A $950 discount turns this high-end Alienware gaming PC of yesterday into today's bargain

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Alienware Aurora R14 | AMD Ryzen 7 5800X | Nvidia RTX 3080 10GB | 16GB DDR4-3200 | 1TB SSD | $2,449.99$1,499.99 at Dell (save $950)(opens in new tab)Oh look, an RTX 3080 gaming PC priced at pretty much what you'd expect some two and a bit years after launch. Considering you'd be lucky to find an RTX 3070 at this price, we'll happily forgive the traditional Alienware issues of non-standard motherboards and PSUs making future updates a problem. This spec will continue to be a good gaming PC for a while to come.

For the longest time RTX 3080 gaming PCs were hard to come by. They were especially hard to come by at anything close to resembling a good deal. But that's all changed now, as retailers look actually shift stock of PCs with last-gen parts in them for much more reasonable prices.

This Alienware PC is a good example of those price cuts. While I don't believe Alienware ever sold many of these for the listed MSRP of $2,449, and we certainly wouldn't have recommended it at that price, this PC's new sale price of $1,500 on Dell's store(opens in new tab) makes it a much more appealing offer.

For that money you get yourself an eight-core CPU from AMD's excellent Ryzen 5000-series, the Ryzen 7 5800X(opens in new tab). That's the same chip I have in my PC at home, and it's a real all-round performer. It works great in CPU-intensive operations, such as video editing and Blender, but also won't hold a high-end GPU back too much. There definitely are quicker CPUs out there today, but this still feels a good fit for this build.

That's because it's paired with Nvidia's RTX 3080 10GB(opens in new tab), one of our favorite graphics cards from the RTX 30-series generation. Until it was 2x its original price, anyways. Launched as a