Alienware has not been the kind of firm to draw back from outlandish, costly, and generally gaudy case designs. That being mentioned, Alienware is attempting one thing just a little extra quaint in comparison with earlier years, as the most recent in its Aurora mid-sized desktop PCs, the R16, now encompasses a boxier design that the corporate mentioned reduces the tower’s footprint whereas making it each cooler and quieter.
Alienware’s mid-tower desktop PC line has been straining the bounds of tower circumstances with extra out-of-this-world appears to be like. The Aurora line and its “Legend 2” silhouette had turn out to be the epitome of this design philosophy. The whole case was angled up like a howitzer and it featured a big, floating LED oval eye in entrance.
By comparability, the Aurora R16 is much extra constrained and compact than earlier iterations. It’s shorter, and now measures solely 16.5 inches tall in comparison with previous variations’ over-20 inches. This so-called “Legend 3” design has seen a return of the standard sq. form so it’s going to slot in amid the opposite mid-sized towers.
There’s nonetheless the elective see-through plastic panel to look into the machine’s guts, but it surely now much more resembles an precise PC tower, with solely a single glowing LED “Stadium” lighting loop discovered circling the first vent on the case. There are extra airflow vents on the aspect and high, and Alienware claimed it’s carried out some higher cable administration to enhance the desktop’s airflow.
There are some added advantages to this design, not less than in line with Alienware. The corporate mentioned this “streamlined” newest case is a 40% lower in whole quantity in comparison with the R15, so extra individuals can really match it beneath their desk. The Aurora 16 must also be 20% quieter and run 6% cooler on the GPU than beforehand, in line with the corporate.
So far as precise parts, the R16 comes with choices from Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 40 Sequence and both the twelfth or thirteenth gen Intel processors. There are alternatives for both 64GB of 5200 MT/s DDR 5 or 32GB of 5600 MT/s DDR5 RAM. The rig can include as much as 8 TB of SSD storage (by means of two, 4 TB drives) and one other elective 1TB of exhausting drive storage. And in the event you already couldn’t guess, this can be a Home windows 11 PC.
The case additionally comes with the brand new Commander Heart 6 dashboard to vary out the lighting strip shade, in addition to monitor and customise the inner thermal profiles. Over time, Alienware mentioned it’s going to come out with newer GPU and CPU choices for supposedly beefier playing cards. Contemplating some model of the RTX 4090 are round 6.4 inches vast, that’s going to be loads of actual property for a case that’s acknowledged width is simply 7.76 inches
The Aurora R16 needs to be accessible from Dell beginning Thursday for $1,750. The unit comprises a thirteenth Gen Intel Core i7 and a GeForce RTX 4070 GPU. Supposedly, we’ll see extra variations sooner or later with completely different pricing factors.
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