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Alienware's Area-51 gaming desktops sport Intel's 8-core processor and a 34-inch curved display

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Alienware is unveiling its latest Area-51 gaming desktops today with Intel’s new eight-core processor. It also comes with an optional curved display designed for the most demanding hardcore PC gamers.

Intel is announcing its latest Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition processors today, and lots of gamer PC companies are unveiling new models that use them. The Area-51 can be equipped with anywhere from one to four graphics cards and can display images at 4K UltraHD resolution.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.