Posted 11/14/08 at 05:13:12 PM by Andy Salisbury

The economy is in pretty rough shape, and it would appear that Alienware has taken notice. Their latest machine is a clear attempt to tap into the market of people that don’t have several grand to drop on frivolous pursuits, or simply put, everyone but Eliot Spitzer.

The Area-51 750i will be built off of an Nvidia nForce 750i SLI motherboard, a Core 2 Duo E8400 and an Nvidia GeForce 9800GT. To compliment the mothership, there’s also 2GB of DDR2 RAM to keep the random accesses as random as possible, and it’ll all come to you on Windows Vista 64-bit.

While the tech specs might not seem incredibly impressive, the price isn’t too bad. And plus, who wouldn’t want that wicked Alienware case?

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Posted 10/26/07 at 06:25:41 PM by The Maximum PC Staff

We challenge two Maximum PC editors to shop for and build a budget PC under brutal time constraints. Which rig benchmarks best? Which machine will reign supreme?

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