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WilHarris · 11th Jan 2006, 12:17

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/200...ora7500/1.html

Marquee · 11th Jan 2006, 12:23

Iam 1st sweet. That computer rocks man.

Well to telll you the trueth it looks like of the shevel parts but with a sweet case. But man Alienware is becomeing like Dell. They get the new hardware while still in testing. Lucky guys over there.

rupbert · 11th Jan 2006, 12:27

Not a fan of the 'designer pc', but this is seriously impressive.

crayfish · 11th Jan 2006, 12:29

That lottery win can't come soon enough!

I wonder how long it will be before PCs we can all afford will give those framerates at those details.

Marquee · 11th Jan 2006, 12:32

Man they need to make cards that you can swap out the core ship and the memory on. So that if you buy a 256mb card you can upgrade later to a 512mb. Or even the Core to. Back in the days you can do that with ATi card. Adding more memory. This way we can get that same detail and FPS with less on upgrading.

J Swan · 11th Jan 2006, 12:48

"Man they need to make cards that you can swap out the core ship and the memory on. So that if you buy a 256mb card you can upgrade later to a 512mb"

good call..

Hamish · 11th Jan 2006, 12:54

4.5k and they make you run 2t....

Pookeyhead · 11th Jan 2006, 13:47

Too ugly... not well specced enough to warrant the price either. If you buy that fugly P.O.S instead of building you want your head examining. Kudos for the launch date tho!

Tim S · 11th Jan 2006, 13:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hamish

4.5k and they make you run 2t....

Yeah, I saw the system down at the TR/Bit office yesterday and was frankly disappointed by Alienware's choice to use 4 DIMMs. My first question was whether they'd put 4GB of memory in there or not (I could understand it if that was the case).

Hybr1d · 11th Jan 2006, 13:59

You could build the same with a NICE case for under £2400

fev · 11th Jan 2006, 14:14

*edited to suit the needs of the forum*

I said it last review i'll say it this review... over priced for what it is.
It's impressive in terms of componants it contains.

Tim S · 11th Jan 2006, 14:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hybr1d

You could build the same with a NICE case for under £2400

But you don't get the technical support from one company. If something goes wrong with your system and you built it yourself, you've got to troubleshoot it before you start calling however many companies for an RMA, hoping that you picked the right one. Alienware, on the other hand, will do the troubleshooting and fixing jobs for you so you don't have to.

Also, I'm interested where you got £2400 from.

FX-60 is > £600
A8N32-SLI Deluxe is ~£140
2GB of memory is over £200
2 GTX 512's are £1000

You're knocking on the door of £2000 before you've even thought about the 1TB of storage in a 2x250GB + 500GB configuration, Windows XP, two optical drives, an X-Fi soundcard, decent power supply and case.

Please keep the 'I could build this for less' type comments out of this thread - they're not appropriate and I'd consider them as trolling.

perplekks45 · 11th Jan 2006, 15:21

Well, but what will come next month or the next when ATI and nVidia release their new chips (R580 and G71/72)? R580 is new architecture, it MIGHT blow away every record nVidia just set with GTX 512's. So what if CrossFire will be THE thing to have?
I don't think ATI will outperform nVidia in the next 6 months though but it might happen. And then you just dropped 5k € on a rig that's 'old'! I would buy the stuff that's packed in there, not the AW rig, but the stuff if I had the money. But I don't.
And people willing to pay are enthusiasts always wanting the newest stuff out there. And in about 1 or 2 let it be 3 goddamnit months these cards won't be TEH pwz0r cards.
So, yea great performance, ridiculous price.

RotoSequence · 11th Jan 2006, 15:52

As lovely as the Alienware is, it is a perfect demonstration machine of what you can do with more money than sense. As much as you make like this absurdly fast, high specced, and high priced machine, you pay an awful lot for what you get out of it. Two 7800 GT 256 Meg GPUs will give substantial improvements over the single 7800 GT used in the tests at those resolutions, and Crossfire is indeed an option that is less expensive and similar in specification as I understand it.

Those who dont want to do their own tech support are either those who have grown tired of it, or are too lazy to learn. I cant think of too terribly many people who can afford this and would have ever bothered to learn; this is definitely a box built for the techno neophyte who cant stand having anything less than the best.

Shadowed_fury · 11th Jan 2006, 15:57

Ignoring the 2T'd ram, that is seriously fast. :|

-EVRE- · 11th Jan 2006, 17:12

that much money and they dont even use koolance liquid cooling!

Arkuden · 11th Jan 2006, 17:51

scary fast... and impressive. Ive always enjoyed their cable management but the price for everything total is quite high. I would imagine they will still sell plenty of them just for the point of having the fastest machine... In a month when the new video card specs come out do they expect the price of this machine to drop or the new machines will just be that much higher?

Meanmotion · 11th Jan 2006, 17:59

£4399? Wholly frickin' poop!

Worth every penny though to have it right now.

Ab$olut · 11th Jan 2006, 18:25

HOLY SH** check out the cs:s results the game must look so sweeet at those settings now if only I could gather the funds

b1g-d0g · 11th Jan 2006, 18:46

Just ordered one from Komplett had to say bye bye to my FX57 and 7800GTX.
Just saw a review on one site they got it upto 3.2ghz on the standered cooler.

11th Jan 2006, 12:17	#1
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11th Jan 2006, 12:23	#2
Marquee Supermodder Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Toronto Canada Posts: 404	Iam 1st sweet. That computer rocks man. Well to telll you the trueth it looks like of the shevel parts but with a sweet case. But man Alienware is becomeing like Dell. They get the new hardware while still in testing. Lucky guys over there. __________________ Project Log: Knight Rider CWC

11th Jan 2006, 12:32	#5
Marquee Supermodder Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Toronto Canada Posts: 404	Man they need to make cards that you can swap out the core ship and the memory on. So that if you buy a 256mb card you can upgrade later to a 512mb. Or even the Core to. Back in the days you can do that with ATi card. Adding more memory. This way we can get that same detail and FPS with less on upgrading. __________________ Project Log: Knight Rider CWC

11th Jan 2006, 13:47	#8
Pookeyhead It's Big, and It's Clever Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Blackpool Posts: 4,934	Too ugly... not well specced enough to warrant the price either. If you buy that fugly P.O.S instead of building you want your head examining. Kudos for the launch date tho! __________________ Intel i7 920 @ 3.8GHz ¦¦ Asus P6T Deluxe ¦¦ 6Gb Corsair Dominator C8 ¦¦ XFX GTX295 ¦¦ 2x 1Tb Samsung F1 ¦¦ 1x Seagate 7200.11 1.5Tb ¦¦ Gigabyte Odin 800W PSU ¦¦ Dell 2405FPW.

11th Jan 2006, 14:14	#11
fev Corporate Whore Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Tesco - On Beanbag, Games Playing Office Posts: 2,880	edited to suit the needs of the forum I said it last review i'll say it this review... over priced for what it is. It's impressive in terms of componants it contains. __________________ I know what I'm doing... do you? Follow me on Twitter..go on Last edited by fev; 11th Jan 2006 at 14:27.

11th Jan 2006, 12:27	#3
rupbert Hypermodder Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Northern Ireland Posts: 799	Not a fan of the 'designer pc', but this is seriously impressive.

11th Jan 2006, 12:29	#4
crayfish Amazing scenes! Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: UK Posts: 597	That lottery win can't come soon enough! I wonder how long it will be before PCs we can all afford will give those framerates at those details.

11th Jan 2006, 12:48	#6
J Swan What's a Dremel? Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: essex Posts: 7	"Man they need to make cards that you can swap out the core ship and the memory on. So that if you buy a 256mb card you can upgrade later to a 512mb" good call..

11th Jan 2006, 12:54	#7
Hamish I Mod, Therefore I Own Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: London Posts: 3,587	4.5k and they make you run 2t....

11th Jan 2006, 13:59	#10
Hybr1d Bаnned Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 883	You could build the same with a NICE case for under £2400

11th Jan 2006, 15:21	#13
perplekks45 BSc... finally Join Date: May 2004 Location: Vienna, Austria Posts: 3,346	Well, but what will come next month or the next when ATI and nVidia release their new chips (R580 and G71/72)? R580 is new architecture, it MIGHT blow away every record nVidia just set with GTX 512's. So what if CrossFire will be THE thing to have? I don't think ATI will outperform nVidia in the next 6 months though but it might happen. And then you just dropped 5k € on a rig that's 'old'! I would buy the stuff that's packed in there, not the AW rig, but the stuff if I had the money. But I don't. And people willing to pay are enthusiasts always wanting the newest stuff out there. And in about 1 or 2 let it be 3 goddamnit months these cards won't be TEH pwz0r cards. So, yea great performance, ridiculous price. __________________ "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far." Blame it on Cheaps! [now a social group]

11th Jan 2006, 15:52	#14
RotoSequence Lazy Lurker Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: 'States Posts: 4,527	As lovely as the Alienware is, it is a perfect demonstration machine of what you can do with more money than sense. As much as you make like this absurdly fast, high specced, and high priced machine, you pay an awful lot for what you get out of it. Two 7800 GT 256 Meg GPUs will give substantial improvements over the single 7800 GT used in the tests at those resolutions, and Crossfire is indeed an option that is less expensive and similar in specification as I understand it. Those who dont want to do their own tech support are either those who have grown tired of it, or are too lazy to learn. I cant think of too terribly many people who can afford this and would have ever bothered to learn; this is definitely a box built for the techno neophyte who cant stand having anything less than the best. __________________ Technology Schmecnology

11th Jan 2006, 15:57	#15
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11th Jan 2006, 17:12	#16
-EVRE- Supermodder Join Date: May 2004 Location: Idaho U.S.A Posts: 343	that much money and they dont even use koolance liquid cooling! __________________ (Phenom II 940)(Foxcon A7DA)(8gb OCZ DDR2 800 )(8800gt aka hair dryer)(Big yellow case, CPU, GPU)(Enermax Liberty 500w)(lite-on DVD-RW w/LightScribe)(Seagate 300gb sata)(Seagate 320gb x2)(WD 200gb)(Dell 3007WFP 30"LCD, 19" Samsung, Acer 1280x720 projector)

11th Jan 2006, 17:51	#17
Arkuden mow? Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Under a rock. Posts: 931	scary fast... and impressive. Ive always enjoyed their cable management but the price for everything total is quite high. I would imagine they will still sell plenty of them just for the point of having the fastest machine... In a month when the new video card specs come out do they expect the price of this machine to drop or the new machines will just be that much higher?

11th Jan 2006, 17:59	#18
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11th Jan 2006, 18:25	#19
Ab$olut Supermodder Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: mansfield notts Posts: 584	HOLY SH** check out the cs:s results the game must look so sweeet at those settings now if only I could gather the funds __________________ http://www.dameet.co.uk 3000+ 64 venice : XFX 6800gs 256mb : 2gb cosair value ram : 120Gb maxtor : 400w silver power psu

11th Jan 2006, 18:46	#20
b1g-d0g I am a Dremel Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: telford ..uk Posts: 1,686	Just ordered one from Komplett had to say bye bye to my FX57 and 7800GTX. Just saw a review on one site they got it upto 3.2ghz on the standered cooler.