Recent content by Dosage

I am thankful for your being active on my thread. I really appreciate your replies. Here are the updates: I just did some minor cleaning to the fans using Q tips to clean most of the dust on them. Then I used my hands to remove a handful of things that were blocking the vents and causing heat...

Thank you for taking the time to read my thread and post a reply to it. I really appreciate your being here. It appears to be that heat is the problem, because I notice a decline in FPS the longer the CPU or GPU stay hot. I'll get some compressed air and thermal paste this evening and do some...

Hello everyone! I bought an Alienware M17x R3 in early 2011, and it was great for gaming until a few months when I noticed sudden drops on FPS. To be specific, the FPS rate drops down from 60 FPS to somewhere between 10 and 15 for about 30 seconds and then returns to normal again. Using MSI...