With Black Friday less than two weeks away, retailers are looking to get a head start on the competition by kicking off some great deals. Alienware is one of those companies, bringing back one of the most popular deals from earlier this year, with its Aurora Gaming Desktop PC dropping to $2,299.99 with an RTX 5080 configuration. This is still, by far, one of the best deals you can get on a pre-built PC with an RTX 5080, and one we’d recommend if you don’t want to build your own PC.
The configuration that’s currently available for $2,299.99 is powered by an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K processor and equipped with a 240mm liquid cooler with AlienFX lighting. RAM comes in the form of 32GB of DDR5-5200, while storage is a 2TB NVMe SSD. All of it is powered by a 1000W platinum-rated power supply. For the price, this is one of the best bang-for-the-buck rigs you can get, especially since it’ll be capable of handling nearly anything you want to throw at it. Best of all, since it has an RTX 5080, you’ll get to take advantage of DLSS 4.
I priced out a build on PCPartPicker with comparable components, and it landed at $2,309.80, not including a Windows 11 license. That’s pretty close to the $2,299.99 sales price from Alienware, without having to deal with actually building a PC and while still getting a warranty. Typically, I prefer building my own PC, but at this price, you can save a lot of the headache by just ordering one of these.
