Alienware has formally introduced the brand new Aurora R16 gaming PC, a desktop that evokes the corporate’s ardour and prowess as a long-time gaming model, and its dedication to evolving throughout the area. On the coronary heart of this new PC is Alienware’s Legend 3 design language that debuted on its laptops firstly of this 12 months.
The pillars of this design language are kind, operate, and high quality. The “kind” a part of that ethos manifests within the ‘Stadium Loop.’ An oval formed RGB mild bar on the facet of the chassis that’s supposed to attract your consideration to it because the central aesthetic. It additionally surrounds the primary air consumption vent, which Alienware says is bigger than it was on the Aurora R15 to permit for higher airflow, serving to to maintain the PC cooler and quieter.
These had been two issues the corporate needed to make sure had been a part of this newest iteration of the desktop. As a result of the cooler the PC is, the higher it will probably carry out and the longer it will probably carry out at optimum ranges. And naturally, the quieter it’s the much less obtrusive it’s throughout gaming. Alienware additionally designed it to have an elective clear facet panel. The intention is that the facet of the PC turns into the brand new focus, whereas the remainder of the case kind of blends into the background with its extra minimal, simplistic look. That isn’t to say it isn’t nonetheless undeniably an Alienware PC.
A design overhaul is the cornerstone of the Alienware Aurora R16
Each the putting visible of the stadium loop and the bigger air vent are two items of an entire. Making up Alienware’s total imaginative and prescient of making a PC with a extra minimalist design that’s additionally environment friendly.
To assist obtain that purpose, a giant change this 12 months is the scale. Alienware’s strongest desktops aren’t precisely identified for being small. Quite the opposite, they’re normally massive, hulking machines. Taking on a big floor space of your desk like a miniature UFO. Alienware isn’t doing that this time round. The Aurora R16 sees a 40% lower within the total quantity of the case in comparison with the Aurora R15. Giving it a smaller footprint than its predecessor. You’d suppose this is able to imply Alienware needed to make some compromises on the interior area for {hardware} parts.
Nevertheless, Alienware says the interior quantity is unchanged. So there’s simply as a lot room for every little thing as earlier than. And with the bigger air consumption vent, air can proceed to circulate freely.
An elite plug and play expertise
As at all times, Alienware strives to supply a plug and play gaming expertise with elite efficiency. Talking of efficiency, the Aurora R16 guarantees to be an implausible machine. Like all of Alienware’s merchandise, the Aurora R16 has a wide range of configuration choices. Beginning with the GPUs, Alienware will provide the Aurora R16 with choices for an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12GB card, in addition to the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB and the GeForce RTX 4080 16GB. There’s additionally a GeForce RTX 3050 8GB mannequin, though this one and the RTX 4080 config will solely be out there in Asia and Europe at launch. The opposite two might be out there globally although.
To pair with that you could get the Aurora R16 with a twelfth Gen Intel Core i9F 12900F CPU and as much as a thirteenth Gen Intel Core i9F 13900F CPU. As for storage, there’s choices for each single drive and dual-drive bays. Beginning at 512GB and going all the way in which as much as two 4TB NVMe M.2 PCIe SSDs. RAM in the meantime begins at 16GB and goes as much as 64GB.
The Aurora R16 launches at present at a beginning worth of $1,749.99 for the RTX 4070 mannequin with a thirteenth Gen Intel Core i7F 13700F CPU.