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Rick Rizner, John Goddard
If you want top performance, look no further: Alienware's $3699 Aurora 5500 is currently our record-setting desktop. This high-end gaming system scored the highest mark yet--110--on our WorldBench 5 test suite, and, running our graphics-testing games Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Unreal Tournament, it posted the second best graphics speed we've recorded--an average of 283 frames per second. The Aurora's muscle stems from AMD's flagship 2.6-GHz Athlon 64 FX- 55 processor paired with dual 160GB hard drives in a RAID 0 array and a 256MB ATI Radeon X800 Pro graphics card.
Alienware sent a great-looking...