Alienware was once known for its desktops. It made a name for itself with unique designs, flagship hardware, and unrivaled performance, but over the past several years, Alienware has struggled to ...

TL;DR: Alienware has reintroduced its Area-51 in desktop and gaming laptop forms, featuring Intel's Core Ultra 9 285K processor and NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 GPU. The 80L tower supports over 600W ...

Commentary: QR codes printed directly onto the machine make it easy for someone like me to upgrade my components with confidence. Shannon is a CNET Perspectives Contributor and YouTube content creator ...

The Alienware Area-51 is built to be customizable, but in this review I learned it's not the kind of case that makes me excited for PC gaming. Reading time 5 minutes There was a time, even if it was ...

The Alienware Area-51 desktop PC, a line of high-end gaming rigs dating back to 1998, has returned after several years out of the game. The company announced the new model at CES 2025, describing the ...

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The rejuvenated Alienware Area-51 laptop lineup includes a window to its internals. The Area-51 desktop is extra big to accept Nvidia's GPUs. Reading time 3 minutes Like the government black site ...

This edition of the Alienware Aurora R15, featuring the red Legend 2.0 design, has an AMD Ryzen 9 7900X processor, 32GB of RAM, 1TB of SSD storage, 2TB of HDD storage, and the legendary Nvidia RTX ...

You spoke and Dell's Alienware division heard you—the latest-generation AMD Ryzen processors based on Zen 5 are now an option on the Alienware Area-51 desktop gaming PC, the same one we reviewed in ...

Alienware Area-51 Gaming Desktop is on sale right now for $5,549.99, which is $600 off. You already know this is not a budget box, so the question is whether you want to just be "good enough" for a ...

Very pretty desktop with nice lighting, especially if you like Tron. GPU, RAM, and storage are simple upgrades. Tool-less latch system to remove the side panel. Great value. CPU upgrades are limited.

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. The Alienware Area-51 Gaming Desktop is Dell's flagship all-in-one desktop gaming PC, and based on the updated product page, it looks to be one of the ...