An RTX 5080 prebuilt for a somewhat reasonable cost.

Alienware's PCs have often carried quite the premium to them against their rivals, largely owing to the name on the box, making this hefty reduction from Dell on this RTX 5080-powered Aurora desktop all the more surprising. As it stands, this PC is down to £2699 from Dell in the UK or $2300 in the USA, and that includes a spec level with a capable Intel Core Ultra 7 265F processor, 16GB of DDR5 RAM and a 1TB SSD. All things considered, that's pretty good in the current market.

The big draw of this PC is the RTX 5080 inside, which as per the Digital Foundry review, constituted a surprisingly hefty 13% boost over the old 4080 Super while retaining the same RRP. Plus, you get the added powers of DLSS4 with multi-frame-gen and an improved DLSS Transformer model to boot (with the impending upgrades of DLSS 4.5 to come). This makes this an especially potent gaming rig for 4K gaming for the price.

The Intel Core Ultra 7 265F chip inside has the same makeup as the overclockable Core Ultra 7 265K and just lacks the ability for overclocking or an iGPU, with a beefy set of 20 cores and 20 threads that makes it a capable chip for gaming and for content creation alike. The main criticism for the chip when it launched was price, although price cuts from Intel have brought it back into line with rivals such as AMD's Ryzen 7 9700X. Getting 16GB of DDR5 RAM provides enough headroom for gaming and some more intensive workloads, plus a 1TB SSD is reasonable considering the general upward trend of storage costs.

All of this is powered by a 1000W Platinum-rated PSU, according to Dell, with the Core Ultra 7 265F being cooled by an integrated 240mm AIO cooler. Scrolling down the product page in the USA also reveals that you can snag a free code of Resident Evil Requiem with this PC, meaning you've got a game to get stuck into as soon as you get it set up - UK folks are unfortunately out of luck in this regard, but the actual PC setup is still the same with Alienware's space-age case design.

If you've been after a beefy RTX 5080-powered prebuilt for a surprisingly low price, this Dell deal on an Alienware Aurora desktop is worth a look.