Aurora R12, compatible 3200MHz ram?

Wait sooo this ram and ssd compatible with Alienware aurora r12

https://www.crucial.com/memory/ddr4/bl2k8g36c16u4b/ct20302037

https://www.crucial.com/ssd/p5/ct2000p5ssd8

The RAM might or might not work. There's no way to guarantee it will work.

The M2 drive will work, but the R12 only has 1 M2 drive slot.

If you ordered it with an M2 drive from the factory, you would have to remove that drive and install this one, and reinstall windows and everything else.

By default the factory drives are partitioned with a recovery environment, a hardware testing environment etc....

Typically 4 partitions. If you do not clone the drive first, you will not have those available anymore if you install the regular windows from the Microsoft installation media.

Pending on how you ordered it, you could loose software you paid extra for.

My suggestion would be to wait until you have the computer, use it for a while and see if you really need to upgrade those components or not. It's very possible you will be satisfied with the performance and find no need to spend all this extra money on upgrading components.

But before you do that I would dig up the thread where someone tested this.

If I am not mistaken the R12 manual does not specifically list the second full mechanical length PCIe slot as PCIe 4.0, but I think they tried it and it did work at PCIe 4.0 speeds.

Wish I could remember the thread...

My recommendation is to leave the SSD in the M2 slot, grab yourself a PCIe to M2 adaptor and use the 2nd full size PCIe slot on the motherboard.  Grab a Samsung 980 Pro as they are a cracking Nvme drive!

There was someone saying the bottom x8 PCiE slot on the R10 v2 ran at 4.0.  I'm still dubious of that.., and it also conflicts with the service manual for the R10 and what other users (of the R10 v1 anyway) reported. 

The service manual lists the bottom x8 slot on the aurora R12 as 4.0, and someone else separately confirmed that in a different thread. 

I was going to say that's expensive for what you're getting, but then I noticed the crucial P5 2TB is $75 cheaper on amazon. 

so can I clone everything I don’t want to lose the data in the ssd nvme

any video with cloning should help

I can confirm that the bottom PCIe slot is PCIe 4.0.  CPU-Z also indicates so

The big issue is the lack of PCIe Gen 4 to NVME riser cards.  Asus, Gigabyte and a few others make them, but they are extremely hard to come by.  

Just remember that the Dell R11/R12 motherboard PCIe slots do not support "Bifurcation", so you will need a riser with a RAID controller onboard if you were wanting to use 2 NVME drives in RAID off the PCIe slot 

Another point to note too, you cannot RAID the M.2 slot SSD with the PCIe slot SSD..    

I don’t want 2 ssd 

is there a way to somehow clone the ssd into another ssd like from crucial 

also the website on crucial said that the ram they have Is 100 percent guaranteed that it is compatible with Alienware r12 is that true or marketing.

thanks.

I would say marketing. Unless they put this is an R12 and extensively tested it. But I doubt they would do that, as they would need to purchase all of these OEM systems from all the OEM's and test each RAM kit to verify compatibility with each bios version.

It would be very time consuming and costly.

Instead they look at general specs and assume it is 100% compatible.

100% compatible is not the same as 100% guaranteed to work.

For cloning users reported good success with Macrium free version: Macrium 

Also, most drivers come with free cloning software to allow you to transfer over all your files from your old drive to the new drive. Acronis is often bundled, and that one work great also,

Leo07,

* Go back to the top of this Alienware Desktops board
* Open, "FAQ Alienware Desktops"
* Open, "FAQ Aurora R12"

"also the website on crucial said that the ram they have Is 100 percent guaranteed that it is compatible with Alienware r12 is that true or marketing."

That just means if it doesn't work you can return it.  From their website:

"If you order on Crucial.com and use our Crucial System Scanner or Crucial Advisor™ tool to purchase an upgrade, we guarantee compatibility – or your money back. That’s our 45-day no-hassle guarantee."

"is there a way to somehow clone the ssd into another ssd"

Macrium Reflect free edition is good for imaging/restoring/resizing drives, it also has a clone feature.