Windows 10 pro the alienware aurora was designed to fully support custom upgrades.
However, the high price of entry means that we can only recommend it to folks that can.įront height 441.80 mm (17.39 in.) rear height 481.60 mm (18.96 in.) width 222.80 mm (8.77 in.) depth 431.90 mm (17 in.) I thought i will give you guys a quick tour on how to ope. I am going for the dual 2080ti and 10900k version with 64 gigs of ram. Begin by carefully opening the box and removing all components that were shipped to you. Switching to aftermarket psu with uni color cable (24 + 8 pin) should be easy.
You will lose the alienfx lights more then likely if you pull the boards making the tower essentially pointless. I think it's even possible that piece actually presses against the PCIe brackets for support, as they didn't have any screws.Alienware Aurora R11 Motherboard - Aurora R11 New Order Status Dell Community / Congratulations on the purchase of your alienware® aurora!. It's hard to tell how much space there is behind that piece. You'll have to avoid the Vega 56 and 64 cards.Ĭoncerning GPU width, the triangular piece marked in following pic may or may not mean that cards with width exceeding their PCIe bracket should be avoided:
RX 580, GTX 1660, GTX 1660Ti, RTX 2060 or RTX 2070 are the GPU choices you have (as far as modern cards, even if 580 is getting on). Even then, you could mitigate it by using an fps limit so CPU (as well as GPU) doesn't have to work so hard as long as you're happy with the frames you get, e.g. Then you'd want to get some monitoring overlay (Afterburner+Rivatuner for example) and see if the CPU cores are hitting 100% frequently, which would be a likely cause of those symptoms. SSD, GPU, 8GB stick of RAM for dual channel are pretty clear-cut upgrades.įor CPU you'd only have to look into it if you experience stutters, audio crackle, stuff like that. Probably 6 or 6+2.įour RAM slots (two white clips/two black clips) but as they cheaped out using a single stick in single channel, even just two slots would have been fine to add another 8GB 2666MHz DDR4 stick. PSU has one visible 6+2 PCIe power connector and the other plugged into GPU would be 6, 6+2 or 8.
Why bring this up? Because the best way to upgrade and the cheapest way to upgrade would be to get a much better system for that money in the first place. I don't know how much you got it for though, am basing it on the default £800 price for the spec you listed. You've basically made an uninformed choice when it comes to performance and value for money, and got caught out by "Alienware" branding and a cool-looking case. And the 460W PSU while enough for most CPUs/GPUs already excludes some interesting options from consideration. Click to expand.No, it's not any easier to upgrade than a custom PC.