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Alienware Area-51 officially gets AMD Ryzen 9850X3D.

Alienware’s flagship desktop finally ditched proprietary parts last year (no more Dell-specific motherboards) and welcomed AMD’s flagship Ryzen X3D desktop chips in November. Now it’s getting the latest AMD chip too — just know the new 9850X3D is only a tad faster than the 9800X3D (AMD says roughly 7 percent uplift).

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Antonio got a few photos of the refreshed Area-51.
Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge
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