Alienware Alpha Intel-Powered SFF Gaming PC: Consoles Beware

Name: Alienware Alpha Intel-Powered SFF Gaming PC: Consoles Beware
Brand: Alienware

by Marco Chiappetta, Joshua Gulick — Monday, January 26, 2015, 01:05 PM EDT

As 47, a killer for the International Contract Agency (ICA), you have a very dangerous, but action-packed life. The FPS franchise has been winning praise from critics throughout multiple games, of which Hitman: Absolution is the latest. When running this game’s benchmark, we set AA to 4X and pump the Quality Level settings to Ultra, making for a grueling gaming test.

Hitman: Absolution

DirectX 11 Gaming Performance

The Alpha's story here is the same as before: you can play Hitman on the Alpha and have an enjoyable experience, but cranking up the settings will be rough on the little console.

Tags: Dell, SFF, Gaming, PC, Alpha, Alienware

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com