While the Alienware X51 has been slated by Valve as a currently available Steambox, consumers still have to get rid of that pesky Windows to install the Linux-driven platform. As we've seen with ...

The X51’s gaming performance isn’t exactly mind-blowing, but it is strong. On our Crysis 2 benchmark, it posted a frame rate of 46.2 frames per second at a resolution of 1920 by 1080 pixels ...

The X51’s direct successor in terms of size and gaming capability is Dell’s Alienware Alpha PC, which doubles as the company’s Steam Machine. The Alpha can pack a GTX 960 into a form factor ...

Gaming system specialist Alienware launched its console sized X51 desktop for the second time in London last night. The machine was originally announced a couple of weeks ago in San Francisco ...

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 ...

Speaking to us at E3, we asked Azor whether the Alienware would make Steam Boxes. "Well I get asked that question a lot, and my answer is that the X51 is a steam box," Azor replied.

The Alienware X51 starts at $699 with a Core i3 processor, 4GB of RAM and GeForce GT 545 graphics, but I'm both sorry and happy to say Dell sent me the top-tier $1,249 system instead, with a 3 ...

Our review X51 came packing an Intel Core i5-2320 3.0 GHz processor, 8GB of DDR3 RAM, a 1TB 7,200rpm hard drive, and the gaming centerpiece, a top-shelf 1GB GDDR5 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555.

Gaming PC maker Alienware has launched a new desktop with a difference today. Unlike the hulking behemoths of the past, the new Alienware X51 is a small form factor machine, which arrives in a ...

The X51 R3 is no exception. Despite its small footprint, our review system packs in an overclocked i5-6600K, 8GB of RAM, and a 2GB Nvidia GTX 960, while still finding room for a 240GB SSD and a ...