Killer NIC in Aurora Desktop
Bigfoot’s Killer NICs cards are now being offered in Alienware’s Aurora Online Gaming Edition QuickShip Desktops. Bigfoot’s Killer NICs are network cards built specifically to improve online gaming performance. According to the company that makes the cards, Killer bypasses Windows stack and offloads network traffic from the CPU for smoother, more responsive gameplay during play in online games. The Aurora Online Gaming Edition Quick Ship Desktop features the AMD Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition Quad Core 2.6GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache, Alienware P2 Chassis with AlienIce 3.0 Video Cooling, the Killer NIC K1 Gaming Network Card (333MHz NPU, 64MB DDR2), ATI Radeon HD 4870 and 4GB DD2 Memory.
You can learn more by visiting www.killernic.com.
Alienware’s Games Convention Plans
Alienware (a division of Dell) will be at Games Convention 2008 in Leipzig, Germany next week supporting a number of developers and hosting special events. The company announced today that it has partnered with 4Players, Ascaron, Team SPEED-Link and Bethesda on a number of events and plans to show off two new PCs at the show.
At its booth (Hall 2, Stand J02) the company will showcase two of its latest Area 51and Aurora desktop PCs. Valve software’s Gabe Newell will also be on hand as a special guests and a special airbrushed Alienware system (Mercenaries) will be given away in a raffle.
Other activities that Alienware will help support include the official GC Live for Speed race organized by SPEED-Link, sponsorship of the Intel Extreme Masters III tournament, Ascaron’s Sacred 2: Fallen Angel, and more. Mostly the company will be the platform of choice to run PC games. Most notably, Area-51 systems will be used to showcase the PC version of Fallout 3.
You can learn more about Alienware’s activities at GC this year by visiting www.alienware.co.uk/GC08.
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PMS Clan Frags For Alienware
Now that women make up 40 percent of the gaming public I have put myself on notice: write more stories about women and gaming, or get choked by an electric cord. Since I’m not a sadomasochist, I’ll go with option A. The PMS Clan, a pro gaming super gamer group made up entirely of women, will be representing gaming PC maker Alienware at several upcoming events.
Alienware will sponsor the clan, who will in turn use the Alienware Area-51 m9750 at several events including the Dell Extreme Gaming Tour, Quakecon, BlizzCon and Penny Arcade Expo. Those with enough guts can try and take these ladies on, but I wouldn’t recommend it.. This marks the company’s first-ever sponsorship of a competitive gaming team.
