With the comprehensive package comes a 150 page manual, with Windows XP Professional restore, alienspawn for restoring the partition as it was shipped, a sticker, VGA convertor (for the DVI out), a black stylish T-shirt, and a silver presentation tin with a specially made reversable dual surface mouse mat. This mat is top quality and an excellent performer with a high quality optical or laser mouse.

The system ships with a old 66.xx driver and this was something we needed to bring reasonably up to date before running any tests. I modified a set of the 71.84 drivers to accept the NV41 card and installation was smooth and trouble free. The reason for using the 71.84 drivers was simple, they are a rock solid set with excellent performance on titles such as Doom3, Half life 2 and Farcry. Later 75.xx sets have given me many problems during testing.

The card is 12 pixel pipelines with 5 vertex units.

Alienware bundle an OEM "lite" version of Ahead Nero burning and unfortunately not much else, as ill detail on the cooling page to follow there is no temperature monitoring software available and if you want to install any graphics card overclocking software again this is left up to the consumer.

As well as a driver CD and an OS restore (not a "full" Windows XP), you get a CD and DVD "respawn" package. Alienware charge extra for this when ordering and its basically a means to revert the machine to the shipping condition when you received it.

 

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