r/Microcenter

I know it’s been asked, but I live between 4-5 hours from a microcenter, and have been checking the site to see if they mention anything, though nothing yet. If anyone has an idea of any 9070xt or AIOs that are going to be on sale, would be good to know, just to determine if the drives worth it.

I bought a bundle that included an AIO cooler and it's got an AM5 mounting bolt that's cross threaded. I've tried everything and it's not going on. I sent an email to the manufacturer hoping they can just mail me a new am5 bolt and latch and they never responded. At this point I just want to exchange it for a new one, but is it true i have to take everything apart and back to the store that was in the bundle, even if I already competed my build except for the cooler?

I might be hosed on the timeframe anyways because I'm at 20 days now and even though the cooler fits the 30 day window the cpu is 14. Next time I'm going pre-built, hah

I am building my first PC and was wondering if anyone has any recommendations for parts

I recently got the Powerspec G757, and i was using it but couldn't help but wonder how to turn off the RGB inside of the computer. I searched it on Google and it said that you could hold the color button for 3 seconds but that didn't work for me. I tried basically every button combo and none of them worked. I tried going into the pre-installed Powerspec app but that didn't seem to have anything useful. The RGB isn't that annoying but it's just kind of unnecessary, if anyone could let me know how to turn it off (if that's even possible) I would appreciate it a ton!

g535: 9070xt + 7500x3d + 32gb ram for $1599

g729: 9070xt + 7800x3d + 32gb ram for $1699

g760: 9070xt + 9800x3d + 32gb ram for $1799

g757 5080 + 9800x3d + 32gb for $2499

Interested in getting one of the above prebuilts, mainly playing PoE1/2 and for heavy gaming. Don't have a lot of AAA games since have been gaming with a laptop primarily, but would be interested if PC had capability to. Which of these would be best? Probably will game on 1440p mainly unless there's a really cheap 4k monitor. 9070xt looks like great value and unsure which CPU would be best, heard that 8-core cpu is good, but is it needed and does it matter from 7800->9800x3d?

I recently purchased 2/3 items from a bundle and didn’t realize there was a bundle deal going on. Can I refund a part and grab the third bundle item to get the discount?

Has anyone ever done this?

I find it strange that Microcenter is selling tp link 200 and 300 but not recently released 220. Also, they're selling 200 for the price of 220

I have a six year old Asus studio book pro x w730. Had it since it came out aa my workstation. Took care of it well well. It has getting too hot recently and check my cpu that it was going way over.

Mouse was stuttering so prob graphic issue.

But I wanted to the further investigation to find out what was causing the issue so I searched Asus to find the local Micro Center as affiliated tech service center.

I explained everything along with fan rattling.

After the stress test they said the GPU failed and prob because of motherboard. They searched and Asus no longer makes this motherboard.

Since cpu gets hot when I play games but not as well when I edit videos so I wanted to fix the fan and repaste the cpu and cpu with thermal pad.

I just wanted to get fan& heatsink replacement parts and replace it my own.

Went to pick I up just now and what do you know...

They damaged one of my 2tb m2 ssd

Since it's raided I can not boot up.

The pc was running fine before I dropped it for $50 diagnose and now they said it's because of my motherboard and had virus.

Only thing they said they could do was to reinstall fresh windows which will wipe out everything.

I have more than 3tb worth of work in there. Since it's raided to 4tb, Im left with 2tb without ever gaining a hope to recover the file.

This is so frustrating and one thing that drove me nuts was the tech was asking others "Who worked on it, did you work on it" to the other techs. All gathered up inside to talk what happened. Also asked me if my computer booted up normal before. Of course it booted up fine. That's why I gave you my pass code to log in.

They put it into ez bios mode and just left me with no boot up. I went back in and they were like oh it's because of the motherboard and virus you had.

No joke. That would not break my raided ssd. Come on...

I dont have any other option except to reinstall windows and hopefully the parts they stress tested are okay. This is so dumb and frustrating for me since it was supposed to be a simple diagnose. Disgusted to see the tech implying it is my fault is not something I would expect from the giant company.

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Update

After a call with Microcenter supervisor, I just received a text from Microcenter which is 2hr later.

"This is the Micro Center Service Department. We performed one final test to verify whether the unit would boot into the operating system. During testing, we rearranged the two drives to ensure they were installed in the correct locations. After doing so, the unit successfully booted into the original OS.

Your unit is now ready for pickup."

This tells me they did take out my ssd before and did not properly reinstall them in order. I told them multiple times it's raided 4tb. That text me is basically saying 'Sorry' without actually saying sorry in corporate environment. They imidiately started a new ticket while I was having this issue at the show and offered a fresh install is nonsense. Like they sound it like they are doing a big favor. Hey I can install new window my own. But checking ssd in order for raided ssd is not something you would know as a technican, that's basic, then how can anyone trust you with the building up a pc with them?? Anyway, I will make an update as soon I pick them up again. I will make sure it boots up correctly and has all the file before I step out the shop.

EDIT: just realizing it autocorrected to Microsoft in the title if a mod could fix this that’d be nice

Just wanted to share my story for those of you who shop at Micro Center or those who are curious about what their customer service is like. I bought an AIO three or four days ago and been looking at YouTube videos of its different features and reviews and stuff after the fact, yeah I know, but I went with the recommendation from the guy at the build a PC corner, I realize that I probably overpaid and so I went looking and I found the manufacturer selling the cooler for about $50 less. So thinking I’d messed up. I looked up to see if they did price matching which they did called up the line because I live a decent ways away from the store. They said they do indeed price match however, the seller and the shipper have to be the same so because it was the manufacturer selling on Amazon and not Amazon selling via Amazon I was told they couldn’t honor it. The associate was about to hang up and I asked for help on whether I could return the product having already used the thermal paste, but they would pass it on to the manager at the store and that I would get a call in 15 20minutes. 15-20 minutes later I get a call, explain the situation from the start and was very quickly told that they would honor the price match. On top of dropping the item cost my insurance plan price was reduced as well for a combined total of a little over $70. So my takeaway from this is that some managers may deviate from store policy if it’s in the spirit of the policy. In my case, I imagine the rule is to prevent a fake or undercutting third party from selling on bestbuy/amazon and Microcenter a lot of money. However when the manufacturer is the one selling on Amazon because they don’t have their own platform, that falls into the spirit of why the price matching policy exists.

Is there any bottlenecks that might come with upgrading this pc, like memory or power supply?

Hello, so I just bought an open box powerspec pc at the Dallas location, I made sure to ask them to boot the pc and I also asked like two people what the warranty remaining on the pc was and they both didn't know or couldn't tell me. Is there a way to check this or do I have to call them, it's a two hour drive from me.

The pc was returned 5/14/26 so I wouldn't like to think it was bought recently but let me know.

I went to get my PC fixed about 3 weeks ago, had some booting issues. They ended up wipping my computer. Crazy it cost like $180 or something. Well a different issue has come up. Am I seriously gonna get charged another fee to get it fixed? Or should I take it somewhere else.

My PC is getting kind of dirty, but I’m not sure if it’s gonna void the warranty if I have to move certain parts is it OK to move like for example, removing a power supply just to clean the bottom

I need my Nintendo DSi XL fixed and I think all it needs is a new wifi module thing from what I've been seeing online.
Does anyone know if thats a decently simple service I could possibly walk in and figure out? Should I make an appointment? Or should I even go somewhere else for help with this? Thanks