-RE, DVD±RW, CD-RW)

Networking
Wired Connectivity
Dual Integrated Gigabit Ethernet RJ-45

Audio
Standard 7.1/5.1 Digital High-Definition Audio (8 Channel)
Connectivity Front and Rear
2x Auto-sensing headphone jack
2x Auto-sensing microphone jack
Optional Enthusiast Audio Options
Sound Blaster X-Fi High Definition Surround Sound Audio

Peripheral Connections
8 Hi-speed USB 2.0 ports
2 IEEE 1394b (9-pin) port – Powered
1 E-SATA port

Case & Chassis
Exclusive Alienware chassis design
AlienIce™ 3.0 high-performance cooling
Standard system lighting
Optional AlienFX System Lighting
Standard 750-watt Multi-GPU-approved power supply
Optional 1000-watt Multi-GPU-approved power supply
Tool–less front and side panels

Height: 19.01”
Width: 9.97”
Depth: 25.02”

About Alienware

Alienware offers unique and award-winning technology products that incorporate state–of–the–art components, innovative engineering and design, and unprecedented customer service. Alienware has been recognized by INC 500, won the Shoppers’ Choice Award as the Best Performance Desktop by Computer Shopper’s reader survey, had its Alienware Area-51 ranked among “The 25 Greatest PCs of All Time” by PC World and also received PC Magazine’s Reader’s Choice Award in its 18th Annual Reader Survey. Alienware systems are available direct within the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. For more information, please visit www.alienware.com or call 1-800-ALIENWARE (254-3692).

Contacts

For Alienware, Miami
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Nathan Johnson, 972-480-8383 ext. 231
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