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Alienware ALX Desktop Computer Delivers World's Most Powerful Quad Graphics with ATI CrossFireX(TM).


Quad GPU GPU: see secret police.


(Graphics Processing Unit) A specialized logic chip devoted to rendering 2D or 3D images. Display adapters contain one or more GPUs for fast graphics rendering.
 Graphics Configurations Let PC Gamers Increase GPU Horsepower by up to 400% for the Fastest Graphics, the Highest Resolutions and Unbelievable Realism

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Miami (mīăm`ē, –ə).

1 City (1990 pop. 358,548), seat of Dade co., SE Fla., on Biscayne Bay at the mouth of the Miami River; inc. 1896.
 -- Alienware[R] - the leading manufacturer of high-performance desktop, notebook and entertainment systems - quadruples your graphics power by launching ATI (ATI Technologies Inc., Markham Ontario, http://ati.amd.com) A leading manufacturer of graphics chips and display adapters. Founded in 1985 by K. Y. Ho, Benny Lau and Lee Lau, ATI chips and boards are widely used by OEMs.  CrossFireX[TM] on their elite ALX ALX Alexandria (Egyptian automobile license plate)
ALX America's Learning Exchange
ALX Alienware Luxury Experience (Alienware Corp.
 CrossFireX desktop computer. The first-ever quad GPU gaming solution supporting DirectX[R] 10.1, the Area-51 ALX featuring CrossFireX technology offers users the world's most powerful graphics.

The Alienware ALX CrossFireX utilizes two ATI Radeon[TM] HD 3870 X2 graphics cards, each housing two GPUs and a full 1GB of dedicated graphics memory - that's 2GB of dedicated GDDR GDDR Geographically Dispersed Disaster Restart
GDDR Graphics Double Data Rate
3 graphics memory. This multi-GPU structure allows CrossFireX to deliver up to 4X the graphics processing See graphics pipeline and DeBabelizer.  power and 4X the mayhem.

"Alienware is extreme high-performance PC gaming," said Marc Diana, Product Marketing Manager for Alienware, "and expectations are never higher than when dealing with the ALX CrossFireX, our most sophisticated desktop system. Adding the awesome power of a quad graphics solution like CrossFireX to the ALX desktop is just one more way Alienware strives to deliver the world's best PC gaming experience."

With ATI's Catalyst[TM] software and Microsoft Windows Vista[R], users can "un-lock" their GPU controls to manually set the engine and memory clocks for overclocking and dramatic performance boosts. Temperature displays and VPU VPU Video Processing Unit
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 recover safety features make it easier to properly maintain your system. An auto-configure utility option overclocks to a preset, stable speed.

"CrossFire A multi-GPU interface from ATI for connecting two ATI display adapters together for faster graphics rendering on one monitor. CrossFire machines require PCI Express slots, a CrossFire-enabled motherboard and, depending on which models are used, either a pair of ATI Radeon adapters or one [TM] is another example of AMD's continued commitment to technology leadership. With CrossFireX driving the graphics capabilities of such an acclaimed system as the Alienware ALX CrossFireX, together we're driving The Ultimate Visual Experience[TM] for PC gamers," says Rick Bergman, Senior Vice President, AMD's Graphics Product Group. "CrossFireX allows for more immersive gaming than before, giving gamers the ability to play at high resolutions and settings with great performance, along with leading multimedia capabilities for the HD world we live in."

"Alienware chooses only the industry's top innovations to integrate into our award-winning computers," said Diana. "We are confident that with the addition of CrossFireX, Alienware and AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips.  will continue to shape the field of PC gaming well into the next generation of systems."

For more information on the ALX CrossFireX Edition, please visit: www.alienware.com/CFX.

AMD, ATI, Radeon, CrossFire, ATI CrossFireX and combinations thereof, are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

About Alienware

Alienware offers unique and award-winning technology products that incorporate state-of-the-art components, innovative engineering and design, and unprecedented customer service. Alienware has been recognized by INC 500, won the Shoppers' Choice Award as the Best Performance Desktop by Computer Shopper's reader survey, had its Alienware Area-51 ranked among "The 25 Greatest PCs of All Time" by PC World and also received PC Magazine's Reader's Choice Award in its 18th Annual Reader Survey. Alienware systems are available direct within the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. . For more information, please visit www.alienware.com or call 1-800-ALIENWARE (254-3692).
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