Alienware has not been the kind of firm to draw back from outlandish, costly, and typically gaudy case designs. That being stated, Alienware is attempting one thing a bit of extra quaint in comparison with earlier years, as the newest in its Aurora mid-sized desktop PCs, the R16, now includes a boxier design that the corporate stated 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 instances with extra out-of-this-world seems. The Aurora line and its “Legend 2” silhouette had change into 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 way 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 normal sq. form so it can slot in amid the opposite mid-sized towers.
There’s nonetheless the elective see-through plastic panel to look into the machine’s guts, however it now way 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 further airflow vents on the aspect and high, and Alienware claimed it’s performed some higher cable administration to enhance the desktop’s airflow.
There are some added advantages to this design, at the least based on Alienware. The corporate stated this “streamlined” newest case is a 40% lower in complete quantity in comparison with the R15, so extra folks can really match it underneath their desk. The Aurora 16 must also be 20% quieter and run 6% cooler on the GPU than beforehand, based on the corporate.
So far as precise elements, the R16 comes with choices from Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 40 Series and both the twelfth or thirteenth gen Intel processors. There are choices 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 (via two, 4 TB drives) and one other elective 1TB of exhausting drive storage. And when you already couldn’t guess, this can be a Home windows 11 PC.
The case additionally comes with the brand new Commander Middle 6 dashboard to vary out the lighting strip shade, in addition to monitor and customise the interior thermal profiles. Over time, Alienware stated it can 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 huge, that’s going to be a number of actual property for a case that’s said 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 totally different pricing factors.
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