Alienware is breaking away from proprietary components with the 2025 Area-51, using standard ATX parts for easier upgrades. The 80-liter tower features a tempered glass chassis with space for liquid cooling and power supplies, but now utilizes standard power supplies, motherboards, and fan mounting locations. A dedicated daughterboard manages lighting, fans, I/O, and power, but Dell will offer a conversion kit for third-party motherboards.
Alienware has built some of the easiest-to-open toolless gaming PCs around — but for years, the Dell-owned brand has stifled their upgrade potential by limiting them to Dell’s own proprietary power supplies and motherboards. But the 2025 Alienware Area-51, an 80-liter tower just introduced at CES in Las Vegas, finally ditches the proprietary parts in favor of standard ATX components.
“I’m talking with customers, reading reviews, understanding what the sentiment is in the market and where things are going,” he tells The Verge, and what he’s hearing is demand for “standard mounting locations” — a demand so “loud” that Alienware decided to make a “wholesale shift” toward a fully upgradable computer. That’s not to say there weren’t reasons to go proprietary, or that Alienware is promising to do this on every PC.
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