Nuked Alienware Aurora R11 and R10 ryzen edition have also become a way to get NVIDIA’s hard to find rtx 3080 and 3090 GPUs. The company’s toolless upgradable chassis and bang-for-the-buck has been pretty hard to beat.
At just 267mm (10.5 inches) in length, the better to fit into smaller cases like the Aurora R11. Nvidia’s own rtx 3080 founder’s edition is actually one of the smallest cards on the market at 285mm (11.2 inches) long.
Alienware says its 10mm-heat-pipe-and-vapor-chamber solution, with dual fans, only takes up 2.5 PCIe slots. It uses a standard pair of 8-pin power connectors, instead of NVIDIA’s 12-pin cable.
You could walk away with a full rtx 3080 PC for as little as $ 1,800 – after adding the 1,000-watt power supply. Dell ships a 550W PSU by default, but NVIDIA recommends 750W or higher for these cards.
I’m currently running a rtx 3080 in a rig with a slightly slower processor and a 1080p screen. Benchmarks suggest my CPU is what’s holding back the framerateraterateraterateraterate.
Alienware also has a new 360hz 1080p panel for the area-51m laptop that’ll cost you an extra $ 150. It also requires an rtx 2060 or better; we’re seeing configs with it as low as $ 2,419.99999999.
The Alienware 25 (aw2521h), Alienware 27 (aw2721d) and Alienware 38 (aw3821dw) monitors arrive next month. The monitors will start at $ 899.999, $ 1099.99999 and $ 1899.9999 respectively.
The Alienware 25 is a blazing fast 360hz 1ms fast IPS g-sync monitor with a fairly standard 400-nits of brightness and 1080p resolution.
The Alienware 38 is a 144hz, 3840 X 1600 1ms fast IPS monitor. All three monitors come with a pair of HDMI 2.0 ports, a DisplayPort 1.4, and a bevy of USB 3.2 ports, and an ambient light sensor for auto-adjusting brightness.
Alienware 25 has been tipped as one of four 360hz monitors to support NVIDIA’s new reflex latency analyzer feature. As we predicted, it does n’t come cheap.
