Dell has revived Alienware Area-51 with a flagship desktop featuring AMD’s Ryzen 7 9850X3D, RTX 5090 graphics, up to 64GB DDR5 and 12TB SSD storage, built for enthusiasts who want maximum performance,

This particular configuration is equipped with an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU, GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card, 32GB or DDR5-6400MHz RAM, and a 1TB SSD. Additional system details include a 360mm all-in-one liquid cooling system for the CPU and a massive 1,500W 80Plus Platinum power supply that allows plenty of headroom for future upgrades.

Dell Technologies Inc.’s Alienware brand has been flexing its muscles at the CES electronics show in Las Vegas today, unveiling three new gaming laptops alongside a traditional tower personal computer powered by Nvidia Corp.’s most advanced gaming processor.

Dell has acknowledge an inalienable truth about its Area-51 gaming desktop, it was sorely missing an AMD Ryzen option from its config choices. At CES it has revealed the new Area-51 now comes with AMD Ryzen X3D processors,

Alienware's Area-51 series is Alienware's most cutting-edge line of PCs, but we haven't seen an Area-51 desktop since 2020's Area-51 R2, nor an A-51 laptop since 2020's Alienware Area-51m R2 which featured the same chassis as the Area-51m laptop from 2019.

In a nutshell: Alienware is kicking off the new year by reviving one of its most iconic gaming desktops, the mighty Area-51, as its new flagship. The brand had been available since 1998 before Dell pulled the plug after 2017's Area 51 R4 announcement.

All three flagship notebooks—the 16X Aurora, 16 Area‑51 and 18 Area‑51, now run on Intel’s new Core Ultra 200HX processors paired with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs, pushing performance ceilings for high‑end gaming and multitasking

Beyond the innovative OLED panels on our 16” form factors, the Alienware 18 Area-51 gaming laptop joins the lineup with a major performance upgrade. All three notebooks (16X Aurora, 16 Area-51, 18 Area-51) now feature new Intel® Core™ Ultra 200HX processors and NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 50 Series GPUs, continuing to raise the ceiling of performance.

Look, I’ve tested more laptops than I care to count, but the Alienware 18 Area-51 isn’t just another gaming laptop—it’s basically a desktop that someone convinced to be portable (and I use that term very loosely). After spending weeks with this ...

I am at CES 2026, where Dell's gaming arm, Alienware, has teased a new portfolio, unveiled anti-glare OLEDs, and introduced new silicon.