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so now i'm here with Ross from alienware and he's going to talk to us about some of the new things that are being released with this something you announced at e3 so first of all the x51 it's a it's not a new product but you guys have done some upgrades to it so tell us about the alienware x51 and exactly where does it fit within the whole gaming pc / console market yeah the x51 we we originally released it back of January 2012 but this year we upgrade it with the latest Ivy Bridge processors as well as next-generation nvidia geforce graphics card so we've got the 700 series graphics cards in place now the system we like to call it a console size gaming PC it's just a little bit larger than your older xboxes it's made to either be set up on a desktop or placed into a living room next to a TV and it has an aesthetic to match that so that it doesn't stand out in a living room either we've been able to pack a ton of power into the sky into the system so if you get the base configuration you're going to be able to play your games at 30 frames per second it's only 699 price point which is the lowest price point that you can start out with an alienware and then if you want to configure up the system to over a thousand dollars you're going to be able to have 1080p gaming on your big screen TV at over 60 frames per second and that's what we really designed the system to do in the system fully upgradeable as new graphics and new processing systems and technologies come out every year you can upgrade the system it's made with desktop arts and so you can continually stay on the edge of performance and outpaced those console games right so in terms of the 699 base price for the x51 stock model so that featuring i three eight gigs of ram yeah what is it it's featuring an i3 eight gigs of ram a one terabyte hard drive in a GTX 645 graphics card at the base right and how about comparable as well as a slot-loading DVD Drive this one and how is that comparable to the next gen consoles like a ps4 in terms of performance so that will be on par with next gen consoles in terms of performance you'll still be able to play 1080p graphics and you'll still have over 30 frames per second on those games if you want to outpace those next gen consoles I would recommend upgrading to either an 8 99 or a 1099 configs right so in this roundtable discussion you guys brought up the idea of you guys are working with game developers and custom API that allows the game to interact with the color options on your alienware machine so can tell us about what's going on I'm titles are in the development and things like that so we call the technology alien FX in each one of our systems has between three and eight different lighting zones that you can control on the computer all of those are controlled via an API which we give to game developers so the game developers can program that API into their game so that the lighting on your system can change depending on what's going on in game so in battlefield 3 as an example when you're getting shot at your system will flash red at you to tell you that you're losing health and that you need to do something right we've worked with you know EA in battlefield 3 that's a huge title we worked with a lot of smaller titles as well we have over 50 games currently within our portfolio that support alien FX and we're continually looking to onboard new developers whether it's game developers or other software as well right and so you announced a few machines at e3 now they're finally making their way into Canada so tell us about the debate I guess the the monster notebook sound so the monster notebook is the alienware 18 it is an 18 inch gaming laptop it comes standard with dual graphics card configurations in the nvidia sli it has a 1080p IPS screen at its base so you're going to get better viewing angles with that type of screen and it's going to have better brightness and you would if you are going to get another type of screen right and led the system starts with i7 processors and eight gigs of RAM if you can figure up the system you can get up to three different hard drives that fit within it and you can also get overclocked processors as well you can get in either factory overclocked where we overclock it and send it straight to you or you can choose to overclock the system yourself deeper first so what are the advantages of people going with an alienware versus building something themselves when you get looking into a desktop the alienware x51 the small form factor of this system is going to be very hard to construct on your own as well though I think there are a few options out there where people have tried to really get into that but you might be pinching your fingers a little bit inside the tiny case but when it comes to gaming in general you know if you want to build your own system go for it we fully support it we understand that that's a big part of what makes PC gaming cool but an alienware system is going to come to you out of the box it's going to work you're going to know all of those components have been tested to be fully compatible with each other deliver a high level of performance and if you ever have any problems we're there with warranty and support that can help you all right thanks man yeah thank you all right so guys this is a wrap it's been sort of a cool event talking about the future of gaming talking to Big Blue kiss and bunch of guys from alienware right right behind me it's really cool the 4k gameplay of the latest batman game which is quite amazing to see in such high resolution the form and monitor that has not yet been released I'm not allowed to give you any more information about it but it's definitely a technology that's making its way into the consumer world and becoming more accessible so again thanks for watching and we'll see you in next video you