Remember yesterday we mentioned that Dell is getting rid of their XPS PC's and giving everything over to Alienware? Good. This is their first step towards a lighter, cheaper gaming station.

And a good one it is. Sporting a 2.2GHz quad core Phenom X4, two 3870 X2's and 4GB 800MHz ram, we're deftly surprised that it hits the given price, knowing Alienware's unfortunate history of being described mainly as "cool, but overpriced".

It's a great addition to their lineup, we think, though we're not sure that using the AMD processor will help much. It could easily be replaced with the faster Q6600 (at 2.4GHz), but I suppose there are always hardcore fanboys looking for their AMD processors no matter what.

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