Fast as hell: Alienware Aurora

So you want to know how fast the Alienware Aurora 7500SLI is? You're despicable, you speed junky. Isn't anything else important to you? Alright, just this one time we'll give in to your relentless badgering: It's VIOLENTLY fast, the kind of fast that rips a hole through your skull and leaves tendrils of scalp flapping in the wind like tassles on a Harley.

This PC is Evel Knievel strapped to a rocket, hurtling through the air screaming, "More! More! Give me something that's really scary, you pathetic freaks!" In short, this PC is so fast it cusses you. Nothing we threw at the Aurora made it break a sweat.

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory ran as smoothly as a greased baby down a bowling alley. Tweak all the graphics settings into nuclear territory, and there's still no performance lag. But where's the joy in using a computer if you're not bullying it into dropping frames now and again? Expect a full review to follow. -CS