Alienware announces invasion of new gaming PCs, including new Area-51, Aurora, M15x [video]
Written by Alexis M. (Rivithed)
Wednesday, 23 September 2009
If you're ready to venture out into a new universe in PC gaming, Alienware is ready to take you there. Alienware is at Tokyo Game Show 2009, getting ready to show some of its new gaming PCs they've announced today. In partnership will Dell, they're unloading a lineup of five new PCs designed for some high-performance gaming. Keeping with Alienware's unique design style, they also look like they've just descended out of the mothership, with red glowing accents and slick enclosures. What's inside sounds otherworldly too. Watch the introductory video below from Alienware and Dell for the first look at them.
From Alienware:
"The All powerful Alienware Aurora, Aurora ALX, Area-51 and Area-51 ALX desktops and the Alienware M15x laptop join the M17x, launched in June, to expand the Alienware arsenal and reaffirm Dell’s position as visionary and designer of the industry’s most coveted gaming systems."
There are plenty of details, images and specs for each of these powerful gaming computers, so take your pick from the various Alienware models below for more details:
The Area 51 and Area 51 ALX start at $1,999 and will be available within the next few weeks. The Aurora and Aurora ALX start at $1,299 and are now available from www.alienware.com. The Alienware M15x starts at $1,499 and is now available from www.alienware.com.
Overview from Alienware:
The ALX brand describes a distinguished set of Alienware systems that deliver extremely‐high performance and unique design features. The Alienware Area‐51 ALX is the most powerful desktop Alienware has ever created.
The Area‐51 ALX combines technologies like a copper cold‐plated liquid cooling unit with Intel® Core™i7 CPUs featuring exclusive factory‐overclocked* speeds not available on any other Alienware system. The raw processing power of our flagship gaming desktop should be envied by gamers worldwide. Equipped with a generous 1100 kilowatt power supply, gamers can take on multi‐GPU graphics options with their choice of most demanding NVIDIA® SLI® or ATI CrossFireX™ enabled graphics cards.
The Area‐51 ALX also presents our new and aggressive industrial full‐tower desktop design with features catering to function as well as bragging rights like anodized aluminum surfaces, a motorized front door, the Active Venting louver system, internal “theater” lighting, a strategic internal component layout for easy user access and an AlienFX™ lighting system that allows the user to customize their chassis with up to 64 million lighting color combinations.
Who will benefit:
Enthusiast and hardcore PC gamers who do not want to make sacrifices with regards to
performance or upgradability and appreciate an aggressive and functional design.
Advantages:
Processors: The Area‐51 ALX offers Intel® Core™ i7 CPUs including Extreme Editions that are factory‐overclocked with speed choices of 3.73 GHz and 3.86 GHz delivering the highest speed CPUs found on any Alienware gaming PC.
Graphics: Engage in an extreme gaming experience with high end Multi‐GPU options including support for NVIDIA® SLI® or ATI CrossFireX™ with DirectX® 11 for an exceptional visual engagement.
Memory: Take multitasking to extreme levels with up to 12GB of 1600MHz DDR3 triple‐channel memory.
Storage: Eliminate your fears of not having sufficient storage with 6 SATA2 hard drive bays in a storage compartment that is isolated from the core components with support for traditional hard drives as well as solid state drives. Users can store their massive collected libraries of media, movies, music, and games and perform easy, tool‐free, and cable‐free hard drive upgrades.
Alienware Command Center: The Alienware Command Center is an exclusive software package, created by the Alienware software development team, that provides access to Alienware created programs like AlienFX, Thermal Controls, and AlienFusion.
Design: The new aggressive industrial design is representative of Alienware’s commitment to express high‐performance through ID with functional internal and external features that can be enjoyed by the most hardcore gamers.
Front I/O Ports:
(3x) High‐Speed USB 2.0
(1x ) eSATA
(1x) Firewire IEEE 1394
(1x) Microphone In
(1x) Headphone/Speaker Out
(1x) 19‐in‐1 Media Card Reader (optional)
Rear I/O Ports:
(1x ) eSATA
(2x) RJ‐45 Gigabit Ethernet
(6x) High‐Speed USB 2.0
(1x) Firewire IEEE 1394
(1x) Microphone In
(1x) Line‐In
(1x) Front Left/Right Speakers
(1x) Center Speaker
(1x) Side Left/Right Speakers
(1x) SPDIF Digital Output (TOSLINK)
(1x) SPDIF Digital Output (Coax)
(2x) PS/2 (mouse/keyboard)
Optional features include:
Processor: Overclocked Intel® Core™i7 975 3.86 GHz (8MB Cache) Extreme Edition Quad Core Processor
Graphics: Dual 1.8GB NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 2951– NVIDIA SLI Enabled!
Memory: Up to 12GB DDR3 1600MHz
Hard Drive: Massive Storage Upgrades Featuring 7,200 and 10,000 RPM hard drives as well as Solid State Drives available varying configurations such as RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 1+0 technologies.
Optical Drive: Dual Drives including a 6X Dual Layer Blu‐ray Disc™ Burner
Alienware Area-51
Overview from Alienware:
The Area‐51 is the most upgradeable desktop Alienware has ever created. The new Area‐51 is equipped with technologies like a copper cold‐plated, liquid cooling unit with Intel® Core™i7 CPUs offering factory‐overclocked* speeds for elevated processing power. There are also options for extremely fast multi‐GPU graphics options with support for NVIDIA® SLI® or ATI CrossFireX™ technologies, enabling graphics performance that delivers an incredible gaming experience.
The Area‐51 offers a new and aggressive industrial design available in two colors, Lunar Shadow (shown to the right) and Cosmic Black, with functional features such as an Active Venting louver system system, internal “theater” lighting and a strategic layout of internal components for easy user upgrades. This new system includes a second door containing the hard drive storage compartment with cable‐free, dockable hard drive trays for convenient “lock and load” hard drive upgrades and additional internal lighting providing users an increased level of accessibility. Complimenting the performance and external design, users can customize system lighting themes via AlienFX™ for up to 64 million lighting color combinations.
Who will benefit:
Enthusiast and hardcore PC gamers who desire a high performance gaming experience, a highlevel of upgradability and an aggressive and functional design.
Advantages:
Processors: The Area‐51 offers Intel® Core™ i7 CPUs with an option for an Extreme Edition, factory‐overclocked to 3.60GHz, providing a higher speed CPU option for increased processor bandwidth.
Graphics: Engage in an extreme gaming experience with high end Multi‐GPU options including support for NVIDIA® SLI® or ATI CrossFireX™ with DirectX® 11 for an exceptional visual experience.
Memory: Take on up to 12GB of 1333MHz DDR3 triple‐channel memory1 for advanced multitasking.
Storage: Eliminate your fears of not having sufficient storage with 6 SATA2 hard drive bays in a storage compartment that is isolated from the core components with support for traditional hard drives as well as solid state drives. Users can store their massive collected libraries of media, movies, music, and games and perform easy, tool‐free, and cable‐free hard drive upgrades.
Alienware Command Center: The Alienware Command Center is an exclusive software package, created by the Alienware software development team, that provides access to Alienware created programs like AlienFX, Thermal Controls and AlienFusion.
Design: The new aggressive industrial design is representative of Alienware’s commitment to express high‐performance through ID with functional internal and external features that can be enjoyed by the most hardcore gamers.
Front I/O Ports:
(3x) High‐Speed USB 2.0
(1x ) eSATA
(1x) Firewire IEEE 1394
(1x) Microphone In
(1x) Headphone/Speaker Out
(1x) 19‐in‐1 Media Card Reader (optional)
Rear I/O Ports:
(1x ) eSATA
(2x) RJ‐45 Gigabit Ethernet
(6x) High‐Speed USB 2.0
(1x) Firewire IEEE 1394
(1x) Microphone In
(1x) Line‐In
(1x) Front Left/Right Speakers
(1x) Center Speaker
(1x) Rear Left/Right Speakers
(1x) Side Left/Right Speakers
(1x) SPDIF Digital Output (TOSLINK)
(1x) SPDIF Digital Output (Coax)
(2x) PS/2 (mouse/keyboard)
Optional Features include:
Processor: Overclocked Intel® Core™i7 975 3.60GHz (8MB Cache) Quad Core Processor
Graphics: Dual 1.8GB NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 2951– NVIDIA SLI Enabled!
Memory: Up to 12GB DDR31 1333MHz in Triple‐Channel
Hard Drive: Massive Storage Upgrades Featuring 7,200 and 10,000 RPM
hard drives as well as Solid State Drives available varying configurations such as RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 1+0 technologies.
Optical Drive: Dual Drives including a 6X Dual Layer Blu‐ray Disc™ Burner
