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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This is not true with the new R10 cases. Dell custom made shorter GPU's to fit in the cramped cases. So if you had a regular 3080, it would not fit in the case. Even in the older R7 cases, you had to modify and move the front fan to fit a 2080 in it!
for $1755 I built with a zen 7 5800x, 3070 board from gigabyte, 3600mhz ram 1tb 970 samsung evo, lin li case and asus tuf MB. about to add another 16gb ram as I'm maxing out with my apps.
But, I do hardcore programming, if its just for gaming, go for medicore.
oh forgot the EVGA 750BQ psu
~$400 for a 3700X system to replace my i5-7400??
Sounds like a steal!
Too bad for me, I just went from a Core 2 Duo E8400 to an i7-10700; 2 months ago.
Cpu ok! But outdated
Small m2
Weak psu
Slow memory
3070 have been In stock at various retailers this past week I've skipped on them and got 3 x 3090 .
If you want a 3070 check fbm they usually only marked up $100-$150 , which is still cheaper then this.
Do not listen to this guy. If you can get this pc it'll be an amazing value.
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* $300 - AMD Ryzenâ„¢ 7 3700X (8-Core, 32MB L3 Cache, Max Boost Clock of 4.4GHz)
* $75 - (probably nothing good) - Motherboard
* $0 - (Home OEM is pretty much worthless) Windows 10 Home, 64-bit, English
* $600 - NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3070 8GB GDDR6
* $50 - 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD
* $75 - 16GB Dual Channel HyperXâ„¢ FURY DDR4 XMP at 2933MHz
* $50 - 550W Power Supply
* $100 - (Generous amount) - Chassis
Comes out to 1250. All-in-all, not that awful.
EDIT: Updated to $600 to reflect the fact that "founders" cards are impossible to get and non-partners cards have increased in price due to tariff. $600 seems like a fair price.
* $300 - AMD Ryzenâ„¢ 7 3700X (8-Core, 32MB L3 Cache, Max Boost Clock of 4.4GHz)
* $75 - (probably nothing good) - Motherboard
* $0 - (Home OEM is pretty much worthless) Windows 10 Home, 64-bit, English
* $500 - NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3070 8GB GDDR6
* $50 - 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD
* $75 - 16GB Dual Channel HyperXâ„¢ FURY DDR4 XMP at 2933MHz
* $50 - 550W Power Supply
* $100 - (Generous amount) - Chassis
Comes out to 1150. All-in-all, not that awful.
I like how you gave the value of the 3070 at $500 when they go for literally $1000 on ebay right now heh. You crazy.
* $300 - AMD Ryzenâ„¢ 7 3700X (8-Core, 32MB L3 Cache, Max Boost Clock of 4.4GHz)
* $75 - (probably nothing good) - Motherboard
* $0 - (Home OEM is pretty much worthless) Windows 10 Home, 64-bit, English
* $500 - NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3070 8GB GDDR6
* $50 - 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD
* $75 - 16GB Dual Channel HyperXâ„¢ FURY DDR4 XMP at 2933MHz
* $50 - 550W Power Supply
* $100 - (Generous amount) - Chassis
Comes out to 1150. All-in-all, not that awful.
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Not sure if this is a partner card or nvidia card, but I can update to reflect.
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