u/AMBOSHER

It's as stupid as it sounds. From what I remember the guy got a PC for free, I don't remember how they got it but it didn't seem like it was stolen or anything. The PC had BitLocker enabled or some other issue so I suggested to reinstall windows, or maybe even switch the motherboard. This was one month ago, and yesterday I was banned on r/NZXT for it. And it seems like everyone in that post was nuked off the sub. No warning or anything

I gave a day for them to reply, but no response so far. I also emailed their support email since I run an at home PC shop in Massachusetts and wanted to know if they really think reinstalling windows is 'illegal'. It would be completely insane if they do think so. They also have some social media staff as mods on the sub, so I though it would make sense to email their support.

I recently built in a Hyte X50 pink case for an anime PC (see previous post). The husband liked how well that turned out and wasn't happy with his prebuilt. He did some upgrades to it through me before, such as a high-end mATX, 5070Ti MLG and overclocking his CPU and GPU (in r/Overclocking).

His old case, the Hyte Y50, was one of the most annoying cases to work with. The ram was partly behind the AIO which made removing it very hard. I really didn't want to knick it or have the AIO scrap against it. Last 3 pictures show his old build.

Anyways, that's all over with, and his PC is fully built. God I love mATX.

I have a customer who basically knows a lot about PCs, but he hates building and setting them up. So he wanted me to build his wife's dream PC and this is the result. On another note, I absolutely hate the BIOS, its the most annoying thing in the world.

Specs: Intel Ultra 7 270K Plus, 32gb (2x16GB) DDR5 CL36, Yeston 9070XT Wifu Edition, MaxSun-iCraft B860M CROSS PRO, Hyte X50 pink, Thermaltake CT-120 (with custom 3d prints from the customer), and Corsair Nautilus 360 white w/ screen.

This build was supposed to be easy. The customer drops off the parts, and I just build. But God, neither of us looked ahead to see cable length issues. So what should have taken a few hours of building and a day of testing, took nearly a week to get the extension cables.

Anyways, his wife and him are very happy with the build. And since this guy brought me so much work from his friends and himself, I overclocked this guy's system and fixed a very bad 100c hotspot on his 5070Ti, I am going to rebuild his old system for free. He currently has a CyberPower prebuilt.

A 750w Corsair semi-modular PSU allowed me to put the PSU in such a low position while still having 3 bottom intakes and a 360mm AIO at the top.

A lot of these parts were free used parts from a friend of the client. Ram, motherboard, and CPU. So this build was pretty cheap for the specs. After my build fees, it was 1.3k

Edit: They came from the console, so they also wanted me to buy a monitor and keyboard what was going to fit in the budget.

265F, 9060 XT 16GB, 32gb ddr5 6000 cl38, 1TB SN 7100, 750w psu, be quiet 360mm and fans, lian li a3.

It is also extremely quiet while running cool. The entire system only draws 250w when gaming.

This guy came to me with a PC that wasn't turning on, turned out one of their pets urinated on the PC, and it got everywhere. Basically, only the gen 3 SSD, Ryzen 3600, and 16gb DDR4 were safe to use again. But instead of rebuilding his PC, we went with a whole new PC.

7500X3D, ASRock B850M-C, 16GBx2 G.Skill DDR5 6000 CL36, Gigabyte 9060XT 16GB, 750w Corsair PSU, modified Thermalright 140mm, in the Antex Flux M F-LUX.

This is a really weird build, but it was done for the 1.3k budget the client set aside for this. I utilized microcenter bundles and my MC credit card to get him the best discounts I could. The system only draws like 350w max with a 1440p monitor I use for testing, but it was done for a reason. Upgrading. This guy wanted me to make an entirely new high-end build in a year when he would get more money. I told him no we aren't going to do that, and instead get a decent PSU, and 32gb of ram so all he will have to do is swap out the CPU and GPU at a later date. He, however, decided to let me do any future upgrades and leave me his old CPU and RAM as an additional top.

I came up with the idea to rebuild my dad's workstation from a barely cooled NZXT H510i to this Fractal Design North XL Momentum Edition. There were a lot of issues, but it all worked out in the end.

1. The AIO had to be a 2/3rd push-pull since he has 2 HDDs. It also had to have the tubes from the top since the HDDs would have been in the way.

2. He uses a 10gb ethernet server card that needs cooling. If you go to the last 3 pictures, you can see the absolute hell it took to mount them. And they surprisingly push a lot of air.

3. Due to the fans at the bottom, I needed to get a special flat server style USB 3.0 19/20 extension to get the USB ports on the case to work.

4. I needed a massive AIO since the basement, where he keeps it, gets hot due to our Plex servers. The CPU is a 5950X.

Other things of note:

1. A very kind client GAVE me a 5070 after I OCed his Intel Ultra 7 270K+ to be better than an Ultra 9. So I replaced my dad's Strix 3060Ti 8gb with it. He is sad about the lack of RGB, tho.

2. This PC also runs 24/7. Last time, it was turned off before the upgrades was LAST YEAR.

3. I OCed the 5950X, and it's hitting 26.5k in Cinebench R23. I also made some other changes like C-State disabled since this would help him out more.

I canceled the test 5 minutes in since I am sure the UPS would have started to send a shutdown command to my PC. I need to get a new UPS...

The final score was 9749.

When 200S boost is normally enabled, it locks down a bunch of BIOS settings like spread spectrum. So, I enabled it manually by just setting the NGU and D2D to 3.2 Ghz, some other minor tweaks, and set the wattage to max. And now his Ultra 7+ is more powerful than the stock Ultra 9.

I then did a bunch of stress tests that took 2 days to complete. The guy is blown away.

I am using an ASRock X870E Taichi with a Ryzen 9 9950X3D and TUF 4090 OG OC. The CPU is over clocked and undervolted pretty well. I am able to get to 5.75 GHz on CCD0 and 5.925 on CCD1. I wasn't able to push my GPU too far. Unfortunately, it's only +800MHz for the core and ram. So the only thing really holding me back was my ram. I am using a G.Skill 64GB (2x32GB) CL26@6000MT kit, specifically the 1.45v one, not the better 1.4v.

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1st - my timings, not the best, but they work!

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2nd/3rd - HWiNFO stuff. Pay attention to Temp Sensor 2 and Chassis Fan 4. I have a little temp probe pressed against my ram stick, and the 4th fan header is for the Jonsbo NF-2 cooler. I set a custom fan curve in the BIOS for it, so the speed maxes out before the ram hits 50c.

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4th/5th - in-game screenshots

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6th - my pc's ram cooling

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7th - original timings, a glitch did not let voltages be seen in them

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In Battlefield 6, a month back, I remember getting 130 to maybe 140 fps in the firing range, now 145 to 153. All my settings are cranked to the max, and I am using DLSS on quality. In Helldivers II, there was a much bigger difference. I went from 150 to 174 on the front of the ship. I know it does change by planet, but I have never gotten over 160 using native with everything maxed out.

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Really didn't expect a different that large. But yet these games are more CPU dependent. In Pragmata, I did not see any change at all.

Clean Windows 11 Pro install, GHelper (0.251) and AMD Adrenalin only. I know the laptop was running at 93w since my UPS showed a total power draw of 180 to 185w.

Ghelper settings, Full Send Profile: 93/93/93W, max fan speed, -40 undervolt, 97c TJmax

Took apart the tablet 6 months back and replaced the liquid metal with Thermal Grizzly Phase Change. Definitely would perfom better with a proper LM application, but I don't think it would be much better.

48h idle stable, 12h AIDA64 stable.

Laptop teardown here: https://www.reddit.com/r/overclocking/comments/1ox7qvz/rog\_flow\_z13\_2025\_teardown/