AlienWare X51 System Review (Core i7)

The system scores 5.9 points, held back by the mechanical hard drive. A solid state drive would boost the score to over 7.0 points.

Our review system had a clean software install, with the only red flag being the McAfee Security Center. We would immediately deinstall this software as it is a resource hog.

This Alienware X51 uses the desktop based Core i7 2600 processor. Our previous tests have shown that this is a very fast processor built around the 32nm manufacturing process. The X51 also includes 8GB of DDR3 memory, which runs at 1333mhz. This is more than enough for the target audience, and ideal for an office machine which may have more applications running simultaneously.

The Nvidia GTX555 is a decent low end discrete solution, running at 736 mhz core. It has 24 ROPS, and 288 CUDA cores. There is 1GB of GDDR5 memory on the card, connected via a 192 bit memory interface.

For some reason, the standard clocked system didn't achieve validation via CPUz, but it was rock solid through the last week of testing. You can see it over here.

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