Aurora R13, motherboard manufacturer, model, specs?

They are OEM and do not conform to regular standards.

mattspc,

All of the Dell hardware components are OEM (original equipment manufacturer) customized hardware (motherboard, PSU, CPU, video cards, memory, etc.). Purchased from the manufacturer to meet our conservative restrictions (VBIOS, System BIOS, drivers, etc.) based on our chosen thermals.

I can tell you that our motherboard manufacturer is Foxconn. But none of their retail motherboards match our OEM.

Hey Chris,

Thanks for the scoop.

One of my reasons for asking is I just got a R13 and I want to run at least 2 3.5" 16TB HDD's and wanted to know if there were any potential issues in the architecture of the PC restricting that.  I realize it was designed with a 3.5" and a 2.5" cage and was wondering if that was because the architecture had issues running 2 or more 3.5" drives. My use of the drives is working storage mostly for photo's so neither will be hammerered.  

Thanks in advance!

Thanks Vanadiel

If the drives are just for storage why not consider external drives?

Re: was wondering if that was because the architecture had issues running 2 or more 3.5" drives.

no worries. R13 and XPS 8950 use nearly identical design of oem motherboard with minor differences, the latter model can run multiple 3.5” hdd.  The reason why R13 has only one 3.5 cage has nothing to do w oem board, but chassis physical restrain.  The more bulky 3.5 hdd cage Dell allows physical space in case, the less room for other proprietary part.  R13 follows modern pc trend in storage config: nvme ssd + one big hdd.  Traditional gaming pc case prior to arrival of sata or m.2 ssd offer amenities of multi 3.5” hdd cage. Those design ideas are bygone and old fashioned now.

The R13 plastic hides a metal box from ages ago Dell had a lot of in a warehouse, or were tooled up to make. There is nothing new about it. The heatsinks also look to be another part they had a lot of, and had to get rid of, I suspect from the XPS range.

Thanks redxps630