Good news, Asus ROG Ally owners: a Ryzen Z1 Extreme driver update just dropped. That means the former best gaming handheld contender hasn't been cut off from AMD patches quite yet, but I'm worried ...

Alienware has started selling the updated Area-51 desktop gaming PC powered by AMD Ryzen 9000X3D processors. The system was first announced at CES in early January, and several configurations are now ...

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Alienware’s 16X Aurora and Area-51 laptops won a Best of CES 2026 Award for adding beautiful OLED displays to the line. These computers have Intel Core Ultra 200HX chips and up to RTX 5090 graphics.

What just happened? AMD announced a range of new laptop and desktop processors across multiple lineups at CES 2026. The new SKUs include a couple of additions to the existing Ryzen AI Max 300 "Strix ...

Dell's Alienware brand is here at CES 2026, and the biggest highlight is in Alienware's upcoming laptops. Alienware's revived classic Area-51 brand is still going strong, including an updated Area-51 ...

After relaunching its Area-51 brand with a new 16-inch laptop in 2025, Alienware is teasing two new laptops at CES 2026 in an attempt to reach an even larger audience. Dell's gaming brand plans to ...

Alienware’s flagship desktop finally ditched proprietary parts last year (no more Dell-specific motherboards) and welcomed AMD’s flagship Ryzen X3D desktop chips in November. Now it’s getting the ...

AMD revealed the Ryzen AI 400 series. The company introduced new high-gaming CPUs. AMD also revealed the Ryzen AI Max+ for workstations. At CES 2026, AMD unveiled its upcoming next-generation of ...

The Area-51 uses the X870E motherboard and can be configured with the Ryzen 7 9800X3D or the Ryzen 9 9950X3D. Both processors include AMD’s 3D V-cache technology, which improves access to game data ...

You spoke and Dell's Alienware division heard you—the latest-generation AMD Ryzen processors based on Zen 5 are now an option on the Alienware Area-51 desktop gaming PC, the same one we reviewed in ...

While $269 is enough cash to throw some doubt towards the title of "budget gaming CPU", the gaming performance the 7500X3D provides is meaty enough to make it a serious value proposition nonetheless.