Alienware Aurora R11 Case Swap Full Tutorial/Build Guide

[@GamerHeavenOfficial]

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[@noztime3940]

nice build , did you know why corsair psu fried?

[@chrislowe4738]

How did you hook up your power LED Negative a positive And how do you hook up your HDD L ED

[@Wo0d530]

Hey man I truly love your content and want to send a heartfelt thank you, you're direction. I bought a aurora r10 w/ Ryzen 9 5900 & RTX 3080. Did some very quick googling and decided to spend an ass load amount of money again and get the new case, mobo, psu rad and additional fans. If you have any pointers for removing the CPU and GPU this poor colt become a stallion I would love to hear them.

[@LucifersEnd]

@@chrislowe4738 man tells all the easy parts except the hardest part how arenu supposed to hook up the mini led connectors and power connectors lol

[@deathskull58]

I need another aurora case like that for my current project. You still have it collecting dust?

[@yavecanela]

Your a brave guy. Every time I work on my r12 I pray that this thing turns on. To do a whole case swap. crazy 🤪. Guess us army guys are brave

[@Underground.Rabbit]

Mate think of it as just an adult lego. Computer parts can take a beating and chance of you fucking it up is very very slight. Some people have soaked it in water dried it up and it turns back on.(dont try at home ofc)

[@GamerHeavenOfficial]

It was a little nerve pain racking , but turned out just fine

[@crazywall256]

A KZbin channel who does shorts that does crazy stuff to pc parts for example built the pc in water took it out dried it all the parts worked just fine.

[@cdefencer333]

Many CPU cooler mounting screws, including these AIO ones, are spring tension screws. They will bottom out on the motherboard when tightened all the way.

[@evanholder9785]

Awesome video!! Which pins did you use exactly for your power switch. I’m trying to add an auxiliary power switch to my R11 and can’t get power no matter what I do?

[@thesmuuuuggh]

DOPE. Thanks for the hard work.

[@wswartz79]

Wonder if it might be worthwhile to invest in a new MOBO at this point haha.

[@k52100s]

O man you have wrong power connector. It should be Pin 3 & 4 of LED Control header

[@Elaston]

So, I’ve commented about this on some of your other posts. It’s still not clear what you did with the power switch connectors. In this video, you definitely hooked them up to the password clear jumper, and you saw it turn on for a second., and shut off (I’m assuming this is what is supposed to happens when you jump those pins). There is info out there about the pins you actually need to bridge - they on the front LED header. So my question is, are you still using the password clear pins for the power switch? You sort of addressed this at the end. I’m guessing that’s why it is doing the weird reboots at startup.

[@GamerHeavenOfficial]

Yes, sorry. currently have the power switch plugged into what is label reset on the mobo. the case didn't come with instructions for the front button plugs and of course Dell doens't have a proper mobo diagram lol. I am likely going to be getting a new motherboard in the near future, and if so, in that video I will give more attention to showcasing the case plugs into exactly which pins on the mobo.

[@eeveeblazelol]

@@GamerHeavenOfficial can you kind of describe the location of that plug? I’m case swapping mine and the error is annoying

[@jbcom2416]

when i case swapped aurora r10 i connected the new case 2 pin power switch to alienware mobo LED CON port pins 4 and 5. It worked perfectly fine.

[@johnDingoFoxVelocity]

Stay away from the alienware R7 the board isnt transferable to another frame and the rear io panel is welded to the case piece of junk

[@doublebless4783]

Hi I bought the same case, the video was very useful but i need to know how you manage to make the power button to work, can someone tell me where he explained it I probably missed it, or can you go more into it

[@itsurboi2598]

Have you figured it out yet I’m trying to figure it out

[@tyler71989]

Hey man can you show how you connected the power button and the power led to the mobo? I am trying to figure out the best way to connect those

[@pilotrinche]

So I just swapped my R9 into a 5000x. It helped, I’m still trying to figure out the power switch cables

[@BLZNCRZYCHKEN]

Did you ever figure this bit out? Trying to reuse the motherboard from my R12 and I can’t figure out the front IO/power switch cables myself..

[@joshuaoney9410]

@@BLZNCRZYCHKEN I’m currently stuck with the same problem. Is your motherboard also completely missing the slots the new case cables come with? My new case has the power Sw cable and all the LED cables but the Alienware had none of those

[@deceptionz187]

You are a fuckin BOSS! FUXK THE HATERS! I appreciate your artistic ideas and contributions to us Alienware users. I really wish the Darkmoon version came with better LED lighting. I had NO idea (when I bought my 2 PC's from DELL) that the white version had customized LED colors over the black version... ugh... anyways. Im going to follow your guide and it will REALLY pop in my dual (side-by-side) racing rig setup. Thanks so much! God bless your INTELLIGENT/KIND/ARTISTIC HEART! ❤❤❤❤

[@GamerHeavenOfficial]

Thank you for the kind words

[@infasis]

Thanks for the video. I'm sure with the amount of work this took compared to views that there's no way it paid off in comparison with other videos, but your work is invaluable. Even as someone who's confident in PC building and messed with SFF rigs in the past, I just wouldn't want to go this far without such well documented work and I really appreciate people like you charting your experience and helping know what to expect.

[@GamerHeavenOfficial]

Thank you, I really appreciate that.

[@mrlist5969]

There are two things I wonder if you could clarify. First, I’ve seen online that without the front IO and the Alienware power switch there are issues at start up. How did you solve these problems? Secondly, how did you end up hooking those RGB fans up at the end? In the video you say they won’t work and will use just the standard fans, you talk about where you’ll put the mesh and then the video cuts and you suddenly have the RGB fans hooked up and running. You say you’re using a SATA cable. Did you get power by tricking the system into think it is powering a hard drive?

[@jbcom2416]

with regards to power switch, you just hook up 2 pin pow sw cable to pins 4 and 5 of LED CON port on mobo. Thats how i was able to boot the system without Alienware proprietary power switch when i swapped the cases.

[@TheBeast-fl5bu]

@@jbcom2416 MY MANNNNN!!!! I created an account just to come and THANK YOU for this, you saved my build :')

[@itsurboi2598]

@@jbcom2416 bro you are the best

[@decycle2912]

After you case swapped alienware, have you notices any decrease in wifi speed? I suspect that the motherboard needs the antenna to probably connect to wifi because my computer now only has 80mbps downloading speed instead of the normal 400.

[@andrews.9286]

First, thanks for the effort. I do appreciate it. Second, I am a bit disappointed at the results. I was hoping you would use a more conventional case, because it is unclear if the motherboard and power supply would fit in a regular case. It seems that the best bet would be to replace the case, motherboard, power supply, and maybe the cooler. Then move the CPU, GPU, and memory to the motherboard for installation into the new case. I see have seen several stripped Alienware computers on eBay recently, so I guess that is what some are doing.

[@smittyboy]

That’s exactly what I did.

[@L0ELIIFE]

Doing that now

[@kylepena2057]

@@smittyboy did u keep ssd? or do fresh install of windows

[@smittyboy]

@@kylepena2057 Kept the SSD. Later, I purchased a new one with a fresh install.

[@Kdivu66]

I would love for my question to be answered. Am I able to take my already customs built pc and buy a Alienware r12 case that is already gutted with nothing inside of it, and put all my parts into the r12 case? Without there being any problems? And does the r10-12 Alienware cases fit an ATX mother bored.

[@AFiB1999]

Whyyyyy??? Aside the airflow sucks on the Alienware case, Im doing the other way around.

[@baroncalamityplus]

Hello, great video. Did you ever solve the last two errors? The critical start up error related to the power button or the multiple restarts from cold start? Thanks again.

[@NobiStudios]

I need an answer to this too if there's a fix

[@MrTtillots]

@gamer heaven I can’t for the life of me, figure out how to get rid of the boot up failure of the top fan or whatever fan it may be. I did a Corsair Liquid cooler upgrade and Corsair fans. I’ve tried going back to even stock everything and I still get that dumb error. If you find a solution, please document it. It’s very annoying lol

[@victordelacruz3671]

Can you swap my Alienware aurora r8 I will buy all the parts for you to swap for my pc if not that’s ok

[@PandasticVoyage]

Love my R11 but holy hell the case is ugly

[@vsDrunkenYoda]

👊GREAT😎JOB👊 & Use the r11 as a pot and 🌱 plant something in it👍.

[@paolobricarelli]

There are so many things that should be swapped in an Alienware that the best choice is simply to buy a different pc and leave this trash on the shelves (and I tell this as a person who owns an Alienware)

[@Go_Birds]

I think it came out amazing and looks great. I’m curious as to the amount of extra space you have with the Dell 3080. If I’m swapping a case, I’d like to be able to fit a “typical” size video card if I ever upgrade from my 3090 in a couple of years.

[@lilroc3987]

Ok, I'm doing a full case swap. But have no clue where to plug the power button on to the mobo.....it wasn't very clear in the video what actually worked and where the rest plugged in.

[@coseyfn]

Did you ever find out

[@thegoblindude5340]

WooHoo!! This is Legitness. DELL is a cringy OEM imo, so this chassis/case swap is going to be great.

[@GamerHeavenOfficial]

Agreed

[@pacaro4644]

1. Why on earth did you keep the Aio fan stock? Looks like you even kept the enclosure on? The noise of the top fan (especially) is the worst thing about that case. Replace it with a noctua fan. Or the new Phanteks T30, if that's compatible. 2. You can easily run 2 GPU's on that board, in the original case even, if you take out the hdd brackets underneath. I had it mining 2 rtx 3060's since these cards need x8 PCie slots to run un-nerfed. The slots underneath it are not in the way as the GPU sits away from the mobo a bit. 3. From the looks of it the mobo restrictions make for way too much of a hassle. You can get a decent B550 Micro ATX board for about 50,- nowadays, sounds like a better option here. 4. The sound of that 3080 is quite horrible when the fans ramp up. I would go for a better airflow case for that GPU, preferably with the option for fans underneath your GPU and just more space for airflow. If you're going to put in this much effort you might as well squeeze out every little bit of performance and noise reduction out of it. 5. Thanks for doing this. This PC is pretty horrible imo, the noise especially. This video shows you are probably better off spending a little extra and getting/building something a bit more versatile and quiet with less of a hassle. Even if you change the case, the fans, the mobo and PSU, you are still left with a noisy VRAM overheating GPU.

[@smittyboy]

You’re right. I had 2 Dell 3090s in mine. Temps were shit though Lol

[@scarfacewop]

Greta video for a case swap! fyi you can run 2 GPUs on this motherboard i had two 3090 dell gpus running on it one to mine and other to game/mine.. i also swaped the case to a open concept Termite T3 ATX case, 1000x better than the Alienware case.. and your video was gold and helpful thank you!

[@jameyt1]

I would suggest swapping the board out with the unify z490 if your going to keep your 10700k for another 2 or so years. The thing has great VRMs and ram/cpu OC potential.

[@ASOGAMERS]

I was waiting for this video because I was going to case swap my R10. Awesome video, I know it was a lot of work. I ended up just using the 6800xt, 5900x, ram, and storage from my R10 for my first build. I'm glad I didn't try the swap, I probably would have gone insane.

[@GamerHeavenOfficial]

Good luck on your build , it should go relatively smooth

[@ASOGAMERS]

@@GamerHeavenOfficial Took me about twice as long as the guys I watch who build them live. I think it will be much easier the second time. Good thing I wont be doing it again for a few years.

[@Jayspiesaresquared]

@@ASOGAMERS so you said you used the storage from your r10 for your build along with your cpu gpu and ram. Did you run into any bios issues bc of using the storage with Alienware programs on it or did it just not load the Alienware stuff because you’re no longer using a dell? I was considering doing a case swap my self (r10 Ryzen 5800x, rtx 3070, 32gb ram, 1TB m.2) but after seeing this I realize what you did is probably waaaaayyyy easier. Costs a bit more I’m sure but still a much simpler solution I don’t know what parts are good for the hardware I already have. And I want mine to be more silent than my r10. I only game, no streaming, no mining, no nothing. Just pure gamer here. Any suggestions?

[@ASOGAMERS]

@@Jayspiesaresquared I was afraid I was going to run into the problem you described, so I bought a 500gb m.2 ($64) and did a fresh install of windows 10 pro (oem key was only $15). I ended up wiping the 1tb m.2 it came with and added it into the second m.2 slot on my motherboard. I didn’t get in a hurry and waited for my new parts to go on sale before I purchased them. I bought an open box 1000w evga g+ for $125 (open box, excellent condition) I don’t even think it was taken out of the box. Icue capellix 150 AIO cooler for $167, Asus 550-f for $179, lian li dynamic for $139. It’s definitely quieter and 15+ degrees Celsius cooler. I’m happy with it, but not sure if it was worth the extra expense. Oh, and I had three rgb Corsair fans that I previously purchased when I added fans to my Alienware, so that was about $70 I didn’t need to spend.

[@Jayspiesaresquared]

@@ASOGAMERS word, this will likely be a project I do down the line then. It’s a double edged sword, but I purchased a 3 year protection plan with my r10 from micro center so I think it may be better for me to just stick with what I got until everything is out of warranty and then eventually mess with the setup. My cpu has the Alienware liquid cooler so that def helps reduce noise. It’s just hard to make a system that is as quiet as say a new generation console, but that’s a cookie cutter experience that is worth the trade off for a better gaming experience. Definitely will take what you wrote into consideration. Cheers mate

[@itsscallops9297]

Just wanna say thank you for this video I have an R10 but I recently upgraded but used some parts from the R10 for my new build but now I can use the MOBO, PSU, and cooler for my GFs build. I had searched far and wide as well for videos on the disassembly or case swap and found nothing.

[@halo5479]

I have no plans to case swap but I literally sat here for an hour watching this lmfao.

[@92roadie]

You should do yourself a favour and throw that dell motherboard in the trash.

[@theaveragedadgamer6242]

I watched the whole video. Def appreciate it and I think what I learned is I’ll just buy a new motherboard as well as a case 😅

[@outlet6989]

You created a lovely video and PC. Us DIYers are always up to a good challenge. Before I begin a new project, I consider three considerations: Time, Effort, and Cost. I have some comments concerning your build. When I paint small parts, I use a Lazy Susan. To ensure I don't over-tighten screws, I use an EK-Loop Torque Screwdriver - 0.6Nm. I take photos of everything, internal and external, before disassembling the old case. I that photos of where the cables attach and place address labels on the wires. I use one of the older type ice cube trays to hold small parts and fasteners. I use Verco tape to make sure the tray doesn't move. Before I place the components into the tray, I label the ice containers so that I know where the contents go. I put a bath towel on the workbench in case I drop a small fastener so it won't end up on the floor. If a screw falls into a hard-to-reach recess on the case, I keep a telescoping wand with a magnetic head handy. Since your head can block light and make seeing the inside of the case difficult, I wear an LED headband. I hope some of my comments might assist you and others when doing a project like this.

[@johnleekennedy]

Can you please clarify that the power button plugs in where you showed it in the video? And that the "scorched" issue was a bad psu and not a result of frying it.

[@JTX-mv5ln]

If I bought a new case and a new motherboard, I assume this would be a lot easier. I guess I'd have to get a new copy of Windows though.

[@Poppi3579]

Get a new case, motherboard, and power supply. dont keep that motherboard its garbage. Actually the alienware in general is garbage. I owned the r12 and swapped out everything basically. Just kept the GPU

[@smittyboy]

This is exactly what I did.

[@Lucromis]

Yeah I think I’d swap the mobo and psu too. How many components make it an Alienware at that point then? Great video showing how much work this is with proprietary hardware!

[@raheemfaulkner5805]

This man should win 🥇 KZbinr of the year

[@Xelgar]

did you ever solve the issue with Dell's "SupportAssist Pre-Boot System performance check" Pop up on boot up?

[@goodcitizen7064]

Great video man. Looks like it was a lot of trouble because of dell's proprietary crap. Overall it's an interesting concept and I appreciate you documenting it!

[@GamerHeavenOfficial]

Yeah it was for sure Citizen, my pleasure man.

[@dariroch]

Long story short, Just take the CPU, GPU and Ram out and just buy the rest and live happily ever after lol

[@PieceofCraft]

Actually replacing the mobo on my r9 today wish me luck 😬

[@GamerHeavenOfficial]

Good luck 🍀👍🏽

[@mikerogers4654]

I also want to upgrade my mobo on my R9. How did it work out for you, what new mobo did you use?

[@MigMonkey]

I have an R7 I think it is, tried to swap the ram like in your other video but it resets the speed to 2166 or whatever the stock speed is. Changed the bios and saved it, but it just constantly resets the PC till it reverts to stock again.. such a headache. Time for a new build I guess

[@MauricioGod-Matrix]

max is 3200mhz

[@ramonvejar5900]

Thanks for making this! Been trying to find a guide since the current case is the worst. I’ll be trying this case swap this weekend. Cheers!

[@midnightmediareview]

Amazing video. I want to do this but question as I didn't hear you mention it. During your "can you case swap" video, you mentioned disconnecting alienwares motherboards from the stock chassis disables them. Did you have this issue on this swap?

[@GamerHeavenOfficial]

Thank you. No I did not , it appears that that was only an issue on much older Alienware desktops.

[@midnightmediareview]

@@GamerHeavenOfficial Whoo thank Jesus Cornelius Christ! Appreciate the response. Love the content bro! You're doing us common folk favors!

[@drfunk2419]

Thankz for the videoz about the R11. This helped me install extra fans and become more familiar with the inside of the PC. Keep up the great work!

[@vsDrunkenYoda]

@@bL3dbL4k Maybe Dr Funk ment the r11 videos in general helped or this video will help 🤷‍♂️idk? Regardless comments are a good 👍 thing so Cheers 🍻's to both of you👊

[@bL3dbL4k]

@@vsDrunkenYoda If he made other videos on installing extra fans in a PC. Then my bad! All good either way. Didn't mean to come off harsh. Have a good one! 🤙

[@vsDrunkenYoda]

@@bL3dbL4k yea he added stuff to the r11 4or5 months ago. Cheers 🍻 Bro Thanks for being apart of Gamer Heaven 😎 👊

[@drfunk2419]

Previous videos man. Hope you have a nice day.

[@vsDrunkenYoda]

@@drfunk2419 👊😎👍

[@immortaljellyfish9032]

So I plugged my monitor into my gpu as i would normally but then my monitor didn’t recognize anything from the connection. My pc was running smoothly tho so im not sure what the problem is. Please someone help!!

[@Odinarcade00]

Would you say that it would be easier if you replaced the motherboard and power supply all together? I am considering that option down the line when i case swap to make it a little easier.

[@TheMustachioedJames]

- The AIO upgrade you talk about is not as straightforward as you might think, at least as far as the R11 is concerned. From what I understand, the mobo will throw a BIOS error if it's not talking to a Corsair ML120 Pro (no RGB, no LED), and the front lower intake fan will also throw BIOS errors if it doesn't like your fan selection (I believe it prefers, again, the Corsair over Noctua and others and may not like anything over 2400 RPM). The other caveat with the Corsair is, although it may be a noise upgrade, it actually doesn't push as much air as the stock fans and the upgrade may end up actually lowering cooling performance. A few mods I've seen on this chassis have opted for two replacement fans on the AIO in push/pull using a splitter for power. Otherwise, thanks for the thorough instructions, as I bought my R11 at the height of the shortage/aftermath of COVID because it was one of very few places you could get a 3070ti.

[@spaced9544]

HOW TO FIX TRIPLE RESET/ WHERE TO PLUG IN SW WIRE PROBLEM: Just a heads up to anyone doing this, if you experience the same problem he did with the pc reseting three times, if you plug in the power sw wire into the white plugin located under the PCIe slot it solves this problem MAKE SURE too plug it into the 3rd and 4th pins for this to work. There are no plugins for the remaining wires in that bunch.

[@powellj27]

Thank you for taking the time and doing this, it’s made me realise I’m better off with a custom build. I purchased my R12 from eBay and it’s definitely ok for what I need to use it for at the moment. However I’m not going to put myself through the pain of a case swap. I do agree you’ve made it look good, but unfortunately dell did not make it easy 👍

[@imac7531]

Thanks for the vid my friend. i am hoping to do a case swap on mine as it is a Alienware R10. Just upgraded to a Ryzen 9 5950X cpu and a RTX 3080 GPU and 48gig of ram. Boots on a Crucial 500 gig NVME m2 card and put in 2 ssd disk from Crucials one with 1tb and the other at 500 gig for back up. Needless to say that i put in as much fans as i could in the case with the Noctua brand fans, but the GPU still runs a little hot. just wondering if you could make a video on another project but in a LIAN LI case as i think i will be going that route for mine. Also if there is a way to wire the front io properly so we can the Stock power button and USB3 ports and all or is there a way to do it without having any Error code on boot. Thank you

[@tylerc137]

Hey this case is unavailable now. Do you have any recommendations for compatible cases that are available now?

[@fndrn8]

i love how mine looks like a ps5 but way more powerful. if i did a case swap, it would be completely water block cooled. 10900k, 3090, 32 3400 ram.

[@inkedalien]

can this motherboard handle an rtx 4070 super when that comes out? i have an aurora r12 3060ti i7 and wondering about case swapping to upgrade the gpu. Will i need a new motherboard or anything else to do this?

[@OopsMyAims]

Does the dell PSU work with another mobo? Got an R12 and completely stuck with the RAM at Gear 2 issue. I am thinking that swapping the MOBO out will be the best option.

[@prestontorres1294]

Could you go into more detail with the front panel connectors? I’m having trouble with the front panel io

[@skipalvarez5483]

Man.... Great video! I know I wouldn't have the patience to completely do a case swap but I'll probably switch out the components to a new case. Since I should grab a new Mobo, can anyone recommend a good one with wifi 6 and that is compatible with the 11900kf?

[@jazzlehazzle]

I think... the thing to do is just say fk Dell, harvest the chip/gpu/ram/discs/psu & aio, but get a new mobo, and have a good'n. Thanks for this.

[@viruscure4677]

Man screw Alienware.... seriously....just make life easier on yourself and build your own or buy a prebuilt that allows you to modify and or change parts....

[@soldierx2051]

So I just did this switch and I couldn’t get the new tower power button to work so I Frankensteind the whole thing and I just put the old aurora power button into the mobo and use that to turn the system on. I’m having the fan running at full blast problem. I switched the aio and top fan like you did and am wondering if I can just go into bios and slow down the top fan? It sounds like a wind tunnel in my room right now lol please help.

[@RemyLebeau-hm5nn]

oh boy, I was thinking of doing the same thing. I have the R11 and after looking at all the hoops you gotta do when turning on the pc then get stopped because you're not using original parts, ugh! looks like a hassle and a half. maybe I'll just get another motherboard instead.

[@b4ds33d]

This guy lives for lame flexing.

[@AliKat831]

did this however I replaced the motherboard, powersupply, aio fans, ram and kept the cpu and gpu so its basically a WHOLE new pc

[@SirLucidThoughts]

Lets face it, tou didn't do it for cooling or looks, you did this because you wanted challenge and frustration in your life. Sort of The same reason why a car guy takes apart a good car to mod it to death vs just buying a better car.

[@adrielbasulto4036]

hello, excellent video, I have a question, could you solve the error message that it gives when turning it on, because I have the same problem after changing the chassis of my r12

[@chronoshift911]

I'm concerned that Google or someone is probing my brain. I was wondering last night "I wonder how hard it would be to swap my alienware to a new case"? Then this video just happens to pop up in my feed...

[@jaymikeyyy1]

Was gunna case swap my r12 when the aio failed but I claimed warranty to dell so now they’re giving me an r13 instead of fixing the fan lol Now I’m stuck between still going for it or just keep it as is.

[@przemekbaek2809]

I think this tutorial is useless, I agree that Dell case swap is very hard but it's manegable. You need a soldering iron, a digital multimeter and some basic knowledge as well as skills. Thumb down for pulling the wi fi antennas

[@myaccount__7269]

Thanks for this ! Also you can use 2 gpus, I use 2 for mining, just need a riser cable

[@GamerHeavenOfficial]

Good to know, thank you for that information about the GPU's.

[@DerKilianist]

Hi, i have a question.. What are you going to do with that alienware-rgb programm now? Is it useless now or can you just delete it?

[@lalisameo4677]

Lol so much trouble buy a new case a new board and just build a new pc already. Here how I would do it bring the Alien Aurora to the dumpster drop it in there, get new case new board new parts and build a new pc.

[@mattaaron6142]

who the eff DIDNT use a blower model GPU in that shiet case? Dell?! DELL?!?!?!

[@Heytherebuds]

Looking for a case that'll fit mine but the link says sold out. Any recommendations?

[@luketaylor6403]

How is your pc able to read a 4th generation nvme cause I have a 4th generation nvme and it reads it in device manager but not storage and I read that I need 11th generation cpu for it to read it

[@BLZNCRZYCHKEN]

How did you figure out the front io? I’m currently doing one myself and can’t get the front header/power button to work

[@Heatedjacob1000]

Looks just like trying to make apple to be able to play windows games without a third party problem kind of project no thanks if it not meant to be changed it not going to be easy

[@MonstarGoon]

Just wondering if you solved some of the issues permanently. I have an R11 and thinking about doing a case swap. But I'd like to know how you fixed some of the boot issues, or are you still dealing with them?

[@lordfarquaad1701]

Boot issues? Like it won’t power on completely? I had the issue and just updated it completely the bios The bios fixed it for me. Try to connect it to direct power outlet if it’s not working

[@raid_tin9827]

I case swapped my r10 and it boots but i dont get any display really hoping i dont need to spend a bunch of money fixing it

[@alexrodriguez4034]

So I started doing this with my new case and the new case just came with an f_panel pin set and I can't seem to find it on the mobi

[@markjohns8811]

where can I find the "r8" and "r9" 1000w psu cables ????

[@melissaschnars375]

Next time help us understand how the fuck I’m supposed to remove the shitty ass GPU

[@mr.e_detailing4471]

Glad I found this video I've got an aurora r8 that I'm wanting to case swap and there's still nothing out there. One any one thats done it

[@AliKat831]

I honestly think if I do this I will also replace the motherboard and use everything else if its possible

[@JaelGaming7]

Will it work on a Lian Li case? I have the Aurora R12 and I want to change the case, it limits me a lot to ventilation

[@FascalRanky]

Thank you, you can't believe how much this video helped. I'm glad you made this video since you are still the first and only person to tackle it with a complete walk-through. Appreciate it.

[@duckydontm1ss6]

I change out the ram to 32 but the speed remains at 4800 instead of 5200??

[@cruzters]

Awesome job dude!! Both on the teardown/build as well as the video editng! Would you know if any of the PCIe slots (not used by the GPU) are Gen 4.0? I added a gen4 ssd via a pcie adaptor (like you did), however, im only getting gen3 speeds. Dell tech support claims that they are indeed 4.0 but im quite doubtful. I wanna know if I'll need to retiurn this expensive gen 4 ssd, and get a gen3 instead.

[@gsxrsquid]

This video, and some of your others has convinced me to go back and build my own systems again. I have cases and 1200 watt power supplies and liquid cooling. A new MB, and use the Processor , NVMe drives and GPU from the R11 and retire the chassis. In my experience the proprietary MB and Bios for Alienware are so finicky that even changing a fan upsets it.

[@GamerHeavenOfficial]

That’s great my friend. Enjoy your build

[@deathskull58]

I need that Alienware case for a mod project of mine….. lol how much

[@Pukemade]

Around 8:40 hr was bring kinda zesty like ayoo 🤔🤔

[@javijavv]

You did a great job! I dont have an Aurora but I been thinking of doing an open case similar to your new one for my H510 Elite since its a hotbox in there.

[@eeveeblazelol]

Hey if anyone wants to do this just know that you need to buy a new wifi card because the wifi card inside of it needs antennas to work and the ones in the Alienware aurora r11 are attatched directly to the case and the wifi won’t work without it apart from that great video

[@Eif6f6ebv3udyd]

You can remove them actually lol

[@phantomb3548]

What order did you put the power sw/reset sw/LED+- cords?

[@Heytherebuds]

Looks this r11 will be my last prebuild.

[@soldierx2051]

After doing my aurora 10 swap whichever fan is in the cpu fan spot is spinning a 100 percent. I couldn’t find fan speed options in the bios. You said you could change it with the motherboard settings. Could you tell me how to do it plz.

[@joshw6521]

Were you able to fix it?

[@fernandomartinez-vo3zu]

I’ve seen other ppl post builds on this online but this is the first video I’ve seen for it. Wondering if anyone has simply put the front panel from the Alienware onto the new case to not get those errors??

[@josephkarl7080]

Working on removing alienware front panel now... using an atx case... mb and ps fit fine. Mb uses proprietary connections. They look like miniature or laptop connections.

[@fernandomartinez-vo3zu]

@@josephkarl7080 do you plan on posting your build on KZbin or Reddit ? I’m going to try to swap my case 1:1 including the front panel. Seems like that’s what gives everyone errors.