Anyone into PC Gaming?

RO2 Looks good. I'm looking forward to ARMA 3 more than Battlefield 3.
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PC gaming hardware has really taken off the last few years. No TV console can compare, for sure. And now that SSD's are becoming cheaper, load times are becoming almost non-existent.

4-6-Core, 16+Gig of ram, 2-4 vid card(sli) systems are becoming commonplace. The next Gen Xbox/PS will really have to step up their game to get anywhere close, lol.

I just need to stop spending so much in the MaB department and build a new machine soon.

Been PC gaming for years now. Still have a 360 for the games that are only for it. Such as Fable 3 and a handful of others. Mostly play racing games such as the Need for Speed series. Chances are if the PC version isn't better than the console version it can be hacked up to be better. Gotta get a new machine myself. This one is getting s little long in the tooth.

Unreal Engine 3: Official Samaritan Demo - YouTube

epic games wants and expects the next gen consoles to be able to handle something similar to this. a good pc for this would take $800+ right now, and doing it right would easily be $1500, but we're another 2-3 years off of the new xbox/playstations, so by then comparable spec'd hardware should be available at a somewhat reasonable price.

but just imagine what pc's will be capable of by then.

Never tried either of those online vendors. I've always run to my local computer store. They usually have what i'm looking for or can quickly get it if they don't have it. But i'll have a look at them and see what they have.

i can say newegg is fantastic, they simply have a better variety and make it easier to find somewhat older boards that i sometimes need in comparison to my local microcenter. not that i don't like microcenter, but if i need something harder to find and specific newegg is the way to go.

Rmerac said:

Newegg.com and/or Tigerdirect.com will help you with that mate. I've been buying from them for years, and I've always had good reviews for them.

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Same here. In July, I upgraded from Intel Pentium 2.8 Dual Coare to a intel Core i7-2600K Unlocked Processor - Quad Core, 8MB L3 Cache, 1MB L2 Cache, 3.40 GHz (3.80 GHz Max Turbo), Socket H2 (LGA1155)
and
ASUS P8P67 LE B3 Intel P67 Motherboard - ATX, Socket H2 (LGA 1155), Intel P67 Express, 2200MHz DDR3 (O.C.), Gigabit LAN, 8-Channel Audio, SATA 6.0 Gb/s, SuperSpeed USB 3.0, AMD CrossFireX Support

I use a 26" HD Samsung Widescreen monitor for my main display and use HD so i can just plug my speakers into the back of the monitor. Also, i have a 19" lcd Fat panel that i occasionally use and then i have my big bertha... a 43" Gateway 2000 monitor. Its huge and heavy, not to mention old but is great for watching movies. Watching movies on dual screens is awesome.
I have yet to upgrade my graphics card. Its an HIS HD 4350.
I have a ACER i7 2.0ghz Quad Core
Lastnite i was playin' Battlefield Bad Company 2 on my desktop and it lags a bit when theres explosions. Easy fix. I've been playin' Minecraft for the past 3 months. Since Minecraft uses lots of ram, it is required for the player to restart the game ever 5-9hrs. Since im playing using a npc village mod and bunch of other mods combined into the YOGBOX, the ram fills up really quick. 2-4 hrs. Mods in the yogbox include: Millionaire, seasons, elemental creepers, mo' creatures, cant even remember all of them, theres so many.
The 1.8 update deadline is slowly coming up.
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Rmerac said:

You want a great old game? Warcraft! Counter Strike! or Age of Empires! CHYEAH!

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Age of Empires...i've got alot of them. I used to love them. Still do, just don't play them hardly anymore. Onto newer and better things. The cheats are always so random. lol Like for the Age of Empires and Age of empires expansion, the cheat codes, were like bigdaddy for a rc car that shoots missiles that destroys multiple building nearby. They were fast as heck. Get a bunch of them and u rule the world. They just are really easy to convert. There were nuke troopers and another trooper that looked like the nuke trooper but has some wierd rapid laser gun. Other cheats were for resources of course, some others were of like babies on tricyicles with a hand cannon. Who created these? lol One of the coolest was dark rain. Once u type that in, all your bowman, not composite bowman turned into trees and could walk across water. Another cheat gave ballistas greater range. I remember one cheat turned villigers into medusa(warrior). My favorite cheat made the catapult triremes hit whatever it was firing at every shot. The target could be totally out of the way but it would still take lots of damage. lol Flying dutchman let your triremes move on land and water. In the age of kings, u could get a rc corvette that shoots cannonballs(looks like beebee's in the game). Took forever to take down a castle(when i mean forever, i mean like 10-15minutes with one corvette). 3 Trebuchets could take them down quicker than 3 corvettes. I'm surprised i can remember this stuff. I quit playin' AE like 6 years ago. lol

I'm glad someone mentioned old games. At the risk of showing my age. The first game that got me started in PC gaming was Wolfenstien 3D. I spent many hours at this with my 286 12mhz computer with 1MB RAM and a 256KB VGA video card. Quite a machine at the time. I thought about overclocking it to a whopping 16mhz but never did. The only other game that i wasted more time with was Doom. I had a much faster computer when i played it, a smoking Intel Pentium 60 (The math bug was fixed) with 8MB RAM and 1MB VGA Video card. Ahh the memories.

Yea, Doom rocked. There is a program called JDoom that has multiplayer co-op, with all original doom .wad's(praetoria, etc), doom2 .wad's, heretic, hexen. All multiplayer, openGL, mouse controlled. Good for a flashback with a friend, heh heh.

Oh, RTCW(return to castle wolfenstein) multiplayer was epic in its day. That game got me into mapping. Into Source engine mapping lately, Left 4 Dead(2) mostly:
Zombie spawners are fun:
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Age of Empires rocked, like the original Empire Earth. Remember the star wars version of AoE, lol.

Minecraft is too addicting, heh heh!

i like sandbox games like GTA.
also some of the games i like are FPS but are more sandbox like borderlands.

i collect old game systems & their peripherals.
the newest console i have is a wii.
almost all my consoles are also softmodded. to play "back ups"
i also have backups of every game on every console ever made before the psx then every game for the saturn & dreamcast.
i think of them a things i can do when i get old a retire.

if anyone has questions or needs help with game emulation or softmodding your own console, PM me.

Ahh, a thread for us geeks. My first PC game was also Wolfenstein 3D. I didn't play any games but shooters for the next 10 years. Now I'm so burned out on shooters that I stick to strategy games like the Total War series. I still love the GTA series tho.

I have over 30,000 games on my computer, ranging from Apple II games on an emulator to heavy hardware hitters like GTA IV and Civ V. I still love some old games tho. Recently I got into the game Minecraft, it's a newer game but it looks like an old one lol

Yes iL2 Sturmovik 1946

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i've been in the middle of some serous chrono cross playing.
playing it through playstation emulation on my pc.
my ps2 is a slim so it can't play ps1 games.
technically my saturn should be able to play it. though for some od reason i have never been able to burn a disk that my saturn can read. even though saturn is suposed to be the easiest disks to burn.
when i'm not feeling lazy i will be playing on the wii through emulation.

I also have IL-2 Sturmovik, haven't played since my Logitech flight stick started acting up 5 years ago.
KB and mouse don't cut it for me, neither do most gamepads.

I'm a big fan of flight simulators, but they get old for me after awhile.
Sometimes I'll crack open a beer and fire up MS Flight Sim 2002 and take off from a local airport, landing at another in the state.