Alienware, purveyors of high-performance desktop, notebook, media center and professional computer systems, just announced that quad-core processing is now standard in select super systems.

The new Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 processor is available in Alienware's Area-51 7500 and Area-51 ALX desktops. The world's first quad-core processor, the Core 2 Extreme QX6700 is bent on tackling numerous tasks simultaneously, no matter how intensive, which frees up time for Alienware desktop users and, way more importantly, kicks PC gaming up several notches.

"When a technology breaks crucial new ground the way the Core 2 Extreme QX6700 has," explained Mark Vena, Vice President of Marketing for Alienware, "customers can't wait to get their hands on it."

The Core 2 Extreme QX6700 is made up of four separate processing cores in a single package and provides 8MB of L2 cache. In layman's terms, that means a dramatic increase in multitasking potential with significantly improved system responsiveness when performing tasks like rendering a video (or running just about any software made by Adobe). To most Alienware users, it also means the new quad-core computers can play a demanding game and run productivity software at the same time without breaking a sweat.