Alienware Aurora Gaming Desktop Review: Great Value

It besides came with 2 sticks of Kingston Fury 16-GB RAM and a Wi-Fi 7 card. All that for $1,550 is simply a truly coagulated deal. There are cheaper ways to get RTX 5070-level performance, specified arsenic this iBuyPower system, but the Alienware Aurora is besides acold from the astir costly either. The Asus ROG G700, for example, is hundreds of dollars more, adjacent erstwhile likewise configured. I haven't tested these yet myself, truthful I don't cognize however equivalent the show oregon instrumentality sound is. But the Alienware Aurora Gaming Desktop is simply a large deal, particularly if you drawback it connected sale.

The Alienware Aurora Gaming Desktop performs good enough. It's astir 5 percent down the emblematic RTX 5070 scores successful 3DMark Steel Nomad, a modular benchmark for measuring gaming PCs. The RTX 5070 is considered chiefly a 1080p video paper that tin occasionally leap up to 1440p, depending connected the game. You tin spot the framework rates successful the illustration below, each of which were tested astatine max settings without ray tracing, framework generation, oregon upscaling. Cyberpunk 2077 and Black Myth: Wukong are some much GPU-intensive, portion Marvel Rivals and Monster Hunter Wilds are much bottlenecked by the CPU.

The show successful Cyberpunk 2077, successful particular, felt impressive. I was adjacent capable to mean 71 fps (frames per second) successful the Ray Tracing Ultra preset successful 1080p without relying connected DLSS. It's truly excessively atrocious that it couldn't get Black Myth: Wukong implicit 60 fps astatine 1080p, though. It's a dense game, but erstwhile you walk implicit $1,500, you anticipation that you tin play modern games astatine 1080p astatine creaseless framework rates. You tin ever driblet the graphics preset successful the crippled settings oregon sprinkle successful immoderate airy DLSS upscaling for amended performance. It was besides astir 5 percent down our investigating of the RTX 5070 Founders Edition connected our trial bench.

While show didn't stroke maine away, I was wide impressed by what's connected connection with the Alienware Aurora Gaming Desktop. This isn't the PC to bargain if you privation eventual power implicit upgrades successful the aboriginal oregon adjacent the astir almighty gaming desktop. But if you privation a beauteous machine that you tin upgrade the graphics for successful the future, it does the job—just marque definite to get it with the 1,000-watt powerfulness supply.