Graphics are only half the equation. Sure, when you sit down to a game, you want the highest frame rates and the clearest 3D images. But when was the last time you played a game with your system on mute? If you want a truly immersive PC gaming experience, you need an extreme sound card. Alienware offers the Area-51 desktop with a Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeGamer sound card to deliver intense, realistic, HD audio. By delivering THX® certified surround sound, the XtremeGamer sound card draws a line between playing a game and experiencing one.
An Alienware Area-51 with Blu-ray offers you the most advanced media experience possible from a desktop. The top choice for HD movies, Blu-ray Discs® deliver full 1080p resolutions for image quality unattainable by traditional media. Their unparalleled capacity, up to ten times that of DVDs, means that with a Blu-ray burner you can back up your entire media library on just a handful of Blu-ray discs.