Our longtime Mafia liaison Dave “the Clever” Altavilla, has his hands all over Alienware’s new Threadripper system, the Area 51 Threadripper Edition. Being a “preview,” it is light on benchmarks overall, but there are some there to take a gander at. Also it is good to hear that its AIO is up to the task! Once lapped, ours is looking a lot better.



Again, reports of the Alienware Area-51’s AIO cooling system not being up to the task of chilling Threadripper 1950X are totally unfounded as far as we’re concerned. In fact, we’re used to seeing Intel’s Skylake-X processors operate about in this range with standard single-fan AIO coolers. The Area-51’s radiator is very thick and though it’s also only a single fan setup, the surface area of the rad is deceivingly larger than it looks. We’re still testing, but we’re pretty confident in the Alienware Area-51’s cooling system and the ability for standard off-the-shelf AIO coolers to keep a beastly Ryzen Threadripper CPU in check, thermally.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – Ryzen Threadripper 1950X Performance Preview