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 ...

Alienware may have just upgraded its Aurora gaming rig, but that's not to keep the company from giving more diminutive form factors some love. Just this evening, the subsidiary of Dell announced the ...

The Alienware line just got a little brother, its Mac Mini if you will. The X51 is the gaming company’s smallest form factor desktop to date. But, since it’s an Alienware, it still packs plenty of ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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Alienware stuffs a high end gaming PC in to a gaming console-sized package—the result being the Alienware X51 gaming desktop. For over 40 years, PCMag has been a trusted authority on technology, ...