If you’re a truly hardcore gamer, we know you’re gaming on a desktop. It’s where you get the ultimate gaming experience. Desktops are where customization, cooling innovation, and the latest and greatest technology all combine for one amazing immersive experience. Paired with a 30 inch display with above HD resolutions and a 7.1 speaker system, you are now speaking the sweet language of gaming.

Alienware has been leading gaming innovations for more than a decade. With all of the noise being made about our products over the years, you might be thinking that, since it’s become the norm, we’d be getting a little used to it and might slack off just a bit. You’d be dead wrong about that – especially lately.

The latest ATI Radeon™ 4800 series GPUs can be configured into the Area-51 and Area-51 ALX, which has the Alienware team even more amped up than usual (just be glad you’re not trapped in the office with us – it’s kind of like being in a room full of kids on a sugar high!). If you want, you can go check out some screen shots and benchmarks (scroll down a bit) for Age of Conan and Oblivion, both running on their highest settings.

Using dual ATI graphics cards with multiple GPUs is incredibly versatile. You might not be the kind of person who wants to run four monitors at a time, but, if you are, using dual ATI graphics cards allows you to do just that. For those of you interested in pushing your graphics to the limit, ATI CrossFireX™ technology allows you to run to ATI Radeon HD 4000 series cards co-operatively on a single monitor which will produce incredible frame rates.

The ATI Radeon™ HD 4870 X2 are the highest grade of graphics cards available, and they’ll handle pretty much anything you can throw at them. They’ve each got 2.4 teraFLOPS of graphics horsepower, 1600 stream processors and 2 GB of GDDR5 memory. Their increased video memory delivers incredibly detailed graphics, sharp images and smooth video. If you’re really serious about experiencing all that these GPUs have to offer, you might consider getting an Alienware Area-51 ALX with a few of those ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2s inside.

Now, we know that you might spend a lot of your time gaming (fortunately my wife games with me, so I’m one off the hook there) but we choose to believe you are a very well rounded kind of person who does a lot of other important things on your computer. Using ATI multi-GPUs allows you to accomplish multiple tasks simultaneously and effortlessly. That means you can get more accomplished in less time (which leaves you more time for gaming!).

Definitely look into what ATI has to offer. Read up on what others are saying about these graphics processors. We think you’ll find it all pretty interesting – especially if you love gaming as much as we do.

Marc Diana is Alienware’s Product Marketing Manager for Desktops. As the product marketing manager for the desktop segment, Marc is responsible for all marketing strategy and execution activities for desktop computers. An avid gamer and cutting-edge PC hardware fanatic, Marc joined the Alienware team in 2004. When Marc isn’t working hard on promoting Alienware’s latest-and-greatest offerings, he transforms into Aryutar, a night elf rouge on WOW’s HellScream server.

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