When going through chat you can do various upgrades. Some of these are:
Keep the stock 550W PSU and add AIO Watercooling (+$50)
Upgrade to 1000W PSU and add AIO Watercooling (+$200)
Add Killer NIC Wifi 6 Wireless Card (~+$20-$30)
There's more upgrades available. See the non-deal version of the R10 for possible upgrades here [dell.com] and rough prices.
R10 Specs (Updated 11/2020; Also attached to post): https://dl.dell.com/topicspdf/ali..._en-us.pdf
R10 Service Manual (Updated 8/2020): https://dl.dell.com/topicspdf/ali..._en-us.pdf
NOTE: Dell's Memory used in this system is a PROPRIETARY MODEL manufacturered by Kingston. As such, if you want more than 16GB, you'll likely need to either purchase more memory from Dell or replace all of the memory with retail memory; NO MIX OR MATCH.
See this post for Memory Info (Thanks quantecipher! Make sure to give them rep!): https://slickdeals.net/f/14826469-1200-begins-02-11-alienware-aurora-r10-desktop-3700x-rtx-3070-16gb-ram-512gb-nvme?v=1&p=1452
Stock Dell memory seems overpriced for what it is and many users highly suggest, if upgrading to 32GB, to buy your own 32GB kit that's compatible with this PC instead of buying 32GB through Dell. See post on memory again since not all memory modules are stable with the R10 system.
Hope that helps!
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Blower style GPUs are loud. The CPU water cooling is a single fan radiator (120mm, I think), so it revs up a lot.
Won't be able to fit most GPUs in case, most are too long, many are also too wide.
Motherboard has no flashback, they pushed me a BIOS update through Alienware Update and it bricked the computer for 30-days until they got a new one in stock
I had an R11 10700k, sold the stock 2080s for $480, upgraded to a 3070 FE and sold it for $2k local, made $500 on the deal but really didn't like owning the computer
Definitely good deal for those who don't want to build or want to stay away from lower quality mass producers
I was using a 3070 XC3 / 5900x in the new computer I built and I was getting upwards of 6-9 FPS more in MSFS 2020 (at 4K) than in the Alienware R11 10700k 3070 FE. Only thing I can potentially attribute those frames differences to is maybe the motherboard - frankly have no idea.
But not worth spending $1,200 in my honest opinion. Unless you thinking $800 for RTX 3070 that you are going to put in a better system or something. Case, cpu, ram, PSU are not worth getting.
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slow processor
slow ram
550w power supply,
maybe can configure better on check out
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