All of our motherboards are customized OEM (original equipment manufacturer). Their specifications will not match any retail motherboards.
Our OEM TRDVJ Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti was the best and biggest video card that we validated in the 2017 Aurora R7. Height: 115.7mm/4.55" Length: 266.74mm/10.50" Width: Two slots
Any graphics card will be compatible with your motherboard, as long as it physically fits inside your rig. Look for a graphics card that is less than 272mm long and 120mm tall. The nVidia RTX 3070 Founders Edition will fit with no case modifications.
User reported “I had the ASUS TUF RTX3070 OC installed and running for over a year without any issues. It does fit without removing or modifying this brace, it did not touch the brace and the cover had no problems closing at all. My card has a height of 126 mm.”
SDCan
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September 9th, 2022 03:00
What type of motherboard does the Alienware Aurora R7 have and where can I find the specifications to see the compatible card sizes?
Also, can you have a look at this card to see if it is compatible? MSI GeForce RTX 3070 .
redxps630
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September 9th, 2022 03:00
That card is 282 mm, 3 mm longer than 11”. not sure if you can fit in R7.
you can look through a list of validated 3070 models in R7 and find one available in your country/region. I took a quick look at the bottom 3 users who used ASUS, msi, and EVGA 3070 respectively. https://www.userbenchmark.com/PCBuilder?tab=GPU&searchTerm=Aurora%20r7%20rtx3070
DELL-Chris M
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September 9th, 2022 05:00
All of our motherboards are customized OEM (original equipment manufacturer). Their specifications will not match any retail motherboards.
Our OEM TRDVJ Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti was the best and biggest video card that we validated in the 2017 Aurora R7.
Height: 115.7mm/4.55"
Length: 266.74mm/10.50"
Width: Two slots
ProfessorW00d
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September 9th, 2022 06:00
Any graphics card will be compatible with your motherboard, as long as it physically fits inside your rig. Look for a graphics card that is less than 272mm long and 120mm tall. The nVidia RTX 3070 Founders Edition will fit with no case modifications.
ProfessorW00d
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September 9th, 2022 06:00
That MSI graphics card is 124mm tall (4.9 inches) which could be a problem in the Aurora R7.
redxps630
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September 9th, 2022 06:00
Re: have a look at this card to see if it is compatible? MSI GeForce RTX 3070 .
this card will definitely fit. It is 232 mm long, shorter than the Dell oem card.
Re: What type of motherboard does the Alienware Aurora R7 have and where can I find the specifications to see the compatible card sizes?
R7 has a microATX board. It is the R7 case that limits max length of aftermarket gpu to about 270 mm. user reported 10.6” card fits with a little room left.
redxps630
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September 9th, 2022 06:00
For a more in depth discussion on max gpu length and height in R7 this thread has good info https://www.dell.com/community/Alienware-Desktops/Aurora-R7-RTX-3070-card-fitting/td-p/7733715/page/3
User reported “I had the ASUS TUF RTX3070 OC installed and running for over a year without any issues. It does fit without removing or modifying this brace, it did not touch the brace and the cover had no problems closing at all. My card has a height of 126 mm.”