Area 51 ALX CF

CrossFire Performance Alienware Desktop

 

Price $5,149.00USD

 

 

 

 

The best of the best

Intel® Core™2 Extreme @ 4.0GHz

Dual ATI® HD 3870 + CrossFire

PCI Express® 2.0

Low Latency DDR3 Memory

128GB Solid State RAID 0

Blu-ray Disc Technology

 

 

 

 

45 Nanometers of Quad-Core Glory

With more than 800 million transistors for quad-core, the new 45nm Core 2 Extreme introduces new microarchetecture features for greater performance. Some of these advanced new features include: greater performance at all previous given frequencies, up to 50-percent larger L2 caches, and expanded power management capabilities for new levels of energy efficiency. Also new to the next generation 45nm Core 2 Extreme are nearly 50 new Intel SSE4 instructions for speeding up the performance of media and high performance applications.

 

 

 

Technical Specifications

 

 

 

Operating Systems

Windows Vista® Ultimate

Windows Vista® Home Premium

 

Processors, Chipset & Memory

 

Intel® Core 2™ Extreme Processor (45nm Penryn) with Quad Core Technology

Over-clocked to 4.0GHz — liquid cooled

3.0GHz, 1333MHz FSB, 12MB full speed level 2 Cache.

Intel® X38™ Express Chipset

PCI-Express™ 2.0

Standard 2GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz

Up to 4GB of system memory

 

 

Graphics & Video

Standard ATI® Radeon™ HD 3870 X2

Dual GPU Technology

2x512MB GDDR3 dedicated video memory

Dual DVI and S-Video outputs with dual display support

DirectX® 10.1 and OpenGL® 2.0 compatibility

PCI Express™ 2.0 x16 GPU bus interface

ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU upgradeability (when available)

 

Optional Dual ATI® Radeon™ HD 3870 with Crossfire™ Technology

2x 512MB GDDR4 dedicated video memory

Quad DVI and dual S-Video outputs with quad display support

DirectX® 10.1 and OpenGL® 2.0 compatibility

PCI Express™ 2.0

 

Optional Dual ATI® Radeon™ HD 2900XT with Crossfire™ Technology

2x 1GB GDDR4 dedicated video memory

Quad DVI and Dual S-Video outputs with quad display support

DirectX® 10.1 and OpenGL® 2.0 compatibility

 

 

Storage

Hard Drive Options

RAID: Options 0 and 1 Available

RPM: Starting at 7,200 up to 10,000

Capacity: Starting at 160GB up to 1TB per Drive (4 Drives Maximum)

 

Solid State: up to 128GB

Interface: Serial ATA 3Gb/s

Duo Drive: up to 320GB dual SATA/USB internal/external interface

 

Optical Drive Options

Standard 20x Dual Layer DVD±R/W Drive w/LightScribe Technology

 

Optional 6x Blu-ray™ Disc (BD-ROM) Reader

Optional 4x Blu-ray™ Disc (BD-ROM) Reader / Writer

Digital Media

Optional 28-in-1 digital media reader / writer

 

 

Networking

Integrated High Performance Wireless-N (802.11n/g/b)

Integrated Dual High Performance Gigabit Ethernet Ports

 

 

Audio

Standard High Definition Surround Sound Audio

Supports 8–channel (7.1) 24–bit audio

Connectivity - Standard Audio:

 

Eight-channel analog jacks (Rear)

One Optical digital output (Rear)

One Coaxial digital output (Rear)

One 1/8” analog headphone jack (Front)

One 1/8” analog microphone jack (Front)

Optional Sound Blaster X-Fi High Definition Surround Sound Audio

Supports 8-channel (7.1) 24-bit high-definition audio

Connectivity - Sound Blaster Audio:

 

Eight-channel analog jacks (Rear)

One Optical digital output (Rear)

One 1/8” analog headphone jack (Front)

One 1/8” analog microphone jack (Front)

 

 

Peripheral Connects

2 x External SATA

8-channel Audio I/O

1 x PS/2 Keyboard

1 x Optical S/PDIF

1 x Coaxial S/PDIF

1 x FireWire 400 (IEEE 1394a)

8 x USB 2.0/1.1 (Front)

2 x USB 2.0/1.1 (Front)

6 x USB 2.0/1.1 (Rear)

2 x Gigabit Ethernet

2 x Wireless / Access Point antenna jac

 

Case & Chassis

Exclusive Alienware ALX chassis design in choice of two high-gloss color finishes

Exclusive chrome-finished chassis accents and black-anodized chassis interior

AlienIce™ 3.0 high-performance cooling

AlienFX for quick and easy system lighting

Easily accessible front ports: two USB 2.0, one FireWire 400, Headphones and Microphone

Standard 1000-watt Multi-GPU-approved power supply

Tool-less front and side panels

Height: 19.01”

Width: 9.97”

Depth: 25.02”

 

Blu-ray Disc Technology

The Blu-ray Disc format offers the highest capacity of any consumer media format to date, also greatly surpassing the capacity of other media formats. Blu-ray Disc gives you the maximum storage capability of 50GB on one dual layer disc, almost 10x the standard storage capabilities of a DVD. Blu-ray Disc's huge capacity allows not only for the highest quality High Definition video to be displayed, but allows you back up your large media libraries on one disc.

 

DDR3 Memory

The Area-51 ALX with the Intel X38 chipset is equipped with the new standard in high performance memory, DDR3. DDR3 carries an average of 30% less power consumption and higher memory bandwidth than DDR2. These features allows for RAM clock speeds up to 1333MHz to 1600MHz.