Alienware Aurora R12 RTX 3080 Gaming Desktop PC - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB GDDR6X, Intel Core i7 11700KF, 16GB HyperX Fury DDR4 XMP RAM, 1TB HDD + 512GB SSD, Lunar Light

Bought in October 2021 did not work right out of the box. Had a technician come out install a faulty motherboard. Then had to send to Houston depot for technician to fix. Came back working even worse. Now March 2022 working with Alienware for a “refurbished/like” replacement don’t have a conclusion yet. $3,400 paper weight as of today.

We just received a new R12 purchased during Black Friday at a substantial discount. The system is an 11th Gen Intel Core i7 11700F, RTX 3060Ti, 512GB M.2, 16GB, 2x8GB, DDR4, 3200MHz all of this for only $980 (without tax) with discounts! This was an insane deal. Unfortunately, the air-cooled option was not available for the system deal. We have the Dark Side of the Moon cool which does not have the same lighting options as the White system. This is fine as the system would be positioned such that the lights would not be seen. The system looks good but like many have mentioned it has cooling issues. We have the system raised on a mesh stand with plenty of room for cooling. We first noticed the fans making a clicking noise while idling! I checked to make sure all fans are working and they are. We completed all updates and with nothing running while on idle the system CPU keeps jumping from 62° to 100° Celsius while the CPU performance is bouncing around the lowest to the highest. This is occurring while the system is idling without anything installed yet and no overclocking! Not a good omen. Also noticed there are no VRM heatsinks installed on this unit which could account for some of the CPU heat. The stock CPU fan is anemic. The interior design is small and will not fit a stock RTX card if you wanted to upgrade it. It is not a system to upgrade over time but again at the $980 price point, I didn't care. If we could have purchased a water-cooled system at the reduced price point we would have and I believe the design hinders the ability of the system to adequately air cool it. It is noisy when it kicks in cooling. What is surprising we were running a Lenovo Legion 7i notebook on the desk with a docking station (10th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-10750H Processor, NVIDIA RTX2070 Max-Q) at full settings in games and couldn't hear it but the R12 is like a fan running on high! Again we are so disappointed and will go back to using the Legion 7i.

it is working good so far.

I pulled the trigger on this because the price was listed at $2,099 instead of the $3,099. Got a hell of a deal on this beast. I use it with a 65" LG OLED G-Sync television. It runs all my games at Ultra/max settings flawlessly. I do intend on upgrading the RAM and the SSD.