Aurora R11, will Dell upgrade my GPU?

They do not provide video card upgrade services.

There is a thread on this board where a few users have upgraded their video card to an RTX 3000 series card. Upgradability largely depends on video card size and what power supply your R11 comes with.

The real difficulty in this market is finding an aftermarket 3000 series RTX at retail or barring that at a reasonable price in the US.  I assumed that was the reason for asking about getting it OEM from Dell.

Video cards are like gold these days, and it seems it's going to stay like that for many more months.

You know it's pretty bad when a chain like Best Buy receives a batch of 17,000 video cards and they are sold out in 5 minutes.

The last batch was sold in brick and mortar stores in person wait in line too. 

I wanted to do the same thing with my R11.  It was a cracking machine with no Gear 1/2 issues like the R12.  Dell support told me they don't sell RTX 3080 cards individually, so they convinced me to sell my i9 10900F + 2080 super R11 on eBay, then they offered me a heavily discounted R12 with i9 11900F + RTX 3080.  I was out of pocket $600 after all said and done.   However, I did not know about the R12 gear 1/2 ram issue..   Had I known this, I would have just bought an aftermarket 3090 RTX blower (eg. Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3090 Turbo 24G) which is only 267mm long and fitted that, then sold the 2080 Super....    

Don't fall for the same trap that I did.  IMO just do the research and buy the shortest GPU you can find and be done with it..

$2400 solves your problem.  Not including sales tax.  That gets you a barebones i5 with a 3080Ti.  Swap the video cards and sell off the system to try and recoup some of your money.

I was in your shoes last year right before the 3000 series was released.  I thought an i9 with a 2080Ti would be sufficient.  Nope.  So during Dell's President's Day Sale I bought a barebones i7 with a 3090, swapped cards and gave the i7 / 2080Ti combo to my son.  Win-Win.  Glad I did because ever since then the 3000 series "turbo" blower cards (the only ones that fit without any fuss) I was planning on getting were EOL'd. And of course anything video card related is still a disaster to this day and probably will be well into next year.