#ALIENWARE SOFTWARE NOT ON ALIENWARE PC#
Unfortunately, life is not all fun and games and I used the desktop for a heap of productivity work which of course it handled with a minimum of fuss.Įvery single game I threw at the PC ran smoothly, without lag nor stutter. The 15,700 score placed the Aurora R14 Ryzen Edition close to the score of a premium gaming PC and, given the price, you would hope it would be just that. Obviously in a real-world scenario you will most likely only have a few games installed at a time and it would run even better. The Aurora R14 Ryzen Edition desktop though smoked that and scored just under the 16,000 mark – and that was with the hard drive pretty much maxxed out with all the games I wanted to test out on the PC. I also tested the Aurora R14 on my son’s 160Hz, 1ms gaming monitor and as you’d expect the experience was even better – fluid with no lag and no stuttering.īack when I tested out the Alienware M15 Ryzen edition the 3D Mark score was just over 9,000. I’ve not come across any gaming PCs that couldn’t handle the games I threw at them, even pushing my 4K monitor – albeit only 60Hz. These are just handy to set up your R14 because if you are forking out the money for the R14 you sure as heck should be purchasing a decent gaming keyboard and mouse at the same time (or already have one). They are nothing fancy and are just the same basic ones you would have seen at your work (should your work use Dell - we have the same ones at my work) - Dell Wired Keyboard KB216 Black and Dell USB Optical Mouse-MS116.
The NVIDIA GeForce RT 3080 10GB GDDR6X LHR card combined with the AMD Ryzen 9 processor produced a blazing-fast performance as you would expect.Ī couple of components that are included but not inside the actual desktop are a standard Dell keyboard and mouse. While not the best graphics card you can get – far from it – it is a great compromise to provide a great gaming experience while also minimising the price. Of course, being a gaming PC, you should be looking closely at the graphics card and in this case Alienware has included a NVIDIA GeForce RT 3080 10GB GDDR6X card. Power is supplied by a 750W platinum PSU.
The boot disk is a 512GB NVMe M.2 PCIe SSD with a secondary 1TB 7200RPM SATA drive included for storage. Hardware ComponentsĪs discussed above the chipset running this review unit is the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-core processor, combined with 32GB of RAM (3200MHz). These options were easily enough for my gaming requirements, and I was able to easily connect two monitors to the PC using the Display and HDMI ports. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 offers connections to your display(s) using either the HDMI port or three DisplayPort ports at the rear. There is also an Ethernet port here along with audio out, surround sound audio output and an SPDIF connection for that even better audio out connection. The top of the rear of the device offers fours USB-A 2.0, two USB-A 3.2 (Gen 1) and one USB-C 3.2(Gen 2) port. Personally, I’m not one to permanently connect things to the front of a PC as it messes with my OCD but for quick connectivity to quickly plug in a keyboard, mouse or charge a phone it’s a quick and simple solution. The front of the case offers a 3.5mm audio jack, three USB-A 3.2 (Gen 1) and a USB-C 3.2 (Gen 2) port.
The ports on the desktop offer easy connectivity along with many options to connect.
According to Dell/Alienware, the new chassis of the case gives the desktop 1.5 times the internal volume which makes it great for improving air flow and thus cooling while gaming. The entire case itself is a decent size, especially if you clip the rear panel on – the rear panel is attached magnetically and pops on and off quite easily and has an attractive honeycomb design to it while at the same time hiding all the cables you have attached to the rear of the desktop.