You'd just be limited to 6 total SATA connected drives with it (including your optical drive, as I'm assuming it has one, unless you wanted to yank it and go with a USB attached optical drive so you could use it's SATA port for another hard drive). Of course, you can buy cheap adapters so you can also use 2.5"or 3.5" drives in the three 5.25" bays and buy cheap adapters to use 2.5" versus 3.5" drives as desired the four 3.5" bays. But, since you only have 6 SATA ports, you couldn't use all 7 bays at once (unless you were using the optional card reader in one of the optical bays since it's USB attached). It's got three Optical Drive bays (5.25") and four 3.5" Drive Bays.
The user manual for the Aurora R4 with the X79 chipset based motherboard shows a motherboard layout with 6 SATA Ports on it. Gotta love Dell Outlet from my perspective (as you can find some good deals if you're a good shopper, and they have the same warranty as a new machine). I've bought 7 refurbished Dell computers over the past 10 years or so for me and my wife (multiple desktops and multiple laptops/netbooks), so I'm pretty familiar with where to find stuff on their support site. With a specific system, it's even easier (since you can plug in the service tag number and see downloads for the exact way your system is equipped like the graphics card, etc.). Ditto for downloads (where you can select a model and get to the pages for a system).
I'd be very reluctant to buy any PC where I didn't know its specifications in detail.ĭell has manuals online for all of their systems. The few Alienware PCs I've seen were pretty noisy, but I don't know about that model in particular. Some PCs add extra ports with third-party chipsets, but I'd rather go native. If you want more ports, you might look for a PC using the X99 chipset I think that i7-4960X uses the older X79. might be up to the task for video editing as well as photo editing and for the price seems to be reasonable value. Not much difference from custom building a machine using either an i7-4790K or an i7-5820K here in the UK.Īlthough this is primarily a gaming machine I think that the spec. I can find no information as to how many SATA connections are available on the motherboard. As far as I can gather from Dell's site this model is very limited on the number of USB ports that are available.
Optical Drive : 8X Blu-Ray RW (Blu-Ray, DVD, CD read & write)ĭo any of you use this model or have any experience with this Dell specification and build?ĭell "Chat" can offer no further information about the system or specification such as component makes or models. Graphics: 3 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 GDDR5 Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-4960X Extreme Edition (6-cores, 15MB Cache, Overclocked up to 4.1 GHz w/ Turbo BoostĪdditional Hard Drive : 1 TB 3.5inch SATA III (7200 RPM)ģ2 GB Memory (4x8GB) 1600MHz DDR3 Quad Channel Rather than go the custom build route this time I found the following specified machine from Dell refurbished, It's time to add another pc to my setup primarily for photo editing.