The Alienware X51: $699 of Alienware Gaming Glory

[win7holic]

By J.R. Nelson, DesktopReview.com Editor | 1/17/2012

Tonight, Alienware revealed its smallest and most affordable gaming system yet - the Alienware X51, a mini-ITX desktop that promises o bring PC gaming to a whole new audience. Coming in well under a thousand dollars, the machine doesn't take up any more space than a gaming console: Alienware's likely target.

Gaming consoles, especially the Xbox 360 and PS3, have take a chunk out of the traditional gaming market, and for good reason. They offer a set and promised gaming experience; PCs age and stop playing the latest games, not that long after they're introduced.

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[McLovin]

Looks, like Xbox and or a PS3. Plus never really been a fan of Alienware, I prefer to build the computer myself, instead of buying these gaming computers.

 

[win7holic]

Me too.
build from scratch will more better than like that.

 

[jamescv7]

Nice however its heavy on the pocket that mostly users could not afford it. Since majority of the users were mostly more in games.

 

[pcjunklist]

It's just really a laptop put into a micro-atx case. Base price of $699 isn't a lot but I wouldn't consider this a gaming machine by any means. The 2600k OC'd to 5.2ghz with 3 gtx 580's and 2 vertex 3 max iops in raid 0 I built for my nephew is a gaming machine.

 

[Nathan Wootton]

3 GTX 580 ?? wow i want that config ;p

 

[pcjunklist]

yeah really not fare for a 15yr kid to have that much power, especially when I was his age all I had was an Intel 486 running ms-dos games. Love the kid but such a spoiled brat.

 

[Valentin N]

It's just really a laptop put into a micro-atx case. Base price of $699 isn't a lot but I wouldn't consider this a gaming machine by any means. The 2600k OC'd to 5.2ghz with 3 gtx 580's and 2 vertex 3 max iops in raid 0 I built for my nephew is a gaming machine.

It depends how you define gaming; I see, especially in laptop section, when a computer is presented as gaming computer but it's not. So it's all about definition.

But I do agree with you that it's not a gaming machine, if gaming then casual/entry gaming.

I would like to know you managed to get 5,2GHz? Is this stable frequency?

If you want you could grid (world communtiygrid, I am in team notebookreview forums) and you could fold (folding@home) with your gpu.