PRICE As reviewed, £1,684 (£2,020 inc VAT) from dell.co.uk
The Aurora R16 is in Alienware’s latest line of gaming PCs, but while its Aurora R15 sibling screams “gaming PC” with its futuristic design, the R16 wouldn’t look out of place in an office. Don’t be deceived. This rig has power where it counts, mixing Intel’s latest CPUs with Nvidia’s GeForce RTX GPUs. And all that power won’t cause the R16 to melt or run loud thanks to Dell’s attention to detail when it comes to thermals.
As ever with Dell, there are plenty of configuration options, but you may not be able to pick exactly what you want due to supply-and-demand issues for graphics cards. At the time of going to press, the base option included a Core i7-13700F, an RTX 3050, 16GB of RAM and a 512GB