Alienware has built some of the easiest ... McGowan says that’s because of the “leverage” Dell gets with proprietary parts. “If you go back years and years, there was a decision to take ...

However, given Dell's use of proprietary parts and a nonstandard design (it ... Core i9-14900KFs I've tested were liquid-cooled in the Alienware Aurora R16 and Lenovo Legion Tower 7i 34IRZ8.

Right now, you can pick up an Area-51 with an RTX 5080 graphics card, Intel Ultra 9-285K chipset, 64GB of RAM, and 4TB SSD for just $4,649 ( it was $5,049). That's a generous $400 off the brand's ...