Friday, March 23rd 2007
Alienware Offers Overclocked Quad-Core Desktop PCs
For a limited time only, customers will have the option of choosing overclocked quad-core processor in the Area-51 7500 desktop. Alienware increased the clock rate of the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 from the default level of 2.66GHz to 3.2GHz. This helps ensure even faster and smoother performance when running the latest games and other demanding applications independently or simultaneously. Other specs of the desktop platform are fully customizable and include NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI motherboard, standard 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz (up to 4GB), NVIDIA GeForce 7950GT with 512MB of GDDR3 memory or dual NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTX 768MB GDDR3 video cards in SLI mode, optional AGEIA PhysX physics card, up to four 7200 or 10000 rpm hard drives in RAID 0 or 1, integrated 8-channel sound blaster or Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi, 1000W power supply and AlienIce 3.0 high-performance cooling. The new limited Alienware Area-51 7500 high performance PC starts at $2,199 USD.
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15 Comments on Alienware Offers Overclocked Quad-Core Desktop PCs
In a marketing driven culture, just look ad adv dollar stats, often teh former is true, ie the gimic. One of my favorite is.. "save up to x % off. " What does that really say? Absolutley nothing. It means u could get an increase in price.. or a decrease up to that %.
So this is a " DRIVIL" statement by the marketing department, as we no longer have the plumbline of intergrety in advertising.
your processor will be out of date in around a year anyway lol. and at that price all the tech support in the world dont matter because you could afford a quad anyway for as much, or less more than likely than what their pricing it at...
may as well oc it.. well if you don't mind buying new stuff anyway.. but a good oc'r will be careful and won't push it to the brink anyway.. that's just asking for it I think.. Just give it a lil tweek.. something signifigant but not stretching it out.. going for the high score just seems to me to be screaming "hey I want my computer to break"... Well, no high scores for broken computers..lol.. :slap:
Think of it as a system for hardcore people who dont have time/dont like to mess with computer components themselves. Generally the rich. And we all know how many rich people live in this world.
Also, they do cable management, include a LEGAL os :p, and setup your comp properly so that the likelihood of your system stuffing up in its beginning stages is minimal. Which im sure heaps of you will agree can be quite stressful at times.
Theres probably a heap of other goodies in the deal too. Including 24hr support/repair.
Its still overpriced, true. But its a deal you definately would spend money on if it was more in our price range...LOL you called the Mac crap. I agree. :roll:
Please stop bashing something you obviously know nothing about.
why is the mac pro a server style pc?
I don't mean to "bash" you in anyway.. but look at my specs.. 1400 dollars my comp and I bet you it'll run as good or better than that rig.. I'm just saying, I'd rather point people to my rig for a description of how to get some serious bang for you buck than alien ware who is known for higly overpricing everything they sell, even their cases.. cool they offer a quad, but it's only a 2.3 ghz quad while a nice duo core runs what ? 2.1 ghz or so, that you can OC..