Alienware announced some new systems recently, including their latest desktop box, the Aurora ALX. The biggest news about the Aurora is the inclusion of the new ATI Radeon HD 5870 card. Reputed to be the current “top of the heap” when it comes to video cards, it’s being tested all over the web.
Hot Hardware gave it a spin and it came in with some extremely impressive benchmarks. Most impressive was a record breaking 75.6 FPS on Crysis. Remember, this is the game that many people felt was written for hardware from the future, not the CPU’s and GPU’s that were available at the time. Well, the future has arrived.
Of course with Alienware, there’s always that other shoe that drops. You know, the price? Well, the Aurora ALX comes in at a wallet-plundering $4074, as tested. Ouch.
This one’s amazing!
I like Alienware, I don’t like the price. I’ll build my own. No warranty, but cheaper and custom catered to my desires? That’s just win no two ways about it. That and there are much better cases out there, as pretty nice as the Aurora is. I’m thinking Adamas for sure construction quality (a bit tight though) or CM Stacker (a bit pricey). …or maybe a TJO7 just for pure classiness. I can’t decide!
Aside from price I especially don’t like the fact that they are Dells, fancy Dells but still Dells. And I know one thing for sure, I would never ever buy or recommend a Dell.
sounds like you are extremely close minded or you work for HP. there is nothing wrong with Dells. people cry about indian tech support but EVERY company, including apple, uses indian tech support. and if you build your own machine, good look getting any kind of support since you’ll be calling OEMs as far away as china.
‘OEMs as far away as china’? I had some really aimless minor thing with my XFX Graphics card that I spent about 4p on, so I rung XFX and they solved it like that 100% English 100% sorted so that shoves your aimless rambling where the sun don’t shine.
Why does ALX version cost >$4K, when the non-ALX version is priced at <$1.3K on the Dell website?
i think i’ll get me one of those with all the added stuff after i win the lottery!