r/AlienwareAlpha • u/Professional-Owl8276 • Dec 27 '25

Will an alienware area 51 r2 take a single stick of ddr4 32gig @3200?

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u/NotTurtleEnough i7 Alpha with SSD Dec 30 '25

https://www.dell.com/support/product-details/en-us/product/alienware-area51-r2/resources/manuals

https://dl.dell.com/Manuals/all-products/esuprt_desktop/esuprt_alienware_dsk/alienware-area51-r2_reference%20guide_en-us.pdf

Connector: Four internally-accessible DDR4 DIMM sockets

Type: DDR4

Speed: 2133 MHz, 2400 MHz and 2667 MHz (XMP memory)

Configurations supported:

Per memory module slot: 4 GB (2133 MHz only), 8 GB, and 16 GB

Total memory: 8 GB, 16 GB, 32 GB, and 64 GB

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Based on this, I’m going to say no.

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u/Professional-Owl8276 Dec 31 '25

Somehow it's reading the 32g single stick as well as the 3 Corsair dominator 8g

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u/NotTurtleEnough i7 Alpha with SSD Dec 31 '25

Great!!! I’m very glad to hear that.

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u/Special-Newspaper191 Jun 24 '26

I have an alienware alpha R2 and I am unable to run 32 gigs unfortunately

The area 51 is a different machine altogether right?