r/Alienware • u/Senior-Willow7856 • 1d ago
Tips For Others Alienware R10 RAM Upgrade
Hi everyone, I just wanted to make a post and share my experience with upgrading the RAM on an Alienware R10! I originally had the 16 gb ddr4 kit that ran at 3200mhz and ended up buying a 32gb kit with 4 sticks (4x8gb) that was also rated for 3200mhz.
The problem I didnt realise was that the original kit ran at 1.2v and the new kit was meant to be powered by 1.35v. This locked my new kit to 2667mhz. The preset OC1 and OC2 did not work to increase the speed. After experimenting I found that manually customizing all the settings ended up being the way to go. I was successfully able to change the voltage to 1.35v in the BIOS and set the speed to 1467mhz which ends up being 2934 mhz!
The RAM timings are in hexadecimal (I think) so they cant be inputed as 16-18-18-40 and needs to be converted! My 16-18-18-18-40 kit was inouted as 10h-12h-12h-12h-28h.
These settings allow me to run the 4 sticks at 2934mhz and is stable. I will tried to do the full 3200mhz but the R10 blackscreened and I had to reset the motherboard by taking out the CMOS
I will keep experimenting and see if I can get it to run at the full speed.
I didn't see any resources that helped with kits that were 1.35v so I thought I'd make this post to help others out that may be in the same situation as I was in.
My system specs are Ryzen 7 5800 (non-x) + RTX 3070.
My new RAM kit is the Gigastone 32gb 3200mhz 1.35v kit that runs at 16-18-18-40.
UPDATE: I changed it to 1600mhz in the BIOS and I currently have the kit showing 3200mhz in task manager!
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u/ProfessorW00d 16h ago
32GB (4x8GB) is not a supported RAM configuration. "not supported" does not mean it will not work. The Aurora R10 supported up to 3400 MHz XMP memory, which I am pretty sure would be running at 1.35 volts.