Purchased my R4, in December received it in February Fx started crashing support couldnt fix it sent it back and have been told that it might be available in April due to backorder of parts...amd was not ready for the onslaught on there HD6790 crossfires and held the original system back two months...no they are out of them again so the delivery date may just be in April...hope mine comes out sooner since it is a replacement unit at least for keeping customer satisfaction especially since you can get high end systems cheaper...I know its not alienware but since they come out of mexico and the last unit had all sorts of hardware bugs and registry errors....mine got 9 reports 80pages and it was all on the FX portion of the computer.....NUFF SAID...may be they need to keep them back to make sure the bugs are all out before they ship.
elypcool
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February 13th, 2012 18:00
Alienware Aurora R4, alx chassis, i7 3930k, GTX580, 512 SSD, 8GB memory
Order Date: 28 Dec 2011
EDD (1) jan 28, (2) 5 feb, (3) 15 Feb
Billb221
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February 15th, 2012 04:00
Alienware Aurora-R4, ALX Chassis, i7 3930K, GTX 580 video, 500GB SS + 1TB Sata
Order Date: 27 Dec 2011
EDD: (1) 27 Jan, (2) 2 Feb, (3) 8 Feb, (4) 15 Feb, (5) 22 Feb
elypcool
11 Posts
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February 15th, 2012 07:00
I'm with you on this one Billb221 same EDD of 22 Feb
Ricochet2002
5 Posts
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February 15th, 2012 07:00
Alienware Aurora-R4, ALX Chassis, Intel i7 3930K, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti, 500GB SS + 1TB Sata
Order Date: 01 Jan 12
EDD: (1) 02 Feb, (2) 09 Feb, (3) 16 Feb, (4) 23 Feb
Update:
Got a call from customer service promising it would ship by the end of the week. I'll believe it when I see it.
kjakubowsk
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17 Posts
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February 15th, 2012 11:00
Alienware Aurora-R4, ALX Chassis, Intel i7 3930K, 1.25GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti, 256GB SSD, 16GB RAM
Order Date: 10 Jan 12
EDD: (1) 13 Feb, (2) 20 Feb, (3) 27 Feb
Hephaistion
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February 15th, 2012 12:00
Alienware Aurora-R4, Intel Core i7-3930K Six Core 16GB Quad Channel DDR3, 1GB GDDR5 AMD Radeon HD 6870, 1TB SATA
Order Date: January 4th, 2012
EDD: (1) Jan 26 (2) February 17 (3) no estimate able to be given
jdsmock
34 Posts
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February 16th, 2012 09:00
Haven't been hit by any delays yet, but expecting them to start on the first EDD:
Alienware Aurora-R4, ALX Chassis, i7-3960X, 16GB memory, NVIDIA GTX 560 Ti, 2TB RAID 1 (4x 1TB SATA 3Gb/s), Internal USB Bluetooth + WLAN, X-Fi Titanium, 19-in-1 Media Card Reader
Order Date: 1/25/2012
EDD: (1) 2/23/2012
goldwing1992
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February 16th, 2012 19:00
Ordered 2012-01-09 with EDD 2012-02-09 with 2 delays up to now
Alienware Aurora-R4, ALX Chassis, Intel i7 3930K, 8GB Quad Channel DDR3 at 1600MHz,1.25GB NVIDIA ,SOUND BLASTER X-FI XTREME AUDIO,I/S/X DT, Dual Drives: BD Combo, DVD+RW
Cambik
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February 17th, 2012 15:00
Alienware Aurora-R4, ALX Chassis, i7-3960X, 16GB memory, NVIDIA GTX 560 Ti
Order Date: 1/12/2012
EDD: (1) 2/12, (2) 2/23, (3) 2/29
I was told by a cust service rep the chassis is on backlog. The ETA was supposed to be 2/23. But I don't think that is correct.
jdsmock
34 Posts
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February 24th, 2012 05:00
Update #1, received first delay notice:
Alienware Aurora-R4, ALX Chassis, i7-3960X, 16GB memory, NVIDIA GTX 560 Ti, 2TB RAID 1 (4x 1TB SATA 3Gb/s), Internal USB Bluetooth + WLAN, X-Fi Titanium, 19-in-1 Media Card Reader
Order Date: 1/25/2012
EDD: (1) 2/23/2012 (2) 3/1/2012
giniti
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12 Posts
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February 24th, 2012 22:00
I bought an Aurora R4 on 01/31/12 My EDD was 2/29 but today I received a email that my dektop was shipped. Thank you!!
OP 9MM
14 Posts
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February 25th, 2012 10:00
Alienware Aurora R4, ALX Chassis, i7-3820, 8GB memory, Dual Optical Drives (Blu Ray R & DVD RW), NVIDIA GTX 560 Ti, 1TB SATA HDD, Alienware Media Card Reader, Alienware Wi-Fi / Bluetooth Card.
Order Date: 20th Feb 2012
EDD: 15th May 2012 (i kid you not!)
HeLiVeS
6 Posts
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February 26th, 2012 23:00
Ordered today 2-26-2012 ETA 3-22-2012
Alienware Aurora-R4, ALX Chassis, Intel i7 3930K, 1.25GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti, 1TB SATA,8GB 1600 RAM
HeLiVeS
6 Posts
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February 27th, 2012 21:00
Update #1 Hours after Confirming the order for the 22nd of March they updated it to March 29th 2012
catchasersinc
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February 29th, 2012 20:00
Purchased my R4, in December received it in February Fx started crashing support couldnt fix it sent it back and have been told that it might be available in April due to backorder of parts...amd was not ready for the onslaught on there HD6790 crossfires and held the original system back two months...no they are out of them again so the delivery date may just be in April...hope mine comes out sooner since it is a replacement unit at least for keeping customer satisfaction especially since you can get high end systems cheaper...I know its not alienware but since they come out of mexico and the last unit had all sorts of hardware bugs and registry errors....mine got 9 reports 80pages and it was all on the FX portion of the computer.....NUFF SAID...may be they need to keep them back to make sure the bugs are all out before they ship.