Digital Trends

Alienware Area-51 7500 November 26th, 2006 | by Brandon King

System as Tested

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 (2.66 GHz)
2GB DDR2 400MHz RAM
750GB Seagate Hard Drive
Nvidia GeForce 7950 GX2 single slot SLI card
NED DVD+-RW +DL Drive

Processors Chipset and Memory

Standard Intel® Core™2 Duo with Dual Core Technology
Up to 2.66GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 1 x 4MB full-speed level 2 Cache
Optional Intel® Core™2 Extreme Processor with Dual Core Technology
2.93Ghz, 1066MHz FSB, 1 x 4MB full-speed level 2 Cache
Optional Intel Core2 Extreme Processor with Quad Core Technology
NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI
Standard 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz
Up to 4GB of system memory

Graphics and Video

Standard NVIDIA GeForce™ 7950 GT
512 GDDR3 dedicated video memory
Dual DVI and S-Video outputs with dual-display support
Full DirectX 9 and OpenGL® 2.0 graphics compatibility
NVIDIA SLI-Ready
Optional Dual NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8800 GTX
Up to 2 x 768MB GDDR3 dedicated vidoe memory
Quad DVI and S-Video outputs with quad-display support*
Full DirectX® 10 and OpenGL® 2.0 graphics compatibility
NVIDIA® SLI-Enabled
*Dependent upon graphics configuration
Video out: Up to Four DVI Connectors
TV out: Up to Two S-Video Out Connectors

Storage

Hard Drive Options
RAID: Options 0 and 1 Available
RPM: Starting at 7,200 up to 10,000
Capacity: Starting at 250GB up to 750GB per Drive (4 Drives Maximum)
Interface: Serial ATA 3Gb/s

Optical Drive Options
Standard 18x Dual Layer DVD±R/W Drive
Optional 16x Dual Layer DVD±R/W Drive w/LightScribe Technology
Digital Media
Optional 28-in-1 digital media reader/writer

Audio

Standard High Definition Surround Sound Audio
Supports 8–channel (7.1) 24–bit audio
Optional Sound Blaster X-Fi High Definition Surround Sound Audio
Supports 8-channel (7.1) 24-bit high-definition audio
Up to 64MB dedicated Audio XRAM
Connectivity - Standard Audio:
Eight-channel analog jacks (Rear)
One Optical digital output (Rear)
One 1/8" analog headphones jack (Front)
One 1/8" analog microphone jack (Front)

Peripheral Connects

One PS/2 keyboard port
One PS/2 mouse port
Two FireWire 400 port (Front)
Eight Hi-Speed USB 2.0 ports (6 Back / 2 Front)
One External SATA 1.5Gb port

Case and Chassis

Exclusive Alienware chassis design
AlienIce 3.0 high-performance cooling
Enhanced system lighting
Optional AlienFX
Easily accessible front ports
Standard 700–watt Multi–GPU–approved power supply
Optional 1000–watt Multi–GPU–approved power supply
Tool–less front and side panels
Height: 19.01”
Width: 9.97”
Depth: 25.02”