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Harsh economic times? Just lost your job? 401K worth about as much as a space heater in the Sahara? It's time to do the responsible thing. No, that doesn't mean scrimping your savings and looking for a job! It means investing that severance package into a $6K gaming rig. Alienware's latest desktop mothership, the Area-51 X-58, has touched down and it is warp speed fast. Posting some of the fastest benchmarks we've ever seen on Crysis, the monstrosity is infused with some of the finest components out there. From the mind of reviewer, Christopher Null:
The centerpiece here is the new Core i7, Intel's latest CPU. The i7-965
Extreme installed here is the fastest and most-powerful chip that Intel currently makes, with four cores operating at 3.2GHz. Running the
64-bit version of Vista, Alienware has taken advantage of the lack of the 32-bit 3-GB RAM cap and wedged 12 gigs of DDR3 RAM into the rig.$6,373 (as tested), alienware.com
Read the full review of the Alienware Area-51 X-58 right here.
