one week ago at our first ever LTX
2017 we previewed for real AMD thread
Ripper performance thanks to Alienware
but come on lonus that was just a preview you only did one Benchmark
you're such a teeth I
know but that was then and this is now
Alienware has arranged for their system
to be exclusively reviewed before the
formal embargo lift for ryzen Threadripper so let's uh rip it
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now we usually focus on pre-built desktop PCS where there's something
truly standout about them otherwise we'd be reviewing every Best Buy special that
hit the shelves back in 2014 the cool
thing about the all new Area 51 was the
rotated motherboard tray and the Triad
design with RGB lighting and design wise
not much has changed if you liked it then you'll like it now and vice versa
what stands out now though is the internals so let's pop the panel and
show you around the irony of a DVD burner on
something that's trying to look like alien technology isn't lost on me but
the rest of the io is what I would describe as suitably futuristic we've
got dual usb3 audio and a card reader at
the front with lots more usb3 at the back in including a type c Port opening
up the other side reveals that these aliens are the type to cram everything
under the bed when their Alien Mom asks them to clean their room and we also
find a trio of 3 and 1/2 in hard drive mounts and a companion dual 2 and 1/2 in
Mount for SATA ssds perfectly adequate
for future upgrades what's not perfect
about the case is its unwieldiness the
chat itself makes generous use of Steel
which makes it strong sure but also super heavy considering that there's
only a single hard drive and a single 120 mm aiio cooler in there and there
aren't any obvious handholds making it quite difficult to get a grip on it a
combination that um totally has no
relevance whatsoever to instances in the
past wherein things may or may not have escaped my grip through no fault of my
own anywho all of these systems come
configured with AMD ryzen Threadripper
in the 1950x variant we're talking 16 cores and
32 threads on this CPU that also happens
to have 40 megabytes of cash seriously
it has more cash than the 286 era hard
drive that a fan brought to LTX for me to sign it also features 64 PCI Express
Lanes allowing it to run up to three graphics cards at full pcii express 16x
gen 3 speeds for three-way Crossfire or
for workstation use with plenty of PCI E
Lanes to spare for the onboard Wi-Fi SATA controller for hard drives and an
m.2 slot that houses a 256 gig SanDisk
a400 NVMe SSD so so now then let's meet the
challengers our x299 test bench with its
core I9 7900x Skylake X CPU is the most
obvious analog from The Blue Team given its similar price but we'll be including
results from our mainstream platforms as
well kicking things off then are our gaming tests which should surprise no
one this is an Alienware after all with rise of the Tomb Raider we're looking at
pretty similar but slightly worse performance overall while our synthetics
put it pretty much on par with the core I9 we are planning to run more thread
Ripper gaming benchmarks but those will have to wait for the full review moving
on to productivity we see pretty much what we expected to see major wins in
multi-threaded workloads the biggest victories though come in blender it's
time to render beats out the core I9
test bench by 37 seconds in the the BMW test and by over 2 minutes in the
classroom sample damn I don't pull that off very well do
I anyway we do have to note though that
we found that our centu X cooler really
struggled to keep Threadripper fully chilled and running its best and after
swapping in our own with a fresh application of thermal compound so then
who is the area 51 Threadripper Edition
four at $4,000 aspect to be brutally honest
we're not quite sure I mean there are actually a lot of exceptions to the
conventional wisdom that it would be cheaper to build your own gaming PC like
Dell's own also AMD-based inspiring
gaming desktop that will be reviewing soon but the area 51 costs like a
boutique system with some significant
drawbacks and an unexceptional motherboard with only four dim slots
rather than eight and limited overclocking options unsightly Exposed
pcbs on the RAM and exposed bare Steel
on the to alien wees credit beef and modular 1500 W power supply along with
and this is by far the worst one frankly inadequate cooling the area 51 runs
almost as hot and loud as a laptop under
synthetic load and at this size and
weight there's no excuse for that bottom
line then if you really want the area 51
as a status symbol Alienware is the
first place you can get your hands on a pre-built thread reper system but
understand that the early adopter tax you'll be paying is in more than money I
am fully expecting Boutique systems built around this platform for this
price with better Cooling and cable management
in the coming months so thanks for watching guys if
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