Alienware has unveiled an updated version of its Area-51 gaming desktop at CES 2026, showcasing the latest hardware upgrades. The iconic system, originally introduced in the late 1990s and revived in ...

What it is The New Alienware Area-51 Gaming Desktop PC includes a $400 discount and pairs an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D with an ...

Alienware’s flagship desktop finally ditched proprietary parts last year (no more Dell-specific motherboards) and welcomed AMD’s flagship Ryzen X3D desktop chips in November. Now it’s getting the ...

The Area-51 uses the X870E motherboard and can be configured with the Ryzen 7 9800X3D or the Ryzen 9 9950X3D. Both processors include AMD’s 3D V-cache technology, which improves access to game data ...

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 is beefing up the gaming chops of its flagship prebuilt Area-51 gaming PCs with AMD Ryzen 9000 X3D processors – the best gaming processors in the business. Alienware has announced that, ...

The takeaway: Those with AMD CPUs or GPUs who notice that the company's graphics and chipset drivers access internal storage drives hundreds of times within a short period likely have nothing to worry ...

The fine wine phenomenon appears to have struck the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT, with new benchmarks across 16 games demonstrating some impressive performance gains. It's only been four months since the RX ...

AMD has been trying to catch up to Nvidia by offering its own version of frame generation, but so far, it's only been available as a tech preview. Now, AMD is officially rolling it out as part of its ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Anshel Sag is an industry analyst covering XR, 5G, mobile and PCs. Alienware designed the m16 R2 gaming laptop with one thing in ...