Alienware Aurora™ ALXVSVoodoo Omen Intel Core 2 Du

Friday, September 08, 2006

Alienware Aurora ALX VS Voodoo Omen Intel Core 2

The Alienware Aurora ALX and the Voodoo Omen Intel Core 2 Duo are both desktops made for the purpose of gaming and are top of the line because of this but which one is the better of the two. Both of the machines are capable all current operating systems as well as the unreleased Windows Vista program. The Alienware machine includes the AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-62 processer and the Voodoo PC includes a similar processer by Intel the Core™ 2 Extreme processor. In terms of graphics and video the Alienware comes has the option of 2 x 512MB Nvidia GeForce 7900 GTX with Dual SLI Enabled or a 2 x 1GB Nvidia GeForce 7950 GX2L Quad SLI Enabled for more graphics power at a increased cost. While the Voodoo machine comes with the ATI Radeon X1900XTX 512 SS graphics card. The Alienware comes with a 250 GB 3/GBs hard drive The Voodoo comes an 80 GB hard drive. In terms of RAM the Alienware and the Voodoo or pretty much the same in that they both come with a 2 GB DDR2 RAM memory stick installed. The Alienware comes with a 16x Dual Layer DVD±R/W Drive and comes with two programs Power DVD 6 DVD playback software, Nero 6 DVD/CD writing software for a 119.94 dollar value. While the Voodoo machine comes with a Pioneer Dual Layer 16x DVD+-RW drive. The Monitor that comes with the Alienware is a Dell 24" 1920 x 1200 UltraSharp Widescreen Flat Panel /w HDCP capabilities and the Voodoo machine doesn’t even come with a monitor. The sound card that comes with the Alienware is a High-Definition 7.1 Performance Audio while the Voodoo comes with Creative Labs X-Fi Xtreme Music. The Alienware comes with a Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard and a Microsoft® IntelliMouse Explorer 4.0 mouse pad and Voodoo doesn’t come with keyboard or mouse. The only thing that the Voodoo PC has that the Alienware has is Voodoo OMEN Supercharged Intercooler with Purple Voodoo super coolant. The price of each system may surprise you because even though the Voodoo PC doesn’t come with many of the components the Alienware PC does it still is 1053.66 dollars more than the Alienware. As the Voodoo costs $6752.66 and the Alienware costs $5,699.00. Overall the Alienware PC is a much better deal, this is because the Alienware has equal to are better components inside the machine but also includes a monitor and other components the Voodoo machine does not and having a price over 1000 dollars cheaper it just makes sense to get the Alienware machine.
All resources are from www.alienware.com, www.voodoopc.com