ALX

Alienware made cars, it would make twin-engined nitrous-powered dragsters that can accelerate from 0-60mph in 0.2 seconds and cover a quarter-mile run in less than five seconds at a terminal velocity of 300mph. In reverse.  

Alienware has done away with standard cooling fans for the Aurora ALX and instead opted for the Active Liquid Cooling System to help prevent the entire PC from bursting into flames. There's also a mammoth 850W power supply to keep the PC ticking over (and upset the environ-mentalists) and, naturally, it also uses the fastest gaming CPU known to man -- the AMD Athlon FX-60.

What price uber-nerdiness? $8,974 (£5,140) -- and that's without a monitor. If you want to actually see your stupendously fast games, Alienware recommends the 24-inch Samsung SyncMaster 244T, which can handle hi-res gaming with a native resolution of 1,920x1,200 pixels. But why wimp out and stop there? Especially when you can have the 32-inch Samsung SyncMaster 320P, which brings the total price of the Aurora ALX to a mere $10,316