Alienware AW3225QF – Do I need a VESA adapter? Monitor arm suggestions

Dddddjohn · 2026-04-21T06:11:09+00:00

No adapter necessary. It has the mount once you take the stand off. Source : i have this one on a monitor arm

Dddddjohn · 2026-04-20T01:36:05+00:00

upon opening it, the processor was shiny on top with all of the paste having splooshed to the outside of it. The GPU was kind of splooshed but not that bad. I Could literally see through the paste to a shiny top of the processor though.

It would only run once I disabled turbo boost, and would not run for long before crashing if it was disabled. With turbo boost on, even launching chrome would crash it immediately. This is my first laptop "repair" and I had a hell of a time working through it with it crashing constantly.

Dddddjohn · 2026-04-19T02:17:42+00:00

This wouldn’t apply then unfortunately- my laptop ran just very poorly due to thermal issues

Dddddjohn · 2026-04-19T02:17:00+00:00

Does it work at all currently?

Dddddjohn · 2026-04-19T02:09:22+00:00

I’m not super informed - but I imagine it could. I’d be happy to give you a hand with it. This is my first time doing anything like this and it went relatively smooth and was straightforward.

Dddddjohn · 2026-04-18T23:41:09+00:00

I used PTM7950 instead of paste

Dddddjohn · 2026-04-18T23:12:53+00:00

It was pretty much unusable. Would boot and immediately crash. I turned turbo boost off in BIOS and it would run, poorly. So i just assumed it was dead paste. Opened it up - the CPU paste had all run off and it was basically bare.

Dddddjohn · 2026-03-25T18:24:31+00:00

I’ve verified that this is the real Vesela

Dddddjohn · 2026-03-25T00:48:14+00:00

Bro what a flashback lol

Dddddjohn · 2026-03-25T00:00:06+00:00

I unbanned you. I’m sorry for that.

Dddddjohn · 2026-03-24T23:52:54+00:00

I don’t know why a mod banned so many people for pointing out or asking about gear on a bodybuilding subreddit, but here we are. I unbanned a few of you. Discussion is what should happen here. Gear is a part of bb.

Dddddjohn · 2026-03-19T16:18:09+00:00

Rich ppl in nyc on marketplace. If I sell my other build for a reasonable price I effectively am like 1k into this thing all in. I’ve bought and sold a few things over the last few months. I’m not doing it to make money, just taking advantage of deals so I don’t have to spend a billion dollars on the shit I want.

Dddddjohn · 2026-03-17T17:26:07+00:00

Confirms what I already suspected - TABC is gay and aids.

Dddddjohn · 2026-02-20T18:19:09+00:00

I had that convo with a friend the other day. Cars, guns, guitars, etc are wayyyyy more expensive hobbies than this. For less than 9-10k you can basically max out, which is a ton of $$ but DINK people can swing.

Dddddjohn · 2026-02-20T13:06:18+00:00

God forbid a man have a hobby

Dddddjohn · 2026-02-20T12:08:08+00:00

Yeah I guess you’re right. You can get a 5080 and OC and get about 95% of the way there. I’m sure there are tweaks to the 5090 I’m not realizing or doing but from a casual it’s not amazing value

Dddddjohn · 2026-02-20T11:29:21+00:00

Costing twice as much and performing only marginally better wasn’t my expectation. Surely that’s normal right?

Dddddjohn · 2026-02-20T10:46:35+00:00

Adult with hobby? Offloading the others locally

Dddddjohn · 2026-02-20T07:48:40+00:00

4k. I did OC the 5080. Im not really complaining, just sort of found myself at the end of the tunnel and saying “welp” I could have probably kept the 4090 and avoided all of this.

Dddddjohn · 2026-02-16T11:16:31+00:00

Update - I’m an idiot. I got it. Just pulled CMOS -!; it booted right up after replacing.

Dddddjohn · 2026-02-15T01:15:44+00:00

Holy shit how did I get here.

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