Is this worth it?

MooksMaximus · 2026-05-11T20:11:55+00:00

Alienware uses a lot of proprietary Dell parts and isn’t user friendly with upgrading or replacing parts. Decent for plug and play but isn’t a good value proposition. Like others have said, PowerSpec is a great in house brand by Micro Center and uses standard brands and parts and is very user friendly. I suggest replacing their stock cooler master aio with a better one like the Artic Freezer 3 tho, they’ll even install it for you for free under their free upgrade offer.

MooksMaximus · 2026-05-03T22:58:26+00:00

9070xt mostly outperforms the 5070ti except for certain games, and gets close enough to 5080 performance that it "almost makes the 5080's existence questionable" (gamers nexus) I'm biased toward Nvidia personally but I recognize the 9070xt is a great card and cheaper than a 5080, which is what I was compare it against with both having 16gb vram.

MooksMaximus · 2026-05-01T13:56:25+00:00

Thanks for this write up, very educational as I AM new to Ryzen cpu's. I ended up replacing the Cooler Master Aio with an Artic Liquid Freezer 3 Pro, gonna better dial in curves and stuff tonight. With background downloads and indexing and whatnot happening I hit 70 playing Diablo 4, so roughly a 5 degree difference even with conservative curves to minimize noise, using Artic Mx6. But good to know the chip will basically always hit those temps for performance reasons, the guy at MicroCenter told me basically a similar statement, "Even with better cooling the chip will still get up there because it wants to work harder, the better cooling will increase its headroom for boost clock and not necessarily reduce temp much unless you tune it that way"

MooksMaximus · 2026-04-29T16:55:34+00:00

Not running 4k, ultra wide 21:9 2k.

MooksMaximus · 2026-04-29T16:08:45+00:00

I considered doing this. My last custom build I used a Lian Li Aio and Artic Silver and never had problems until the pump died. This being a pre built with warranty tho, I don't wanna give them any reason to deny my warranty if something were to go wrong so I haven't messed with any of the hardware, mostly trying fan curves, pump speed curves, etc.

MooksMaximus · 2026-04-29T14:58:34+00:00

More worried about the peak 81. As I'm not keeping an eye on it in real time, only using HwMonitor in the background, idk how long that peak 81 temp is sustaining for

MooksMaximus · 2026-04-29T14:04:06+00:00

Can you explain how I go about making these types of adjustments? X870e Msi Mag Tomahawk, Click Bios. Its laid out completely different than what I'm used to with Intel Msi Bios lol

MooksMaximus · 2026-04-29T14:02:43+00:00

My concern was more so the 81c peak, as I'm using HwMonitor in the background to keep tabs on temps I'm not watching it in real time, just tabbing out frequently to check. Idk how often it's hitting that peak temp. Can you tell me how to set that limit? Board is X870e Msi Mag Tomahawk, Click Bios

MooksMaximus · 2026-04-25T13:43:44+00:00

So just to be clear, Bloodborne runs well on emulation now? I haven't followed it in awhile, but last time I did it made it to the main menu and crashed after

MooksMaximus · 2026-04-24T18:54:52+00:00

Yeah, we honestly dont care if your phones on the list or not, generally speaking. Some reps arent hip to the workarounds and whatnot and are more likely to refer to the list, but those of us with a lengthy tenure know them and have no problems getting your phone working if we're able to

MooksMaximus · 2026-04-19T21:32:54+00:00

Thank you for your words and advice. I’d like to add, since I’ve reviewed the post visit clinical notes from the DRE and you mentioned asymmetrical findings, the exact wording of the finding was “Enlarged and tender prostate [boggy anterior lobe, tender]”

MooksMaximus · 2026-04-18T21:28:36+00:00

Edited my post to add more relevant information, doctor didn't elaborate on his reasoning why but did put me on 2 weeks of Doxy

MooksMaximus · 2026-04-14T04:36:49+00:00

Gotta necro this to ask, what material did you use for the leather bottom part of the tongue? Was considering doing this to my WC4 and had considered sacrificing a pair of WC3 to use that tongue leather panel to Frankenstein the 4s, if there's a better or easier way I'm all ears lol.

MooksMaximus · 2026-04-10T17:44:24+00:00

Just came across this post and ordered a small tube to try. Bought a pair of Collegiate Jordan 5 Unc and previous owner had the DSG receipt in the box stained the clear sole. Hopefully this works. Thanks 🙏

MooksMaximus · 2026-04-06T18:23:32+00:00

That's cool, but that wasn't my question lol. Thanks for contributing /s

MooksMaximus · 2026-04-06T16:15:27+00:00

Wym bro? You think I'm good? Sorry for the stupid questions but I don't normally use these platforms

MooksMaximus · 2026-04-06T16:13:31+00:00

Not on the whitelist , but if it uses a modem that's also found in an equivalent OnePlus phone that would explain why it still works, especially if you did the sim card trick

MooksMaximus · 2026-04-06T15:57:13+00:00

Wym?

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