Alienware is largely credited for kicking off the micro-tower revolution three years ago with the original X51. The concept was simple: Take the typical business small-form-factor box, pull the PSU ...

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 ...

Despite the big 3D card, the X51's slim-tower chassis still has a limited upgrade path. Bottom line: Alienware has successfully brought its brand to an affordable, suitably stylized package, and I can ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. 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 ...

Bottom line: The X51 is a beast in a tiny box. There are some concessions to be made from an upgrade perspective, but if you’re after something tiny that manages to be a decent gaming machine, this ...

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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 ...