I am bumping this to the to top because just as you thought Dell could not have done something more crazy, they appear to have managed to do so with with the high end Aurora R13 series.
They are now offering on the Australian website, DDR5 4800 MHZ memory as an upgrade on a new machine, or as an upgrade to present Aurora R13 owners. The memory is clearly marked as XMP ready.
Trouble is the AuroraR13 has no XMP profiles, Dell has disabled them in the BIOS.
It is also nearly double the price of other manufacturers offerings that Dell, because they want you to buy there version, claim wont work on there board.
Nobody knows if it works or not. Could be a new board revision, or a yet unreleased BIOS.
I do agree Dell needs to provide the relevant information here on this board, so owners who post here about it receive an answer. If they are selling it already it should not be this difficult to get the relevant answer(s) as to what is going on with this XMP memory.
But the fact they offer the 4800 with xmp as an option would mean they are working on getting xmp validated; why even put it out there if they have no intentions? I spoke to Kingston and they are indeed working with Dell on xmp-though the ram stick maybe proprietary. Does not make sense to order the ram without xmp when it is the same price as ram with xmp. Order the xmp version and cross fingers.
XMP is just a profile with preset settings. The problem with XMP profiles, especially the higher Mhz ones, is motherboard design. The higher the frequency the better the board traces between CPU socket and memory need to be designed.
I am hoping I am wrong, but I don't see how you would improve that without a new board revision.
I just wish we could get an official response in here explaining what exactly is going on with the XMP statement.
@DELL-Chris M sent an internal email a couple of weeks ago to inquire about what the situation is on the Twitch-announcement that Kingston Fury XMP RAM would be being released for the Aurora R13. He hasn't posted any updates since, so I assume he hasn't heard anything back at this point.
It's really frustrating and unprofessional when public announcements are made about product releases, then nothing is released and there is silence from Dell.
You really could not make this up. If I have this right, Dell are offering expensive "upgraded" 4800 XMP memory on there website that runs at exactly the same speed as the memory I already have because of the R13's limitations. I would be wanting my money back because what there advertising is clearly not what your getting.
If true no wonder Dell are not saying anything, what is there to say?
He hasn't posted any updates since, so I assume he hasn't heard anything back at this point. * Correct. I have sent several emails to Alienware teams. I did add the new memory part numbers to the FAQ Aurora R13 with additional questions based on the sales site verbiage.
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Nobody knows if it works or not. Could be a new board revision, or a yet unreleased BIOS.
I do agree Dell needs to provide the relevant information here on this board, so owners who post here about it receive an answer. If they are selling it already it should not be this difficult to get the relevant answer(s) as to what is going on with this XMP memory.