There are several inches of "empty" space on the top and bottom of the chassis that make it look like the components don't have to be packed so tightly. If you'd like to see how the style has evolved, check out our review of the quite different The Aurora R10 chassis is moderately sized, and it could justify being bigger considering the power inside. Bold, modern case design. The interior is simultaneously impressive in content and underwhelming to view.
Intel may have the leg up here in gaming as it has for a while, but it could just be how these borderline workstation chips interact with different games.Separately from how this chip stacks up against these specific competitors, the performance is still very strong. Both are DirectX 11 benchmarks, but Sky Diver is more suited to laptops and midrange PCs, while Fire Strike is more demanding and made for high-end PCs to strut their stuff. The frame rates recorded for the standalone Ryzen 9 3950X review (tested in a DIY testbed build) were higher than the ones here, and the superior motherboard in the testbed may be contributing to that. I selected a group that represents a variety of physical shapes, components, and prices. The Omen Obelisk and the Raptor Z55 outperformed it on Far Cry 5, and the latter topped the chart on Rise of the Tomb Raider. It could be related to how the Aurora chassis handles airflow as it heats up while gaming, and the motherboard could be holding it back.
(You'll see it, and you'll know it's Alienware.) We've seen this design before, but the power supply is mounted on a swinging arm that locks into place. It's somewhat difficult to compare our super-high-end model to the configurations most shoppers will end up with—it's no surprise that ours is this fast at this price—but I like the desktop itself.
Lower times are better here.
We time each operation and, at the end, add up the total execution time. If you are going to consistently stream gameplay, or are a media-creation professional or serious hobbyist, it's a different story—the 3950X is incredible for these use cases. Command Center is one of the better, if not the best, of these built-in manufacturer software packages.Our unit is configured very highly, though that doesn't have to be the case for your version. Using an early 2018 release of the Creative Cloud version of Photoshop, we apply a series of 10 complex filters and effects to a standard JPEG test image.
The other benchmarks don't show as much dominance, but it's still mighty impressive. The result is a proprietary score indicating a PC's suitability for processor-intensive workloads.Cinebench is often a good predictor of our Handbrake video-editing trial, another tough, threaded workout that's highly CPU-dependent and scales well with cores and threads. The front LED ring is customizable with 16.8 million colors on both models, while the backlit text on the Lunar Light model is also customizable.So many desktops look the same, or try for an overly aggressive design, that it's nice to see a gaming desktop nail a unique and specific aesthetic vision.
These represent very traditionally shaped, high-end PCs that can do both gaming and media tasks well thanks to their Core i9-9900K processor. We run two different 3DMark subtests, Sky Diver and Fire Strike, which are suited to different types of systems. 4/5 Alienware offers a wide swath of options that I'll get to in a moment, but our configuration is a $3,629.99 one, featuring the brand-new AMD Ryzen 9 3950X processor that's the star of the show (more on that later). The visually striking Alienware Aurora R10 can be configured in a variety of ways, but our Ryzen 9 3950X-equipped model is a performance monster. Far Cry 5 is DirectX 11-based, while Rise of the Tomb Raider can be flipped to DX12, which we do for the benchmark.Simply put, the Aurora R10 is not the machine to beat on these tests. In it, we put a stopwatch on test systems as they transcode a standard 12-minute clip of 4K video (the open source Blender demo movie We also run a custom Adobe Photoshop image-editing benchmark. Cinebench stresses the CPU rather than the GPU to render a complex image. As you'll see below, the Aurora R10 utilized it to tear through our benchmark tests across the board.If you plan on just playing video games with this system, though, the Ryzen 9 3950X is in fact overkill, in most cases.
There, you'll find six USB 2.0 ports, four USB 3.1 ports, and a USB Type-C port, as well as an Ethernet jack and an array of audio ins and outs.On the software side, a quick note on the aforementioned Alienware Command Center, which was rebuilt a few years ago to be the standard control panel for all Alienware PC products. For AMD graphics, you can choose among a Now it's time to circle back to that CPU. The display of third-party trademarks and trade names on this site does not necessarily indicate any affiliation or the endorsement of PCMag. Test du mini PC Dell Alienware Aurora R9, sous son design tout en rondeur se cache un grand gamer 20/03/2020 à 15h38 Dell Alienware Aurora … Chez Dell, on propose les « mini » PC Alienware Aurora aussi bien équipés de processeurs Intel Core que de Ryzen d'AMD. It's expensive, in part, because of the cost of the Ryzen 9 3950X and the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, and in terms of frame rates, the competitors come close or do better for less money.