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Alienware Technology Announcement

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Name: Richard Trahar
Date: May 21, 2004 at 14:17:19 Pacific
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Last week Alienware made the most shocking announcement in PC gaming history. They were going to deliver performance increases of 50%-100% over any existing machine. No. Stop rubbing your eyes. You read it right. While the gaming world was buzzing with speculation, we at Tom's Hardware had two theories - the folks at Alienware were receiving new technology direct from the mother ship, importing special hardware from other planets more advanced than ours, or they were lying and it would blow up in their faces like a PR grenade not thrown far enough. As it turns out, Alienware WASN'T lying. Their Martian engineers have done what was once thought impossible - they built a video array, a system capable of truly harnessing the power of two video cards to display a single image on one monitor. We have seen it in action


That is awesome :-)

Just imagine, 2x Radeon X800XT or 2x Geforce 6800 Ultra working together, amazing :-)

That means it is possible to reach 30,000 3DMark 03 and 60,000 on the 3DMark 01 SE and perhaps 100,000 points on Aquamark , incredible
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Response Number 1
Name: wanderer
Date: May 21, 2004 at 14:53:30 Pacific
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adapter teaming for the video card. who would have thought it. wonder why they just didn't develop a single card/monitor with double the bandwidth. guess that's next. sure beats having to pay double for the video card and mainboard supporting two agp slots.


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Response Number 2
Name: cyberlantz
Date: May 21, 2004 at 15:26:07 Pacific
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I wonder how they do this. Is there a mobo with 2 AGP slots? Did they maybe use two mobo's? I gotta see this.

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Response Number 3
Name: johnoh
Date: May 21, 2004 at 15:48:24 Pacific
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http://www.alienware.com/alx_pages/main_content.aspx


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Response Number 4
Name: Ed2289
Date: May 21, 2004 at 15:56:25 Pacific
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Hmmmm...thats weird...do the 2 video cards work together like 2 HDD's in Raid 0 array?


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Response Number 5
Name: Richard Trahar
Date: May 21, 2004 at 16:11:51 Pacific
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The videocards use PCI Express :-)

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Response Number 6
Name: cyberlantz
Date: May 21, 2004 at 16:19:22 Pacific
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Wow, that was pretty cool, but there is no way I would spend 7k just to have that.

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Response Number 7
Name: Sabertooth
Date: May 21, 2004 at 17:00:44 Pacific
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This is good but Alienware PC's are not cheap as it is and we'll see how profitable it will be for Alienware in the long run, since it is propietary hopefully they will come with reliable server type PSU's too.

Is the board going to be based on "Socket 939"?


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Response Number 8
Name: Richard Trahar
Date: May 21, 2004 at 17:11:18 Pacific
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The PSU they said in the video clip was 800w, wow

$7,000 is a bit much, if I had the money I would deficiently get one though, that would run games like doom 3 at 160fps or higher easily

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Response Number 9
Name: Tony Seiler
Date: May 21, 2004 at 20:10:18 Pacific
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I saw at the gaming convention in LA they announced this, they use PCI express and the two cards are hooked up to what seemed to be a graphics controller. Each card controlled half the total picture.

Tony

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