Alienware Aurora R16 with RTX 5080 Drops to $2,399.99

Starting today, Dell drops a bombshell deal with their Alienware Aurora R16 gaming PC featuring the coveted RTX 5080 GPU for just $2,399.99. This represents one of the most aggressive price points we've seen for RTX 5080 prebuilts - a breath of fresh air amid the industry-wide price hikes since NVIDIA's January launch. Want perspective? Dell's other RTX 5080 configuration costs nearly double. And good luck finding standalone GPUs - you'll likely pay this system's full price just for the graphics card alone.

Alienware Aurora R16 RTX 5080 Gaming PC for $2,400

Alienware Aurora R16 Intel Core Ultra 7 265F RTX 5080 Gaming PC

$2,399.99 at Alienware

This powerhouse configuration packs Intel's cutting-edge Core Ultra 7 265F Meteor Lake CPU (5.3GHz turbo, 20 cores), paired with NVIDIA's shiny new RTX 5080 GPU. The system balances performance with value, sporting 16GB DDR5-5200MHz RAM and a 1TB NVMe SSD - serious specs cooled by a chunky 240mm liquid solution and fed by a future-proof 1000W Platinum PSU.

The RTX 5080 remains Blackwell's elusive unicorn among graphics cards. As noted in our review: "While existing high-end GPU owners might hesitate upgrading, the RTX 5080 delivers transformative performance leaps for anyone coming from older generations - especially when leveraging NVIDIA's AI-enhanced DLSS 4 features."

RTX 5080 and 5090 GPUs: Retail Apocalypse

NVIDIA's RTX 50-series launch became a textbook case of extreme demand. Both the flagship RTX 5090 and 5080 vanished within minutes of January preorders, with the 5070 Ti following suit in February. This scarcity extends to prebuilt systems too - what few units existed at launch have either disappeared from inventory, seen price hikes, or suffer months-long backorders.

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