Can the basic alienware aurora play games such as battlefield 3 and skyrim?

It is a great computer, but your wasting your money on the i7-3770k, as the i5-3570k actually outperforms it on almost every benchmark for games. Get yourself a GTX 660 Ti instead, it is $60 more expensive, and it outperforms the GTX 580.

Very much yes. I have one that's worse and runs all of those game at 30+ fps.

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