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 ...

The Alienware X51 ($999.99 direct) fits everything a serious gamer needs into a compact chassis. The desktop has a full-size hard drive, desktop-class quad-core processor, and, best of all, a 150-watt ...

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 ...

A couple of years ago Alienware’s X51 gaming PC had an easy ride. Both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 were long in the tooth, and it was child’s play for Alienware to assemble a gaming PC with lots ...

The Alienware X51 has landed, but is this tech from another world? We take a look at the powerhouse gaming PC to see how it stacks up Alienware has a long standing reputation for making behemoth ...

Alienware has announced a small form-factor PC designed to give consumers gaming power in a compact box that will fit nicely the living room. The X51 is about a third of the size of Alienware's Aurora ...

Alienware's X51 looks like a PC crossed with a games console, or a tiny Batmobile. It looks like a cool robot's lunchbox, something that might have just hovered through a rift in space-time, a ...

I'm about to make some enemies, but I firmly believe console-sized gaming PCs like the Alienware X51 and Falcon Northwest Tiki are poised to assimilate their behemoth desktop competitors, zap them ...

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Alienware has launched its latest desktop gaming PC, the Alienware X51, though unlike the company's usual ostentatious monster-machines it squeezes its potency into a tiny footprint. The ...