Alien to mini machine:-Dell Alienware X51 games host, DELL,Alienware X51, mini, NVIDIA,Optimus
Alienware's gaming machines in the brand image is more deeply rooted. Just this afternoon, Dell held a conference in San Francisco, California, announced the latest Alienware products - the brand's first mini X51. Overall size and the old version of the Xbox 360 65nm process almost.
Although the size small, but Alienware is this product for gamers since it naturally will not use Atom / Brazos APU platforms. X51 uses an H61 mini-ITX motherboard, use the desktop version of the LGA 1155 Core i3/i5/i7 processor, providing maximum 8GB DDR3 memory (standard 4GB). Motherboard supports USB 3.0, integrated WiFi module and a slim DVD burner / Blu-ray drive.
The most important graphics, X51 has a PCI-Express x16 slot, support up to 9 inches around 228.6mm of the dual-slot graphics card. Hard drive cage to support installation of a 3.5-inch hard drive or a pair of 2.5-inch HDD (but need to transfer), can also use the 3.5 in. HDD +2.5 inch SSD combination. In addition, X51 and M17x/M18x notebook also has a similar external power supply module.
Specific configuration section, Alienware X51 standard graphics for the GeForce GT 545/GeForce GTX 555, both of which are OEM-specific models, with GDDR5 memory. GT 545 is a GTX 550 Ti shrink version, CUDA cores down to 144, down to 870 core frequency, memory frequency is equivalent to about 4GHz, width is 128bit. The GTX 555 is the GTX 560's scaled-down, similar to the GTX 460 SE specification and GTX 460 V2 combination, with the former and the latter the number of CUDA cores and other specifications: 288 CUDA Core, 776MHz core frequency, 192bit memory interface , equivalent to about 4GHz memory frequency. Most importantly, both the desktop graphics card also supports NVIDIA's Optimus technology, can greatly reduce the use of power.
General configuration details are listed below:
-CPU: Intel Core i3 (standard) dual-core / i5 or i7 quad-core processor
- Motherboard: H61 chipset Mini-ITX specification
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 1GB GDDR5 (standard) / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 1GB GDDR5, Optimus intelligent switching technology to support
- Memory: 4GB DDR3-1333 (standard), upgradeable to 8GB, 2 DIMM slots
- Hard disk: Standard high-speed 7200rpm 1TB (picture point of view seems to be Western Digital Blue plate)
- Optical Drive: Slim DVD burner (standard) / Blu-ray
- Expansion: Gigabit networks, 802.11 a / b / g / n WiFi, 6 个 USB 2.0,2 a USB 3.0, HDMI 1.4a output, SPDIF output, HD audio output
- Power Supply: Alienware custom 240W (standard) / 330W
- Size: 343 * 95 * 318mm
- Weight: about 5.49kg
The Dell price is relatively kind, priced at just $ 699, the high-priced strategy for the Alienware is consistently regarded as valuable, and then take into account the work problem, some users considered a good choice.
