Premium gaming PC suppliers Alienware has announced the launch of two new Star Wars branded systems to tie in with the forthcoming release of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith in cinemas. The arrival of the two cases - a Light Side system featuring artwork of Jedi characters from the six movies, and a Dark Side system featuring Darth Vader and other evil characters - will be supported by a major PR and marketing campaign.
Alienware recently created a uniquely designed and configured case for the launch of Half-Life 2, called the City 17 system, which proved to be a major hit with gamers seeking to upgrade for one of last year's most anticipated games - but the Star Wars cases represent the first time that Alienware has partnered with a film property, UK marketing manager Mat Bettinson told GamesIndustry.biz.
Alienware is also bundling a Star Wars themed desktop powered via Stardock's Theme Manager OEM that will give the interface, wallpaper, icons, and media player a distinctly Star Wars look and feel.
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News source: GamesIndustry.biz
Alienware recently created a uniquely designed and configured case for the launch of Half-Life 2, called the City 17 system, which proved to be a major hit with gamers seeking to upgrade for one of last year's most anticipated games - but the Star Wars cases represent the first time that Alienware has partnered with a film property, UK marketing manager Mat Bettinson told GamesIndustry.biz.
Alienware is also bundling a Star Wars themed desktop powered via Stardock's Theme Manager OEM that will give the interface, wallpaper, icons, and media player a distinctly Star Wars look and feel.
Screenshot: >> Click here << View: More Information News source: GamesIndustry.biz
Test configuration and benchmarks
The systems used for testing on which we have successively installed Windows XP SP 2 and Windows XP x64 Professional Edition was provided by Senorg Romania www.senorg.ro.
The configuration of the test system:
- ABIT AN8 Socket 939 with nForce 4 chipset motherboard
- AMD Athlon 64 bit 3000+ boxed processor, cooler included
- 512 MB RAM Kingston Dual Channel 400 MHz
- SATA Western Digital 120 GB hard disk
- ATI Radeon X700 PCI Express cu 256 MB RAM GDDR3 ABIT video card
- DVD-RW Lite-ON optical device
- 350 W power source
- Eizo 1280x1024@85 Hz monitor
For the motherboard, the following drivers were used: nForce 6.53 for Windows x32 and nForce 6.39 for Windows x64, being the last available versions from Nvidia when this test was done.
The driver for the ATI Radeon X700 video card was Catalyst Center 4.5, available on the ATI site both for Windows XP Professional Edition and Windows XP x64 Professional Edition.
The operating systems were Windows XP Professional Edition SP2 and Windows XP x64 Professional Edition SP1 build 1433.
The following benchmarks were used:
SiSoftware Sandra 2005 Professional Edition, both 32-bit and 64-bit
3D Mark 2005 1.20
ScienceMark 2005, both 32-bit and 64-bit bit
Chronicles of Riddick : Escape from Butcher’s Bay, both 32-bit and 64-bit bit
jk, they're nice cases.
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Last edited by 23368 on 21 Apr 2005 - 16:31
They look very high quality... both designs look very nice.
I think it would be great if you could send them any picture you wanted and they would put on the side of the case.
The other have too much "cute" figures
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