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The Alienware Labor Day Sale Is Still Live, and Some Gaming PC Deals Are Better Today Than on Monday

Erick Burgos Posted on 1 month ago 5 min read
The Alienware Labor Day Sale Is Still Live, and Some Gaming PC Deals Are Better Today Than on Monday

Labor Day has come and gone, but the Dell Labor Day Sale is live for a little while longer with some great discounts on Alienware gaming PCs and laptops, including the new 2025 Alienware Area-51 models equipped with Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards. In fact, some deals are actually better than the ones I saw on Monday. For example, the Alienware Aurora R16 5070 Ti gaming PC has dropped to $1,499.99 from $1700 and the Alienware Aurora R16 5080 gaming PC has dropped to $1,999.99 from $2200.

Alienware Labor Day Gaming PC Deals

Alienware Labor Day Gaming Laptop Deals

You can quickly browse through all of the listed products on sale above. See below for our favorite picks.

Get Battlefield 6 for Free with Intel-Based PCs

From August 25 to September 7, buy an Alienware gaming PC or laptop equipped with an Intel Core 13th Gen, 14th Gen, or Core Ultra processor and get a free download voucher for Battlefield 6 when it releases on October 10. The Battlefield 6 beta ended on August 17 with hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of players signing on to try it out. The initial impressions are positive, including those from our own IGN staff.

Alienware Aurora R16 RTX 5070 Ti Gaming PC

Better deal today than on Labor Day

Dell is offering a competitive price on an Alienware Aurora R16 gaming PC equipped with the excellent GeForce RTX 5070 Ti graphics card. Right now you can get a base configuration paired with the latest Intel Core Ultra 7 processor for $1,499.99. Of all the Blackwell cards released thus far, the RTX 5070 Ti offers the best bang for your buck, especially when pitted against the previous generation GPUs. It performs neck-and-neck with the RTX 4080 Super and has 16GB of GDDR7 VRAM. This GPU is capable of high framerates in nearly all games, even at 4K resolution. Check out our Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPU review by Jacqueline Thomas.

Alienware Aurora R16 RTX 5080 Gaming PC

Better deal today than on Labor Day

Right now Dell is offering the Alienware Aurora R16 RTX 5080 gaming PC starting at just $1999.99 with free delivery. 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.

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 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. Check out our Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 FE review by Jacqueline Thomas.

Alienware Area-51 RTX 5090 Gaming PC

Dell unveiled the new Alienware Area-51 gaming PC at CES 2025. The chassis is a super-sized upgrade to the 2024 R16 system with aesthetic and cooling redesigns and updated components. This least expensive configuration is equipped with an Intel Core Ultra 7 265K processor with 360mm liquid cooling, 32GB of DDR5-6400MHz RAM, and 2TB SSD storage for $4,399. The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 is the most powerful consumer GPU. It boasts a 25%-30% uplift over the RTX 4090 in terms of pure hardware-based raster performance. The 5090 also has more (32GB vs. 24GB) and faster (GDDR7 vs. GDDR6) VRAM compared to the 4090. Check out our Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 FE review by Jackie Thomas.

Alienware Aurora 16 RTX 5060 Gaming Laptop

Dell has dropped the price of the new 2025 Alienware Aurora 16 gaming laptop equipped with an GeForce RTX 5060 mobile GPU to just $1,100 with free delivery. Compared to other Alienware laptops, the Aurora 16 is designed to look less like a gamer’s laptop. It boasts a sleek, understated design with the absence of extraneous visual-only embellishments or unnecessary RGB lighting outside of the keyboard’s white-only illumination. The RTX 5060 is about 15%-20% more powerful than the RTX 4060 that replaces, making it a perfectly capable GPU for most games at up to 1600p. It approaches the performance of the RTX 4070, especially in games that support DLSS 4.

New Alienware Aurora 16X Laptop

You can pick up an Alienware 16X Aurora gaming laptop equipped with an Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX CPU and GeForce RTX 5070 mobile GPU for $1,649.99 after a $350 instant discount. This is the best Alienware laptop for gamers on a budget.

Gamers should go with the Alienware Aurora 16X model

The Alienware Aurora 16X offers some serious upgrades for a small price premium. Here’s a rundown:

  • Better display (2560×1600 240Hz G-Sync vs 2560×1600 120Hz)
  • More powerful HX-series CPUs
  • Higher TGP rating on graphics cards (better performance)
  • More premium materials (metal alloy lid and chassis vs lid only)
  • RGB keyboard vs white-only backlighting
  • Thunderbolt 4.0 port

Area-51 Gaming Laptops: New Style, More Power, Better Cooling

New for 2025, the Alienware Area-51 gaming laptop features a magnesium alloy chassis with upgraded cooling to tackle the latest and greatest heat generating components. This includes more fans and bigger cutouts enabling greater airflow, more generous use of copper, and a new thermal interface material to better transfer heat away from the core components. Dell claims that the laptop can handle a higher power ceiling of up to 240W TDP without raising acoustics.

Design-wise, the Area 51 accentuates its smooth contours, with rounded edges and soft corners replacing the squared off design you’d see in most other laptops. The hinges are also mostly internally positioned so that they’re near invisible. As befits an Alienware laptop, there are ample customization options for RGB LED lighting.

32″ Alienware AW3225QF 4K OLED Monitor

The best Alienware high-end gaming monitor just went on sale. The 32″ Alienware AW3225QF 4K QD OLED gaming monitor has just dropped to $849.99 with free shipping after a $350 off instant discount. If you’re looking for the best 4K gaming monitor, this should definitely be on your short list.

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Why Should You Trust IGN’s Deals Team?

IGN’s deals team has a combined 30+ years of experience finding the best discounts in gaming, tech, and just about every other category. We don’t try to trick our readers into buying things they don’t need at prices that aren’t worth buying something at. Our ultimate goal is to surface the best possible deals from brands we trust and our editorial team has personal experience with. You can check out our deals standards here for more information on our process, or keep up with the latest deals we find on IGN’s Deals account on Twitter.

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.

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