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Alienware Aurora 7500

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Pros
Fast PC
Easy to upgrade
Cons
Open PCI Express X1 slots are blocked

Performance: Very Good: 82
Features: Very Good: 88
Design: Superior: 90

Find out how these scores, and their relative weights, combine to produce the PC World Rating.

Performance
ACD Systems ACDSee	430
Adobe Photoshop	281
Adobe Premiere	339
Ahead Nero	409
Discreet 3ds Max DirectX	232
Discreet 3ds Max OpenGL	256
Microsoft Office XP	517
Mozilla	301
Multitasking	551
Musicmatch Jukebox	389
Overall Graphics Score	Superior
Return to Castle Wolfenstein, 1024 by 768, 16-Bit	170.8
Return to Castle Wolfenstein, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	162.9
Return to Castle Wolfenstein, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit	161.4
Roxio VideoWave	279
Unreal Tournament, 1024 by 768, 16-Bit	391.66
Unreal Tournament, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	373.88
Unreal Tournament, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit	368.34
Windows Media Encoder	338
WinZip	302
World Bench 5 Score	114
World Bench 5 Word Score	Very Good

Performance
WorldBench 5: Performance word scores reflect comparisons of PCs in the same category (power or value) running the same operating system. See Your Guide to the Top 100 for more details.	Very Good: 114 (Windows XP Professional)
Base Configuration	Superior
CPU	2.8-GHz Athlon 64 FX-57
System memory	1GB
Hard drive : Total capacity. May represent multiple hard drives.	500GB
Monitor size and model	19-inch Samsung SyncMaster 930BF LCD
Graphics: Most integrated graphics systems use the PC's main RAM.	256MB (dual) EVGA e-GeForce 7800 GTX
Case type: Vertical cases are towers (over 20 inches), midsize towers (15.5 to 20 inches), or minitowers (under 15.5 inches). Horizontal cases are desktops (5 inches or taller) or compacts (under 5 inches).	Tower
Open bays, slots	6 internal and 6 externally accessible bays, 7 slots
Optical Drive	4X DVD?R DL/DVD?RW
Audio Adapter	Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
Audio Channels Supported	7.1 surround
Communications	Network adapter, 8 USB 2.0 ports, 2 FireWire ports
Included software	N/A
Graphics quality	Superior
Setup and ease of use	Very Good
Support policy : Lifetime refers to the lifetime of the product.	One-year parts and labor warranty; 24-hour daily toll-free support during warranty period

What You Should Know about the Aurora 7500

A PC With Little Included RAM Can Do Light Work

This system offers less than 1GB of memory, which is the bare minimum that any full-featured new computer should include. Whether this amount of RAM is optimal for you depends on the PC's operating system: Windows Vista and Apple's Mac OS X don't run well with less than 1GB, Windows XP is fine with 512MB and not too bad with 384MB, and Windows 98 is good with 256MB. Depending on the distribution, Linux can run with as little as 128MB, but most Linux users are better off with at least 512MB--and 1GB is better.

The more installed memory your PC has, the more applications you can run smoothly at once, and the better the system will perform. Upgrading memory in a desktop after you purchase the PC is a snap, but usually it's worthwhile to buy the amount of memory you want preinstalled with the system.