

Thanks to a more traditional internal design on the R13 compared to its predecessor, you get plenty of space to work in and upgrade parts yourself. The Alienware Aurora R13 is one such example, revived and reborn with a whole new design that's both striking and clever. Just like its parent Dell brand, Alienware has been making some amazing hardware recently. The Omen 45L boasts the latest high-end of the NVIDIA RTX GPU lineup with the RTX 3090 as the top-end solution or AMD Radeon graphics, CPUs from Intel's 12th Gen desktop lineup or AMD's Ryzen 5000 Series, DDR4 RAM from HyperX, SSD storage, it ticks all the boxes. It supports a full ATX motherboard, though out of the box HP used a microATX, which does limit both built-in functions a little as well as how much you can expand. You simply pull the glass side panel off, and you have free access to all internal components, all of which can be upgraded over time. On the one hand, you might say the design is a little uninspiring, but to the PC gamer, this is a machine where the function is the primary concern, and ease of access is paramount. Being external to the rest of the PC, temperatures can be up to 6 degrees lower thanks to the lack of heated air from inside the machine. In an era where building your PC is so common, many manufacturers are trying to think outside the box with their desktop rigs, and HP certainly did that. The HP Omen 45L is larger than its predecessor, but that's mostly down to an innovative new "Cryo Chamber" cooling solution.
