While it was a hard truth to accept while wistfully fiddling with build configurations in my younger years, Alienware and affordability don’t often go hand in hand. For this year’s Cyber Monday festivities, however, Dell’s offering some uncharacteristically respectable discounts on its gaming line, bringing a pair of prebuilt PCs at the lowest prices we’ve seen on rigs packing the same Nvidia GPUs.
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Our first suggested Alienware Aurora offering boasts the midrange favorite 5070 Ti at a better price than you’ll see on comparable competitors during this Cyber Monday season. As mentioned above, you’ll need to do the configuring yourself.
Here are the options you’ll want to choose:
- Processor: Intel Core Ultra 7 265F
- Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
- Memory: 32GB Dual Channel DDR5 (2 x 16GB – Green) 5200 MT/s
- Storage: 2 TB M.2 PCIE NVMe SSD
- Chassis Options/PSU: 750W platinum rated PSU & liquid cooler
Aside from selecting the 5070 Ti and a 750W PSU to provide the necessary juice, we’re also suggesting that you invest in some RAM and SSD upgrades at a relatively cheap $150 added to your total.
Those selections won’t provide top-of-the-line speeds, but the specs are plenty for a comfortable gaming experience at 1440p. Depending on the game and your willingness to toggle on frame gen, you can probably pull off 4K in a lot of cases, too.
Our second suggested Alienware Aurora setup will net you a bit more performance by jumping up to an RTX 5080 while still clocking in at less than $2,000—typically tough to find even during sales season, especially with Alienware branding. As with the 5070 Ti setup, you’ll need to do the configuring yourself.
Here are the specs we recommend:
- Processor: Intel Core Ultra 7 265F
- Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080
- Memory: 32GB Dual Channel DDR5 (2 x 16GB – Green) 5200 MT/s
- Storage: 2 TB M.2 PCIE NVMe SSD
- Chassis Options/PSU: 1000W platinum rated PSU & liquid cooler
Like we did for the less expensive config, we’ve opted for spending an extra $150 here to double both the RAM and SSD storage. In an age where we’re all trembling beneath the looming specter of ballooning RAM prices, it’s wise to take an affordable upgrade when you can find it.
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