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Alienware Area 51 ALX CrossFireX gaming PC
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3DMark 06 Results
1280 x 1024
2048 x 1536
Longer bars are better
At 1920 x 1200 with Medium Quality settings selected, the Alienware managed a mere 27fps compared to 51.1fps from the Mesh, but with anti-aliasing turned on, the Alienware frame rate dived to 4fps. By contrast, the Mesh was hardly affected by AA and plugged along at 45.3fps.
Crysis Results
1920 x 1200 - Medium Quality
1920 x 1200 - Very High Quality
Results in frames per second
Longer bars are better
It was a similar story with Crysis' Very High Quality settings enabled. Without anti-aliasing, as the Alienware only ran at 7.3fps while the Mesh achieved 19fps. We turned on AA, and the Alienware crashlanded somewhere in New Mexico while the Mesh continued to hover, albeit at a barely playable framerate.