You Can Now Equip Alienware's Area-51 Prebuilt Gaming PC With an RTX 5090 Graphics Card
Pair Nvidia's most powerful GPU with Alienware's most powerful PC.
Earlier this year, Dell rebooted the legendary Alienware Area-51 lineup of prebuilt gaming PCs, but until recently you could only configure it with one graphics card option - the RTX 5080. That's no longer the case. Starting now, you can choose to equip your Alienware Area-51 with an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K CPU and - finally - an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 GPU starting at $5,499.99. Better yet, you won't have to wait months for your system to arrive; Dell estimates an early April ship date.
Alienware Area-51 RTX 5090 Prebuilt Gaming PCs Are Available
The $5,500 config might be the "base" configuration for an Alienware Area-51 gaming PC equipped with a 5090 GPU, but at that price, I would still expect stacked specs, and fortunately, this configuration delivers. It's equipped with an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K CPU, 32GB of DDR5-6400MHz RAM, and a 2TB NVMe SSD. The Core Ultra 9 285K is Intel's latest flagship CPU and offers stellar workstation and gaming performance. It's not quite the performance uplift we wanted from the i9-14900K, but right now there's nothing better from the Intel camp. The processor is cooled by a massive 360mm all-in-one liquid cooler, and the system is generously powered by a 1,500W 80Plus Platinum-rated power supply.
The RTX 5090 Is the Most Powerful Graphics Card Ever
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 has emerged as the most powerful consumer GPU on the market. Although Nvidia has prioritized software updates, AI features, and DLSS 4 technology to improve gameplay performance, the 5090 still boasts an impressive 25%-30% uplift over the RTX 4090 in terms of pure hardware-based raster performance. The 5090 also has more (32GB vs 24GB) and faster (GDDR7 vs GDDR6) VRAM compared to the 4090. This GPU is extremely difficult to find at retail price and is currently selling for $3,500-$4000 on eBay.
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Some Other 5090 Prebuilt Alternatives:
Amazon listed a couple of Skytech-branded RTX 5090 gaming PCs for an even more attractive price point of $4,799.99 shipped. Note that these don't ship out immediately. They're equipped with capable AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D processors, which perform nearly as well in terms of gaming although they do fall behind when it comes to workstation performance.
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