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post #1 of 20
8/14/04 at 5:00am
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Hello all, wow friendlys...reason I say that is because this is one of the first forums I have run into that doesnt bash on buying an alienware and not building your own. Anywho I just purchased this sys:

Aurora Extreme Nova Yellow
AlienRespawn: Alienware® Respawn Recovery Kit
Chassis: Alienware® Full-Tower Case (480-Watt PS) - Nova Yellow
Power Supply: None
Processor: AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-53 Processor with HyperTransport Technology
Motherboard: ASUS® A8V Deluxe - VIA K8T800 Pro Motherboard
Memory: 1GB Dual Channel DDR PC-3200 SDRAM at 400MHz - 2 x 512MB
Video Card: ATI RADEON™ X800 XT Platinum Edition 256MB DDR3 w/Digital and TV Out
Video Optimizer: AlienAdrenaline: Video Performance Optimizer
Video Cooling: AlienIce™ Video Cooling System - Astral Blue
System Drive: High Performance - Serial ATA - 120GB Seagate® Barracuda 7,200 RPM w/8MB Cache
Optical Drive One: Plextor® PX-712A 12x DVD±R/W Drive
Floppy Drive: 3.5" 1.44 MB Floppy Disk Drive - Black
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster® Audigy® 2 ZS High Definition 7.1 Surround
Network Connection: High Speed Gigabit Ethernet
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition
Portable Storage : Alienware® 8-in-1 Digital Media Reader / Writer with FireWire
Keyboard: Microsoft® Multimedia Keyboard - Nova Yellow
Alienware Exclusive Offers: 10% off your next EB Games online purchase
Benchmark Software: 3DMark®03 Standard Edition

This will be hooked up too a New Sony 5.1 Theatre system with the new HD Widesceen apple 23" cinema display hopefully it doesnt take forever since I got a x800 xt pe. here are some pics Ill have more up once I get my system!
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post #2 of 20
8/14/04 at 6:40am
Hay,

Very nice and welcome to the forums
No one is really a jerk here. Sure we have arguements but a froum that nice would be boring.
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post #3 of 20
8/14/04 at 10:54am
I had almost the exact same specs as you.. but I'm adding a good $1000 to that because it'll be worth it. Welcome aboard though... cuz I still have yet to order mine!
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post #4 of 20
8/14/04 at 11:54am
Congrats on your desktop!

You've found yourself a great little community here. So if you have any inquiries or wanna make a contribution on these forums, feel welcome top go right ahead! Feel free to explore the other sections of this forum too, mostly everyone is respectful of Alienware owners there too.
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post #5 of 20
8/14/04 at 12:42pm
Wow. That monitor looks great. I almost bought one, but I wrote Maximum PC and they told me it wasn't good for gaming. Far Cry looks pretty good on it. What's your experience?
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post #6 of 20
8/14/04 at 12:44pm
That monitor looks awsome, is it worth the money? Im looking into buying a new screen and that Apple 23" has come up a few times. Is it good or bad?
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post #7 of 20
8/14/04 at 1:26pm
Nice system.
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post #8 of 20
8/15/04 at 3:37am
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Thanks and hello everyone, the cinema display is simply great for gaming imo you get widescreen for one thing and from what I have played like farcry, call of duty, UT2k4, Halflife, doom3, etc. its been a totaly different experience than my crt. Most games well at least most new ones that will be coming out ( Halflife2 ) will be best played in widescreen it also can do 1920x1200 res if you have the card to do it. Playing farcry on this monitor is something else. I see so many more thing now in this game then i ever did with my crt. This thing has a 16ms response time and is very sharp and bright. I was always told that crt's are better for gaming, therefore I never bought an lcd however I saw the specs on this thing and plus I had been wanting to switch over to widescreen gaming, and I had heard good things about this monitor being better than a crt now in most cases, so I decided to give it a shot.....Im extremely happy I did.
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post #9 of 20
8/15/04 at 3:26pm
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Originally Posted by Agent.M
Thanks and hello everyone, the cinema display is simply great for gaming imo you get widescreen for one thing and from what I have played like farcry, call of duty, UT2k4, Halflife, doom3, etc. its been a totaly different experience than my crt. Most games well at least most new ones that will be coming out ( Halflife2 ) will be best played in widescreen it also can do 1920x1200 res if you have the card to do it. Playing farcry on this monitor is something else. I see so many more thing now in this game then i ever did with my crt. This thing has a 16ms response time and is very sharp and bright. I was always told that crt's are better for gaming, therefore I never bought an lcd however I saw the specs on this thing and plus I had been wanting to switch over to widescreen gaming, and I had heard good things about this monitor being better than a crt now in most cases, so I decided to give it a shot.....Im extremely happy I did.
Thanks for making me even more jealous . I do have a 22" Mitsubishi Diamondtron Diamond Pro 2070 though, so I'm not that bad off.
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post #10 of 20
8/15/04 at 3:46pm
Congrats Agent.M. That's a sweet setup.
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post #11 of 20
8/15/04 at 5:24pm
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Originally Posted by KraznRazn
Thanks for making me even more jealous . I do have a 22" Mitsubishi Diamondtron Diamond Pro 2070 though, so I'm not that bad off.
Heck no your not, thats a nice big monitor also. Also did you hear that was bad about it for gaming?

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Congrats Agent.M. That's a sweet setup.
Thank You.
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post #12 of 20
8/15/04 at 5:57pm
No. From the research I did, they say that CRTs are better for gaming than LCDs. The 22" Mitsubishi was the best performer I could find for the price. My girlfriend really fell in love with that Apple 23" monitor when she saw it in CompUSA. She was going to buy it, but I wanted to make sure it worked great with the gaming at that price ($2,000 + $100 adapter + tax). I made posts all over and tried to search for anyone that had one and was a gamer. I had no luck. So I fired off an email to Maximum PC and asked them about it. They told me it wasn't great for games. The final blow was when she found out that not all games will fill the whole screen (especially the Sims which she plays). I like my monitor allot, but I wouldn't mind seeing games on that screen you've got. How's the refresh rate on it? Is the framerate in gaming always smooth?....not that I'm in the market to buy one after throwing down 4,500 + on my new Alienware.
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post #13 of 20
8/15/04 at 6:48pm
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Originally Posted by KraznRazn
No. From the research I did, they say that CRTs are better for gaming than LCDs. The 22" Mitsubishi was the best performer I could find for the price. My girlfriend really fell in love with that Apple 23" monitor when she saw it in CompUSA. She was going to buy it, but I wanted to make sure it worked great with the gaming at that price ($2,000 + $100 adapter + tax). I made posts all over and tried to search for anyone that had one and was a gamer. I had no luck. So I fired off an email to Maximum PC and asked them about it. They told me it wasn't great for games. The final blow was when she found out that not all games will fill the whole screen (especially the Sims which she plays). I like my monitor allot, but I wouldn't mind seeing games on that screen you've got. How's the refresh rate on it? Is the framerate in gaming always smooth?....not that I'm in the market to buy one after throwing down 4,500 + on my new Alienware.
Well this is the new model all aluminum, you dont need an adapter with the new model its comes ready to equip to a pc. Since Im using all dvi I dont have a refresh rate, so far all framrates are very smooth no problems and in all honesty my games seem to be running alot better fps wise.
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post #14 of 20
8/15/04 at 9:57pm
Yes, yours is a newer model than the one I was looking at. Cool deal man!
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post #15 of 20
8/16/04 at 12:16am
Awesome system and display.
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post #16 of 20
8/17/04 at 1:13am
So this cinema display really works for games?? on PC's?
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post #17 of 20
8/17/04 at 2:48pm
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Originally Posted by thecommish16
So this cinema display really works for games?? on PC's?
yes it does It looks great to me I dont know alot about monitors, well not a whole lot I havnt noticed anything unusual or bad about it...like I said erlier its a whole new experience compared to the crt I had diamondtron vx920 which isnt all that bad itself, my apple is quite a bit brighter and shaper looking than the crt other than that I dont know what to look for to compare it just looks better IMO!
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post #18 of 20
8/17/04 at 4:30pm
I want one! I want one! I want one, NoW!!!
That display is sooo chill. Apple always produces the sexiest industrial-sheik designs. If I order one, I will have to order a 20-inch with my edu. discount for $1,169. I am not sure though, is a reasonal price or premium price for this display? Can I save $100s of dollars if i go with a similiar display?

BTW... I heard their were some heat issues with display. Any symptoms???
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post #19 of 20
8/17/04 at 4:37pm
Crown Royal..W0rd !! The pics seem to dark to see what the parts are...but from the description its the way t0 go ! ...great system...congrats...
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post #20 of 20
8/17/04 at 10:02pm
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Nope not that I can tell, you can probably find one a little cheaper on ebay or newegg as for mine well I payed retail a little over 2 large for mine cause I had to have it right away.
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