Alienware Area-51 m5790, m5550 Now Overclockable

Alienware Area-51 m5790Alienware today announced the overclocking option for the Intel Core 2 Duo processors incorporated in Area-51 m5790 and Area-51 m5550 gaming notebooks.

The company says the customers now can take advantage of higher processing performance without the higher price, when purchasing the 17-inch m5790 and 15.4-inch m5550.

“By safely increasing processor clock frequency above default levels, Alienware ensures mobile users are equipped with more speed for everything from faster system startups to smoother-running games and applications while on the go”, the announcement says.

Alienware also added the ATI Mobility Radeon X1900 graphics card as an option when configuring Area-51 m5790.

The both CPU overclocking capable Alienware’s laptops feature dedicated graphics cards from ATI and NVIDIA and have starting prices of $1,299 and $1,049, respectively.


  • JOE

    I bought it and can’t wait for it!!

  • Adam

    How do u overclock this 1? Im trying to increase the performance of my laptop with a Intel Core 2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz and 4 MB L2 cashe processor.

  • joe

    its agiid laptop..
    just had some few porb…when i bought it..cool. and nice..

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