Despite Dell only reviving the Alienware Area-51 lineup earlier this year, the Alienware Area-51 gaming desktop is already on sale. Right now, you can get the model with an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 for $400 off.
That discount brings the price of the gaming desktop to $4,049.99. That is a large chunk of change, but considering the RTX 5080 Founders Edition costs $999, just over $4,000 is a reasonable price to pay for one of the best pre-built gaming PCs.
Dell brought back the Alienware Area-51 lineup earlier this year at CES. When making the Area-51 gaming desktop, Alienware prioritized upgradeability, which is a welcome change to the proprietary components of the past.
You can open the 80L case of the Area-51 gaming desktop with a quick-release side panel. The spacious case makes repairs easy. It’s not the most compact design, but that’s for good reason.
The motherboard of the Area-51 gaming desktop uses the standard ATX shape, though it disappointingly only has two UDIMM slots, which limits future RAM upgrades.
The internals from NVIDIA’s next-gen RTX 5000 family of GPUs and Intel’s Core Ultra Series 2 lineup are the latest on the market and should handle the best PC games easily.
One concern with the Area-51 gaming desktop is that there are more affordable ways to get similar specs in a PC. While that is true, I’d argue it’s the tradeoff you pay for getting a prebuilt system over building your own.
The Area-51 gaming desktop offers a sleek design, cutting-edge specs, and the confidence that it’s configured to perform out of the box. The PC’s $400 discount is a welcome surprise given the device just launched last month.
