“I have the Alienware Area 51 R5 will I be able to use the card is there anything new I need to get PSU, wires, etc?”
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Make sure you have a beefy enough power supply it's recommended 750w though you can probably squeeze by with 650 or so depending on your hardware. I have no idea if Alienware Psus are any good but do your research and make sure it won't explode on you, it comes with a 12 pin adapter so as long you have 2 x 8pin connectors which connect to your gpu you should be fine as long as the mobo is semi recent with like pcie Gen 3 x16 since a 2080ti already saturates a x8 slot and this is way beefier. Also make sure not to bottleneck this thing with your cpu or monitor, if you're on 1080p at all please just get a 3070 and if you have an older cpu (Entirely game dependent, but I wouldn't go under a 8700k at 1440p, 4k is whatever, any semi recent cpu will do as higher res puts more stress on the gpu and less on the cpu), unless you plan to upgrade soon, same thing just get a 3070. Also make sure it fits before you buy, these are some big cards.
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