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Alienware was making some noise earlier today about being <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/alienware-area-51-desktops-first-to-score-nvidia-gtx-280-graphic/">first out the gate</a> with NVIDIA's new GeForce GTX 280 cards, but HP's gaming division isn't about get shown up: it's launching the HP Blackbird 002 Exhilaration Edition which features two GTX 280 cards in SLI today, and it says it'll be shipping almost a month sooner than Alienware for $6,600 -- just over a thousand dollars less than a similar Area-51 setup. That's fightin' talk, people -- hopefully these two will get their prices down to something actually reasonable by the time this is all over.<h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href=http://h20435.www2.hp.com/exhilaration/>Read</a> | <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/hp-blackbird-002-exhilaration-edition-nabs-nvidia-gtx-280-graphi/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1227286/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a> | <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/hp-blackbird-002-exhilaration-edition-nabs-nvidia-gtx-280-graphi/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>
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