“Can I upgrade my son's Alienware Aurora R7 to this processor? I believe it has a Z370 motherboard in it. Thank you.”

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• Dell has locked microcode in the bios that prevents anything higher than the 8700k processor from working despite the logical compatibility. This was done to force customers to upgrade. You would need to replace your motherboard which has its own share of issues.

  Answered by Dell4profit 3 years ago

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• It should be compatible.

  Answered by Patto 5 years ago

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• Hi sking102106, the motherboard in your Alienware Auroroa R7 does have the LGA1151 socket which is compatible with the Intel Core I9-9900K processor

  Answered by Intel team 6 years ago

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