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« on: May 12, 2004, 03:19:44 PM »

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Alienware has carved a large niche in the gaming PC world with its high performance PCs. Now, the company is planning on venturing into a new territory later this year; first with the release of a new PC system called ALX, which will have even more customisations than the normal Alienware PC (including factory over-clocking, water-cooling, custom case accents, and more).

Later this fall, the ALX systems will include new features; their Video Array technology (including proprietary software and hardware) and the accompaning X2 motherboards (based on Intel’s Tumwater chipset including two PCI-Express graphics slots) which will have two video cards working in tandem that Alienware says will have a massive increase in PC performance.

HomeLAN got a chance to chat with Alienware's Vice President of Marketing Kevin Wasielewski to find out more about their plans for Alienware ALX, the X2 motherboards and the Video Array.

3dMark 2003, SPECviewperf, UT 2003, FarCry, HL2; Performance gains from Alienware’s Video Array are projected at 50% or greater over present single-GPU video cards. Again, the solution scales as new graphics technology becomes available, so that performance gain should hold in future as well.



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« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2004, 03:19:44 PM »

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« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2004, 10:21:04 PM »

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the solution scales as new graphics technology becomes available, so that performance gain should hold in future as well.

So now you'll have buy $500 video cards in pairs?



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« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2004, 10:34:41 AM »

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So now you'll have buy $500 video cards in pairs?


Top-end cards should be between $350 to $450 by then.

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« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2004, 02:17:08 PM »

This sounds amazingly pointless.  We are not horrendously bound by current-generation graphics.
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