Prime Day Gaming PC Deals: Alienware RTX 4090 Offer Sparks Debate

Dell Has the Best Deal on an Alienware RTX 4090 Gaming PC for Prime Day - IGN

As part of its Black Friday in July Sale, Dell is offering an Alienware Aurora R16 GeForce RTX 4090 gaming PC for as low as $2899.99. For only $100 more, you can also choose this upgraded config with a slightly better CPU and double the storage. The RTX 4090 is by far the most powerful GPU you can get, and you'll be able to comfortably run any game you want at 4K resolution with high frame rates and ray tracing turned enabled. If you're specifically looking for this GPU, then this is better than any deal at Amazon for Prime Day. The $2899 config features an Intel Core i9-14900F CPU, GeForce RTX 4090 GPU, 32GB of DDR5-5600MHz RAM, and a 1TB NVMe SSD. The $2999 config is upgraded with an unlocked Intel Core i9-14900KF CPU and a 2TB SSD. The i9-14900F/KF CPU boasts a max clock of 5.8/6GHz with 24 cores, 32 threads, and a 36MB cache. Gaming-wise the Intel Core i7 and i9 perform similarly. However, if you plan to use your rig for rendering or AI work that can utilize the greater number of cores, then the i9 would be a better fit, especially since it also includes more RAM and SSD, which you would also need. It's cooled by a 240mm all-in-one liquid cooling system and powered by an energy efficient 1000W 80PLUS Platinum power supply. Speaking of the chassis, the R16 is the newest Alienware Aurora gaming chassis, and it's the biggest departure from Alienware's iconic design in years. The R16 is 40% smaller in volume compared to previous iterations but has better thermal management. It features a simple yet proven airflow design; air is drawn in through the side intake vents over the GPU area as well as a 120mm rear fan drawing air in and a 240mm all-in-one liquid cooler exhausts air out through the top. A side benefit is that the GPU is supplied with fresh air from the outside instead of recirculating hot internal air. The RTX 4090 is the most powerful GPU on the market. No other video card, either from NVIDIA or from AMD, comes close. As a reference, the RTX 4090 is about 110% faster at 4K gaming than the already impressive RTX 3080. It's about 60% faster than the previous king, the RTX 3090 Ti. If you're still not convinced, check out our RTX 4090 FE review. The 4090 is also the consumer card of choice for stuff like machine learning or AI image generation apps like Stable Diffusion. Not everyone is the DIY type, and these days prebuilt gaming PC aren't that much more expensive than building your own computer. In fact, depending on the demand of certain components like the GPU, it might even be cheaper. The Alienware Aurora R16 is one of our picks for best prebuilt gaming PCs of 2024. Alienware gaming laptops and desktops offer a staggering array of options, all built into a custom chassis that's both easy on the eyes and easy on the wallet. The newest Alienware gaming PCs have significantly improved their cooling performance, especially when paired with a liquid cooling solution. Alienware gaming laptops in recent years have been redesigned to be thinner and lighter while still offering the same immense power under the hood. Consistent build quality, available inventory, frequent sales, and solid customer service are the main reasons why Dell is at the top of our buying list.

We Found the Best Gaming PC Deals of Amazon Prime Day 2024 - IGN

This year's Amazon Prime Day sale has no shortage of gaming PC deals. We've listed out every good deal we could find on prebuilt gaming PCs from well-known brands like ASUS, MSI, CyberPowerPC, Skytech, IBUYPOWER, and more. For most PC gamers, buying a prebuilt gaming rig is far more attractive than it used to be. Years ago, it was inarguably cheaper to build your own gaming PC than to buy a boutique gaming rig. That's not the case anymore. The gaming PCs listed here are already built and packaged and will ship out quickly. They use off-the-shelf components so it should be easier to swap and upgrade components compared to buying from an OEM manufacturer like Dell or HP. The RTX 4060 is considerably more powerful than the RTX 3060 and almost nearly matches the RTX 3060 Ti. This is going to be the best current-gen GPU you'll find capable of smooth 1080p gaming in a system that costs (well) under $1,000. The RTX 4060 GPU also supports DLSS 3.0, which gives you a nice performance boost without sacrificing much visual quality. The RTX 4060 Ti 8GB video card is an even better card for 1080p gaming, and it's powerful enough to handle 1440p gaming as well. You'll get a pretty substantial boost in performance over the RTX 4060, especially at higher resolutions. Compared to the previous option, this gaming PC also upgrades the processor from a 13th generation Intel Core i5 to a 14th generation Intel Core i7. That isn't a huge improvement when it comes to gaming, but this PC will perform better in a general workstation environment, especially if you run programs that can utilize the additional cores. The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is about 10% more powerful than the RTX 4070 Ti and approaches the performance of the RTX 4080. This is an outstanding card for 1440p gaming and can comfortably run most in 4K, especially with DLSS enabled. The RTX 4070 Ti SUPER also increases the GDDR6X RAM count to 16GB compared to the 8GB found on the RTX 4060 Ti. That makes it a much better card to use for any app that requires a lot of VRAM, including AI programs like Stable Diffusion. Prime Day is one of the absolute best times to buy a gaming PC every year. Not only does Amazon drop prices on it's prebuilt PCs, we also see equally good discounts from manufactures like Dell, Lenovo, and HP around this time. As to whether you should buy now or wait for Black Friday, it really just depends on what GPU you want in your PC. Overall Prime Day is an excellent time to find a deal on budget gaming PCs, but if you are hoping for a sale on prebuilt rig packed with an RTX 4090, you may want to wait. If the new RTX 5080 GPUs are revealed in the Fall, then Black Friday could see even lower prices.

A frankly monstrous Prime Day PC 'deal' has made me very, very angry, so here are three far superior gaming PCs I'd buy in a flash

CyberPowerPC Gamer Supreme | Ryzen 7 7800X3D | RTX 4070 Ti Super | 32 GB DDR5 | 1 TB SSD | $1,999.99 $1,699.99 at Amazon (save $300, exclusive to Prime members) The 7800X3D is the best gaming CPU you can buy right now and paired with the RTX 4070 Ti Super, you've got an extremely fast gaming PC. There's plenty of DDR5 RAM and while a 2 TB SSD would have been nice, you'll have no problem adding another fast NVMe drive to add more storage. While hunting for gaming PC deals in the Prime Day event this morning, I came across this monstrosity over at Walmart. At just under $580, you might be tempted to get this as a gift from someone who wants to get into PC gaming and let's be honest, it does look like a really cool machine. But looks are deceiving and this is one of the more egregious 'deals' I've seen so far. First of all, the graphics card is an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Super. This GPU is now five years old and while that might not sound particularly ancient, it's far less capable than an RTX 4060 or even an RTX 3060. At the time, it was fine for 1080p gaming and it's probably okay now in lots of games, but you really shouldn't be buying a new one for this kind of money. Making matters worse, though, is the CPU. Yes, you've read the specs right -- it's an Intel Xeon, specifically one from 2012 that uses the old Ivy Bridge architecture. Sure it has four cores, eight threads, and a boost clock of 3.9 GHz but it's just woefully inadequate for today's games. It has absolutely no right existing in any gaming PC deal these days but at least you don't need to search hard to find something far, far better. For just $120 more, you could buy the Skytech Gaming Nebula gaming PC. That has a Core i5 13400F, the best budget gaming CPU right now, and an RTX 4060 for brilliant 1080p performance. Yes, it's not sporting the latest DDR5 RAM but 16 GB of DDR4-3200 is much faster than the 16 GB of slow DDR3 in the Novatech rig. Doubling the budget gets you the iBuyPower Tracemesh machine, with a 20-core, 28-thread Core i7 14700F processor and an RTX 4060 Ti. It's a little bit more expensive than other 4060 Ti PCs I've seen but they tend not to have as capable a CPU as this one and usually have DDR4, rather than DDR5, for the system RAM. And while it's pretty unfair to compare a $580 gaming PC to one with a $1,700 price tag, the CyberPowerPC machine is a fantastic deal. It boasts the best gaming CPU you can buy at the moment, an RTX 4070 Ti Super (clunky name but great performance), lots of DDR5 RAM, and liquid cooling. It's three times more expensive than the Novatech 'deal' but it's considerably more than three times faster. It'll handle 1440p and 4K gaming with ease, and you'll be able to enable DLSS performance enhancers for extra fps, in games that support it. This is true of any of the three gaming PC deals I've found but not so for the GTX 1660 Super. That GPU can only use AMD's FSR 3.1 system, which is almost as good as Nvidia's DLSS but not quite on par in some games. When the AI giant designed that graphics chip, it used the RTX 20-series Turing architecture as the baseline but removed all of the Tensor and ray tracing cores. It made the GPU much cheaper but these days it also means it just doesn't have the feature set of the RTX models. Events like Prime Day are great for picking up solid deals, like those above, or saving big chunks of money on hardware that's one or two generations old. However, that Novatech PC is a classic example of a vendor trying its best to clear old stock and it's the kind of thing you really need to avoid in the sales, no matter how cheap it might seem. That's why we're hunting out the best PC gaming deals, on desktops and laptops, monitors and components, to make sure that only the good stuff comes your way. Not 'gaming PCs' with processors so old they were being used by dinosaurs.