Page 65 Computer Model Alienware Area-51 Dimensions Width 249 mm (9.8 inches) Depth 635 mm (25 inches) Height 557.6 mm (22 inches) (with top vents closed) 595.5 mm (23.4 inches) (with top vents open) 15.4 mm (0.6 inches) (added height with the rear. Even downloads like drivers & manuals are no longer available on Dell’s website. If you are looking for support, Dell recommends to send them an e-mail to AWCC-ResolutionExperts@dell.com with your account number and issue description. Alienware legacy systems include: Area-51 ALX; Area-51 M15x; Area-51 M17; Area-51 M17x; Area-51 m5500; Area.

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As noted above, we used six PC games to test overall performance. We ran the games at two resolutions, 1920×1200 and 2560×1600. Remember, these are pricey, high-end systems: You’re not likely to buy one of these puppies and attach it to a 19-inch LCD panel. We also tested at two different settings—no AA or anisotropic filtering (trilinear was enabled, if available), and 4xAA and 8xAF.

At lower resolutions—if you can call 1900×1200 “lower”—the Alienware box’s extremely high CPU clock speed is no doubt responsible for such high Call of Duty 2, Prey, and Flight Simulator X scores. In the three other games, CyberPower edges ahead, so the two systems are split 50/50 for winning game benchmarks. Crank up the resolution and turn on antialiasing and anisotropic filtering, and the differences between the two shrink in most games.

We also see our first real anomaly in benchmarking here: For some reason, the Alienware system was scoring really high in Half-Life 2: The Lost Coast when we cranked up the resolution and add AA and AF. It ran faster than any other system, and faster than it frankly should have. We double-checked the drivers and ran the test half a dozen times, but can’t figure out exactly why this happened. At these resolutions, it’s pretty hard to tell if exactly the right AA or AF mode is being rendered, but we couldn’t find any obvious driver shenanigans going on.

A Note About CrossFire at 2560×1600: As it turns out, there’s a bug in the current CrossFire driver memory allocation, causing the slave card to think there are two monitors attached, and thereby allocating twice the memory it needs. The slave doesn’t allocate memory properly, so at very high resolutions, it falls back to 2xAA in the case of games, and fails entirely with 3DMark06 at 2560×1600 with 4xAA and 8xAF. So the results at 2560×1600 are really 2xAA/8xAF. ATI is aware of the bug, and will be fixing it in future driver releases. This doesn’t affect the CyberPower or Alienware benchmarks, only the Dell and Gateway systems. Continued…

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The following article will guide you through the steps to create a RAID array on the following Alienware models:

- M17x (R2 and R3)
- M18x
- Aurora
- Area 51
What do you need to build a RAID?
- Alienware system supporting RAID (See table below)
- 2 identical hard drives for RAID 0 and RAID 1
- 4 identical hard drives for RAID 10 (0+1) (Aurora and Area 51 only)
- 3 identical hard drives for RAID 5 (Aurora and Area 51 only)
The table below shows the types of RAID supported by Alienware systems

Enabling RAID on your computer

M17x R2
Enter the System Setup (BIOS) by pressing F2 at the Alienware logo screen
Navigate to SATA Operation under Advanced Tab.
Press the up- and down-arrow keys to highlight SATA Operation and press <Enter>.
Press the up- and down-arrow keys to highlight RAID, press <Enter>, and then press <Esc>.
Press the up- and down-arrow keys to highlight RAID OPROM UI, press <Enter>, and then set it to Enabled.
Press the up- and down-arrow keys to highlight RAID Mode Selection , press <Enter>, and then set RAID 0 / RAID 1 as Enabled or Disabled.
Press the left- and right-arrow keys to highlight Save/Exit and press <Enter> to exit System Setup and resume the boot process.
M17x R3 and M18x
Enter the System Setup (BIOS) by pressing F2 at the Alienware logo screen
Navigate to SATA Operation under Advanced Tab.
Use the up- and down-arrow keys to highlight SATA Operation and press <Enter>.
Use the up- and down-arrow keys to highlight RAID, press <Enter>, and then press <Esc>.
Press the left- and right-arrow keys to highlight Save/Exit and press <Enter> to exit System Setup and resume the boot process.
Aurora R3 and R4
Enter the System Setup (BIOS) by pressing F2 at the Alienware logo screen
Navigate to SATA Operation under Advanced Tab.
Use the up- and down-arrow keys to highlight SATA Operation and press <Enter>.
Use the up- and down-arrow keys to highlight RAID, press <Enter>, and then press <Esc>.
Press the Esc to go back to the main menu
Navigate to Advanced BIOS Features
Navigate to OptionRom Display Screen and press Enter
Select Display from the list and press Enter
Press F10 to Save/Exit and press Enter to exit System Setup and resume the boot process.

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Aurora R1, Aurora R2 and Area 51
Enter the System Setup (BIOS) by pressing F2 at the Alienware logo screen
Navigate down to Integrated Devices and press Enter
Navigate down to Configure SATA 1-6 as and press Enter
Choose RAID from the list and press Enter
Press F10 to Save/Exit and press Enter to exit System Setup and resume the boot process.

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Setting up RAID
Press <Ctrl><i> when you are prompted to Enter the Intel® RAID Option ROM utility.
(first screen at bootup)
Press the up- and down-arrow keys to highlight Create RAID Volume, then press <Enter>.
Enter a RAID volume name or accept the default name, then press <Enter>.
Press the up- and down-arrow keys to select the desired option RAID0 (Stripe), RAID1 (Mirror), RAID 5 (Spanning)
or RAID1+0 (Mirror+Stripe) then press <Enter>.
If there are more than two hard drives available, press the up- and down-arrow keys and spacebar to select the
number of drives you want to use to make up your configuration, then press <Enter>.
NOTE:
Select the strip size closest to the size of the average file you want to store on the RAID volume. If you do not know the average file size, choose 128 KB as your strip size.
Press the up- and down-arrow keys to change the strip size, then press <Enter>.
Select the desired capacity for the volume, then press <Enter>.
The default value is the maximum available size.

Area 51 Alx

Press <Enter> to create the volume.
Press <y> to confirm that you want to create the RAID volume.
Confirm that the correct volume configuration is displayed on the main Intel® RAID Option ROM utility screen.
Press the up- and down-arrow keys to select Exit, and then press <Enter>.

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Proceed to reinstall your operating system.

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SOURCE: http://support.dell.com