I'm looking to replace 2 PCs I built 5+ years ago with prebuilds. My budget for each is between 2-3k. Ideally they would be the same builds or very close to it. I'm mainly looking for prebuilds because of GPU prices but also because I don't enjoy the building process and I'm beginning to think I suck at building PCs. I feel like I know enough about building a PC to be dangerous and to screw something up. Also, I'm not interested in waiting around for a lottery or for a hopeful price drop because I've been waiting around for a year+ as it is.
At the moment we were leaning towards the new Aurora R13s but the hate towards Dell / Alienware's past products is strong... I can't tell if people just hate Alienware because of the name and easy internet points, or if the products truly are that bad. Based on reviews of older versions, it seems to me that the R13s have improved on some of their past mistakes. Mainly the cooling for the CPU. I understand the unnecessary amount of plastic likely still encases an old chassis. The R13s even seem to appear in some "2021 best prebuilds" lists. Whether its the R13 or a different prebuild, it needs to look nice. I guess that means it is closer to the LED EdGeLoRd camp compared to a featureless personality devoid black box.
Regardless, here are the Aurora R13 specs we're currently considering. I tried to spec it out as if I would build it myself but I couldn't find a lot of the parts.
Processor:12th Gen Intel® Core™ i7 12700KF (12-Core, 25MB Cache, 3.6GHz to 5GHz w/Turbo Boost Max 3.0)
Graphics Card: NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3070 8GB GDDR6 LHR
Memory: 16GB Dual Channel DDR5 at 4400MHz
Storage: 1TB NVMe M.2 PCIe SSD (Boot) + 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s (Storage)
Chassis Options: Lunar Light 750W PSU, Liquid-Cooled CPU & Clear Side Panel
Case & Color: Lunar Light
Lastly, I understand many people will recommend just building a PC myself but that isn't the point of this post. If it turns out the Aurora R13 or a different prebuild isn't worth it, I'll consider it then. Thank you.
At the moment we were leaning towards the new Aurora R13s but the hate towards Dell / Alienware's past products is strong... I can't tell if people just hate Alienware because of the name and easy internet points, or if the products truly are that bad. Based on reviews of older versions, it seems to me that the R13s have improved on some of their past mistakes. Mainly the cooling for the CPU. I understand the unnecessary amount of plastic likely still encases an old chassis. The R13s even seem to appear in some "2021 best prebuilds" lists. Whether its the R13 or a different prebuild, it needs to look nice. I guess that means it is closer to the LED EdGeLoRd camp compared to a featureless personality devoid black box.
Regardless, here are the Aurora R13 specs we're currently considering. I tried to spec it out as if I would build it myself but I couldn't find a lot of the parts.
Processor:12th Gen Intel® Core™ i7 12700KF (12-Core, 25MB Cache, 3.6GHz to 5GHz w/Turbo Boost Max 3.0)
Graphics Card: NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3070 8GB GDDR6 LHR
Memory: 16GB Dual Channel DDR5 at 4400MHz
Storage: 1TB NVMe M.2 PCIe SSD (Boot) + 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s (Storage)
Chassis Options: Lunar Light 750W PSU, Liquid-Cooled CPU & Clear Side Panel
Case & Color: Lunar Light
Lastly, I understand many people will recommend just building a PC myself but that isn't the point of this post. If it turns out the Aurora R13 or a different prebuild isn't worth it, I'll consider it then. Thank you.