Area-51 R2, total upgrade

"Wanting to do a total upgrade using the x51 r2 chassis. Would greatly appreciate any ideas on posts upgrades.  Would like to use dual 2070 supers"

You must mean an Area 51R2... the x51 wouldn't even fit one let alone two Fe 2070s!!

Yes. Sorry I am just trying to get this done for my husband.  I know little about computers.

Not necessarily an unlimited budget however,  this at least gives a starting point. Thank you! 

Re: Wanting to do a total upgrade using the  Area 51 r2 chassis

if you have unlimited budget you can consider any state of the art ATX motherboard for 10th gen intel CPU or Ryzen zen3 (ryzen 5000 series) cpu.  some of the popular consumer intel boards are Z490 chipset.

If you want to continue with HEDT extreme platform in area 51, consider either Dell area 51 R5 or R7 motherboard, R5 being intel X-series cpu (such as Core i7 9800X) and R7 being AMD Threadripper cpu.  these are high end work station cpus for multitasking content creation.  You do not have to be on this platform for the sole purpose of gaming.

either consumer or HEDT platform can work with the fastest gpu available.  many users eye the RTX 3000 series gpu.  you can upgrade the R2 psu to any modern aftermarket psu of reputable vendor to support high power gpu.

I suggest you take this Area51-R2 for yourself (or the kids) and buy him a new one.

I agree with this. OP you don't have to buy another Alienware if you don't have confidence in them. There are other reliable prebuilds that can be had for a good price.

Thank you for the suggestion. I already made that mistake! Bought the new Alienware  Aurora R11 have had it less than 5 months and it has died. Dell already replaced the mobo twice and graphics cards (dual 2070 supers) now they are slow playing on sending a new one or repairing it. 

The Area 51 lasted 5 years with few issues really thought the new one would be a great upgrade. Wrong! Just figured since I will not buy another pre-built from them, I can have the Area 51 rebuilt. 

I am just trying to get this done for my husband. I know little about computers.

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It's a fairly involved process.

Plus, lots of money on the line when/if you get it all working.

I suggest you take this Area51-R2 for yourself (or the kids) and buy him a new one.

Nice looking setup. Thank you. 

Just to be clear,  I would never attempt the rebuild myself. I would pay someone to do the rebuild/ upgrades.  I am merely getting an idea of what I should look for.  

Understand this is a general pc owner asking renovation options.

Re:  Power Cord, 1500W (I think you mean power supply)

512GB SSD 6Gb/s Main + 4TB 540 0RPM SATA 6Gb/s Storage

You can keep the above in new system (or add newer faster NVMe SSD to new motherboard).

you need to purchase new motherboard, ddr4 memory, gpu, cpu cooler. I heard one user said he spent around $ 800 just to upgrade Z490 board+10th gen Intel cpu+ new ram + new cooler while keeping old Dell case, psu and storage.  Gpu investment is separate and can be close to 500-600 for some of the modern models.  To hire some one to build for you is about 50-100 (or someone may do it free for you just for fun).
Of note the Area51 case is not great for air cooling of very powerful 300W gpu that generates a lot of heat.  In that regard get a GTX 1080, 1080ti or 2070/2080 rather than the newest 3000 series is probably more practical and economical.

Thank you for the link. This will give me a place top start.  

I'd recommend you check out this site, you enter the parts you want and it will price out the cost using best available prices.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/

You can also look at other people's builds and guides.

Thank you for the information. This explains stop much of what I needed to know.  

I'd also recommend you scrap the 512gb sata boot drive as a primary drive. You can use it as storage if you want to keep it  New m2 nvme drives are 6 times faster, a 1tb nvme ssd can be had for around $100 to $150 these days, and your Area 51's boot drive is probably 4 years old now.  If you keep the new pc for as long you'll be depending on an 8 year old boot drive that has no warranty (oem) and may be past its expected useful life before you're ready to get a new pc.  Better to start clean with a brand new and much faster boot drive that you won't have to worry about it failing on you.

some of the users reported upgrades with all case lights working with new motherboard:

Motherboard: MSI MEG Z490 ACE
CPU: 10th gen i9-10900K
CPU Heatsink: Corsair Hydro Series H80i v2 )
Thermal Paste: Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Thermal Grease
Memory: Corsair 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR4 4600
GPU: 2 EVGA RTX 2080 Super XC Ultra in SLI

board: Asrock Extreme 4 B550
Cpu: Amd Ryzen 7 3700X
Ram: corsair LPX 3200 32gb
Video card: Nvidia RTX 2070 super EVGA

Msi B550 board
Ryzen 9 3900X
Radeon Msi 5700XT
32gb ram Orion AMD ram

Mobo: MSI Z490 Gaming Edge Wifi
CPU: i7-10700
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 16GB
Cooling: Corsair H80i V2 w/ 2 Noctua P12 redux radiator fans
GPU: GTX 1070