Alienware have started 2012 by letting lose their X51 desktop. The X51 is a slim gaming PC that is designed to orient itself vertically, or horizontally on the desktop. Even the Alienware logo ...

Page 8: Games: Metro 2033 and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Page 9: Games: Batman Arkham City & Hitman Absolution Page 10: Power Consumption & Noise Remember the Twilight Zone episode in which a race of 9-foot ...

In the realm of gaming desktops, innovation is often limited to improvements made to raw graphics processing power. The goal for most manufacturers, it seems, is to build the biggest, baddest rigs ...

Page 8: Lost Planet 2 and Far Cry 2 Benchmarks Page 9: Batman Arkham City and Power Consumption Performance Summary: When some consider the size of a small form factor system, they tend to set their ...

Alienware's recently released X51 PC-in-a-console shell is something of a remarkable product. This is the company's cheapest PC to date, and it's aimed 100 per cent at the aspirational core gamer ...

What's most striking about the Alienware X51 is its simplicity; not only in concept, but execution. It wasn't designed to break speed records or push the envelope of industrial design--it was built to ...

The Alienware X51 proves that big things can come in small packages, offering excellent gaming performance in a slim chassis. Among built-to-order gaming PCs, Alienware is about as close as one gets ...

When Nvidia announced the GTX 680 and its accompanying Kepler architecture last month, it made a big fuss about power efficiency. Instead of raw clock speeds, Kepler focuses on performance per watt.

Alienware generally makes giant honking gaming computers. There are two exceptions: The tiny Alpha, and the console-sized X51 desktop. And today, the X51 is getting some pretty huge ...