"It should come as no surprise that the ever-performance minded Alienware debuts its chassis with Intel's new Core 2 Duo chip. Our review system came with the 2.93GHz Core 2 Extreme X6800, the top dog in the Core 2 Duo stable and also the overall CPU performance leader. Alienware even gave it a boost, overclocking it to 3.26GHz. Paired with 2GB of 800MHz DDR2 SDRAM, the Nforce 590 SLI chipset, and two 512MB GeForce 7900 GTX 3D cards, this Area-51 7500 competes against the Dell XPS 700, the Falcon Northwest Mach V, and other recent high-end systems outfitted with Intel's latest CPU. The only system we've tested that's faster than the Alienware is the Velocity Micro Raptor DCX, which won on all but a single benchmark. That doesn't mean that the Alienware is slow, especially considering that the Raptor DCX costs $1,000 more. The only pinch you might feel is when Vista hits and you find that your 3D cards don't support DirectX 10 and the latest gaming features that new API will bring. That problem is common to all of the reviewed systems, however, and won't change until ATI and Nvidia release their next-gen 3D cards. "
I was reading a cnet review about that new alienware, and i came accross this. They say cards will not longer support DX 10. Im planning on buying a 7900GT so after Vista comes out i will need a new card?
I was reading a cnet review about that new alienware, and i came accross this. They say cards will not longer support DX 10. Im planning on buying a 7900GT so after Vista comes out i will need a new card?