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Alienware Aurora 64 FX-55

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Full Specifications
Street price when ranked	Expensive: $3500 (5/3/05)
WorldBench 5	Good: 110 (Windows XP Professional)
Base configuration	Very Good
CPU	2.6-GHz Athlon 64 FX-55
System memory	1024MB of DDR400 SDRAM
Hard drive (GB)	320GB (RAID)
Monitor size and model	19-inch NEC MultiSync 1960NXi LCD
Graphics	256MB ATI Radeon X800 Pro
Case type	Tower
Open bays, slots	4 internal and 3 externally accessible bays, 4 slots
Extra features	Fair
Removable-media drives	16X DVD±RW, 16X DVD-ROM drives
Sound card	Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2
Speakers	Logitech X-530
Communications	Network adapter, 8 USB 2.0 ports, 2 FireWire ports
Software	Nero Express 6
Graphics quality	Outstanding
Setup and ease of use	Outstanding
Vendor's reliability/service	Better/Insufficient data
	One-year parts and labor warranty; 24-hour daily toll-free support during warranty period.

Alienware Aurora 5500 Review

by Scott Plamondon

- If you want top performance, look no further: Alienware's $3699 Aurora 5500 is currently our record-setting desktop. This high-end gaming system scored the highest mark yet--110--on our WorldBench 5 test suite, and, running our graphics-testing games Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Unreal Tournament, it posted the second best graphics speed we've recorded--an average of 283 frames per second. The Aurora's muscle stems from AMD's flagship 2.6-GHz Athlon 64 FX-55 processor paired with dual 160GB hard drives in a RAID 0 array and a 256MB ATI Radeon X800 Pro graphics card.

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