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Area-51 desktop<\/p>\n
Credit: Alienware<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re in the market for a flagship gaming PC and have some serious cash to burn, Alienware is now shipping its Area-51 desktop computers<\/a> with AMD\u2019s brand new and notably expensive ($899 MSRP) dual-3D V-cache Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 processor. Is it overkill? Well, that\u2019s up for debate.<\/p>\n The single configuration that Alienware has on offer is currently priced at $7,249.99 and features expectedly top-of-the-line specs: An NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, 64GB of DDR5 RAM and a 4TB Gen5 SSD, alongside a redesigned chassis that focuses on improved thermals and performance. <\/p>\n I\u2019m continually shocked at just how expensive PC parts have gotten recently, and thanks to issues like ongoing global AI-driven memory shortages<\/a>, we\u2019re probably not going to see numbers going down anytime soon. A $900 PS5 Pro<\/a> isn\u2019t seeming all that unreasonable, really, even after Sony\u2019s recent price hike. <\/p>\n Area-51 desktop<\/p>\n Credit: Alienware<\/p>\n Alienware does offer cheaper Area-51 configurations that also include NVIDIA\u2019s lauded 5090 GPU, but are fitted with less RAM, less storage and more affordable processors, like AMD\u2019s Ryzen 9 9950X3D, for instance. We\u2019re still looking at over $5,000 at checkout, though once you get into this sort of elite hardware stratosphere, most rationality goes out the window.<\/p>\n