It’s not an ideal time to be buying a new PC or doing a major upgrade. Price crunches for RAM and storage chips are making all kinds of components more expensive, and the shift to DDR5 in modern Intel ...

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The “budget” gaming laptop always seemed like a misnomer. In today’s age, with RAM prices through the stratosphere and gadgets suffering from shrinkflation, any notion of affordability is practically ...

Alienware is expanding into a more affordable segment of the gaming laptop market with the launch of the new Alienware 15, which comes equipped with a five-year-old RTX 3050 GPU to bring the price ...

A cheaper Alienware gaming laptop sounds great—until you look at what was cut to get there. After starting my career at PCMag as an intern more than a decade ago, I’m back as one of its editors, ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. The Alienware Area-51 Gaming Desktop is Dell's flagship all-in-one desktop gaming PC, and based on the updated product page, it looks to be one of the ...

Explore Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition: AMD’s new 16‑core flagship, comparing gaming, productivity, power, and value against Intel and other Ryzen X3D processors. AMD Ryzen™ 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition ...

Hot on the heels of AMD launching its Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition processor, Dell has gone and injected the chip into its Alienware Area-51, becoming the first bulk OEM to bring the flagship chip to ...

Update: This deal is now expired. If you're seeking chart-topping gaming performance, then Alienware's biggest and most powerful prebuilt desktop computer should be high on your list. For this week, ...

For many PC gamers, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D needs no introduction, as the 8-core Zen 3-powered CPU spearheaded the arrival of 3D V-Cache technology chips that are fantastic for gaming workloads. And with ...

PCWorld reports that AMD may re-release the Ryzen 7 5800X3D as an ‘AM4 Anniversary Edition’, celebrating the platform’s remarkable 10-year longevity since 2016. This potential move targets ...

For about four years now, AMD has offered special “X3D” variants of its high-end desktop processors with an extra 64MB of L3 cache attached, an addition that disproportionately benefits games. AMD ...