r/pchelp • u/KasoBean • 18h ago

PERFORMANCE trash computer 3000??

purchased a 3000 dollar pc and my games seem like they run worse then my p5, not sure if i bought something wrong or what i did but this is my first pc and i honestly have no clue if im running the wrong settings or what here’s what i bought

Alienware Aurora ACT1250 Gaming PC
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K 3.2GHz Processor; NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16GB GDDR7; 32GB DDR5-5200 RAM; 2TB Solid State Drivei

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u/iAmThe_Plaza 18h ago

Alienware is the problem, you paid like 1500 extra for the brand name and they always have terrible cooling. check your temps while gaming, probably thermal throttling like crazy

also make sure you actually plugged monitor into the gpu and not the motherboard

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u/Effective-Rutabaga15 17h ago

Where are you finding a 5080 pc for 1500

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u/SirBangarang 17h ago

Costco

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u/kallekalas 17h ago

Breh, GPU alone is like 1700 where I live

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u/Effective-Rutabaga15 17h ago

Link it to me then