Alienware Area 51 desktop gets a Core X CPU infusion

In a brave switch from convention Dell rolled out the first update on the Alienware Area 51 machine, a real beauty of a gaming machine, with an AMD Threadripper CPU. Dell and AMD announced an exclusive, sort of, for Threadrippers through 2017. It was a cozy deal for AMD for a while, but not really a long while. Dell is now introducing Alienware Area 51 machines with Intel-based X-Series CPUs. The new machines come with Core i7 and Core i9 processors and with a lower price tag. Ain’t that a switch? It all works well for AMD which has the