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External expansion possibilities take up the slack with eight USB 2.0 ports (four on the front, four on back), two FireWire ports at the rear, and a pair of RJ-45 Gigabit LAN jacks on the back panel, along with the usual legacy connectors. Two memory sockets are unfilled, but there's only one available PCI slot. A call to Alienware support resulted in the recommendation of using no more than three hard drives-with an empty bay between each-unless you also add extra fans. Since the two hard drives are of the fast-spinning 10,000rpm variety without cooling fans directed at them, we'd be hesitant to fill all of the hard drive bays without additional cooling.
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Also at your disposal are four free internal 3.5-inch bays. You have space to add three more 5.25-inch drives and one 3.5-inch drive, all of which will be accessible from the front panel. With just one optical drive (a 16X double-layer DVD burner), a floppy drive, and a pair of hard drives, the enormous case leaves plenty of room for future growth. Everything else is neatly tucked away, practically out of sight. You'll need to disconnect the panel's fan at the motherboard. If you are bent on expansion after you get the Aurora ALX SLI home, the case is easy to open by removing two thumbscrews and flicking a latch hidden under a pop-up side hatch. Alienware justifies the exaggerated price with its handcrafted design and unique service and support. Competing SLI systems such as the ABS Ultimate M6 offer similar but slightly slower performance for roughly half the cost. And priced at $5,695 (without monitor or speakers), it had better be. As it stands now, the Aurora ALX SLI is at the forefront of performance among the other SLI systems we've tested.
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As SLI drivers mature, we wouldn't be surprised to see SLI offer a greater performance advantage over one-card systems. We expected to see more of a jump in performance with SLI, but it's early yet.
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The Aurora ALX SLI's two overclocked GeForce 6800 Ultras offer a nominal 3D performance boost compared with the Area-51 ALX and its lone GeForce 6800 Ultra (also overclocked). Developed by Nvidia, SLI ( scalable link interface) lets you use two PCI Express graphics cards for increased 3D gaming horsepower. The Alienware Aurora ALX SLI system uses the same menacing Alien-head case that we saw last year with the Area-51 ALX, but the Aurora adds one important feature in the form of a second graphics card. Editor's note: We have changed the ratings in this review to reflect recent changes in our rating scale.