Alienware Announces The Ultimate Half-Life 2 System

[Chris D]

Alienware have teamed up with Valve Software to bring you the ultimate Half-Life 2 experience. Here's the press release from Mat Bettinson, Marketing Manager for UK and Ireland:

ALIENWARE ANNOUNCES THE ULTIMATE HALF-LIFE® 2 SYSTEM[br]
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Collaboration with Half-Life 2 authors Valve results in the limited-edition Alienware Aurora ’City 17’[br]
[br]Athlone, Ireland – November 12th, 2004. Alienware®, the leading manufacturer of high-performance desktop, notebook, media center, and professional systems, announced the availability of the Alienware AuroraTM City 17. This exclusive limited-edition gaming system was developed with advice from Half-Life 2 developers Valve in order to deliver the best possible experience for this holiday season’s PC blockbuster. The Aurora City 17 specifications include the killer combination of an AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-55 processor and ATI RADEONTM X800XT graphics for jaw-dropping performance.[br]
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Five years in the making, hundreds of thousands of gamers are holding their breath for the game to be made available. The hotly anticipated sequel to the multi award-winning original promises breathtaking graphics courtesy of the new SourceTM engine and also ups the ante with ground breaking physics, remarkable artificial intelligence and above all a compelling narrative in a game which is already gaming breathless awards from the gaming press. Experiencing the game at its best places demands on the subsystems of the most powerful systems, and Alienware took the unique step of consulting Valve on the optimum system specifications for the Alienware Aurora City 17.[br]
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The Aurora City 17 includes the AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 processor offering unprecedented performance for an extraordinary level of realism and awesome 3D graphics. When it came to deciding the choice of video subsystem, Valve specified the high performance graphics of the same ATI Radeon X800XT graphics platform. Rounding out the specifications of the limited edition system, Valve insisted on a capacious 2GB of system RAM and dual 10,000RPM SATA Raptor hard drives ensure the fastest loading times.[br]
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“While we designed Half-Life 2 to be playable on lower specification machines, for those that want the ultimate experience, the Alienware Aurora City 17 delivers,” said Valve Marketing Director Doug Lombardi. [br]
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“While waiting for Half-Life 2 with as much excitement as everybody else we asked what gaming system can we create that will be the ultimate Half-Life 2 machine?,” said Stefan Konopatzki, Alienware VP of Sales and Marketing. “Obviously the best people to help were Valve and we’re delighted that they assisted us in the creation of the Alienware Aurora City 17. The result is an amazing one-off computer system with all the power needed to show off this amazing game.”[br]
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www.valvesoftware.com[br]
www.alienware.co.uk

And the full specification of the system?[br]
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CPU: AMD Athlon 64 FX-55[br]
Graphics: ATI X800XT 256MB[br]
OS: MS Windows XP Pro SP2[br]
Memory: 2GB PC4200 SD RAM [br]
HDD: Dual 74GB ’Raptor’ SATA [br]
Audio: Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS [br]
Optical 1: 16x/48x DVD-ROM[br]
Optical 2: 52x/42x/52x CD-RW[br]
Network: 3Com Gigabit Ethernet[br]
Keyboard: Logitech Internet Kbd[br]
Mouse: MS Intellimouse 3.0[br]
Warranty: 2-year AlienCare[br]
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Price: £2442 inc VAT exl Del.[br]

[br]This system is certainly everything you need to be able to run Half-Life 2, and probably many more games in the future. Price scare you off? Fear not because for all you Europeans out there you can have the chance to win this amzing machine by entering here.[br]UPDATE: Mat Bettinson would like people to be aware that the PC doesn't just come in yellow, but a variety of other colours also.

 

[UKchaos2]

eww...

yellow!

 

[SFLUFAN]

£2442 ?!? Good Lord - that's well over $3000

 

[JoeMango]

meh.....

 

[SimonomiS]

eww...

yellow!

My thoughts exactly.

Spray it black with an orange lambda, and itd look kickass. Alienware + Valve, what a combo. Or should that be COMBINE-ation

 

[Johnny]

/me wants! To bad I dont live in Europe... I would gladly pay for shipping if I won. Oh well I entered anyways.

 

[we11er]

You can keep that thing away from my bank balance!

 

[sharp]

verstokte reclame?

 

[Alec_85]

Can get a better for less wher I live But perhaps Alienware has some serious unknown tweaking skills I don't know of? Had some problems registering my DOB though. They didn't use the format we have in Sweden...

 

[kurtmax_0]

Don't buy alienware.. they have horrible support.

You can build a computer that is just as good for much less anyways...

 

[lans]

Don't like the colour.

But the hardware inside it is obviously sexy.

 

[oldagerocker]

It seems cheap, the Fx cpu's, 2 gigs of 4200 ram is expensive stuff. I expected a machine like that to be atleast £3000 inc tax. Then again 2 and a half is quite allot of money. Screw the yellow, i'd change the case to a CoolerMaster Wave case, if i had that money...

 

[AudioStar]

Don't like the colour.

But the hardware inside it is obviously sexy.

I know many women like that... oh I mean yeah, I want that computer.

- Manga :imu:

 

[kayjay]

Heh. Nice hardware and all, but its really expensive. A student like meself couldn't afford that :/

 

[IchI]

Memory: 2GB PC4200 SD RAM

Why is it SD ram ?
That sucks penis....

 

[wbcheater]

how are you supposed to enter your DOB it keeps saying not a valid one. this is what i put in each box.

09     29    1985

 

[we11er]

day and month the other way round, this is the UK!

 

[Tyl3n0L]

Very nice system. I hate the case though. I haven't read the post except for the system spec... But I'm wondering if they give you atleast Hl2 with it... Or you still have to bought it?

For that price they'd better give you the collector edition with it.

 

[lans]

I think it'll hardly sell. It's colour sucks and it's too expensive.

 

[livez]

whats this DOB they ask for in competition? I don't see an explanation anywhere...

 

[xshogox]

Alienware = THey get the most expensive components and they throw it into a beautiful fashion case.

Get a life. Use your money wisely, or at least, build a computer and smash it into pieces

 

[Ar.Pi]

holy shit i want this PC!

OMG look at the price - correction : i dream about this PC!

 

[Tropico]

i vote all members registered on hl2.net before spt 03 to get this comp sent for free

 

[Chris D]

whats this DOB they ask for in competition? I don't see an explanation anywhere...

Date of birth...

 

[PhAtfiSh]

"Valve insisted on a capacious 2GB of system RAM"

No doubt they insisted on the ATI graphics card/motherboard combo to...
And that price is insane, as people said before, you can build a system with those specs for half the price.

 

[poofyfinger]

Why is it SD ram ?
That sucks penis....

SDRAM = Super Dynamic Random Access Memory

AND WTF!??!!?! Who in their right mind is going to shell out $5,400.58 Canadian or $4,532.59 USD for a system like that?? I can easily build one very very similiar for $2000 less CDN.

Yellow???? :| :| :| :O :cheers: :frown: :| :O :cheers:

TOO MUCH!!

 

[[Matt]]

if you goto the configurator you can change the system from the horrible yellow to any of the other colours available...

 

[NeoNight]

eww...

yellow!

^ what he said

and

SDRAM = Super Dynamic Random Access Memory

AND WTF!??!!?! Who in their right mind is going to shell out $5,400.58 Canadian or $4,532.59 USD for a system like that?? I can easily build one very very similiar for $2000 less CDN.

Yellow????

TOO MUCH!!

^ what he said :rolling:

 

[Unfocused]

Only one thing is better in my PC - the case . Well but I'd rather have Alienware's PC because of the insides. I answered the question and it brought me to alienware's page without any notification my answer was accepted but I guess it's allright . (Maybe I answered wrong - it's F-Man right? *joke*)

 

[Chris D]

UPDATE: Mat Bettinson would like people to be aware that the PC doesn't just come in yellow, but a variety of other colours also.

 

[Shadow-warrior]

Alienware "For people with more money than sense."

 

[Dr. Freeman]

wow.. how much is that again in Canadian Dollars? :O
the more power to the pple who can afford this thing.. :thumbs:

 

[Windom]

Does it come with a monitor?

 

[vicefredav444]

computer i will have built by the 18th, so i gotta wait 2 extra days to play hl2...

CPU: Pentium 4 3.0ghz socket 775
Motherboard: ASUS P5AD2-E premium (these just came out this week)
Graphics: ATI X800XT PCI-Express
Memory: 1GB PC4200 DDR2
HDD: WD 250GB SATA
Audio: Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS
Optical 1: Sony DWD-22A 16X DVD+/-RW
Mouse: MS wireless Intellimouse explorer (night vision)

all this for around $1300....don't fall for the alienware trap, u can build one for alot cheaper that can perform just as good.

 

[Windom]

computer i will have built by the 18th, so i gotta wait 2 extra days to play hl2...

CPU: Pentium 4 3.0ghz socket 775
Motherboard: ASUS P5AD2-E premium (these just came out this week)
Graphics: ATI X800XT PCI-Express
Memory: 1GB PC4200 DDR2
HDD: WD 250GB SATA
Audio: Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS
Optical 1: Sony DWD-22A 16X DVD+/-RW
Mouse: MS wireless Intellimouse explorer (night vision)

all this for around $1300....don't fall for the alienware trap, u can build one for alot cheaper that can perform just as good.

Go 64 bit AMD man, I've found the 64 bits to bottleneck the x800's less than the pentiums.

 

[Ecthe|ioN]

That's nice hardware, but what's up with that price ? I would never pay that much for it.

 

[lonestar]

sd ram? wt..

 

[Moto]

Pfft. What a rip off. You could build that computer with all of those parts and get a flat screen monitor too for less money. You don't need the fancy case or color.

All mine needs is a X800XT. I have a A64 FX-51 though, not a 55. :|

 

[Desolator]

have you guys noticed how the Doom 3 recomended one is a way better computer?

Good news!!! means almost anyone can play hl2!!

 

[Llama]

have you guys noticed how the Doom 3 recomended one is a way better computer?

Good news!!! means almost anyone can play hl2!!

Or perhaps D3 needs a huge amout of power, and to get the best out of HL2 you will need one big mother f***er of a system