Alienware launches new Area 51 gamer desktop with Intel’s fastest chip

Alienware announced its flagship gaming desktop would use an Advanced Micro Devices Threadripper chip last week, and now the gaming division of Dell is announcing that a version of the Area 51 will also be available with Intel’s fastest processor.

The announcement of both processors in the same Alienware gaming desktop shows that it’s a real horse race between Intel and AMD for the speed demon title. AMD showed recently that it is competitive with Intel’s fastest chips for the first time in a decade, but this deal shows that by no means has Intel lost the high-end PC gaming market entirely.