That brings us to the GeForce 8800 GTX graphics card. It's been a gamer's mainstay for months in an SLI configuration, which involves multiple GPUs. Here, it's a single card that supports DirectX 10 (and there are actually some drivers available for it), carries an unprecedented 768MB of GDDR3 memory, and is the current king of the crop. (There's an Ultra version of the beast that's slightly faster but in short supply right now. Besides, the two processors and this graphics card already carry more than a third of the system cost.)
Handling The Hard Drives
Alienware packed in three 7,200rpm 500GB Serial ATA 3GB/s drives, each with 16MB of cache, in what might, at first, seem like a curious arrangement: Two are used as the system drive in a RAID 0 configuration while the third, termed the storage drive, is configured as a standalone SATA device.
In most systems, only one would be used as the system drive and two as data drives, because of the performance advantage RAID provides. However, RAID characteristics can differ from motherboard to motherboard -- in almost all cases, recreating your RAID array will mean you'll lose the information the drives contain. So should your MJ-12 8550i go down in flames (so to speak), you can simply pluck out the single data drive, install it in a new PC (or mount it in an external drive case), and recover all of your precious data.
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Other features include 700 watts of power; a maximum memory capacity of 16MB, and room for a fourth hard drive. Dual Gigabit Ethernet ports are provided, as are six USB ports (four at the rear, two up front). Two Firewire ports, and front-mounted mic and headphone jacks round up the external connectivity.
Alienware has taken the hassle out of having a door on the front panel of the box. On this case, the door is mounted to a hinge that opens and then slides back out of the way, flush against the side panel, if you wish to leave it open. It's completely clear of errant optical disc trays or knees. Internal sound-deadening material keeps things surprisingly quiet.
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