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Alienware is known for making some of the best gaming PCs around and is certainly a big hit with gamers. With the Alienware Aurora R16 gaming desktop, it’s kind of obvious why: It’s absolutely packed ...

If you think it’s finally time for a gaming desktop upgrade and you’re willing to spend some serious cash, you should set your sights on the Alienware Aurora R16. This configuration with the Nvidia ...

Dell's newly redesigned Aurora desktop features powerful gaming hardware and an updated exterior. Today you can buy one of these systems with an Intel Core i7 Rocket Lake processor and an Nvidia ...

Very pretty desktop with nice lighting, especially if you like Tron. GPU, RAM, and storage are simple upgrades. Tool-less latch system to remove the side panel. Great value. CPU upgrades are limited.

Alienware may have lobotomised its out-of-this-world design philosophy for the Aurora R16, making for a dull looking machine, but it's nailed the mix of performance, thermals, and acoustics which ...

Remember the 'Dude, you're getting a Dell!' pitch guy from commercials of yesteryear? If he were still making advertisements for Dell today, he'd have to slightly alter his pitch to say, 'Dude, you're ...

The RTX 4090 is the most powerful 40 series GPU. In his RTX 4090 review, Chris Coke wrote that "the RTX 4090 may be huge and expensive, but holy smokes if it doesn’t blow the competition out of the ...

The Alienware Aurora R16 is equipped with a 13th-gen Intel Core i9-13900F CPU, GeForce RTX 4080 Super 16GB GPU, 32GB of DDR5-5600MHz RAM, and a 1TB M.2 SSD. The 14th-gen Intel Core i9-14900F Raptor ...

Gaming desktops don’t get much better than the Alienware Aurora R16, and right now, you can save a big $500, bringing the price down to $1,499.99 from $1,999.99. If you’re serious about gaming ...