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Alien Invasion Alienware X51.

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Alienware's poured its high-end, PC gaming know-how into a powerful but affordable, front-room-friendly gaming box. With the current console crop ageing fast, can it cash in?

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The gaming PC has long been the niche product to end them all, even more so than aoepropera hi-fi. While most tech, from laptops to TVs to smartphones, has got smaller, thinner and more stylish, gaming PCs have remained defiantly big, lumpy and with all the high-end designer smoothness of a JCB.

This design philosophy might appeal to hardcore gamers of a pimply disposition but for most they're gadgets best kept in darkened gaming rooms, away from tech used by decent folk, and …

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