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New Alienware machines powered by Polaris

by on25 August 2016


From Radeon RX 480 GPUs to Radeon R9 M470X.

Gaming PC brand Alienware has released a range of new machines based around AMD’s new Polaris GPUs.

The Alienware Aurora desktop tower, the Area 51 pod desktop, and the Alpha R2 desktop will get configurations that include either a pair of Radeon RX 480 cards or a Radeon R9 M470X.

AMD has spotlighted the new Alienware AMD gear on its Radeon blog, after all they look rather nice and give the brand shedloads of street cred.

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The Aurora tower can be configured with one or two Radeon RX 480 graphics cards for Crossfire / multi-GPU computing and gaming or an RX 480. According to Hexus, the rig has an Intel Core i7-6700, 8GB DDR4 RAM, 512GB M.2 PCIe storage, and Windows 10 and this system costs £1,179 in the UK.

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The Area 51 desktop can have up to three Radeon RX 480 cards. Obviously this is a bit pricy £2,879 will get you an Intel Core i7-6850K CPU, 16GB of memory, a 2TB HDD, and Windows 10.

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If you don’t have the space, Alienware's Alpha R2 might work. This machine is now configurable with Radeon R9 M470X graphics. It will cost £569 and is based around an Intel Core i5 6400T CPU, 8GB of DDR4 RAM, a 500GB HDD, and Windows 10.

AMD says that the above systems are already available in Europe – and my product links above do indeed allow you to buy these Polaris GPUs equipped systems here in the UK. A full global rollout is promised 'shortly'.

Last modified on 25 August 2016
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