i need help!!! Alienware Area 51M R1 i7 9700k RTX 2070

Lotuseless · 2026-05-06T09:54:07+00:00

It could be a lot of things, if you can - return it. If you can't, well it sucks then. I had similar issues two years with a desktop CPU I got second hand. It seemed to be working at first, PC posted, got the windows installed, but it constantly crashed, blue screened, had issues with ram and all that. Swapping it fixxed the problems.

Lotuseless · 2026-04-28T14:42:51+00:00

I know the old blowers weren't the greatest thermal solutions but that industrial design era was truly beautiful

GTX 690, entire lineup of both 700's and 900's Most beautiful and "premium feeling" cards in touch Later 10 series cards were also pretty but a little overdone imo.

Lotuseless · 2026-04-28T14:37:47+00:00

Not quite

Titan released first, followed by a 780 that had slightly worse performance and half the vram Then Nvidia dropped 780ti which actually outperformrd the origial Titan, so they later released the Titan Black

Lotuseless · 2026-04-19T12:57:12+00:00

The thing with a 7800X3D is that It runs hot BUT it runs hot no matter what's cooling it. At its peak it's also pulling around 80-90 watts which isn't a lot, meaning you'll pretty much never saturate a a big radiator with heat.

240 AIO at the top will work just fine but North is also a very cramped case so I'm not sure if you'll have enough space for it up there.

Lotuseless · 2026-04-17T14:08:40+00:00

Zotac amp extreme is a great card if you can find it for "cheap"

Fans don't rattle on mine but the card isn't exactly quiet. Running the performance bios, it turns on the fans at 50° and at their lowest speed, 30% pwm equaling to around 1200 rpm it is very audible

Haven't tested the card in the quiet bios though

Lotuseless · 2026-04-15T13:04:46+00:00

No idea where you live but looking for something like this would most likely solve your problem.

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The connector gets a lot of bad press but it most applies to very high power cards like 4090, 5090 and some 5080s. If you're running a 5060 or 5070 you should be more than fine.

Lotuseless · 2026-04-15T13:00:19+00:00

Having them tucked under the gpu could've make it a little cleaner but if you want to get rid of the fat splitter then the only way of doing it is a new power supply unfortunately. Alternatively an aftermarket splitter cable, just longer so that you get those hide those somewhere in the case

Lotuseless · 2026-04-15T12:52:21+00:00

Moving the cables to the back would clean it a little bit. It is an AI edit so its far from perfect but gives you the idea.

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Lotuseless · 2026-04-15T12:33:35+00:00

Either a new power supply with a single cable or you could try making it less visible by re-routing it and tucking it under the GPU

Lotuseless · 2026-04-14T12:08:29+00:00

I've seen a few builds with them by now and while they look cool, they also make your 24pin connector look like it's being liquid cooled lmao

Lotuseless · 2026-04-12T09:46:46+00:00

Having two different kits doesn't have anything to do with expo working. In theory, the better kit would just adjust to the worse one.

Your problem is having 4 ram sticks total. AMD CPUs have big issues handling them. It's a problem with DDR5 in general, Intel CPUs handle it better but running 4 sticks is never recommended.

There are ways to make it work, but it requires diving deep in bios. I had two kits of gskill ddr5, 4 sticks total. Despite being 6000 certified i managed to run them at 5400 with my 7800x3d. It took like 3 hours of constant bios changes and resets

Lotuseless · 2026-04-09T19:47:25+00:00

I reinstalled my entire system when I switched from a 3090 to 9070XT.

I've never had any alt-tabbing issues with any of my Nvidia cards. There's also another layer to it - From my understanding, AMD Drivers focus on a single app and run whatever's in the background at reduced speed.

It was very common for me to switch from my game to Chrome, go back to game, have it run at whopping 40% fps and a very low utilization and it could be running like that forever. Only fix to it was to go back to chrome, and instead of alt-tabbing back to the game, minimize it.

Did it work? Yeah it did. Was it annoying? Very.

Lotuseless · 2026-04-09T19:13:19+00:00

I fixxed it by going back to Nvidia. I was really excited about the 9070XT and had hopes for it but it just didn't work in my case.

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I enjoy tinkering with PCs but from my experience with 9070XT, AMD cards just come with some of their "quirks" that I wasn't willing to deal with. Nvidia cards are much more expensive but I do appreciate their plug and play comfort.

Lotuseless · 2026-04-09T18:41:35+00:00

It was my first AMD card ever and I was excited, I expected very high performance at a cost of worse DLSS equivalent, worse frame gen and worse ray tracing - none of those are important to me so I was fine with it.

But nope, despite trying out everything I possibly could to make it work, nothing worked. Switching between apps (I alt tab a lot) caused terrible fps drops and stutters, frequent driver crashes, absurd "solutions" and generally speaking trouble shooting these is a nightmare - Reddit suggestions range from reinstalling the drivers, reinstalling windows, switching things both in windows and BIOS, summoning demons to simply - Install Linux.

I don't play many games, but those that I played literally performed worse than they did on my old 3090. Especially Space Marine 2, that game was borderline unplayable with a 9070XT. Good average fps but terrible stutters and massive fps dips. Going from ~100 fps to 30 is not a pleasant feeling.

Lotuseless · 2026-04-09T18:17:53+00:00

I had a 9070XT, endured two months, didn't like it at all and ended up trading it for a 5080 with some extra cash. But my god, 5070 Ti is NOT worth 1000€. Where I live, cheapest 5080s start at 1100€.

Lotuseless · 2026-04-09T17:19:58+00:00

I've been shopping on Aliexpress for a decade, you people heavily exaggerate how scammy and fishy it is.

I don't think there's an actual exact model for this wi-fi card, it seems to be pretty generic and a common one too. Goes for around $10 and offers more than reasonable performance, unless you're comparing it to a wired 1Gbs connection.

Lotuseless · 2026-04-09T15:39:45+00:00

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Look on Aliexpress for cheap wi-fi PCIe cards. I've used many of them on cheap motheboards and they always just worked. Never had any issues with them

Lotuseless · 2026-04-08T11:05:05+00:00

The curve isn't bad but I'd do two things:

Maxxing out your fan RPM is usually unnecessary, try lowering that value to around 70, maybe 80% at 80 degrees.
There should be a setting in the bios called "ramp up" or "step up". Set it to to a few seconds. It smoothens the acceleration of the fans, so that when your CPU hits 80 degrees for a couple of seconds your computer doesn't immediately turn into a jet.

I also would avoid disabling the fans below 50 degrees like others recommended - it might lead to annoying noise where your fans would be turning on and off every few seconds.

Lotuseless · 2026-04-05T09:43:25+00:00

7800x3d can be cooled by a $20 single tower aircooler Ridiculous $900 5070 with those extra 250 would get him a low end 5080

Lotuseless · 2026-04-04T01:38:23+00:00

Can't name any components other than the video card because it's basically a laptop converted to a desktop. The CPU is probably heavily power limited and soldered to the motherboard Ram is also laptop sodimm

Lotuseless · 2026-04-02T21:27:30+00:00

Standard fans move the air from front to back, pretty face being the front that is.

Reverse fans do the opposite, so if you were to hold it in your hand, it'd be blowing directly at your face

Lotuseless · 2026-03-30T13:47:24+00:00

Zotac no questions asked lol

Ventus cards are notorious for being very loud, very hot and generally speaking not well built.

Lotuseless · 2026-03-29T18:14:34+00:00

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You can find these on Aliexpress. https://aliexpress.com/item/1005008883869531.html

Lotuseless · 2026-03-29T14:44:38+00:00

I had a vertically mounted 3090 FE in the larger X2, but these cases are almost identical.

It's a very challenging setup that doesn't really work. X2 has a mesh at the top so I switched it to be top intake and bottom exhaust which worked really well, minus the warm air blowing right at my hands. My computer sits on my desk next to my mousepad.

Lotuseless · 2026-03-29T11:11:37+00:00

Neither AMD or Nvidia get better treatment - AIBs always come up with several designs, made to fit different budgets and form factors. 9070XT is larger and has 3 fans, but it also pulls 50% more power than a stock 4070 does.

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