EFFICIENT AIRFLOW:Larger passageways and optimized internal cable management, allows airflow to be more productive, resulting in quieter acoustics.
12-PHASE VOLTAGE REGULATION:12-phase voltage regulation technology, enables up to 13th Gen Intel Core processors to deliver high-level performance for hours on end.
LEGEND 3 DESIGN:The R16 debuts our minimalist and functional Legend 3 design that focuses on simplicity with features that are optimized for any desktop gaming setup.
240MM HEAT EXCHANGER: Game cool and quietly thanks to a 240mm heat exchanger* that heightens the system’s thermal resistance and ensures temperatures stay managed during longer gaming sessions. *only in CPU liquid-cooled options
TOTAL COMMAND: Featuring the revamped Alienware Command Center software, where you can intuitively tailor and monitor your system’s performance and customize lighting and other settings across your setup.
A BETTER GAMING EXPERIENCE: Premium Support has you covered day and night to help with new game installation, troubleshooting, and more. It’s one more weapon in your arsenal. Get one year of Premium Support included when you purchase an Alienware Gaming PC.
I love this computer it runs well and runs like a high-performance computer shud. it’s good for a lot of high-powered games. the video card is not so good for mining Bitcoin but it’s awesome for gaming. it has an extra M.2 slot for an upgrade of up to 2 TB.
Rated 5 out of 5
Philip O. –
I ordered this on a Friday and received it on Saturday around 2pm and it was in perfect, unopened shape. It was very easy to get set up and running. I did a few internet searches to learn how to disable/remove all the bloatware MS puts in Windows that I didn’t want (copilot, etc.) and then I was off to the races. I can not emphasize enough just how quiet this machine is! My last pc, a Corsair, was, I thought, a pretty quiet machine, but it would (seemingly randomly) turn on its fans once in a while and dispel the quiet – even when nothing appeared to be going on to cause it generate extra heat. This alienware r16, by contrast, is just plain always quiet. I haven’t put it through a truly heavy workload yet, but I’m throwing all sorts of games and apps at it, and it’s just so quiet. It starts up very quickly, and is just plain the nicest system I have ever owned. I guess, at least sometimes, you really do get what you pay for. This is a rock-solid machine. Very much recommended. Also, if you’re like me, and you’d been avoiding Windows 11 as long as possible, I can tell you it’s not too bad at all, once you tweak it to your liking. As I said at the top, it was pretty easy to get the bloatware out (the one thing they embed like a tick is Edge, but I’m working on that). Everything else that you don’t want is pretty easy to pare out, leaving behind a system that runs well and puts very little load on your resources, leaving most of this system’s impressive power and speed available to run the apps and games you actually care about.
Rated 5 out of 5
Shayla T –
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So the first thing I don’t like is that you can see the green it’s not to fashionable on the inside but I can tell you, it’s a good powerhouse! It’s pretty quiet it rarely ever gets louder only gets loud when u boot up a game that’s really big but it’s quick to kill itself down! I play gta5 on medium to high graphics for hours and it works and maintains the cooling. Excellent airflow. The only thing I don’t really like in it is the 16gb ram. There being 16gb ram isn’t bad, but if you want to catch up to the other specs (i7, GTX4060) then I’d upgrade to 32gb ram. (I’m going to do that) I play Fortnite on lower settings the frames tend to be unstable due to the higher graphics in Fortnite(on certain settings.) if you want my settings on my Fortnite to make it run a very stable 165FPS with being able to see people very well just add my Snapchat – Shesmysstic I’ll happily send them to you. I’d recommend this pc to anyone who’s looking to get into the PC world. I’ve looked everywhere else and the insides don’t match up to ram or the intel chips are to old for the ram or graphics card is to old.. all for 1500$ this is a very very good buy. (COMES WITH KEYBOARD AND MOUSE!)
Rated 1 out of 5
Gary Smith –
I am honestly so disappointed with this desktop. I had bought it to replace my Aurora R6, thinking it would be an upgrade since my Aurora R6 still had all the original parts that came with it -i7, 1070graphics, 16GB DDR4 and so on- You would think this desktop would be a pretty decent upgrade for a 7 year old desktop, but no.. ever since I got this desktop, it’s been nothing but a headache. Graphics display issues, freezes fairly often, randomly shut off by itself sometimes, the RAM is constantly in full usage just from running Firefox. I made sure everything is up to date, reseated absolutely everything in the thing, I tried taking advantage of the “premium support”, but that was absolutely useless. I just don’t know anymore, this desktop is just honestly garbage.
Rated 4 out of 5
Shayla T –
It’s a good PC runs great just be sure to either upgrade the fan or undervolt the CPU so it doesn’t overheat.the fan has trouble cooling the CPU it’ll reach 100c real quick and throttle. Other than that it’s great.
Rated 1 out of 5
Salut allo –
Not sure what happened here. I question whether this damage could come from just being dropped.
Rated 5 out of 5
Yankee Fiddler –
I bought this to replace my old Alienware Aurora R7. This machine is fantastic. i don’t game much but i use it for graphics, composite digital photography and video editing. they don’t mention it in the title, but this machine is liquid cooled. some people complain about their experience with this computer but those are individual machines with defects, that has no reflection on most reviews for this machine. if you buy through amazon you should be able to get your issues resolved easily….you take the chance of getting an individual defective machine no matter what computer you buy….my old R7 desktop is still going strong after 7 years…
Rated 5 out of 5
Rhapsody –
Only had a few days so far but so far I love it. Extremely quiet, you can see the Nvidia RTX graphics card logo through the glass on the left side, small enough to fit into most desk lower shelf compartments for towers. Fast performance, Nvidia RTX 4060 graphics card handles all of my high graphics-intensive games phenomenally and the graphics quality is superb. Great computer for gaming or office.
Rated 1 out of 5
jean perreault –
I regret buying this now, and would recommend everyone to stay away.
As soon as I unpacked, plugged it in and installed W11, the computer restarted and gave me a Windows Recovery “windows did not start properly” blue screen. I was worried a little, but then when I restarted it it worked fine.
I got that blue screen a few more times during the first month, and then 10 days passed the return window, the PC just crashed. It stays on the Alienware logo screen. Went to do a backup, says the SSD is empty. Support said “sorry most likely a virus, do factory reset and we’re done here.”
Ordering a new SSD and gonna try that. I’m gonna be helluva furious if it still doesn’t work but I have a feeling the PC came with a defective SSD.
I regret buying this now, and would recommend everyone to stay away.
Rated 5 out of 5
antionette c. –
I can build PC i just didn’t want to put in the time looking up new parts i have not been keeping up on the lates news GAMERS NEXUS best U tube channel to get honest revies in my book anyway not that hard to find what parts i want but this would just save my time so looked for a pre build and found the R16 was better not just looking but performance (thermals) from R15 this has a app to set up your fans, better to just use the default setting so far so good got this Feb 4 so 13 days in all is well
this is posted on the 17th Feb
Rated 5 out of 5
William –
This computer came the next day with one day shipping. It was packed impeccably and it has felt like it’s been on autopilot ever since. I bought this for photography and it is working at peak level as I had hoped. Not one issue loading it or running it. I transfer a lot of files/photos and edit quite extensively at times. Someday I might upgrade the graphics card but it’s working perfectly for now. I was signed up automatically for the warranty. I just keep staring it it in amazement and wonder at the ease of operation/use. At some point I will let a family member play a game on it to test it out but for my purposes it is perfect. I bought a 4tb external ssd hd for transferring photos. It’s a great place to be to have nothing else to have to buy or fix to prepare for spring nature and birding photos. Couldn’t be happier.
ROCKY –
I love this computer it runs well and runs like a high-performance computer shud. it’s good for a lot of high-powered games. the video card is not so good for mining Bitcoin but it’s awesome for gaming. it has an extra M.2 slot for an upgrade of up to 2 TB.
Philip O. –
I ordered this on a Friday and received it on Saturday around 2pm and it was in perfect, unopened shape. It was very easy to get set up and running. I did a few internet searches to learn how to disable/remove all the bloatware MS puts in Windows that I didn’t want (copilot, etc.) and then I was off to the races. I can not emphasize enough just how quiet this machine is! My last pc, a Corsair, was, I thought, a pretty quiet machine, but it would (seemingly randomly) turn on its fans once in a while and dispel the quiet – even when nothing appeared to be going on to cause it generate extra heat. This alienware r16, by contrast, is just plain always quiet. I haven’t put it through a truly heavy workload yet, but I’m throwing all sorts of games and apps at it, and it’s just so quiet. It starts up very quickly, and is just plain the nicest system I have ever owned. I guess, at least sometimes, you really do get what you pay for. This is a rock-solid machine. Very much recommended. Also, if you’re like me, and you’d been avoiding Windows 11 as long as possible, I can tell you it’s not too bad at all, once you tweak it to your liking. As I said at the top, it was pretty easy to get the bloatware out (the one thing they embed like a tick is Edge, but I’m working on that). Everything else that you don’t want is pretty easy to pare out, leaving behind a system that runs well and puts very little load on your resources, leaving most of this system’s impressive power and speed available to run the apps and games you actually care about.
Shayla T –
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So the first thing I don’t like is that you can see the green it’s not to fashionable on the inside but I can tell you, it’s a good powerhouse! It’s pretty quiet it rarely ever gets louder only gets loud when u boot up a game that’s really big but it’s quick to kill itself down! I play gta5 on medium to high graphics for hours and it works and maintains the cooling. Excellent airflow. The only thing I don’t really like in it is the 16gb ram. There being 16gb ram isn’t bad, but if you want to catch up to the other specs (i7, GTX4060) then I’d upgrade to 32gb ram. (I’m going to do that) I play Fortnite on lower settings the frames tend to be unstable due to the higher graphics in Fortnite(on certain settings.) if you want my settings on my Fortnite to make it run a very stable 165FPS with being able to see people very well just add my Snapchat – Shesmysstic
I’ll happily send them to you.
I’d recommend this pc to anyone who’s looking to get into the PC world. I’ve looked everywhere else and the insides don’t match up to ram or the intel chips are to old for the ram or graphics card is to old.. all for 1500$ this is a very very good buy. (COMES WITH KEYBOARD AND MOUSE!)
Gary Smith –
I am honestly so disappointed with this desktop. I had bought it to replace my Aurora R6, thinking it would be an upgrade since my Aurora R6 still had all the original parts that came with it -i7, 1070graphics, 16GB DDR4 and so on- You would think this desktop would be a pretty decent upgrade for a 7 year old desktop, but no.. ever since I got this desktop, it’s been nothing but a headache. Graphics display issues, freezes fairly often, randomly shut off by itself sometimes, the RAM is constantly in full usage just from running Firefox. I made sure everything is up to date, reseated absolutely everything in the thing, I tried taking advantage of the “premium support”, but that was absolutely useless. I just don’t know anymore, this desktop is just honestly garbage.
Shayla T –
It’s a good PC runs great just be sure to either upgrade the fan or undervolt the CPU so it doesn’t overheat.the fan has trouble cooling the CPU it’ll reach 100c real quick and throttle. Other than that it’s great.
Salut allo –
Not sure what happened here. I question whether this damage could come from just being dropped.
Yankee Fiddler –
I bought this to replace my old Alienware Aurora R7. This machine is fantastic. i don’t game much but i use it for graphics, composite digital photography and video editing. they don’t mention it in the title, but this machine is liquid cooled. some people complain about their experience with this computer but those are individual machines with defects, that has no reflection on most reviews for this machine. if you buy through amazon you should be able to get your issues resolved easily….you take the chance of getting an individual defective machine no matter what computer you buy….my old R7 desktop is still going strong after 7 years…
Rhapsody –
Only had a few days so far but so far I love it. Extremely quiet, you can see the Nvidia RTX graphics card logo through the glass on the left side, small enough to fit into most desk lower shelf compartments for towers. Fast performance, Nvidia RTX 4060 graphics card handles all of my high graphics-intensive games phenomenally and the graphics quality is superb. Great computer for gaming or office.
jean perreault –
I regret buying this now, and would recommend everyone to stay away.
As soon as I unpacked, plugged it in and installed W11, the computer restarted and gave me a Windows Recovery “windows did not start properly” blue screen.
I was worried a little, but then when I restarted it it worked fine.
I got that blue screen a few more times during the first month, and then 10 days passed the return window, the PC just crashed. It stays on the Alienware logo screen.
Went to do a backup, says the SSD is empty. Support said “sorry most likely a virus, do factory reset and we’re done here.”
Ordering a new SSD and gonna try that. I’m gonna be helluva furious if it still doesn’t work but I have a feeling the PC came with a defective SSD.
I regret buying this now, and would recommend everyone to stay away.
antionette c. –
I can build PC i just didn’t want to put in the time looking up new parts i have not been keeping up on the lates news GAMERS NEXUS best U tube channel to get honest revies in my book anyway not that hard to find what parts i want but this would just save my time so looked for a pre build and found the R16 was better not just looking but performance (thermals) from R15
this has a app to set up your fans, better to just use the default setting
so far so good got this Feb 4 so 13 days in all is well
this is posted on the 17th Feb
William –
This computer came the next day with one day shipping. It was packed impeccably and it has felt like it’s been on autopilot ever since. I bought this for photography and it is working at peak level as I had hoped. Not one issue loading it or running it. I transfer a lot of files/photos and edit quite extensively at times. Someday I might upgrade the graphics card but it’s working perfectly for now. I was signed up automatically for the warranty. I just keep staring it it in amazement and wonder at the ease of operation/use. At some point I will let a family member play a game on it to test it out but for my purposes it is perfect. I bought a 4tb external ssd hd for transferring photos. It’s a great place to be to have nothing else to have to buy or fix to prepare for spring nature and birding photos. Couldn’t be happier.
Jo H –
Great computer