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Gaming Computers

ShawnC13 — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 19:15:32 GMT

Are you a gamer? What computer do you use, did you build your own or purchase pre-built and what are the specs in your machine?

Re: Gaming Computers

will13am — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 19:55:39 GMT

Everything you ever wanted to know... It is a great source to pick out parts with recommended retailers offering the best price. The system builder checks for compatibility also. You won't be left in the cold with round widgets that won't fit into square holes.

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/guide/

Re: Gaming Computers

ShawnC13 — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 20:16:53 GMT

@will13am wrote:
Everything you ever wanted to know... It is a great source to pick out parts with recommended retailers offering the best price. The system builder checks for compatibility also. You won't be left in the cold with round widgets that won't fit into square holes.

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/guide/

Great site, use it quite often. I was just seeing what others were running. I built my last pc but my latest purchase I couldn't piece it together for the price I paid for it.

Re: Gaming Computers

will13am — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 20:22:34 GMT

It does cost a bit more to build your own. The prebuilt units have crappy parts and don't lend themselves to future component upgrades. Also the prebuilt motherboards don't have all the BIOS tweaks that usually come with separately purchased motherboards. It is not a gaming computer if you can't overclock it until it is hitting thermal limits. Even my HTPC is overclocked by 30%.

Re: Gaming Computers

stonechucker — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 20:26:15 GMT

Gaming? I play euchre on my iPadAir, and Cosmic Cruncher and Jupiter Lander on my VIC-20.

Re: Gaming Computers

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 21:19:12 GMT

@stonechucker wrote:
Gaming? I play euchre on my iPadAir, and Cosmic Cruncher and Jupiter Lander on my VIC-20.

VIC-20!!?? Wow. Seriously?

Hey does Solitaire on my Blackberry count? 🙂

Re: Gaming Computers

ShawnC13 — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 21:51:09 GMT

16GB DDR4 at 2666MHz Dual Channel
256GB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD (Boot) + 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s (Storage)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 OC with 8GB GDDR6
Windows 10 Home 64bit English

Onsite/In-Home Service After Remote Diagnosis, 1 Year
850 Watt Multi-GPU Approved Power Supply
Intel Core i7 9700K (8-Core/8-Thread, 12MB Cache, Overclocked up to 4.6GHz across all cores)

Re: Gaming Computers

computergeek541 — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 22:07:57 GMT

I think that the gaming PC industry and building your own system is a lost art.

I'm not sure if it's because we might start playing less games as we get older or if it's because some of the major games of past have stopped making PC versions, that most peple have moved on to dedicated gaming consules. To some extent, it used to be that you would skip the game consule becaue the PC could double as both your computer for school or work, as well as your gaming system.

As for building your own, I see that as really have slowed down. I remember when it seems like each new generation of CPU allowed you do something that you couldn't before. You had to upgrade your CPU because of something such as MMX or the program wouldn't work. Now, especially since the game PC market isn't as big as before, you can often just grab any computer made in the last 10 years and still do everything with it, perhaps just with the program running a bit slower.

Those prebuilt comptuers often had some of the crappiest parts inside them, espcially the ones built simply to be sold based on low price. Houston Technlogy motherboards, Cyrix processors, fake cache chips, Phantom Winmodems, Zoltrix sound cards, D-Link ethernet cards, tower caes that acted as sharp razor to cut your hands up while assembling (and didn't even include card slot covers meaning that you had to collect and save any extras), power supplies that would go "pop" while in use and go up in smoke were things that you could expect from many.

Back in the day, it was dual Pentium 1GHz processors wtih 1GB of RAM in an Asus board that I was rocking. The dual processors didn't really do much because back then, not many of the programs could take advantage of it. It was more bragging rights than anything else.

Re: Gaming Computers

Karnbot13 — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 14:22:00 GMT

@ShawnC13 wrote:
16GB DDR4 at 2666MHz Dual Channel

256GB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD (Boot) + 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s (Storage)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 OC with 8GB GDDR6

Windows 10 Home 64bit English

Onsite/In-Home Service After Remote Diagnosis, 1 Year

850 Watt Multi-GPU Approved Power Supply

Intel Core i7 9700K (8-Core/8-Thread, 12MB Cache, Overclocked up to 4.6GHz across all cores)

I can tell I'm not a gamer. I looked at your specs and said "What the hell would I do with that much processing power?". Haha

Re: Gaming Computers

will13am — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 21:25:30 GMT

This is supposed to be a fairly descent priced prebuilt system. Of course, there is the usual concerns of weak cooling, mobo and power supply. It goes with the territory for prebuilt systems. BTW, it will do solitaire lag free as reported.

https://forums.redflagdeals.com/lenovo-canada-t730-desktop-2345-99-i9-9900k-32gb-rtx2080-256gb-ssd-2tb-hd-2245640/

Re: Gaming Computers

ShawnC13 — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 23:56:23 GMT

@will13am wrote:
This is supposed to be a fairly descent priced prebuilt system. Of course, there is the usual concerns of weak cooling, mobo and power supply. It goes with the territory for prebuilt systems. BTW, it will do solitaire lag free as reported.

https://forums.redflagdeals.com/lenovo-canada-t730-desktop-2345-99-i9-9900k-32gb-rtx2080-256gb-ssd-2tb-hd-2245640/

I went through ebates so it was 10% cash back and got mine for $2250 and it has liquid cooling and a 850w psu so I am hoping for lag free spider solitaire

Re: Gaming Computers

Carld123 — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 00:03:41 GMT

Mame ...lots of thats old dad comments..lol... Defender or stargate..i still have my quarter on a string....👍

Re: Gaming Computers

Zia_219 — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 20:55:44 GMT

I built a pretty nice pc a couple years ago. Geforce GTX 1070 with a i5 6600k. Runs nearly every game great on high settings 👍

Re: Gaming Computers

Salmonlips — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 17:22:10 GMT

my build is pretty modest:

ryzen 1700x

asus strix b350-f

16gb 3200 ram

nvidia gtx1060 6gb

1x250 ssd (mushkin or something i cheaped out on, shopping around for better eventually)

3x2TB hd

and of course i bought everything at the peak of costs (except the cpu)

Re: Gaming Computers

Frosty2506 — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 23:32:26 GMT

I stumbled upon "the lounge" section and figured I could post on here to try and find some PC gamer friends since all my friends are console gamers and it's quite boring gaming by myself all the time, then I happened upon this post! If any of you want to add me an steam and play some games that'd be cool! Frosty2506 (previously frosty_762) My system is a little more modest but it's my pride and joy. I've custom built it and it consists of:

Ryzen 5 2600 (OC'd to 4.2Ghz)

Cryorig M9A cooler

2x4gb Gskill Ripjaws 4 DDR4 2400 (OC'd to 3000mhz) (upgrading to 16gb soon)

Sapphire Nitro+ Rx 580 (OC'd to 1500 core,2100 mem)

Crucial MX500 500gb SSD, 1TB WD Blue HDD

ASUS B350M-A mobo

EVGA 450b3 fully modular psu (because cable management)

all housed in a Coolermaster Q300L with 3 Coolermaster Jetflo 95cfm fans (red LEDs only for a dash of color because RGB is not my thing)

I believe all together it cost me a bit more than 1100 Canadian pesos lol

Re: Gaming Computers

6500K — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 04:15:57 GMT

I remember walking to high school one day and finding a Space Invaders machine at the pizzeria. Boy did I ever spend a lot of money on it!

Got an Atari console with Pong on it that was really cool with the paddle boards.

Then I started playing monochrome games on a Commodore PET computer at school. Liked it so much I convinced my brother to pool some money and get a Commodore 64, which I think came out before the Vic 20.

Started building 8088 computers (with the old NEC V20 chips, I believe), then onto 286, 386, 486 and pentiums/athlons. Had about 30 computers by the mid 90s with most of them networked! Played the original Castle Wolfenstein, Doom, and Quake to death. Was one of the first online to use a mouse keyboard combo for FPS games.

Now I occasionally do LoL and some Overwatch but my reflexes aren't as good as they used to be. Still have my little AMD A10 with 8GB OCZ and Crucial 250 GB SSD, on one of the first solid-state-transistor motherboards on the market by Gigabyte (these things last forever!). Built too many computers to remember - in the hundreds for sure.

Interestingly enough, the high-end gamer category is the only PC sector that is growing while all other PC-related markets are shrinking. Not sure if this is being driven by bitcoin mining or something else.

Oh well, thanks for triggering this journey down memory lane . . .

Re: Gaming Computers

ShawnC13 — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 05:06:32 GMT

So I got my new computer today and haven't had time to really do anything and I am trying to figure out what new games I am going to get. So just as a comparison to my 9 yo pc that died I had to set the settings down on minimal to get 50 FPS for fortnite. On the new computer I have all settings on Epic and limit the FPS at 180 and it pretty much stays there I might lift the limit and see where it will go to. Now the fun begins!!

Re: Gaming Computers

Frosty2506 — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 10:05:10 GMT

Just make sure you have a high resolution, high refresh rate monitor to take advantage of all that horsepower!

Re: Gaming Computers

Effort — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 00:53:29 GMT

Built my own a few years back. Few upgrades were thrown in here and there. In terms of gaming, there's no need to upgrade for a few more years.

Case: Fractal Design Meshify C <-- Purchased this Black Friday.

CPU: Intel 6700k @ Stock

HSF: Hyper 212 Evo

MOBO: MSI z170 SLI PLUS

RAM: Team Vulcan 16GB (2x8) DDR4-3000Mhz

GPU: Zotac GTX1080 Mini [Overclocked +200/+200]

SSD: 240G Kingston UV400

HDD: 1TB Western Digital Blue

The only thing I'm looking at currently is an NVMe drive. My motherboard can only use NVMe drives on my M2 slot. Cheapest 1TB on sale is around $200 before tax. A quality one without QLC NAND is $250 on sale.

Re: Gaming Computers

Frosty2506 — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 02:54:12 GMT

If the mother board has m.2 slots it will work with both nvme and sata based m.2 drives. And unless you use your computer for video editing or transferring large files all the time an NVMe drive is pretty much pointless. And not to sound like an ass but why would you bother buying a k skew processor and a z series board if you're not overclocking your processor. You might as well have just bought a 6700 and a b series chipset and saved yourself the money.