Lets take a closer look at the first tournaments system. The Dell Dimension 8100 was equipped with a Pentium 4 2,0Ghz processor, 4 x 64MB RDRAM, a PNY Geforce® 4 TI 4400, 20GB Western Digital hard disk, a Soundblaster 64 PCI sound card, Lite-On 48X CD-ROM drive and a Dell NPS 330CB power supply with 330 watt. Today these specs won't knock your sock offs, but in 2002 it was a high end desktop system.

For the ESL Pro Series 16 the Alienware® Aurora ALX desktop will be the official tournament system. With a Intel® Core i7 3,60GHz Extreme Edition Quad Core processor, two 1.8GB NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 260 video cards, 12GB Triple-Channel 1600MHz DDR3 memory and a 1.5TB SATA2 3.0Gb/s hard disk, the Alienware® Aurora ALX desktop is 7,2 times faster than the Dell® Dimension 8100, got 48 times more memory and 76,8 times more hard disk space. What a difference!

Model: Processor: Video card: Memory: Hard disk: Sound card : Optical drive: Power supply:

Dell® Dimension 8100 Intel® Pentium 4 2,0GHz PNY Geforce 4 TI 4400 (AGP) 4x64MB RDRAM (Rambus) Western Digital 20GB Soundblaster 64 PCI (CT5807) Lite-On 48X CD-ROM Dell NPS 330CB 330 Watt

Alienware® Aurora ALX Intel® Core i7 3,60Hz Quad Core Dual 1.8GB NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 260 12GB Triple-Channel 1600MHz DDR3 1.5TB SATA2 3.0Gb/s SoundBlaster X-FI Titanium 6X Dual Layer Blu-ray DiscTM Burner Alienware 875 Watt Multi-GPU Approved

Check out the Alienware® Aurora ALX