Recent content by dmoe33

Yes they are also ive tried twisting it as best I can as the heatsinks design doesn't really allow for it but had no luck. I'm contemplating not doing the cpu but I'm worried that the screws are lose, will that cause issues?

So I took apart my alienware 18 for a repaste but Im struggling to get the CPU heatsink off. The 4 screws are the issue, no matter what I do the heatsink doesn't come off. The screws turn but I have no idea if they're coming out or going in when i try to re tighten them. Attempting to remove it...

It seems now that both gpus are stuck at 300/450 which is sort of good cause temps stay around 70C and no more black screens, but bad cause performance isnt at what it should be. No matter what i change in MSI afterburner they stay stuck at 400/350 for both cards when they can go up to...

So I have an Alienware 18 that ive had for a while and recently ive been getting huge fps drops after a while after its booted up, so after trying many things ive finally found that the issue was that one of the gpus in my crossfire setup dropped in clock speed drastically for some reason...