When we think about complex high-end gaming computers, there is one name that continually comes to thoughts, inevitably it has to be Alienware.

For years Alienware has been producing machines that cater to gamers and enthusiasts dreams, coupling a number of the industry's most radical designs with pinnacle of the line PC hardware. You should without problems spend lots of bucks in the sort of machines, an idea which has now not always appealed to the fanatic crowd, but as a show of ways feasible Alienware's enterprise is, it turned into acquired by means of PC manufacturing behemoth Dell in 2006, about ten years after its basis.

We had been fortunate sufficient to test a number of these computers during the last few years. Back in 2005 we examined the Aurora ALX laptop which prominently carried its Athlon X2 badge, on the time one of the quickest laptop processors on the planet. Then in August 2006 we looked at the Aurora m9700 gaming notebook, the primary pocket book to ever use Nvidia's SLI technology.

Unfortunately as surprising as this appeared on paper, the Aurora's SLI implementation that trusted two GeForce 7900GS portraits playing cards changed into crippled by an underpowered processor. At the time the 2.4GHz AMD Turion64 processor was surely not fast sufficient to push FPS close to the level of a laptop gadget.


Since then little has modified on the pocket book gaming front, as we are but to look a product which could supply an super degree of performance, or as a minimum sufficient to in shape a moderately powerful gaming computer PC.

Then there is the difficulty of heat, which impacts all pocket book computers, but in particular the ones supposed for gaming. And we have examined quite a few that suffer from balance problems because of this.

When Alienware added the Area-fifty one m15x we were manifestly eager to check it out, whilst final skeptical at the identical time. Like past Alienware merchandise the Area-fifty one m15x specs are extraordinary, absolutely incredible, making us even extra eager to see how it performs.

Our assessment pattern came configured with the brand new Intel Core 2 Extreme X9000 "Penryn XE" cell processor and a GeForce 8800M GTX (512MB) pix card.

In short, this is the mixture of the quickest viable cell CPU and the quickest cell GPU out there. Of course, this won't come cheap as the retail value of our evaluate sample became $4770, but as we determined when reviewing the Aurora m9700, there may be a good deal extra to the Area-fifty one m15x than simply astounding specifications (as a aspect observe, Alienware costs $1,499 as the base configuration fee for the Area-fifty one m15x).

The construct pleasant of a pc is simply as essential and that is normally an area in which we normally have not visible Alienware products falling short. Furthermore, there are info on the inner and outside layout that a product on this price variety higher have. Having that stated, permit’s take a closer look...