Alienware Area 51 with AMD's second-generation Ryzen Threadripper processor.
Alienware Area 51 with AMD's second-generation Ryzen Threadripper processor.
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Dell launches Alienware Area-51 R7 gaming desktop with AMD 2nd-gen Threadripper

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Dell’s Alienware division is giving Advanced Micro Devices a big endorsement today with the launch of its Alienware Area-51 Threadripper Edition.

The new gaming desktop will offer the second generation Ryzen Threadripper Edition processors, options for 16 cores, 12 cores, or eight cores. The machine is aimed at hardcore PC gamers, game streamers, and “megatasking” people who just do a lot of things at once. AMD’s Threadripper series is based on the Zen architecture, which is challenging Intel for dominance in PC performance and can execute 52 percent more instructions per clock cycle than the previous generation.

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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.