I agree with the comment about the dual nVidia cards being excessive overkill for Vue. There is nothing in Vue that really can take advantage of them. Dual SLI cards are pretty much a gamer tech only. Special effects (explosions, etc.) look really cool on them during the games, but that's pretty much their main usage.

The nVidia 450 actually is kind of old tech now, for a high end video card. If it is possible for Alienware to subsitute a single nVidia GTX 580 for those two cards, that would be a much better video card arrangement.

So that you know, the nVidia GTX 590 is the latest card out, and probably the best in terms of green effiiciency and low noise - not to mention a magnitude jump in sheer processing power. However, few of us can spend $700 USD plus on a video card.

The nVidia 540-560's are notoriously noisy, so that's not a great idea. The nVidia 570 and 580's are now at a significantly lower price, thanks to the release of the 590's, and they are far less noisy than the 560's. Not nearly the processing power of the 590's tho.'

I have a new Gigabyte GTX 570 (Model GV-N570D5-13I-B) (probably the best rated of the 570 series) with as much G_RAM as it can hold, and I'm loving it for both model-building and for Vue.