Advantages and Disadvantages of Alienware Area-51 ALX (Review)
Posted on | April 21, 2010 | No Comments
Alienware Area-51 ALX represents Alienware’s top-of-the-line offering. Alienware Area-51 ALX with a starting price tag of more than two thousand dollars, Alienware Area-51 ALX packs together multiple GPUs, heat sensing fins, fat stacks of RAM and a removable power supply for what Alienware hopes is the consummate gaming experience.
One of the things that is immediately noticeable about the Area-51 (as opposed to the Aurora) is just how much bigger it is. The Aurora can charitably be called a minitower, though it sort of stretches that definition, but the Area-51 falls concretely into the full-sized tower category. In addition, the sides of the case are constructed of a relatively solid aluminum. As a result, the Area-51, whether you go for the high-end ALX version or not, is big, solid, and above all, heavy.
Advantages:
Interior lighting
Fantastic hard drive setup
Powerful
Disadvantages:
Loud
Heavy
Pricey
Alienware Area-51 ALX Specs:
Processor: Intel Core i7 960 @ 3.20GHz (8MB L2 cache)
Operating system: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Memory: 6GB DDR3 SDRAM
Hard drive: 2 x 1TB Seagate @ 7200RPM (RAID 0 configuration)
Optical drive: Blu-ray readable / DVD+/-RW
Graphics: 2 x ATI Radeon HD5970 w/2GB GDDR5 in CrossFire
Networking: 2 x Gigabit Ethernet
Dimensions: 23.4 x 10.9 x 25.8 inches (HxWxD)
Average weight: 84lbs
Price: $4749
Alienware Area-51 ALX is not a quiet machine. Frankly, it’s not even a machine you’ll really want to turn on if someone is sleeping near by – with two dual GPU video cards installed, it’s very loud when it’s first turned on. Slightly more reasonable configurations won’t be quite so loud, but to be frank, the Area-51 is never going to be a quiet machine. That’s okay, though, because the trade-offs are entirely worth it.
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