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Alienware Aurora 5000 gaming PC

Too short?

Performance-wise there's definitely nothing wrong with the Aurora 5500, but you would get more out of the graphics card with a faster processor. With an overall SYSMark 2004 score of 181 there won't be any issues running day to day software. But I wouldn't imagine anyone buying this machine unless they're going to play games on it, so what really matters here is the game benchmarks.

Alienware Aurora 5000 SysMark

Alienware Aurora 5000 PCMark

Alienware Aurora 5000 Doom 3

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