Alienware Aurora gaming desktop review: Great value

It also came with two Kingston Fury 16GB RAM sticks and a Wi-Fi 7 card. All this for $1,550 is a really solid deal. There are cheaper ways to get RTX 5070-level performance, Like this iBuyPower systembut the Alienware Aurora is also far from the most expensive. the Asus ROG G700for example, is hundreds of dollars more, even when configured identically. I haven’t tested it myself yet, so I don’t know how equal the performance or fan noise is. But the Alienware Aurora Gaming Desktop is a great deal, especially if you’re selling it on sale.

The Alienware Aurora Gaming Desktop works well enough. It’s about 5 percent behind the RTX 5070’s typical scores in 3DMark Steel Nomad, a benchmark for measuring gaming PCs. The RTX 5070 is primarily a 1080p video card that can sometimes jump to 1440p, depending on the game. You can see the frame rates in the chart below, all tested at maximum settings without ray tracing, frame generation, or upscaling. Cyberpunk 2077 and Black Legend: Wukong Both are more GPU intensive, while… Marvel competitors and Monster Hunter Wilds It is more bottlenecked by the CPU.

performance in Cyberpunk 2077In particular, I felt amazing. I even managed to average 71 fps (frames per second) in the Ray Tracing Ultra preset at 1080p Without relying on DLSS. It’s really bad that you can’t get it Black Legend: Wukong Over 60 fps at 1080p. It’s a heavy game, but when you spend more than $1,500, you hope you can play modern games at 1080p at smooth frame rates. You can always drop the graphics preset in the game settings or add some light DLSS upscaling for better performance. It was also about 5 percent behind our test of RTX 5070 Founders Edition On our test bench.

Although the performance didn’t blow me away, I was overall impressed with what was on offer with the Alienware Aurora Gaming Desktop. This is not the PC you can buy if you want ultimate control over future upgrades or even the most powerful gaming desktop. But if you want a nice PC that you can upgrade the graphics to in the future, it does the job, just make sure you get it with a 1000W power supply.