Think your rig is the best gaming rig around? Think again. The Alienware Aurora ALX features Quad SLI, which means four powerful NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GPUs to fly through any games you throw at it. Together with its dual-core AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 processor, you’ll be able to run this baby at a whooping 2560×1600 resolution with your favorite games. Perfect for the Apple 30-inch Cinema HD LCD, which has that as its native optimum resolution. These smokin’ hot components are all cooled by its silent liquid cooling system.
The Aurora ALX setup is configurable via Alienware’s website. But the default 1GB RAM, 250GB 7,200RPM SATA hard drive, 16x dual layer DVD writer and no monitor is already costing a hefty $6,929. So kids, please look away now if you aren’t a professional gamer.
March 13th, 2006 at 8:41 pm
simply an amazing machine, i just wish i could afford myself something like that…
just think about it, 6 and a half grand and no monitor.
March 13th, 2006 at 9:08 pm
So sexy!
The case is ugly tho. I would rather buy all the parts and then put it together myself in a custom case… I bet you anything it would cost a bit cheaper than buying from alienware.
March 13th, 2006 at 9:24 pm
I could buy the same parts individually from any independant computer hadware store for HALF the PRICE quoted on this site, whoever would want to buy a factory made computer is either stupid or economically foolish
March 13th, 2006 at 11:55 pm
Freaky. It probably performs quite nicely, but it’s all a bit overkill. And that price just made me gag- litteraly.
I’ll stick to my (much more affordable) brand spanking new $3100 AMD rig.
March 14th, 2006 at 12:35 am
yeah sweet machine but with alienware’s market-up at god knows what you can easily make it for around 3000 i bet you. thats what newegg is for!
March 14th, 2006 at 1:28 am
Amusing since every time Alienware boasts in their ads about “Runs best on Alienware!” they do near the worse on the 3D stress tests they run for games and rendering.. last time the thing crashed and didn’t even finish the test. They charge 1k just for their brand name, anyone who builds their own computers knows this, they’re like Nike, the price is all for the hype.
Get Falcon NW’s Mach V computers if you want true commercial gaming power. More stability, more power, more tech support, roughly equal price.
March 14th, 2006 at 1:29 am
does anyone now how intensely hard it is to buy a mobo with four 16x PCI-Express slots?? newegg doesnt even sell those!
March 14th, 2006 at 1:30 am
4 7800s but only 1gb of ram?!
March 14th, 2006 at 1:33 am
As a customer of alienware I can straight up tell you that This is another paid advertisement of alienware. Dont be fooled by this blog. Alienware uses old parts instead of new ones and voids warrents at random. Good luck getting good tech support or a working computer. True pros build their own rigs instead of buying from Alienware. Sadly Im a fool to have been suckered into buying a Alienware.
PS Alienware computers are fire hazards.
March 14th, 2006 at 1:36 am
7900!!!! not 7800 graphics gard
March 14th, 2006 at 5:23 am
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Haha…i do wish Alienware pays me for that, Carpathious. But no, HipTechBlog is absolutely independant. Futhermore if I’m paid by them, wouldn’t they want me to add a few praises instead of merely reporting the news?
Think again.
March 14th, 2006 at 5:56 am
90% of alienwares paid advertisements. the other 10% are either people who like alienware or try to support them. I use to support alienware but as the President of Alienware said this “I Cant believe on how dumb people are that they buy over priced and over markted products.” You dont want to support a company that says that do you?
March 14th, 2006 at 6:09 am
I personally work at one of the manufacturing companies that Alienware owns, where these computers are put together. I myself have assisted in building a few of these exact rigs shown above and let me tell you, it is not something any normal PC enthusiast would be able to create. The new motherboard and liquid cooling system make it much more of a challange. I’m not saying that people at home cant do it, its just this model with these parts are something else. Luckily for me, i was able to spend a few hours after work over a few days and put a similar system together for myself, yet only had to pay the company a little over $1500 for the parts. I’m on it right now, and i must say it is one of the best machines i have ever experienced. The only problem is the price, which i dont know why Alienware is keeping outragiously high. My personal suggestion for everyone else, stick to regular computers.
March 14th, 2006 at 6:25 am
Quad SLI is useless for games anyway… unless of course NVidia enable it within their drivers.
All it’s good for currently is running 4 monitors…
Other than that you’ve got 2 cards sitting there doing nothing.
What a waste.
March 14th, 2006 at 8:24 am
what is this? 6000 bucks for a computer? who would spend 6000 bucks for a computer? jesus, i could make something close to that for about 2900. who needs 4 video cards, wow, im satisfied with one 7800, but 4 7900s? thats just plain stupid.
March 14th, 2006 at 8:53 am
Alienware makes their money like the President of Alienware said over charging the crap out of people and then ripping them off on the return by charging 25% restocking fee then putting those parts out in a “new” computer without checking them. Anyone can build a Alienware computer. Even a noob with barely any computer knowledge can do it if they research right. “Alienware does nothing special to their systems except putting their logo on it ” from a Senior Tech Support Agent at Alienware. If you really research you can buy the exact same system from other companies that dont rip you off as much as Alienware does.
March 14th, 2006 at 9:02 am
Dude Quad SLI that means 4 graphic cards, with probably 2 outputs each HELOO do the math people that’s 8 god damn monitors. Does anyone take math these days? Do people read?
I don’t know you tell me.
Quad SLI means you can play FEAR at 1600 res with no clipping no frames being dropped no screen lag, NOTHING pure milkflow THEORETICALLY. I don’t know though I’d have to see the 3DMark 2006 for that sysem before I believe that that machine is any good. Those cards must be generating so much heat that you probably won’t have to pay the heat bill all winter that thing will heat up your whole house. I have that problem and I have 2 21″ CRT’s those pupies keep me sweating in mid winter. I’m running 2 x 120 Gb raid 0, overclocked , watercooling. I can’t believe they don’t even have raid 0 what a sad machine for over 6k.
Speaking from tech experience, I had to help a alienware nut who by the way carried his machine all the way from his dorm(half a mile) AND the monitor with his buddy to Info Tech because he figured it would be a good idea to wipe it out and reinstall the drivers. Alienware gave him the wrong drivers disc, he was stuck with no graphic drivers/ network drivers he was fucked. It took me a good 2 hours realizing the drivers are nowhere to be found, I even read through his printed out “classified” specs sheet which had the wrong hardware written on it, i tried downloading those drivers and no luck. Finally out of desparation I pulled a philips opened up the case and wrote down the motherboard model number which I used to download the onboard network drivers with my friend google. *curses alienware to this day*
March 14th, 2006 at 12:36 pm
Just go to http://www.newegg.com... custom gaming machine with 200 or more GB HD, 2GB ram dual core AMD 4800 dual sli mobo, 2 dual core 7800 GTX Graphics cards, and add a decent monitor and there you go
fuck alienware
March 14th, 2006 at 1:38 pm
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I doubt it, the the liqued cooling and the 3year warantey support included is alone a good deal.. Needless to say that only the 2*Geforce 7900 cards and the FX60 cpu is a total of 3grands if bought in parts.
March 14th, 2006 at 3:10 pm
“which means four powerful …. um no , SHIMMERING NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GPUs to fly through any games you throw at it”
March 15th, 2006 at 11:13 am
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Who the hell needs a 3 year warranty on computer parts? In 3 years, all these parts together will cost you about 500 bucks. So is that woth the extra 1500 now?? No, I think now. Soon liquid cooling systems will be standard with the new chips coming out.
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Any game that comes out now can be taken care of by two 7800’s with NO PROBLEM. After a good amount of time it may take some upgrading.. but the 6 grand pricetag?? F that S.
March 23rd, 2006 at 5:10 pm
wow you people don’t look at specs very well do you. Quad SLI is two graphics cards both with dual cores, theres your answer to only 1gb of ram and no mother board with 4 pci x26 slots. the only problem is as far as I can tell dual core 7900 cards are only available in prebuilt systems such as alienware, dell, voodoo, etc. I havent been able to find a dual core 7900 anywhere, however you can buy 2 dual core 7800gtx’s if you want to build a quad sli machine.
May 3rd, 2006 at 5:49 am
So you mean to tell me that even If you guys were rich that you would not by a PC like this, You guys are f’ing idiots with a PC like this you wouldn’t have to upgrade for ten years or more, I have ordered one of these bad boys with: 4GB RAM and a 500BG HDD! I bet you guys forgot that these are totaly costomisable!
December 31st, 2006 at 2:08 am
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Shoooo, I’d buy a case and transplant the innards anyway if it’were so ugly which NOT