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Revision identification for Alienware Models
How can you identify the revision for an Alienware Desktop?
For example, the Area 51 has had R1, R2, R6. I imagine it is either printed on the case label or appears in one of the documents. There may be exceptions for example the first issue of a model may not have a revision at all instead of R0 followed by R1. My hope is that this thread can guide all Alienware owners no matter the model (not just Area 51).
I dont know the revision of my computer. In my case, I provide the following information in the hopes that someone can tell the Rx.
Purchased new in Sept 2010.
Alienware Area-51 BASE,PHOBOS,ANW-DT,AREA 51,CA [224-7454]
Processors Intel® Core™ i7 960 Quad Core Processor (3.2GHz, 8MB Cache) [317-3430]
Memory 6GB DDR3 1333MHz (3x 2GB) Tri Channel Memory [317-2498]
Video Cards Single 2GB GDDR5 ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 [320-8782]
Hard Drives 2TB - SATA-II, 3Gb/s, 7,200RPM, 32MB Cache HDD [342-1238]
Chassis Color Deep Space Black - 1KW Power Supply [313-8661]
Floppy Drive 19-in-1 Media Card Reader [341-9808]
Operating Systems Genuine Windows® 7 Professional 64bit, English [330-6443]
[330-6444] [420-6436] [420-9691] [421-2063]
Optical Drives Single Drive: 24X CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) w/double layer write capability [313-9200] [421-0975]
Sound Card Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio [313-9776]
Wireless 1525 PCIe WLAN card with 11n mini-Card & external antenna [430-3691]
Cooling Option Alienware™ High-Performance Liquid Cooling [330-5817]
Thank you.
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The R / Revision number is CPU &/or chassis design-based. The initial releases began as X51 Aurora Area-51 sold w/an Intel CPU of its day; when new CPUs came out new R version 'names' were adopted, not unlike 1977's Star Wars, which only later became A New Hope. In the past we ID'd R versions by CPU or a new product launch, the exception is last year when the new A51 Triad 2.0 chassis differentiated the R3/R4 into R5/R6 (same CPU in a newly 'revised' chassis), while R7 (soon R8) ID'd by their newer CPUs
A51 released 2009 was only offered through one Intel CPU generation - discontinued - then redesigned years later, which earned an R2 moniker. When new CPUs released, we got R3 R4, subtle chassis redesign = R5/R6, newer CPUs = R7/R8
Aurora released 2009 was popular enough to earn CPU revisions, the Gen1 chassis' are R1-R4, the Gen2 redesign starts at R5 then newer CPU's give us the R6 R7 R8, where all models are ID'd by CPU
X51 R1 R2 R3 are ID'd by CPU
There is no R0, & we could not have an R1 until we officially had an R2, R1's are then of course retroactive. For support purposes, R1 versions are simply listed by their proper product name, where R1 versions seem to be a community-employee-owner convention, not an official 'revision name' or model. Your Bloomfield Intel 960 tells us you have an Area-51, from there we agree to call it an R1 (& if it's Space Black it's an ALX)
In otherwords the convention is X51, X51 R2, X51 R3. The idea of an R1 is a construct we agree upon ... ... ...
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X51 Versions
R1 Intel socket 1155 (Sandy)
R2 Intel 1150 (Haswell)
R3 Intel 1151 (Skylake)
Aurora Versions
R1 Intel 1366 (Bloomfield/Gulftown)
R2 Intel 1156 (Lynnfield)
R3 Intel 1155 (Sandy)
R4 Intel 2011 (Sandy/Ivy X)
R5 Intel 1151 (Skylake) (*Begin Product Redesign)
R6 1151 (Kabylake)
R7 1151 (CoffeeLake)
R8 1151 (CovfefeLake Refresh)
A51 Versions
R1 Intel 1366 (Bloomfield/Gulftown)
R2 Intel 2011-v3 (Hotwell/Broadwell) (*Begin Product Redesign)
R3 AMD TR4 (TRipper)
R4 Intel 2066 (Skylake-X)
R5/R6 Chassis 2.0
R7 AMD TR4 Zen+
R8 Intel 2066 (BasinFalls Refresh)