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Alienware Area 51 R2 System Specifications

Summary: This article provides all the technical specifications for the Alienware Area 51 R2 computers and the supported features and important information.

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Symptoms

Supported Systems:

 
  Alienware Area 51 R2
 

1. System Specifications

5th Generation Intel® Core™ Processors (Haswell)

  • Intel® Core™ i7-5820K Six Core (15 MB Cache, Overclocked up to 3.8 GHz w/ Turbo Boost)
  • Intel® Core™ i7-5930K Six Core (15 MB Cache, Overclocked up to 3.9 GHz w/ Turbo Boost)
  • Intel® Core™ i7-5960X Eight Core Extreme Edition (20 MB Cache, Overclocked up to 4.0 GHz w/ Turbo Boost)
  • Intel® Core™ i7-6850K Six Core (15 MB Cache, Overclocked up to 3.8 GHz w/ Turbo Boost)
  • Intel® Core™ i7-6900K Eight Core (20 MB Cache, Turbo Boost Max 3.0, Overclocked up to 4.1 GHz)
  • Intel® Core™ i7-6950X Ten Core (25 MB Cache, Turbo Boost Max 3.0, Overclocked up to 3.8 GHz)

Intel® X99 Chipset (Intel® DHX99 PCH)

Click here for detailed specifications.

NOTE: Some of the features that are described on the link above have been disabled and are not available on your computer due to design and technical limitations.

DD4 Dual and Quad Channel

  • DDR4-2133 PC4-17000

Minimum: 8 Gb
Maximum: 64 Gb

4x 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM Slots for use with the following configurations:

  • 8 Gb (2x4 Gb DIMMS)
  • 16 Gb (2x8 Gb DIMMS)
  • 24 Gb (2x8 Gb + 2x4Gb DIMMS)
  • 32 Gb (4x8 Gb DIMMS)
  • 64 Gb (4x16 Dimms)

5x SATA III 6Gb/s Ports

The following configurations can be used:

  • 3x 3.5" SATA I/II/III Hard Drive
  • 2x 2.5" SATA I/II/III Solid State or Regular Drives

RAID Support

  • RAID 0 — Stripe
  • RAID 1 — Mirror
  • RAID 5
NOTE:
  • Only the 3.5" Hard Drives are enabled for use in RAID

1x Internal Drive Bay for SATA III Slim Type Slot-Loaded Optical Drives

  • Dual Layer DVD Burner (DVD±RW, CD-RW)
  • Dual Layer Blu-ray Disc™ Reader (BD-ROM, DVD±RW, CD-RW) - Can read/write CD and DVD but can only read Blu-ray Disks.

Killer™ E2200 Integrated 10/100/1000 Gigabit Network Card
 

  • Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 and Bluetooth Combo Card

Integrated Creative Labs Sound Blaster Recon3Di

  • 5.1/7.1 Support
  • Digital S/PDIF

Area 51 R2 Audio Ports
Figure.1: Integrated Creative Labs Sound Blaster Recon3Di

Table.1: Figure.1 callouts
Numbers reference figure above:
Caption 1 Optical S/PDIF
Caption 2 Coaxial S/PDIF
Caption 3 Front Speakers (Headphones/Stereo Speakers)
Caption 4 Center/Subwoofer
Caption 5 Rear Speakers

Video card support is defined by the following technical considerations:

  • Bus Support
    • Two PCIe™ x16 Slots
    • One PCIe™ x8 Slot
  • Dual and Triple Video Card Support
    • NVIDIA SLI
    • AMD Crossfire
  • Supplementary Power Connectors
    • 6x Modular 6 to 8-pin power cables

    These modular cables allow you to turn all 6-pin cables into 8-pin cables

Supported Cards

NVIDIA

AMD

NOTE: Use of non-Dell hardware may result in damage to your computer and will not be covered under warranty. Browse to dell.com/warranty for more information.

Area51 R2 RearIO
Figure.2: Rear Panel Ports

Table.2: Figure.2 callouts
Numbers reference figure above:
Caption 1 Hard-drive activity light
Caption 2 USB 2.0 (4)
Caption 3 USB 3.0 (4)
Caption 4 Optical S/PDIF
Caption 5 Audio Jacks
Caption 6 Coaxial S/PDIF
Caption 7 LAN Network

Dimensions and Weight

  • Height: 22.411" / (569.25mm)
  • Depth: 25.156" / (638.96mm)
  • Width: 10.736" / (272.71mm)
  • Starting Weight: 61.73lbs / (28 Kg.)
NOTE: The weight of your desktop varies depending on the configuration and the manufacturing variability.

Motherboard Form Factor

 

ATX Motherboard
  • Alienware™ 875 Watt Multi-GPU Approved Power Supply
  • Alienware™ 1500 Watt Multi-GPU Approved Power Supply with modular cabling

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2. Unique Features

AlienFX computer lighting

Area 51 R2 AlienFX   Customize your lighting experience with AlienFX across nine independent programmable lighting zones, and with over 20 colors to choose you can create up to 512 trillion color combos.
 

AlienAdrenaline

Area 51 R2 Adrenaline   The new Alien Adrenaline performance monitoring app lets you view detailed graphs that tell you real-time details about the CPU, memory, graphics card, and network adapter.
 

Overclocking Controls

Area 51 R2 Overclocking Controls   Manually tinker with the settings of your CPU to raise performance even beyond the stock settings.
 

Alienware Thermal Controls

Area 51 R2 Thermal Controls   Alienware’s Thermal Controls allow you to control the thermal and venting behavior of your Area-51. You can also create and save multiple thermal and venting profiles for different usage scenarios.
 

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3. Need to Know

Rear I/O Accessibility Lighting is powered by two AA batteries in the Battery module. These AA sized batteries are covered under warranty for one year only from the date of invoice.

Area51 R2 Rearlights
Figure.3: Area51 R2 Rear lights

Table.3: Figure.3 callouts
Numbers reference figure above:
Caption 1 Rear I/O accessibility lighting button

Press to illuminate the back panel ports.

Caption 2 Rear I/O accessibility lights

The Alienware™ Area-51 R2 is equipped with a Security-cable slot latch to prevent unauthorized movement of your computer. Also, the side panels cannot be removed when the Security-cable slot latch is in lock position.

Area 51 R2 Lock
Figure.4: Area 51 R2 Lock

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Cause

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Resolution


Out of Warranty support Out of warranty? No problem. Browse to the Dell.com/support website and enter your Dell Service Tag and view our offers.

NOTE: Offers are only available for US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, and China, personal computer customers. Server and Storage not applicable.

Affected Products

Alienware Area-51 R2
Article Properties
Article Number: 000178577
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 20 Sept 2023
Version:  6
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