Upgrade to i7 7700k possible on Aurora r5? (BIOS update in works?)

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Kaby Lake is too new.  It might be months before Dell updates the BIOS for them if at all.  Also what few comparisons between Skylake and Kabylake show no real improvement in bench marking.

@BeamerMT79, that's not strictly true.

dell.com/en-us/gaming/alienware-desktops?cs=19

You can see from Dell's own site if you scroll down a bit:

UNCOMPROMISING PERFORMANCE

Maximize your gaming performance with the new Alienware Aurora, coming January 12. Available with the new Intel 7th Gen processors and the latest generation of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 series graphics, you can get deeper in to the game than ever before.

So "tomorrow" we'll see the new R5.5/R6 (R6 has a tag option when you go to create a new post in this forum already).

The big question is if they'll have the 200 series motherboards or not though. That's something we won't know until tomorrow I suppose, but with their alienware laptops, they usually update the bios for new CPU support ~week(s) before officially announcing it on their sales side...

Funk007,

"There is a vendor offering R5 with 7700k chips"

It sounds like you are saying that some 3rd party vendor is selling the Aurora-R5 with the i7-7700K CPU. Please provide a link to this non-validated configuration.

Ahh thanks for the link I didn't see that page.  I guess we will have to wait till at least tomorrow....

So to update this again, after today's release...

The introduction of Kaby lake means it's now called the Aurora R6

There is no new Bios update on the support side yet, but interestingly Dell still says they're using the Z170 series motherboards, so it sure sounds like we should expect some kind of bios update...soon?

www.dell.com/.../alienware-aurora-r6-desktop

Not like there's a lot of difference admittedly, but disappointing we don't get the 200 series MBs, it'd be nice to have the extra PCIe lanes for the M.2 drive, but I guess these things cost too much to re-engineer?

So to update this again, after today's release...   The introduction of Kaby lake means it's now called the Aurora R6   There is no new Bios update on the support side yet, but interestingly Dell still says they're using the Z170 series motherboards, so it sure sounds like we should expect some kind of bios update...soon?   www.dell.com/.../alienware-aurora-r6-desktop   Not like there's a lot of difference admittedly, but disappointing we don't get the 200 series MBs, it'd be nice to have the extra PCIe lanes for the M.2 drive, but I guess these things cost too much to re-engineer?

... the Z170 series motherboards,   ... but disappointing we don't get the 200 series MBs, it'd be nice to have the extra PCIe lanes for the M.2 drive,

Z170 has 36 total PCIe lanes:
 
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2015/08/12/intel_z170_chipset_summary/#.WHkit9IixaQ
 
Sure, 4 more will help the apparently "resource allocation challenged" engineers, but 36 is already enough for on-board x4 PCIe M.2 SSD. 

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There is a lead for a bios update releasing before the 17th. Good News everyone

Hi just curious what was the deal you got that was too good to be true

What error did you get when you put the chip in?

What CPU did you get?

If it is a 6700 or 6700K, then don't bother upgrading. The 7700 series isn't that much faster than the 6700's are.

Got 8Gb of RAM, i5 6400, 1TB of HDD, and Gtx Titan XP SLI for 2300 - less than the cost of the GPUs themselves.

Hi Tesla,

Do you think Alienware will ever release an update for the Aurora R5 so it will support the i7-7700k? It has the perfect specs but just needs the bios update. In the past did they do it