Alienware's Area-51 prebuilt gaming PC can now use an RTX 5090

Dell’s powerhouse prebuilt conscionable leveled up with the RTX 5090. But, yes, it’s expensive.

I’ve been keeping an oculus connected the Alienware Area-51 reboot ever since Dell teased it astatine CES. It looked sharp, had decent specs, but for a while, your lone GPU enactment was the RTX 5080. That changed, and honestly, it changed for the better. You tin present get it with an RTX 5090 paired with Intel's caller Core Ultra 9 285K, and yes, the starting terms is $5,499.99. It's not cheap, but if you’re aiming for a high-end rig without spending weeks chasing down parts oregon dealing with shipping delays, it’s 1 of the much straightforward options retired there.

This happening comes afloat loaded: 32GB of DDR5-6400 RAM, a 2TB Gen4 NVMe SSD, liquid cooling, and a 1,500W platinum-rated PSU to support it each from mounting your location connected fire. The CPU cooler is simply a 360mm AIO, which sounds excessive until you recognize however overmuch vigor that spot and GPU combo tin generate. I similar that it’s acceptable to spell retired of the box. Dell's estimated vessel day is aboriginal April, and I worth that benignant of predictability. I’ve played the “prebuilt purgatory” crippled earlier and it’s not fun.

The chassis has been overhauled too. It's cleaner, amended ventilated, and little apt to crook into a particulate terrarium. They moved the beforehand sheet I/O to the top, removed the broadside vents, and stretched the tempered solid crossed the full broadside panel. I deliberation it’s a good-looking case, and I don’t accidental that lightly due to the fact that astir gaming towers either effort excessively hard oregon look similar they were designed by idiosyncratic stuck successful 2014.

Alternative RTX 5090 Builds

If I lone cared astir gaming show and wanted to prevention immoderate cash, I’d beryllium looking astatine those Skytech Prism 4 oregon Legacy builds with the Ryzen 7 7800X3D and the aforesaid GPU for $4,799.99. They don’t look arsenic polished, and the pb times aren’t great, but they’ll bash the job. Maingear’s MG-1 is different coagulated enactment if you privation boutique prime and don’t caput waiting a fewer weeks for the build.

As for the RTX 5090, I get it—it’s absurd. It’s besides the lone GPU retired close present that feels similar it was built with the adjacent 3 years of gaming successful mind. You’re getting 32GB of GDDR7, a noticeable leap successful show implicit the 4090, and DLSS 4 for the games that enactment it. Is it overkill? Absolutely. That’s benignant of the point.