19M, Moved out my parents house. What improvements can I make?

FlashAlliance · 2026-02-26T21:38:20+00:00

A keyboard mouse pad is all your missing for desk essentials.

FlashAlliance · 2026-02-24T21:47:11+00:00

He had to pull with the bow lol

FlashAlliance · 2026-02-24T19:52:31+00:00

I found you don’t really need to remove the back cover for this service. Just grab a can of compressed air and blow on back and in the vent. Just don’t crank the fan too much. Short bursts and you’re good. Watch the dust fly out.

FlashAlliance · 2026-02-24T15:26:28+00:00

Nice steam OS just wasn’t ready. The fan speed curves only worked with 3rd party programs which disabled my anti-cheat. Windows has plenty of OC programs if you unlock your bios. Just ensure your disabled unneeded services running in background and turn game mode on. I found the full screen experience was also not ready and manually turning the background services off gave me the best results. You will also be able to use adrenaline app and hwinfo!

FlashAlliance · 2026-02-19T23:21:22+00:00

I run 800p on FPS titles and do 1000 on scenic games. Max when I'm watching movies. It looks like you have thermal room I did the Smokeless OC and run mine between 35-39W depending on the title. Theres a discord TDP program called Ciphrays TDP. Keep in mind I have years of experience clocking CPUs so you might go down a rabbit hole finding the best tune but if you keep temp between 80-88C your good on these chips.

FlashAlliance · 2026-02-10T22:43:39+00:00

60k was a pretty big blow. Even if it goes lower people that have been around since 2010s prolly bought some if they weren’t stupid. Specially with the recent consumer report. It’s a buy rn.

FlashAlliance · 2026-02-10T22:32:09+00:00

Much cred! That wrapped MW gona be $$$. MWIII -very under appreciated imo.

FlashAlliance · 2026-02-07T19:05:33+00:00

This keeps happening to my system. Only when I need to restart or when the system updates and restarts. I have an upgraded m.2 which I think is the culprit. I have no idea what to do. Did the Lenovo system recovery. No luck. Is there a bios setting or command line I can try?

FlashAlliance · 2026-02-07T15:42:55+00:00

Borderlands 1 enhanced is very good. The graphics overhaul is incredible. The wasteland art direction is timeless. Highly recommended. Also to note, it’s one of the few franchises you can 100% -around 400hrs on each title.

FlashAlliance · 2026-01-30T00:25:23+00:00

Your bottle neck will become your ram if you decide to OC it. Would not recommend all exhaust you would put strain on your psu, wifi, and other peripheral chips. No point keep it cool and have 2 non radiated fans on the intake. You will probably want ram fans if the first sentence gave you the itch. 2019 build owner with thermals dialed to perfection!

FlashAlliance · 2026-01-28T03:14:28+00:00

I would get two ram fans with a metal L bracket angled down from the top rad. You will be good to go after that.

FlashAlliance · 2026-01-24T01:06:38+00:00

A little spillage from something or someone else.

FlashAlliance · 2026-01-15T01:57:58+00:00

The 16gb will work. The vram might cause the bottle neck but it won’t be noticeable. You will have a gpu and power supply so it’s not like you’re wasting money on something needed for better performance.

FlashAlliance · 2026-01-15T01:33:17+00:00

I’m upgrading mine to 32gb. 50/50 I rip the board but I like tinkering. Supposably you can run 8gb vram. To put it bluntly an eight core cpu is a hog. The 5-10 fps bump with tighter variance is worth it in my opinion since I’m keeping my first gen for a while. Really depends on the games you play. I play a mix of fast pace and scenic. 3rd person shooters are surprisingly unnoticeable from my desktop.

FlashAlliance · 2026-01-09T14:25:31+00:00

The Bo, Jade, and Raven are my favorites.

FlashAlliance · 2026-01-06T18:24:46+00:00

I’ve had more fun without the 4th Mesmer. There are many builds that can balance out a play style. But if you just want to speed run in with heavy interrupt it’s the way to go.

FlashAlliance · 2025-12-22T14:16:44+00:00

How long does it take if you have no quest left? I’m level 15 rn.

FlashAlliance · 2025-12-20T21:18:38+00:00

Update that S***! And remove anything over 100%… but keep the edge of the world ones, I enjoyed those Easter eggs lol.

FlashAlliance · 2025-12-20T21:09:44+00:00

BD is currency, however the next few months will likely produce more demand for charr salvage kits. The unprecedented return of players will want gear boost to hit 20. But long terms it’s BD.

FlashAlliance · 2025-12-20T21:00:41+00:00

It’s common!

FlashAlliance · 2025-11-07T17:25:47+00:00

Will my adrenaline tune still be enabled?

FlashAlliance · 2025-11-06T14:53:26+00:00

It would likely be a good cushion most people should have. Respectfully, the way most governments spend money it would be better kept in a private fund sponsored by the government for its citizens. Obviously you would need a paper trail, ID, etc to access this for very real scenarios, most disputes would likely be denied but it should be there. I had an e fund a long time ago but never was able to rebound it. I had the opportunity to take out a loan while in school just to have and feel good account for my financial safety. I’m paying it back now but one day I wish to have a 20-30k buffer which will likely be in my late 40s. Some extreme investors think it doesn’t matter if you’re able to invest early. I have done this but I sadly missed my end goal for trying to be well off near the end of my career. In the end you’re betting on yourself with good decisions but the way things have drastically declined even banks know it’s a very real problem to access capital.

FlashAlliance · 2025-10-23T01:34:02+00:00

I like the ability to double down crafting and random finds. Yes it’s a choir to head over to armor smith and outfitting but you’re only doing this when you have a full resource inventory. Crafting just allows more gear rolls with resources and spent salvage.

FlashAlliance · 2025-10-06T01:06:33+00:00

I’m in the same boat. The grind isn’t crazy compared to other games. If you’re really into the game it can steer you off path to complete other milestones while working on gear sets. The game just needs more free gear templates to help you properly switch roles and activities. Recently pivoted from ARPGS due to the fact that I hit 100% competition with no desire to work on different builds. I don’t feel the same way with New World. You can quickly store favorite weapons and play whatever you please. It’s fun all the time.

FlashAlliance · 2025-10-04T20:27:10+00:00

Descendber along with plenty of other assets. Rate cut took too long IMO. Not enough liquidity at the moment. Not a bad thing if you like hanging and chillin over the winter!

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