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SchneeBalL

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  • #1
    Hi guys

    well i managed to bag a bargain R4 ALX on the outlet with a 3960x ( OC'd to 4ghz )CPU in it ( nearly £1300 off original list price !! )

    but i want to upgrade on its arrival with parts i have now, sooo my question is will it take the upgrades?

    So stock,

    Alienware Aurora R4
    Label
    Info Mod
    24X DVD +/- RW Drive
    Shipping Material
    Speakers : Not Included
    Information SKU - Remanufacturing Order
    Display: Not Included
    Genuine Windows® 7 Ultimate Operating System
    ALX Matte Black 875W Chassis
    Media Card Reader 19-in-1
    Misc
    AntiVirus: McAfee SecurityCenter 30 Day trial version
    Optical USB Black Mouse
    Software
    Software : Datasafe Local 2.3 Basic
    misc
    Info Mod
    32 GB Memory (4x8GB) 1600MHz DDR3 Quad Channel
    Wireless: 802.11n WiFi and Bluetooth 2.1 EDR USB Combo Adapter
    Thermal Heatsink
    Optical Drive : 8X Blu-Ray RW (Blu-Ray, DVD, CD read & write)
    Shipping Material
    Misc
    AlienFX Colour : Quasar Blue
    Audio: Creative SoundBlaster Xfi Titanium Music Card (PCIe card)
    English Genuine Windows 7 SP1 Ultimate (64Bit OS)
    MOD,SW,LTG,DELL-DOWNLOAD-FLAG
    Back Up Media Not Included
    Documentation
    misc
    2 TB SATA III Hard Drive (7200RPM)
    Power Supply: 250V AC Adapter
    Graphics : 4 GB GDDR5 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690
    Info Mod
    Dell 105 Key Soft Touch USB Keyboard Black
    Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-3960X (Six Core Extreme, 15MB Cache) Overclocked up to 4.0Ghz
    misc
    Certified Refurbished

    Now heres my upgrades i want to put in place,

    Audio: Creative SoundBlaster Xfi Titanium Music Card (PCIe card) - Recon 3D professional fatality edition

    Graphics : 4 GB GDDR5 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 - Dual GTX EVGA SC Titans

    32 GB Memory (4x8GB) 1600MHz DDR3 Quad Channel - 4x8GB Corsair Dominator 2400mhz platinum

    ALX Matte Black 875W Chassis - Corsair AX1200 PSU

    2 TB SATA III Hard Drive (7200RPM) - Samsung 820 pro series 840 512GB SSD + 3TB barracuda 7200 drive

    Optical Drive : 8X Blu-Ray RW (Blu-Ray, DVD, CD read & write) - Pioneer Bluray RW

    Watercooling of GFX + CPU possibly at some point but i will see how the CPU loop runs on its own first...

    thoughts and will it run ok ?
     
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    SchneeBalL

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    Jun 16, 2013
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    United Kingdom
  • #6
    MattyB said:
    Welcome!
    That will be a monster of a machine!! You may as well get another 512Gb SSD and run them in RAID 0! :D

    The 690 will be more than enough but dual Titans is pretty nice to think about. Sounds like a good plan.
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    Yeah i am thinking about snagging another Samsung drive lightening quick and plus the price as dropped some since i bought mine.

    i had a custom PC before Christmas and which was running Quad SLI with the 690GTX and i didnt rate them really! But the 2 Titans in SLI with 6GB vram is something else ! and OC like a dream

    will post pics of the stages of my upgrades when it arrives its currently in Production now with EDD 26-06 which i find strange as its cert refurbed :-/
     
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