Look who's back, it's Alienware with the best Black Friday gaming PC deal of the week and the cheape

Back in October's second Prime Day sales event, dropped an absolutely stellar deal with a heavily discounted Aurora R16, making it one of the best deals of the season. And now it's back, giving us the cheapest RTX 4070 betdog Ti Super gaming PC and what might actually be the best you'll find.

This right now. The best we'd seen up to now had been the with the same CPU and GPU inside it—admittedly with twice the memory—for $100 more (and it's currently out of stock).

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For me, that 32 GB of RAM and the promise of non-proprietary hardware, while tempting, doesn't pull me away from the Alienware machine. We've had our issues in the past, and I still find the proprietary motherboard and PSU combination an abomination in these modern times (especially now the chassis are just plain ol' tower chassis), but this is still a whole lot sbfplay of PC for the money.

It's also got the edge over the Lenovo in more ways than just that extra $100 saving. The issue with a proprietary PSU is that it's going to be a pain if you want to upgrade it down the line, for example when a new GPU comes out, and you're restricted to only buying Dell's own options.

But the Aurora R16 comes with a full 1 KW power supply, dwarfing the 850 W version in the Lenovo, giving you more power at your disposal than you would need even for an . It's also supporting its Core i7 14700F with a closed-loop liquid cooler, which will be more effective than the air cooler in use in the Legion Tower 5I. And we know how much Intel's Raptor Lake refresh CPUs need to be capably cooled to stop from throttling their clock speed.

Alienware does actually have more than one best-in-class deal this Black Friday week, too. If you want the most affordable RTX 4090 gaming PC, then this version of the .

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