Alienware Aurora ACT1250 Black 2025
About This Desktop
- Legend perfected: Modern design with a matte basalt black finish in an optimized chassis with customizable AlienFX lighting zones, including the striking stadium lighting.
- Game changing graphics: Step into the future of gaming and creation with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060Ti graphics, powered by NVIDIA Blackwell architecture.
- Marathon gaming unlocked: This high-performance technology ensures clean energy is consistently available, unleashing the top-level power of Intel Core Ultra processor 7 265KF as you game, livestream, and multi-task for hours on end.
- 240mm heat exchanger: The 240mm heat exchanger, available on the optional CPU liquid cooling, heightens thermal resistance, ensuring temperatures stay consistently low during longer gaming sessions.
- Total command: Alienware Command Center software allows you to create and edit AlienFX lighting across the ecosystem, choose and monitor your performance mode across distinct power states, and create custom gaming profiles for your whole library.
Overview
Performance
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Strong storage (97th percentile) 97th
- Strong cpu (95th percentile) 95th
- Strong gpu (70th percentile) 70th
Cons
- Below average port (7th percentile) 7th
- Below average reliability (12th percentile) 12th
Specifications
Full Specifications
Processor
| CPU | Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF |
| Cores | 20 |
| Frequency | 3.3 GHz |
| L3 Cache | 30 MB |
Graphics
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060Ti |
| Type | discrete |
| VRAM | 8 GB |
| VRAM Type | GDDR7 |
Memory & Storage
| RAM | 16 GB |
| RAM Generation | DDR5 |
| Storage 1 | 2 TB |
| Storage 1 Type | SSD |
| Storage 2 | 2.0 TB |
Build
| Form Factor | mid-tower |
| PSU | 500 |
System
| OS | Windows 11 Home |
vs Competition
| Spec | Alienware Aurora ACT1250 | HP OMEN 45L GT22-3080 | ASUS Republic of Gamers GM700TZ-BS978 | Lenovo Legion Tower 5i Legion Tower 5i Gen 10 | MSI EdgeXpert EdgeXpert-11SUS | Dell Tower Plus DEBT2250-7177BLK-PUS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPU | Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF | Intel Core Ultra 7 265K | AMD Ryzen 9 9950X | Intel Core Ultra 7 265F | ARM | Intel Core Ultra 7 265 |
| RAM (GB) | 16 | 32 | 64 | 32 | 128 | 32 |
| Storage (GB) | 4048 | 2048 | 2048 | 2048 | 4096 | 1024 |
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060Ti | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 | AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 | NVIDIA Blackwell GPU | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 |
| Form Factor | mid-tower | mid-tower | mid-tower | mid-tower | mini | mid-tower |
| Psu W | 500 | 850 | 850 | 850 | 240 | 750 |
| OS | Windows 11 Home | Windows 11 Pro | Windows 11 Home | Windows 11 Home | Windows 11 Pro | Windows 11 Home |
| Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare |
| Product | Cpu | Gpu | Ram | Port | Storage | Reliability | Social Proof |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alienware Aurora ACT1250 | 95.1 | 69.6 | 44.2 | 7 | 96.6 | 12.2 | 35.6 |
| HP OMEN 45L GT22-3080 Compare | 95.9 | 88.3 | 77.9 | 93.8 | 90.9 | 71.6 | 84.6 |
| ASUS Republic of Gamers GM700TZ-BS978 Compare | 98.8 | 77.4 | 94.2 | 97.6 | 90.9 | 40 | 71.7 |
| Lenovo Legion Tower 5i Legion Tower 5i Gen 10 Compare | 86.6 | 81.4 | 82 | 89.9 | 90.9 | 71.6 | 95.3 |
| MSI EdgeXpert EdgeXpert-11SUS Compare | 99.6 | 95.4 | 98.9 | 87.9 | 97.3 | 40 | 83.3 |
| Dell Tower Plus DEBT2250-7177BLK-PUS Compare | 88.8 | 81.4 | 77.9 | 98.7 | 72.7 | 71.6 | 82.7 |
Usage Scores
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