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

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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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.

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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.