Our 'never buy a full-price Alienware' mantra has never rang more true than when looking at the $700+ discounts it offers right now

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Alienware Aurora R14 | AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT | 16GB RAM | 512GB SSD | $1,759.99$999.99 at Dell (save $760)(opens in new tab)The fact that this was near enough $1,800 at full-price is baffling, because this feels like a $1,000 gaming PC all day long. But, as an all-AMD mid-range machine, this Aurora R14 is a real solid build now. The RX 6600 XT is a superior GPU to the RTX 3060, which you will commonly find at this price, and the Ryzen 5600X is a great six-core CPU. Though maybe that 512GB SSD is the only thing you'll need to upgrade anytime soon.

However you feel about Alienware, being able to grab a $760 discount on a quality all-AMD gaming PC(opens in new tab) is nothing to sniff at. Though the Yeyian Katana X10, with its RTX 3060 Ti for $949(opens in new tab) is still a very tempting machine, it doesn't have the Alienware looks.

But Alienware is such a weird one when it comes to gaming PCs. Historically, the brand has commanded a strong presence in the hearts and minds of PC gamers, and its premium pricing has been offset by the quality of its builds. But in recent times that quality seems to have fallen off despite the prices remaining high.

We've tested a bunch of Alienware machines over the last 12 months and none have been able to justify their pricing. That's lead them to fall from the top of our best gaming PC(opens in new tab) list, and the instigation of our leading mantra: Never pay full price for an Alienware gaming PC.

Part of that is because they haven't been performing as well as similarly priced or even cheaper premium rigs, and because they use proprietary components making upgrades difficult and sometimes expensive. But it's also because Alienware machines are so regularly