Uploaded December 2014 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
The new 2014 Alienware Area 51 with the Titan Z isn't your ordinary desktop computer. This thing is amazing inside and out with a brilliant design that greatly improves ergonomics and airflow when compared to the traditional rectangular desktop tower.
Trust me, this machine won't ever let you down! I check out the framerate of a bunch of games, the Oculus Rift DK2, do side by side benchmarks comparisons, video rendering, bitcoin mining and much more throughout the course of this video and compare how this machine works to compared with the Lenovo ThinkStation S20 which cost about the same price as this machine did 4 years ago.
Here are the specs of the Alienware Area 51 configuration in this video:
Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-5960X Processor (8-cores, 20MB Cache, Overclocked up to 4.0 GHz w/ Turbo Boost)
Memory: 32GB (4X8GB) DDR4 2133MHz SDRAM Memory
Hard Drive: 512GB SSD 6Gb/s Main + 4TB 6kRPM SATA 6Gb/s Storage (I will also put a 3TB and 2TB that I already own into this)
Graphics Card: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX™ Titan Z with 12GB GDDR5 – Dual GPU Card
Here are the specs of the computer I compare it against:
Processor: Intel Xeon W3680 Processor (6 Core, 3.33GHz 1333MHz 12MB) - 130W
Memory: 12GB (6x2GB)1333-UDIMM.
Hard Drive: All HDD's 500GB, 1TB, 2TB
Graphics Card: nVidia FX3800(1GB)
This is a long movie sized review so just watch the parts you are interested in:
0:00 - Intro
3:00 - Unboxing
7:20 - Exploring Exterior
10:12 - Exploring Interior
13:20 - Adding Internal HDD17:56 - 15 Amp Powerpoints
20:10 - First Boot and Setup22:00 - AlienFX Colour Change
23:56 - First Boot Test
25:08 - First Shutdown Test
26:00 - Installing Software
29:32 - 1440p Gaming Tests
1:00:14 - Benchmark Tests
1:04:22 - Vegas Pro Rendering1:05:42 - Oculus Rift DK2
1:17:23 - Bitcoin mining
1:25:47 - Boot and Shutdown1:26:56 - Final Rating
The new 2014 Alienware Area 51 with the Titan Z isn't your ordinary desktop computer. This thing is amazing inside and out with a brilliant design that greatly improves ergonomics and airflow when compared to the traditional rectangular desktop tower.
Trust me, this machine won't ever let you down! I check out the framerate of a bunch of games, the Oculus Rift DK2, do side by side benchmarks comparisons, video rendering, bitcoin mining and much more throughout the course of this video and compare how this machine works to compared with the Lenovo ThinkStation S20 which cost about the same price as this machine did 4 years ago.
Here are the specs of the Alienware Area 51 configuration in this video:
Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-5960X Processor (8-cores, 20MB Cache, Overclocked up to 4.0 GHz w/ Turbo Boost)
Memory: 32GB (4X8GB) DDR4 2133MHz SDRAM Memory
Hard Drive: 512GB SSD 6Gb/s Main + 4TB 6kRPM SATA 6Gb/s Storage (I will also put a 3TB and 2TB that I already own into this)
Graphics Card: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX™ Titan Z with 12GB GDDR5 – Dual GPU Card
Here are the specs of the computer I compare it against:
Processor: Intel Xeon W3680 Processor (6 Core, 3.33GHz 1333MHz 12MB) - 130W
Memory: 12GB (6x2GB)1333-UDIMM.
Hard Drive: All HDD's 500GB, 1TB, 2TB
Graphics Card: nVidia FX3800(1GB)
This is a long movie sized review so just watch the parts you are interested in:
0:00 - Intro
3:00 - Unboxing
7:20 - Exploring Exterior
10:12 - Exploring Interior
13:20 - Adding Internal HDD17:56 - 15 Amp Powerpoints
20:10 - First Boot and Setup22:00 - AlienFX Colour Change
23:56 - First Boot Test
25:08 - First Shutdown Test
26:00 - Installing Software
29:32 - 1440p Gaming Tests
1:00:14 - Benchmark Tests
1:04:22 - Vegas Pro Rendering1:05:42 - Oculus Rift DK2
1:17:23 - Bitcoin mining
1:25:47 - Boot and Shutdown1:26:56 - Final Rating
