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Alienware announces dual PCI-Express graphics subsystem
Posted 05/12/2004 @ 4:40 PM, by Ken "Caesar" Fisher
Alienware is known for building top-of-the-line, enthusiast friendly computers aimed at gamers with really good jobs or really large trust funds. In recent years, the company has gone from being a kind of novel specialty builder to being a potential force even against the big OEMs (indeed, Dell's Inspiron XPS is aimed squarely at the Alienware crowd). Now Alienware is looking to up the ante with some of their own technology designs, and wouldn't you know their opening salvo has gaming performance written all over it. Meet "Video Array."
Video Array is an accelerated graphics processing subsystem that will allow users to add multiple, off-the-shelf video cards to their Alienware computer systems and have both cards process graphic commands in parallel. Understanding the wide-ranging wants and needs of its customers, Alienware designed its solution so that it is not tied to any one specific video card. This design will allow users to take full advantage of the fastest video card on the market for a significant performance increase.
Wrap your head around that: a graphics subsystem that can make video adapters work in parallel, even when they're not from the same manufacturer. SLI has apparently met steroids. "Ah," you say, "who cares about adding a bunch of PCI backup support to my AGP card." That's where part 2 of the knockout punch comes: X2. Might we interest you in a motherboard with two PCI-Express graphics slots?
Alienware's exclusive Video Array combined with X2, an Alienware-designed motherboard which is currently based on Intel Corporation's next-generation chipset and will include dual PCI-Express high performance graphics card slots, will deliver significant performance gains over current graphic solutions.
I think that's the sound of a pin dropping. If the technology proves itself, it could start a whole new level of bragging contests among gamers. It could, more importantly, lead other companies to develop similar technologies. Of course, there are plenty of questions to consider: do games have to be written in order to take advantage of this technology? What tasks can and can't be split up for parallel processing? The answers may have to wait until Q3/Q4, when ALX systems with Video Array and X2 will be available. Would it be nice if you could plop in a GeForce 6800 Ultra and a Radeon X800 XT and get the best of both worlds? Wouldn't it be nice if you were rich enough to be able to do that? For some info-light flash promotions of ALX and Video Array, hit Alienware's info page.
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| Great, now you will need TWO $500 video cards to be leet [message #87282] |
Thu, 13 May 2004 16:56  |
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Hey Xtrm, I'm looking into buying a new video card, and does the FX5600 serve you well for games? Some places I've looked at say they're kind of poor for gaming, but I was just wondering.
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| Great, now you will need TWO $500 video cards to be leet [message #87428] |
Fri, 14 May 2004 05:59 |
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fuck that you don't need that much power NOTHING FUCKING USES IT. why do people insist on wasting their money when a ATI 9600 XT runs everthing. For god sake, even a 64 mb card is just fine for most stuff. the 800X won't be affordable for the next 2 years, and that Mobo with the duel slots probably cost way too much... I still play a game that could run on a 800 mhz (CS) the game is five years old proving a game doesn't have to look good to be very playable. Plus CS 2 will be out soon and the people at valve actually support buying a 9600 XT for HL2 to save you money and they say it will run at the highest level just fine as long as you have a good proccessor and 512 of Ram.
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Yes you will...If they design games inorder to meet those Standards...The games designed for a system running 2 top of the line cards maybe even more,(we have yet to see what they could do with this type of technology)will be outstanding
"But if the gameplay sucks, the looks don't matter at all." - Sir Phoenixx
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| Great, now you will need TWO $500 video cards to be leet [message #87429] |
Fri, 14 May 2004 06:06 |
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It's not like one card gets used up and then the other kicks in. It appears the system balances the graphics load between the two, thus reducing heat buildup, and card overload when 4 flame tanks come over the hill.
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| Great, now you will need TWO $500 video cards to be leet [message #87448] |
Fri, 14 May 2004 07:53 |
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Could you give us the intro page to that and NOT THE E-MAIL REQUEST! You didn't even post a sort desrciption. I hate it when people do that! It is like a trick, and I have seen links presented like this that lead to DownLoad pages of porn sites that DL spyware or attemepts to use a script valunarablity to plant a virus, SO DON'T DO THAT! Linkl to an intro page and provide a small description.
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| Great, now you will need TWO $500 video cards to be leet [message #87484] |
Fri, 14 May 2004 11:41 |
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And your a dumb ass. Even though it is a legit link, you didn't provide any discription and the page your linking to doesn't provide a description. Thats a good way to con people into a malishis act, leaving out information and going directly to a request for any thing, and anyone who is smart checks why they ask for stuff like that first. Your link connects directly to the e-mail request without insite to what it is about.
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| Great, now you will need TWO $500 video cards to be leet [message #87496] |
Fri, 14 May 2004 12:05 |
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I know, but I have been on the butt end of a lot of con attemepts and other form of deception, I know many of the tactics used as they where direct against me early in life. One of the things that fell under the attacks was lack of information. People who where malishis against me also trying to keep me ignorant of things so they could also blame me for being stupid. So any thing that goes to a request for information that hasn't had enough insight provided about it's contents is something that I see as needing to be disected to conferm that it is not a threat. I don't like being left in the dark and asked for things.
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HEHEHE!!! :twisted: 
.The same is for the 64 Bit AMD Processors.People buy them for the best experience, at high cost so they can play best without going thru the trouble of upgrading.
Dont forget the 200 USB ports 
