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.

Let Alienware Push Your System to the Limit

The Area-51 ALX system is now available with the quad core Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 overclocked from 3.0GHz to 4.0 GHz core clock speed! Alienware factory overclocking increases your processor’s overall speed and performance. Alienware assures that all its overclocked systems still meet Alienware’s strict quality and performance guidelines before leaving the factory. Alienware factory overclocking does not void your system warranty.

Get Caught in the CrossFireX

The New ATI® Radeon™ HD 3870 X2 in CrossFireX™ technology is the DirectX® 10 screaming graphics firepower that ALX customers have been waiting for. These power-packed dual GPU graphics cards provide the stunning realism and immersive visual quality that propels you deep into your gameplay. Quad 512MB of GDDR3 onboard memory, and PCI-Express 2.0™ x16 GPU bus interface graphics compatibility, makes sure your next-gen DX10 games can get cranked up to their maximum settings without experiencing any lag in framerates. The new revolution in gaming graphics is Quad GPU technology.

More than ever before

Cram all your digital pictures, movies, games, and music, into the massive hard drives on the Area-51 and still have room to spare. With up to 4 terabytes of storage you’ll never have to worry about storage space.

DDR3 Memory is Here

The Area-51 ALX with the Intel X38 chipset is equipped with the new standard in high performance memory, Patriot Extreme Performance Enhanced Latency 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.

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.