Maxed Out – AlienWare Aurora ALX vs Mac Pro
December 11th, 2009 | 
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While browsing the internet yesterday I found a string of comments about Mac and PC computers. Some people are saying that Mac sucks; some are saying PC sucks; a few are neutral with there comments, most of them giving reasons for their opinion. But since I had never owned a Mac (and don’t think I want one, well probably for multimedia purposes) I won’t be making any judgment. I have a few problems with my PC but, because I can solve most of these problems myself, I’ll be sticking with it.
With this debate between Mac and PC users, I decided to do a little survey, so I searched for the “most powerful Mac” and the “most powerful PC.” I did not find the “most powerful PC” so I customize on and also the Mac, and came up with these performance specifications.
Note: Only the displayed information is upgraded, all other features are standard (without Monitors).
AlienWare Aurora ALX |
Mac Pro |
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| Processor | Overclocked Intel® Core™ i7 975 Extreme (3.6GHz, 8MB Cache) | Two 2.93GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon |
| Video Card | Dual ATI Radeon™ HD 5870, 2GB GDDR5 | 4x NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512MB |
| Memory | 24GB DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz – (6x 4096MB) | 32GB (8x4GB) |
| Hard Drive | 2TB RAID 0 (2x 1TB SATA-II, 7,200 RPM, 32MB Cache HDDs) | 2TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s |
| Price | $7,049 | $11,099 |
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PC all the way
The 32GB memory and the two 2.93GHz Quad-Core process is impressive but I rather have the 2GB video card is what I'd go for. Straight PC
In theory could you have the best of both if you got it built from scratch?
The 32GB memory and the two 2.93GHz Quad-Core process or equivilent?
and the 2GB video card?
I ask because
I want a gaming pc that is so powerful I can not find games that cause lag,
I basically want to make a computer 10 times more powerful than these two in every respect. money not being an object up until 5000 pounds what can be done?
It probably would be best to visit the website and customize one to meet your needs. http://www.beastcomputers.co.uk has some good gaming PCs too, so does http://www.iBuypower.com