Alienware Reveals 4GHz desktop

keeleysam writes "c|net news.com is reporting that Alienware is going to ship a 4GHz desktop. The new Area-51 ALX, introduced on Friday, uses overclocking, or the practice of pushing a processor past its factory speed setting, to elevate a standard Intel Pentium 4 chip to 4GHz. Because overclocking a processor can cause it to overheat, the desktop also includes a special liquid-cooling system devised by Alienware. Purchasing the 4GHz Area-51 ALX desktop is an expensive proposition for most consumers, as the machine starts at about $4,200, according to pricing on Alienware's ALX Web site."

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[Anonymous Coward]

Or, alternatively, one that actually works!
http://www.alienware.com/ALX_pages/area51_ alx.aspx

*shakes head at mods*

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[Amiga Lover]

Liebermann has been selling 4.2GHz rigs with watercooling for a while now too.

They have P4 boxes overclocked to 4.2GHz and watercooled Athlon64 "4200+" boxes as well, for the AMD equivalent

Alienware has the best marketing department

[Str8Dog]

Alienware's dirty little secret is they are all marketing. My wife bought me one of their laptops last year based on their awesome marketing. After getting the run around on out of stock parts and waiting for damn near 2 months, the laptop came without SP1 installed, a virus in the windows system restore files and a faulty backlight switch.

It took over a month to get the laptop back when I sent it in to get the backlight switch fixed.

Their customer service is severly lacking. I would highly suggest you build it yourself instead of paying for Alienware's marketing department.

You can read my whole sordid tale on this topic at my website along with several other peoples comments.