Brace yourself. This Alienware Area 51 gaming PC is over $5,000. That is the kind of money I will likely never be able to spend on a gaming PC, and frankly, I wouldn't advise most people do so. However, whilst updating our best gaming PC guide, I was hit with the realisation that, for what you're paying, this actually isn't ludicrous. The horror, I know.
Though the RTX 5090 MSRP is technically $1,999, it's not been uncommon since launch to pay anywhere between $2,400 and $3,000. As a result, we've been lucky to spot RTX 5090 rigs under $4,500 (though there is a pretty good $4,200 Cobratype deal on right now). This is why, for $5,300 with an RTX 5090, Intel Core Ultra 9 285K, 64 GB of RAM, and 2 TB of storage, Alienware have packed a beast of a PC into the Area-51 desktop we tested recently.
