- Dec 16, 2016
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I have Alienware Aurora R4 that was given to me. I was told it didn't have windows. After digging through it was through a fire or a nasty case of tobacco abuse. When I booted it i got the bios up and running. The case smells and i want to recycle the parts in it.
The mobo (Dell 7JNH0) is fine. The CPU (i7-3820) is good, 32 GB of DDR3 is working as well i wasn't able to see if the GPU's were good or not, I did get picture in bios through the HDMI port but they weren't tested under load. The GPU's are Nvidia GeForce 660's.
All I'm wondering is where can i go from there. My questions are;
Is the mobo a a full sized ATXor is it a micro?
The R4 had a custom set-up for the CPU cooler so what do I get now?
The PSU is pretty smelly and i don't want to run the risk of using it and running into any problems so what PSU's should I be looking at?
Do I run the 660's in SLI or throw my old Nvidia 960 2GB GPU?
All answers and suggestions are thanked in advance and I'm down to answer all questions you have for to the best of my knowledge.
The mobo (Dell 7JNH0) is fine. The CPU (i7-3820) is good, 32 GB of DDR3 is working as well i wasn't able to see if the GPU's were good or not, I did get picture in bios through the HDMI port but they weren't tested under load. The GPU's are Nvidia GeForce 660's.
All I'm wondering is where can i go from there. My questions are;
Is the mobo a a full sized ATXor is it a micro?
The R4 had a custom set-up for the CPU cooler so what do I get now?
The PSU is pretty smelly and i don't want to run the risk of using it and running into any problems so what PSU's should I be looking at?
Do I run the 660's in SLI or throw my old Nvidia 960 2GB GPU?
All answers and suggestions are thanked in advance and I'm down to answer all questions you have for to the best of my knowledge.
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