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Dell has the Dell Alienware X51 Core i5-3450 Desktop for $849 - $50 off with coupon code XB4QLDTQJ6Z6DW [Exp 9/26] = $799 with free shipping.
Intel Core i5-3450 3.1GHz, 6GB RAM, 2TB SATA
1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 545, Win 7 HP x64, 802.11n
$799
What's a GTX545...?
Based off GF116 silicon that a GTX 550 Ti used, although after that the kinship stops! Castrated 25% to 144 CUDA cores from the 192 norm, while still 192-bit they stuck it with DDR3 instead of GDDR5. Clock speed 20% lower at 720Mhz, so those diminished CUDA cores are devalued as their clock is also 20% less. Memory is at 900Mhz (1800 effective) vs. 2050 MHz (4100 eff.) of the GtX550Ti, consequently memory bandwidth plummeted more than 50% to 43Gb/s that's like what those 9600 POS presented. Lastly most GT 545 will reference 1.5Gb of memory, this is only 1Gb, while remember still only DDR3.
Tom's Hierarchy lumps it with the likes of the 8800GT 512Mb, 9800GT, GT 640 (DDR3) I think that’s being generous. I’d rather it been a GT 240 DDR5, at least it has more memory bandwidth. That make's it not even entry level gaming in this day and age, and exceptionally pathetic fitted on an Alienware costing $800.