AlienWare Area 51- gaming machine

Alienware Area 51 is a beast, monster when it comes to designing and this is no exception. So, lets get to know more about the beast. It got angled edges, pyramidal design, and gently glowing LED lighting, which makes it so unique.

It featured a liquid-cooled overclocked 18-core Intel Core i9-7980XE processor, two liquid-cooled Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 graphics cards running in SLI, 64GB of RAM, and a 1TB M.2 SSD with a 2TB mechanical hard drive backup. The Area 51’s iconic “triad” design has served Alienware well over the years, and the Area-51 R5 features the second-generation version with a few internal tweaks and refinements.

This is a very large huge computer, and its design doesn’t allow itself to being tucked away under a desk. This is a desktop computer that begs to be seen, to be displayed, and its size makes it a little hard to find space for it.

First, replacing the top-side ports on many desktops, the Alienware Area-51 R5 features four USB ports on the front of the chassis. It’s angular design actually makes them more easily accessible than typical front-facing ports when it’s under a desk.

There’s plenty of open space. The inside of the front panel is where you’ll find an intake fan, and two of the fans connected to the liquid cooling units on the graphics cards. The rear panel is hooked up to the liquid cooling block on the CPU. Cables are neatly zip-tied together according to their purpose, power cables are labeled and elegantly strung through the case without unnecessary slack.

You have access to the RAM, the graphics cards, the power supply, and the fan assemblies. All without moving a single cable. As said, the cable arrangement is so neat and not at all complicated. Removing hardware components is almost entirely tool-free, with the help of clips for securely locking it in place.

There’s even a battery-powered work light that turns on when you open the case, so you can see every port, cable, and plug. For everyday workloads, running Word, Excel, even egregiously, insanely intensive web-browsing, the Area-51 R5 is a champ. Between its Core i9 processor and 64GB of RAM, All this hardware and expert engineering will run you about $6,709. The Area-51 is billed as a gaming desktop.