How does Alienware design it’s PCs with the highest possible performance? Which stage of the process do we engage Intel?

The conversation starts off with Sr. Distinguished Engineer at Alienware, Travis North, explaining that they start with a blank sheet of paper and start building from there. The first question we look at are what are the intended uses of the PC? Is it video rendering? Gaming? VR? etc. and from there begin to determine the power conditions they’re working with for the system. Later in the process, Travis and the team begin working with Mark Gallina, System Thermal & Mechanical Architect at Intel, to gather the requirements from a thermal cooling perspective.

From there, testing begins on a number of other elements of the system. Travis mentions things like skin temperatures, WASD key heat, and much more. Mark also explains some of the more tricky challenges dealing with laptops from a CPU cooling perspective.

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Source: Alienware YouTube
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