As part of its Early Black Friday Sale event, Dell has this Alienware Aurora R15 RTX 4080 gaming PC for only $2199.99 after a $400 instant discount. This is a solid deal for an Alienware equipped with NVIDIA's second most powerful GPU and one of the very few cards that can run any game you want in glorious 4K.
Alienware Aurora R15 RTX 4080 Gaming PC for $2199.99
The full specs include an Intel Core i7-13700 CPU, GeForce RTX 4080 GPU, 16GB of DDR5-4800MHz RAM, and a 1TB NVME SSD. In its stock configuration, the CPU is air-cooled, however you can upgrade to liquid cooling for +$20 (or Cryo-Tech liquid cooling for +$70). We highly recommend doing this because both liquid cooling options feature a 240mm all-in-one cooler that also provides additional airflow exhausting out the top of the case. The system is powered by a 750W 80PLUS Platinum certified power supply.
The 13th generation Intel Core i7-13700 Raptor Lake processor is an impressive CPU featuring a max boost clock speed of 5.2GHz with 16 cores, 24 threads, and 54MB of total cache. It is an excellent clip for both gaming and general purpose tasks and is well matched with the RTX 4080 GPU..
The RTX 4080 is the second most powerful card on the market. On the AMD front, only the Radeon RX 7900 XTX can keep up (and that's if you ignore DLSS and ray tracing). It's much more powerful than previous generation cards, performing about 50% faster than an RTX 3080 Ti. It also supports DLSS 3.0 (DLSS 2.0 + frame generation), something the RTX 30 series lacks, and that increases the performance gap for games that support it. It's actually only 20%-30% slower than the RTX 4090 while costing hundreds of dollars less. If you're not convinced, check out our RTX 4080 review.
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