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Aaron2001
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1 minute ago, Aaron2001 said:

I found a very attractive price for this computer used. My question is though: can it base clock overclock and regular overclock in the future? Does it also support the 7 series chips?

X51 Ax51r3-1510blk

you can overclock if you buy a "k" processor. It does support 7th gen intel with a BIOS update.

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55 minutes ago, Aaron2001 said:

I5 6400 - I wanna bade clock overclock till I upgrade to 7700k

i5 6400 isnt overclockable to my knowledge regardless if its in an alienware or not. 

 

The i5 6400 is still a good processor for gaming and daily tasks.  if you plan to upgrade anyway i wouldnt bother worrying about it being overclock able your typically only talking 10-15% faster if you have non stock cooling.  it should also turbo anyhow not the same as overclocking but better then nothing

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It features a non-overclockable motherboard.

Personal Desktop":

CPU: Intel Core i7 10700K @5ghz |~| Cooling: bq! Dark Rock Pro 4 |~| MOBO: Gigabyte Z490UD ATX|~| RAM: 16gb DDR4 3333mhzCL16 G.Skill Trident Z |~| GPU: RX 6900XT Sapphire Nitro+ |~| PSU: Corsair TX650M 80Plus Gold |~| Boot:  SSD WD Green M.2 2280 240GB |~| Storage: 1x3TB HDD 7200rpm Seagate Barracuda + SanDisk Ultra 3D 1TB |~| Case: Fractal Design Meshify C Mini |~| Display: Toshiba UL7A 4K/60hz |~| OS: Windows 10 Pro.

Luna, the temporary Desktop:

CPU: AMD R9 7950XT  |~| Cooling: bq! Dark Rock 4 Pro |~| MOBO: Gigabyte Aorus Master |~| RAM: 32G Kingston HyperX |~| GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7900XTX (Reference) |~| PSU: Corsair HX1000 80+ Platinum |~| Windows Boot Drive: 2x 512GB (1TB total) Plextor SATA SSD (RAID0 volume) |~| Linux Boot Drive: 500GB Kingston A2000 |~| Storage: 4TB WD Black HDD |~| Case: Cooler Master Silencio S600 |~| Display 1 (leftmost): Eizo (unknown model) 1920x1080 IPS @ 60Hz|~| Display 2 (center): BenQ ZOWIE XL2540 1920x1080 TN @ 240Hz |~| Display 3 (rightmost): Wacom Cintiq Pro 24 3840x2160 IPS @ 60Hz 10-bit |~| OS: Windows 10 Pro (games / art) + Linux (distro: NixOS; programming and daily driver)
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3 hours ago, Aaron2001 said:

I5 6400 - I wanna bade clock overclock till I upgrade to 7700k

You can't OC that CPU. And I would advice against overall in that case with cooler that it comes with. Its probably already on the hotter side just running at stock. 7700K would need beefy air cooler or dual rad AIO/custom loop as its hot chip. But before you even get there becomes mobo issue. As @Princess Cadence said, it probably has non-overclockable mobo. Such cheap machines don't come with others. And you are not going to get easy mobo upgrade unless it uses standard size and mounting (also unlikely in so tiny case).

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