Photos: Cracking open Alienware's Area 51 ALX

Once the case door is off, you can see where the folks at Alienware shine. The inside of an Alienware PC is really a work of art. Click on the image above to see more from the gallery.

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CNET News sister site TechRepublic runs a regular series called "Cracking Open" in which it takes a look inside a variety of gadgets. CNET News is publishing this excerpt of a photo gallery that examines the guts of this $8,000 Alienware Area 51 ALX, one of the company's flagship desktop computers.

Click on the image above to see more views, including the 1,200-watt power supply; four RAM sticks that make up the 4GB in the ALX system; and each of the 1GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 280 cards.