Testseek.com have collected 94 expert reviews of the Alienware Area 51 Desktop and the average rating is 78%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Alienware Area 51 Desktop.
May 2008
(78%)
94 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Fast, single 3D card configuration that will power you through any game on the market; case lighting customization software finally done and works as intended.
About $2,000 more than PCs with similar hardware, but with few benefits in performance or features; 700-watt power supply not enough for SLI with the GeForce 8800 GTX 3D card it ships with.
Wed like this latest quad core-equipped Area-51 7500 if it were about $1,000 cheaper. Its as fast as it should be, but other vendors have similarly configured PCs that can do just as much for significantly less. Alienwares trademark care in assembly...
Abstract: Perhaps no other independent PC builder in recent history has done more to bring the ultimate experience to end-users than Alienware. The company with a silly name that was started over a decade ago on a shoestring budget of $15.00 dollars by a couple ...
Impress performance
Very feature-rich
Excellent cooling system
Case can be gaudy looking to some
Fairly loud, could be quieter
Simply put, the Alienware Area-51 7500 is an excellent all around PC worthy of serious attention. While a similarly spec’ed self built rig will run approximately $400 cheaper, it’s impossible to ignore the craftsmanship of the internal wiring...
Abstract: As Wil described in his piece yesterday, the PC has come a long way from the bland, corporate box that it used to be in the early nineties. Nowaday, even cheap, cheerful machines are attractively coloured and housed in interesting boxes. If you go high-en...
Strong balance of price and performance; new case is both functional and good looking.
Software for customized lighting is still a work in progress.
We raved about Alienwares new case when we first saw it earlier this year, and we still like it here on the Area-51 5500, even if its innovative lighting system is only half-baked. What we like even more is the power this gaming PC serves up for the p...
Abstract: Intel officially began shipping the hot new Core 2 Duo CPU line on July 27th and just about every PC manufacturer announced new models based upon the new chips the very same day. The Core 2 Duo line improves upon Intels previous chip architectures in ...
Intel Core 2 Extreme is the fastest chip out there; new chassis is shorter than past alien-head cases; innovative and customizable lighting; untethered side panel.
New case is still huge.
Its not the fastest PC (its second), nor is it the most competitively priced, but Alienwares Area-51 7500 does have the most innovative case. With a wholly customizable lighting scheme in its new chassis, Alienware makes case lights functional, a tr...
Abstract: With a starting price well under $1,500, the Alienware Area 51 5500 series desktop computer has some impressive specs at baseline. The default processor is a 3.4GHz Intel Pentium 4 550 with Hyper-Threading technology, and RAM starts out at 1GB of 533MH...
Basic wired keyboard and mouse; immense case; limited expansion options; standard warranty lasts a mere 90 days.
Alienwares Area-51 3550 hits all of the requirements for Intels Viiv platform, but it doesnt achieve the level of performance weve come to expect from the boutique vendor.
