Alienware resurrects its House-51 desktop PC

The Alienware House-51 desktop PC, a line of high-end gaming rigs relationship once more to 1998, has returned after quite a lot of years out of the game. The company launched the model new model at CES 2025, describing the resurrected House-51 as “retaking the throne” as Alienware’s latest flagship gaming PC. Nonetheless royalty doesn’t come low value, as its launch configuration will worth spherical $4,500. (Cue spit take.)

The model new House-51 PC has a full-sized 80L tower with headroom for over 600W of devoted graphics vitality and 280W for processing. It helps the latest NVIDIA graphics taking part in playing cards and an Intel Core Extraordinarily 9 285K CPU.

The rig makes use of a positive-pressure system with solely consumption followers; exhaust comes fully from passive airflow. That setup consists of dual 140mm followers that blow air upward to the GPU, twin 180mm followers aimed laterally from the doorway in the direction of the GPU, CPU and RAM and twin or triple 120mm followers pulling air in from the very best for liquid cooling configurations. The upper interior stress passively forces heated air out of the once more.

Alienware says the model new airflow system (in a assemble using the GeForce RTX 4090 and an Intel Core i9K processor) strikes 25 % further air, runs 13 % cooler and is 45 % quieter than the two earlier Alienware Aurora desktops. The company says that leads to 50 % further processing vitality.

You’ll open its chassis by unlocking a knob on the once more of the tower. Alienware says there’s a great deal of room to fit your fingers and switch enhance parts in and out. Inside are QR codes linking to tutorial motion pictures, which doable do little larger than forestall only a few seconds of searching YouTube. The gathering consists of guides on swapping out the RAM, GPU, SSD, and vitality present, along with maintenance factors like cleaning its followers and three removable / washable filters.

The House-51 rig helps as a lot as 64GB DDR5 XMP (2x 32GB) RAM at 6400 MT/s, 8TB of storage, and liquid cooling in 240mm and 360mm configurations (with a DIY enhance path to 420mm). Configurations use a 1500W Platinum Rated ATX12VO or an 850W Gold Rated ATX12VO vitality present.

The launch configuration, along with a “next-gen NVIDIA GPU,” will worth spherical $4,500 when it arrives later in Q1 2025. Totally different builds will observe later, along with a (unspecified) cheaper entry-level risk.