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.
Symptoms
Supported Systems:
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1. System Specifications
Processors 5th Generation Intel® Core™ Processors (Haswell)
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Chipset Intel® X99 Chipset (Intel® DHX99 PCH)
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Memory DD4 Dual and Quad Channel
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Minimum: 8 Gb
Maximum: 64 Gb
| 4x 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM Slots for use with the following configurations:
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Hard Drive 5x SATA III 6Gb/s Ports
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| RAID Support
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- Only the 3.5" Hard Drives are enabled for use in RAID
Optical Drive 1x Internal Drive Bay for SATA III Slim Type Slot-Loaded Optical Drives
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Network and Wireless Killer™ E2200 Integrated 10/100/1000 Gigabit Network Card
- Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 and Bluetooth Combo Card
Audio Integrated Creative Labs Sound Blaster Recon3Di
- 5.1/7.1 Support
- Digital S/PDIF
Figure.1: Integrated Creative Labs Sound Blaster Recon3Di
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Optical S/PDIF |
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Coaxial S/PDIF |
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Front Speakers (Headphones/Stereo Speakers) |
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Center/Subwoofer |
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Rear Speakers |
Video Card Video card support is defined by the following technical considerations:
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Supported Cards
| NVIDIA
AMD
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Rear Panel Ports 
Figure.2: Rear Panel Ports
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Hard-drive activity light |
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USB 2.0 (4) |
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USB 3.0 (4) |
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Optical S/PDIF |
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Audio Jacks |
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Coaxial S/PDIF |
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LAN Network |
System Dimensions Dimensions and Weight
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Motherboard Form Factor
| ATX Motherboard |
Power - Alienware™ 875 Watt Multi-GPU Approved Power Supply
- Alienware™ 1500 Watt Multi-GPU Approved Power Supply with modular cabling
2. Unique Features
AlienFX computer lighting |
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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 |
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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 |
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Manually tinker with the settings of your CPU to raise performance even beyond the stock settings. | |
Alienware Thermal Controls |
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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. | |
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.
Figure.3: Area51 R2 Rear lights
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Rear I/O accessibility lighting button Press to illuminate the back panel ports. |
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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.
Figure.4: Area 51 R2 Lock
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Resolution
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