That's why I said AFAIK
Yeah NP. Dell have used MSI ever since the dawn of the "Dellienware". Good call tbh as Foxconn boards are utter pants. They used them in a few of their takeover machines and the bioses were horrendous.
OP - A little information for you...
As you now know the boards are made by MSI. The power supply in the Aurora is made by a company called Newton Labs. Alienware have been using them for years now. The PSU I had in my Aurora was a 875w 80+ silver unit. I've ran Quad SLI (dual 295s) from it with an I7 950 and it never even broke a sweat (pics in a minute).
So what do you get for the boutique pricetag? quite a lot tbh. Firstly there's the lighting which can be customised to near on any colour combo you wish. It's all controlled in the command center as follows.
The best part however is the cooling. The system uses closed ducts like this.
And the cooling is broken down into zones. There is a Delta fan loaded into the GPU bay that is fully active and controlled in Windows, again using the command center. The command center on the thermal side is basically Afterburner for your case. See pic.
Noting that fans can be set to auto where the software will adjust the speeds as needed, or, you can set them all manually and create profiles (which I recommend tbh).
I have mine (Area 51 for me now wanted the space) set to 25% for idle (inaudible over the ambient system) and 45% for gaming. I simply hit my gaming profile and they speed up.
No other case offers this tbh. Many say that it's pointless but I can tell you now it isn't. Sitting there twiddling with 6 fan control knobs on a standard controller is a PITA.
One thing I do recommend is basically looking on the outlet for a returned/reboxed machine as it will save you a packet. You can also look on Ebay for Dell partners who sell refurbed machines too
Here is the quad SLI rig I ran.
As you can see, SLI and CFX are not the best of ideas in the Aurora as you have to butt the GPUs right next to each other. However the PSU was more than capable of running the rig easily with an overclocked I7 950.
That's why I said AFAIK
Edit: Actually now I'm on my machine I'd like you to link me to the article that shows an image of your board or A board doesn't mean that's the board in every machine, nor does that prove it's an MSI board due to the font used
Furthermore, I have never heard of Newton Labs in regards to PSU's, got a link?
Cheers
I can tell you for 100% certain that MSI make every board that's ever gone into the Aurora. As I said, the tell tale sign is look at the font used for the model number, it's the exact same one that they use on their own retail boards. Also, digging around on the Alienware site for drivers will find you an MSI app for the SATA controller.
MSI also make all of the boards in Acer's Predator machines.
As for Newton Labs? they're not a retail outfit. They make PSUs for OEMs like Dell and others.
http://www.atxpowersupplies.com/newton-power-supplies.php
Is a list of OEM models they make. Again I've been using them for years and they are very strong units.
This is the 750w model that used to be found in the Predator 2. I'm running Quadfire 3870x2 from it with a 400w slave supply for the 8800 Ultra (for Physx).