alienwares are the best pcs,they all are custom built for the customer.There is no such thing as an off the shelf allienware.They do tons of things to the hardware that pushes it to its potential.
Wet sanding the surface of the cpu and heatsink is one of the many things they do.
You can send in your games when you order it and they set em up for optimal settings(they pay the shipping for this)
they have 3.4 gig cpus running at 4 gig performance area 51 alx
they have a great game server
I own the area 51 and just ordered the area 51 alx a week ago
Just throwing good parts in a tower dont make it a good pc.
http://www.alienware.com/Product_Pag...ll_gaming.aspx