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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https://dl.dell.com/topicspdf/ali..._en-us.pdf
Now, unless they misprinted something, the Chipset is B550A
Says that on Page 13.
Also here's the service manual:
https://dl.dell.com/topicspdf/ali..._en-us.pdf
https://dl.dell.com/topicspdf/ali..._en-us.pdf
Now, unless they misprinted something, the Chipset is B550A
Says that on Page 13.
Also here's the service manual:
https://dl.dell.com/topicspdf/ali..._en-us.pdf
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i.e. I'm probably going to be watching for sales on RAM and replace the 16GB RAM that comes with it with a 32GB set.
Subtotal: $1,262.55
Tax: $112.68
Total: $1,375.23
charged everything on amex with 10% cb to cover tax. paid extra so i don't have to deal with waiting for the deal tomorrow and potentially not getting it.
The reason is that 3rd party software may not properly ID OEM drivers and chipset.
It is also mentioned that Alienware Aurora is known to block out next gen CPU via BIOS so the CPU may not be easily upgradable to Zen3.
I think I'm going to pass on this, really good deal if you are happy with the specs as is, but my original plan was to get a 5000 series chip to swap out the CPU.
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