Alienware adds the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2, nForce 790i to its Area-51

Clearly not wanting to lose its status as the most reliable purveyor of nasty gaming rigs, Alienware has re-upped its infamous Area-51 desktops with NVIDIA's latest graphics champ (the GeForce 9800 GX2) and the company's burning hot nForce 790i mobo. Or so we're told in a thrilling press release. The bottom line is this, you can now drop major bank on a seriously up-to-date system that will have friends and foes alike drooling, plotting your murder, or (at the very least) asking to get their game on. Truck over to the site to see the myriad configurations available... but you might want to hide your credit cards first.

[NHAnimator @ Mar 18th 2008 1:00PM]

That's a whale of a design.

[Flashpoint @ Mar 18th 2008 1:08PM]

But...will it sharpen pencils.

[PhilxBefore @ Mar 18th 2008 1:03PM]

"Megatron, you left your helmet in my backyard again.."

[PhilxBefore @ Mar 18th 2008 1:04PM]

"The bottom line is this, you can now drop major bank on a seriously up-to-date system that will have friends and foes alike drooling, plotting your murder, or (at the very least) asking to get their game on."

Or, as always, you could just build your own for much, much less.

[jamie @ Mar 18th 2008 1:06PM]

But will it play Crisis....

[Arjy @ Mar 18th 2008 1:08PM]

Nope, not yet!

[Richard @ Mar 18th 2008 1:22PM]

No, but it will play Crysis.

[Chris @ Mar 18th 2008 1:25PM]

Actually yes, even on very high on a 30' monitor! (barely but its still a major accomplishment)
http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/03/18/nvidia_geforce_9800_gx2_review/page10.html

[PhilxBefore @ Mar 18th 2008 1:41PM]

Wow, a 30 foot monitor!?

Sound expensive!

[PhilxBefore @ Mar 18th 2008 1:09PM]

Can anyone tell me what game that is being displayed in the screenshot of this page at the bottom if it even exists:

http://www.alienware.com/product_detail_pages/Area-51/area-51_overview.aspx?SysCode=PC-AREA51-R6&SubCode=SKU-DEFAULT

I'm not a PC gamer so I have no clue. All I know is it looks killer!

[SGAg07 @ Mar 18th 2008 1:15PM]

That would be Crysis...

[PhilxBefore @ Mar 18th 2008 1:21PM]

Thanks!

[Ken @ Mar 18th 2008 1:12PM]

I'm sorry, does anyone care? If the 9800 GX2 release is covered in a previous post, why must we think that an OEM supplying it in their product is news?

I'm sure we can expect more of these "filler" posts when Dell offers it, then Gateway, then some obscure Portuguese boutique reseller. This is the same as all those Penryn 45 nm crap posts. 0o0o0o look, Fujitsu is making a laptop with 45nm WOW!111!1twelve!! How and where'd they get that!???

[Frankenstein Black @ Mar 18th 2008 1:14PM]

MEH!

Check it out yo!
http://www.eternal-champions.com/images/chilver_4x4v2.jpg
http://www.eternal-champions.com/images/chilver_4x4.jpg
Over clocked and sucking in mad cold air...

[PhilxBefore @ Mar 18th 2008 1:24PM]

lmao, nice.

Can't do that in Southern California but still a clever idea.

Almost bought that case too.

[TerraBolt @ Mar 31st 2008 10:29PM]

That is awesome!!
Is there a humidity filter? :D

[Jason Cox @ Mar 18th 2008 1:16PM]

That thing looks like the side perspective on the 'cockpit' of a Cylon Raider.

[Scruge @ Mar 18th 2008 6:49PM]

hahahaha nice.
its missing the night rider esque red light that moves back and forth though

[PhilxBefore @ Mar 18th 2008 1:21PM]

Thanks!

[d0n0van @ Mar 18th 2008 1:27PM]

More money than brains.

[SGAg07 @ Mar 18th 2008 1:37PM]

If anything, the 790i motherboard should be of more note in this system than the 9800GX2...
(790i = DDR3, 780i = DDR2)

[chrise524 @ Mar 18th 2008 1:44PM]

Its ok I'm just waiting for mac pro (quad core) specs. I mean this just doesn't put enough of a dent in my wallet.

[derred @ Mar 18th 2008 2:52PM]

I already hide my credit card, now what?

[White|Phatt @ Mar 18th 2008 3:52PM]

It's too bad that the 9800GX2 is such a failboat. But really, The GPU engine itself isn't any different then what they've been using. It's just that it has 64 stream processors instead of the 128 stream processors used in the 8800 series G92 cards.

I'm kind of disappointed in NVidia right now, and I'm less then hopeful that better drivers will redeem the 9800GX2's proposed performance. Only time will tell, But damn, if the thing isn't going to save the world with it's graphics capabilities I wish they would at least lower the price to something slightly above the 8800 GT.

Then they could bring an end to the 8800 production to focus on redeeming themselves with better performing 9800 series hardware.

Long story short - The 8800 G92 still kicks ass no matter what the 9800 is said to accomplish.

-Matt

[coffee @ Mar 18th 2008 3:53PM]

Am I the only one who's tired of their case design?

[crsh @ Mar 18th 2008 4:05PM]

How about we stop indulging Nvidia in their latest marketing scam, the 9800 GX2 is a joke.

[martix @ Mar 18th 2008 4:15PM]

Not cool...
No dual GPU's and just one measly Terrabyte RAID 0.
Me wants Dual GPU's, massively overclocked processor and where's my high-performance drives? If not SSD's at least them 10K RPM ones...

[mark @ Mar 18th 2008 4:36PM]

tone down the case design alienware .. this isn't 1999.

[linusk01 @ Mar 18th 2008 9:00PM]

a few years back, a friend of mine got an alienware laptop, maxed out, was so cool. two weeks later, he tells me he woke up to find the fan area in the rear of the laptop to literally have melted---the cpu (or gpu-i don't remember) overheated and melted the frickin laptop's casing. i laughed, he cried-alienware offered him no assistance/support to this problem, and he is the furthest thing from an overclocker. so yea, buy a quality alienware product, while your'e at it, go to voodoopc and throw an extra 2g's for a "radical" paintjob, so that when your comp breaks down, it can still look classy. i guess that's how spoiled brats roll, but i think there's enough acerbity in this post to give someone an ulcer so i'll stop now lol :)