Alienware sent us a new CPU and RAM to upgrade our office Alpha to help us work on this feature, so let’s open it up and see if the experience lives up to its promised ease-of-use.

Alienware says the chip will have 2GB of dedicated GDDR5 video memory.The Alpha also includes HDMI In and Out, for direct HDMI pass-through, as well as two USB 2.0 ports in the front of the unit ...

The Alpha R2 starts at $599 with an Intel i3 (Skylake) processor (3MB Cache, up to 3.2 GHz), AMD R9 M470X 2GB GDDR5 graphic card, 4 GB DDR4 memory and 500GB HDD. The Steam Machine version of the ...

The Nvidia Partnership The Alpha's internals do resemble a standard entry-level gaming PC -- Intel CPU, 4GB DDR3 memory, 500GB hard drive, etc. But one element is a mystery: The graphics card.

Although Alienware once stated that there is no direct match-up between what's in the Alpha and Nvidia's other products, the closest you can say is that it's a suped up GTX 860M with 2GB GDDR5 memory.

Early leaked specs on the Alpha suggested a memory overclock from 5gbps to 6gbps - but that hasn't happened. As far as we can tell, integration apart, there is nothing custom about the GTX 860M ...

The bold Alienware Alpha makes good on many parts of its promise to meld the gaming PC and living room game console, but there are still too many rough edges to make this a true console killer.

Alienware recommends using sleep mode, since you can wake it up that way by just pressing a button on the controller, but I had all sorts of issues. Often, the system would wake up all by itself ...

Priced from $549, the Alpha runs a choice of Intel Haswell dual- and quadcore Core i chip, paired with a custom NVIDIA Maxwell GTX GPU with 2GB of its own memory, and up to 16GB of DDR3 system memory.

All four Alpha configurations are fitted with a custom-designed Nvidia GPU, built on the newer “Maxwell” architecture, with 2GB of GDDR5 memory built in.

Alienware has created a monster. The boutique gaming-PC maker is marketing its new box, the Alpha, as a console. It’s actually a strange PC-console hybrid. It can certainly do things that no ...

The spec I was sent by Alienware isn’t the beefiest of the SKUs, the Intel i3 model with 4GB of onboard RAM, a 500GB HDD, plus a modified Maxwell Nvidia GTX video card (which is effectively as ...