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

Developed by Relic Entertainment and published by Sega, Company of Heroes 2 is an online World War II real-time strategy game (RTS) that uses Relic’s Essence Engine 3.0 to create realistic, snowy battlefields. We ran this game’s benchmark at 1920x1200. We set the Anti-Aliasing setting to medium and Image Quality to Higher. All other settings were put on High.

Company of Heroes 2

DirectX 11 RTS Gaming Performance

The Alpha's minimum frame rate in CoH is abysmal, but the average frame rate is much more palatable. To play this game at 1080P, the eye candy will have to be turned out a bit.

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