The Alienware Area-51 range has long represented the best of what Alienware has to offer gamers. The range took a little break, but it’s now back at CES 2025 and sleeker than ever.
The Alienware Area-51 Desktop is the crown jewel of the range. It supports up to the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 GPU and Intel Core Ultra 9 285K CPU, with more than 600W of graphics power and 280W of processing power. RIP to gamers’ power bills, but that’s some ridiculous performance. With an 80L tower design, it’s scalable and able to grow with gamers as their budget and technology shift.
The tower is designed to be as cool and quiet as possible, with three different fans pulling cool air from outside, and gaskets inside the chamber seal it against leaks and build positive pressure to expel heat out the back of the computer. It has a passive exhaust, so there are no exhaust fans, reducing air recirculation. For those curious about how it works, here’s how it was described in the announcement:
Dual 140mm fans direct cool ambient air upward toward the GPU fans ensuring maximum graphics performance. Larger dual 180mm fans push air laterally toward the GPU, CPU and memory from the front of the chassis. Lastly, dual or triple 120mm fans are included for liquid cooling configurations to pull in additional air from the top. This creates a greater internal air pressure compared to the outside and forces heated air to expel through the rear of the chassis.
By combining these larger fan sizes and advanced liquid cooling configurations, the positive pressure design moves 25% more air through the chassis, helping Area-51 run up to 13% cooler and 45% quieter during graphics intensive tasks.
One eyebrow-raising spec is that the dual channel RAM config can only support up to 64GB DDR5 XMP (2x 32GB) at 6400 MT/s. This seems like an odd choice when some competing products at CES can go up to 192GB of RAM. 64GB almost feels limiting in a PC that’s supposed to be future-proofed.
The launch config price overseas is US$4,499 (with an RTX 5080 GPU), so brace yourself for that Australian pricing when it comes.
Alienware Area-51 laptop also returns to Earth
Not limited to just the desktop, there is also an Alienware Area-51 Laptop range, in 18-inch and 16-inch flavours. The new liquid teal anodised aluminium finish looks absolutely gorgeous. It also reportedly changes colour with the light.
Most notably, it’s got a translucent thermal shelf that lights up to imitate the Aurora Borealis, at any time of year, at any time of day, in any part of the country, localised entirely within a very nice gaming laptop.
It dedicates up to 175W of total graphics power and up to a 105W thermal design profile to the processors simultaneously, for a ridiculous amount of power in a laptop. For those with cash to splash, it can be configured up to Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU and up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX CPU.
The launch configuration will cost US$3,199 (with up to an RTX 5080 GPU) and the entry-level config is US$1,999, which seems surprisingly reasonable for a laptop this sleek and fancy. It’ll be interesting to see Australian pricing when it’s released later this year.
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