Alienware Area 51 X-58 Launches - Area51 X58

Alienware announced the launch of the Alienware Area 51 X-58 Gaming Desktop. This gaming desktop is loaded and setup for high performance gaming.

Specs:

Operating Systems
Windows Vista® Home Premium - 64 Bit
Windows Vista® Ultimate - 64 Bit
Processors, Chipset & Memory
45nm Intel "Bloomfield" Socket 1366 CPU architecture
Intel® Core™ i7 920 2.66GHz 8MB Cache
Intel® Core™ i7 940 2.93GHz 8MB Cache
Intel® Core™ i7 Extreme 3.2GHz 8MB Cache
Intel® X-58 Chipset "Nehalem" Processor Family Supported
Up to 12GB Triple Channel DDR3 at 1066MHz
6 dedicated DIMM slots for Triple Channel DDR3 Memory

Graphics & Video
Standard Single GPU Graphics Cards
512MB ATI® Radeon™ HD 4670
512MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ 9800 GT
896MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX 260
1GB NIVIDA® GeForce™ GTX 280
2GB ATI® Radeon™ HD 4870 X2
Optional Dual GPU Graphics Cards
512MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ 9800 GTX
896MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX 260
1GB NIVIDA® GeForce™ GTX 280
2GB ATI® Radeon™ HD 4870 X2

Storage
Single Hard Drive
7200 RPM – up to 32MB cache and 1TB storage
10,000 RPM – up to 16MB cache and 300GB storage
Dual RAID 0/1 Hard Drives
7,200 RPM - up to 64MB cache and 2TB storage
10,000 RPM - up to 16MB cache and 300GB storage
Optical Drives
20x Dual Layer DVD Burner (CD-RW/DVD±RW)
Lightscribe technology
Dual Layer Blu-ray Reader (BD-ROM, DVD±RW, CD-RW)
4x Dual Layer Blu-ray Burner (BD-RE, DVD±RW, CD-RW)

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Pricing starts at $1649 for the base machine. Estimated Ship Date is December 01, 2008.