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Alienware Area-51 7500

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Pros
Has high-end gaming keyboard and mouse
Graphics card is DirectX 10-capable
Cons
Expensive

Performance: Superior: 90
Features: Good: 76
Design: Very Good: 81

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

Performance
ACD Systems ACDSee	336
Adobe Photoshop	213
Adobe Premiere	262
Ahead Nero	154
Discreet 3ds Max DirectX	204
Discreet 3ds Max OpenGL	230
Doom 3 with AA, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	164.9
Doom 3 with AA, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit	159.97
Doom 3, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	165.73
Doom 3, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit	166.73
Far Cry with AA, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	207.07
Far Cry with AA, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit	201.23
Far Cry, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	207.54
Far Cry, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit	208.06
Microsoft Office XP	482
Mozilla	237
Multitasking	272
Musicmatch Jukebox	359
Overall Graphics Score	Superior
Roxio VideoWave	201
Windows Media Encoder	205
WinZip	192
World Bench 5 Score	162
World Bench 5 Word Score	Superior

What You Should Know about the Area-51 7500

Good Amount of RAM for Running Multiple Apps at Once

This computer includes between 1GB and 3GB of RAM, our recommended level for a new PC. This much memory lets you run any modern operating system and comfortably work with quite a few applications open. The more installed memory your PC has, the more programs 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 breeze, but usually it's worthwhile to buy the amount of memory you want preinstalled with the system.

To use more than 4GB of memory on your PC, you need the 64-bit version of Windows XP or Windows Vista. The PCs that you see equipped with 3GB of memory (instead of 4GB) tend to use the 32-bit versions of Windows that are limited to 4GB of addressable memory, the top portion of which is addressed by the various hardware devices on the system.