The Alienware Aurora R16 RTX 5080 Gaming PC Is Priced Under $2,000, But This Deal Ends Soon - Joystick Press | Games

Alienware’s Black Friday in July Sale is scheduled to end this weekend. If you’re shopping for a powerful gaming PC, you don’t want to miss out on this excellent deal for an Alienware Aurora R16 RTX 5080 gaming PC. Currently it’s priced at just $1,999.99 shipped. Despite the fact that the Alienware brand usually commands a higher price premium, this was less expensive than any RTX 5080 prebuilt we saw on Amazon during Prime Day. The Alienware Aurora R16 is a well-engineered and compact gaming rig with 240mm AIO water cooling, sensible airflow design, and a generous 1,000W 80Plus Platinum rated power supply. In the current market, buying a prebuilt gaming PC is the only way to score an RTX 5080 GPU without paying an exorbitant markup. If you were to try to find a 5080 GPU for your do-it-yourself PC build, you’ll probably spend $1,400 for the graphics card alone.

Alienware Aurora RTX 5080 Gaming PC From $1,999.99

This system is equipped with an Intel Core Ultra 7 265F processor, GeForce RTX 5080 graphics card, 16GB of DDR5-5600MHz RAM, and a 1TB M.2 SSD. Note that this is a customizable configuration so you can upgrade the CPU and GPU or increase your memory or storage capacity. It’s pre-configured with a 240mm all-in-one liquid cooling solution.

The Core Ultra 7 265F is part of Intel’s newest Arrow Lake-S lineup released earlier this year and boasts a max turbo frequency of 5.3GHz with 20 cores and a 36MB L2 cache. This is a good all-around CPU for gaming, multi-tasking, and general workstation performance. For gaming, you won’t see any improvement upgrading to a Core Ultra 9.

If you want an RTX 5080 gaming PC with all of the bells and whistles, there’s another config on sale right now for $2,675. It is upgraded with a top-end Intel Core Ultra 9 285K processor, a whopping 64GB of memory, and double the storage.

The GeForce RTX 5080 GPU will run any game in 4K

The RTX 5080 is the second best Blackwell graphics card, surpassed only by the $2,000 RTX 5090. It’s about 5%-10% faster than the previous generation RTX 4080 Super, which is discontinued and no longer available. In games that support the new DLSS 4 with multi-frame generation exclusive to Blackwell cards, the gap widens. This is an outstanding card for playing even the latest games at 4K resolution with high settings and ray tracing enabled.

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Not everyone is the DIY type. If you’re in the market for a prebuilt gaming PC, Dell is one of the best brands we’d recommend. Nowadays, the best Alienware deals are competitive compared to the cost of building your own PC with equivalent specs. Alienware desktops and laptops feature solid build quality, top-of-the-line gaming performance, and excellent cooling (further improved on the newer models). Best of all, there are plenty of sales that happen throughout the year, so it’s not difficult to grab one of these computers at considerably less than their retail price.

Eric Song is the IGN commerce manager in charge of finding the best gaming and tech deals every day. When Eric isn’t hunting for deals for other people at work, he’s hunting for deals for himself during his free time.