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I've seen some older topics on this, but nothing fairly recent, so I'm asking this in the hopes that someone knows the answer.
I spoke with Dell support and apparently my motherboard is dead. If I'm gonna replace it, I might as well get something more recent.
So my question is: are any of the motherboards, from the newer Area-51 revisions, compatible with the R2 case?
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Posted January 29th, 2020 08:00
R2 is not going to support newer boards. The I/O board is different for newer models as is the ram and power etc.
You can do some things but you will have to re wire other things.
https://www.dell.com/community/Alienware-General-Read-Only/Alienware-area-51-R2-Motherboard-upgrade/td-p/5598075
Since MSI makes the R2 mthrbrd, most MSIs tend to have a universal front panel header pinout
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