POSITIVE upbeat PC GAMERS! ;-)
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vonuber said:
Sign me up, been building my own PC's since I nearly melted a pentium 4 in 2000/1 by wiring the processor fan to the chassis fan by mistake.
Edit: oh, current games I'm enjoying:
Horizon Zero Dawn, Control, Sins of Solar Empire and Forza Horizon.
How do you like sins of the solar empire? I got hold of it in a sale (you know the guilty pleasure of a Steam sale purchase..) but have only tried a few mins.Edit: oh, current games I'm enjoying:
Horizon Zero Dawn, Control, Sins of Solar Empire and Forza Horizon.
Edited by vonuber on Monday 12th April 23:07
Steven_RW said:
How do you like sins of the solar empire? I got hold of it in a sale (you know the guilty pleasure of a Steam sale purchase..) but have only tried a few mins.
It's a fantastic RTS with all the addons. Games can be long, but they are very rewarding. It's a shame they never did a sequel.
deckster said:
Nearer 50 than 40 and still gaming most nights. Went through a console phase 15-odd years ago but been exclusively PC for years now. Always have a few games on the go, both single-player and have a small group of friends I do online co-op with a couple of times a week. The reactions are slower than they used to be for sure, and I really should know better than to stay up till 4am because one more mission. And long may it continue.
I also have a minor obsession and slight addiction to building and fiddling with PCs. I've even been converted to RGB and glass cases which this time last year I'd have scoffed at. But now I think I could really use another couple of fans.
OOO i like that!I also have a minor obsession and slight addiction to building and fiddling with PCs. I've even been converted to RGB and glass cases which this time last year I'd have scoffed at. But now I think I could really use another couple of fans.
I'm 31 and bought my first decent ish pre built gaming pc this year and love it
Totally hooked now - want to build one from scratch or atleast upgrade my own
Theres just something great about them - similar to a really nice looking engine, or a mechanical watch - just interesting to tinker with
I used to be a mac fanboy but even prefer work on gaming pc now its so fast and responsive
Built my first rig last year and enjoyed the satisfaction when it booted up and didn’t explode 
been playing escape from tarkov non stop since I got it but what a difference from Xbox that I used to play on performance wise.
Kicking myself that I didn’t wait an extra couple of weeks till they released the 30** series cards
Also a huge fan of the rainbow vomit 011 dynamic case
been playing escape from tarkov non stop since I got it but what a difference from Xbox that I used to play on performance wise.Kicking myself that I didn’t wait an extra couple of weeks till they released the 30** series cards
Also a huge fan of the rainbow vomit 011 dynamic case
I had a few hours spare last night when OH was out getting her hair done so decided to play some games:
First was World of Tanks (a game that has had the graphics massively improved since it was released), had two or three fun games then was getting a bit frustrated so hopped onto:
Star Wars Battlefront II for some pew-pew-pew shooting action that doesn't take masses of skill or crazy reflexes. Considering I didn't pay for it (they gave it away a few months back) it's great.
Then just to relax and run around a beautiful city landscape I played Mirrors Edge: Catalyst, I think it's the one game I just want to explore the city and ignore the missions.
Been on PC games longer than I haven't, most of the hours are racked up in the Total War series which means I don't have to keep upgrading every year to get those last few FPS, think I've had 2 new PCs in the last 10 years, the only thing I've upgraded was more HD space and a new PSU when the old one died last year.
First was World of Tanks (a game that has had the graphics massively improved since it was released), had two or three fun games then was getting a bit frustrated so hopped onto:
Star Wars Battlefront II for some pew-pew-pew shooting action that doesn't take masses of skill or crazy reflexes. Considering I didn't pay for it (they gave it away a few months back) it's great.
Then just to relax and run around a beautiful city landscape I played Mirrors Edge: Catalyst, I think it's the one game I just want to explore the city and ignore the missions.
Been on PC games longer than I haven't, most of the hours are racked up in the Total War series which means I don't have to keep upgrading every year to get those last few FPS, think I've had 2 new PCs in the last 10 years, the only thing I've upgraded was more HD space and a new PSU when the old one died last year.
Steven_RW said:
MissChief said:
I have no idea what you're on about.....
PC gaming almost exclusively for a decade or more and have been building and fiddling for years and years even before that. Mostly play Apex Legends with a little Master Chief Collection in there too
Close encounters of the third kind going on in that there 011 Dynamic! :-)PC gaming almost exclusively for a decade or more and have been building and fiddling for years and years even before that. Mostly play Apex Legends with a little Master Chief Collection in there too
Temps are good which was a worry with a vertical mount. Just played some Apex Legends there, while not a hugely demanding game the 5950x hit 49% max usage (
) a max tempo spike of 91'C which seems to happen until the AIO can catch up, it runs high 70's to low 80's which is normal for a 5000 series and GPU temps were max of 73'C but generally sit around 68-69. There's a fair amount of heat coming through the AIO top vents though! Great in the winter, I suspect it's not going to be nice in the summer!42 year old who hadn't built a pc since my late teens. Built a lockdown gaming rig late last year around a 3600xt and managed to bag an RTX 3090 on release. Topped it off with a Reverb G2 VR set a HOTAS stick and have gone down a massive flight sim rabbit hole and am now hopelessly addicted to DCS reliving childhood Top Gun fantasies when not mucking around in COD with mates (virtual pub). 4k 120Hz maxed out settings Warzone is a huge step up from my creaky old OG Xbox One!
Any fellow DCS aficionados here? I would imagine there is some car sim / flight sim overlap.
On the plus side I am justifying the enormous spend by mining Eth when not gaming.
Any fellow DCS aficionados here? I would imagine there is some car sim / flight sim overlap.
On the plus side I am justifying the enormous spend by mining Eth when not gaming.
52 and started playing games on a sharp mz 80k when I was about 11 or 12,I used to sit up all night typing in the game codes that came in Computer and video games magazine ,then another 2 nights correcting all their code errors or checking if I'd put an equals sign instead of greater than.
Still playing,can't be bothered building my own but I do my own upgrades .
Still playing,can't be bothered building my own but I do my own upgrades .
I'm no use at multi quotes, so am just kinda replying to many people in one vague ramble.
This is all great to see.
You can always take a break if your enthusiasm is running low.
I was PubG playing every night for around 9 months. The lads took a break to play something else and I am not that interested in their other game, so just end up messing around with my watercooled build. Looking at new parts, speccing out an upgrade here and there. All good stuff.
I had taken a huge break after competing in Counter Strike Source and just played PS3 and PS4 for years then I bought a pre-built from ChillBlast. One thing lead to another and my current gaming pc only contains the OS NVME drive from that build. Every single other component has been upgraded :-).
Good times.
As for moving to all white LEDs rather than rainbow RBG, yeah that would suit me as a little light in the case lets you see what is going on.
As for the AIO on the powerful ryzen 5000, 91c still seems a little high. The water in the waterblock should be able to absorb the initial power spike without seeing 90c I'd say. If not, then it is hard to see how an aircooler could ever handle that chip. You confident it is seating perfectly on top of the CPU IHS?
My own current project is a wifi bridge so my mining pcs can run from ethernet rather than wifi for extra stability.
Cheers RW
This is all great to see.
You can always take a break if your enthusiasm is running low.
I was PubG playing every night for around 9 months. The lads took a break to play something else and I am not that interested in their other game, so just end up messing around with my watercooled build. Looking at new parts, speccing out an upgrade here and there. All good stuff.
I had taken a huge break after competing in Counter Strike Source and just played PS3 and PS4 for years then I bought a pre-built from ChillBlast. One thing lead to another and my current gaming pc only contains the OS NVME drive from that build. Every single other component has been upgraded :-).
Good times.
As for moving to all white LEDs rather than rainbow RBG, yeah that would suit me as a little light in the case lets you see what is going on.
As for the AIO on the powerful ryzen 5000, 91c still seems a little high. The water in the waterblock should be able to absorb the initial power spike without seeing 90c I'd say. If not, then it is hard to see how an aircooler could ever handle that chip. You confident it is seating perfectly on top of the CPU IHS?
My own current project is a wifi bridge so my mining pcs can run from ethernet rather than wifi for extra stability.
Cheers RW
I've taken over the living room with mine. The Enthoo Prime is huuuuge but even with an overclocked 980ti is silent thanks to water cooling and 140mm fans. I've got a very tolerant wife to let me set up the driving rig.
It started as an Obutto but I found the seat really uncomfortable. After trawling ebay for weeks I ended up finding a seat from an Audi A7 for not a lot of money. To mate it onto the rig I ordered some steel plates of the correct size for I think £12 delivered, drilled holes for the runners on the seat and the rig and bolted it up. Tricks for young players include the fact that the runners on the seat aren't mounted centrally on the seat base and they aren't even mounted parallel to the direction the seat is facing!
Being a 12 way adjustable seat I also had to power the electrics. The seat came with four separate looms built in (movement, sensors, heating and airbag) and I couldn't find a manual with any details of what each did and which wire was which. And I didn't really want to set the airbag off as that would explode the seat. I ended up tracing out the movement loom and bought a cheap 12V 10A power supply from Amazon to power it. And it works!!
It looks good and is pretty damn comfy too.
I got back into it during lockdown for some VR goodness. I've made it to all states available in my purple Kenworth in American Truck Simulator and putting in some decent mid-field results in the Stoopid Challenges for the PCars2 hotlap competition.
It really needs a CPU upgrade but I managed to find a PS5 last month and paying over the odds for AMD CPUs at the moment is annoying.
It started as an Obutto but I found the seat really uncomfortable. After trawling ebay for weeks I ended up finding a seat from an Audi A7 for not a lot of money. To mate it onto the rig I ordered some steel plates of the correct size for I think £12 delivered, drilled holes for the runners on the seat and the rig and bolted it up. Tricks for young players include the fact that the runners on the seat aren't mounted centrally on the seat base and they aren't even mounted parallel to the direction the seat is facing!
Being a 12 way adjustable seat I also had to power the electrics. The seat came with four separate looms built in (movement, sensors, heating and airbag) and I couldn't find a manual with any details of what each did and which wire was which. And I didn't really want to set the airbag off as that would explode the seat. I ended up tracing out the movement loom and bought a cheap 12V 10A power supply from Amazon to power it. And it works!!
It looks good and is pretty damn comfy too.
I got back into it during lockdown for some VR goodness. I've made it to all states available in my purple Kenworth in American Truck Simulator and putting in some decent mid-field results in the Stoopid Challenges for the PCars2 hotlap competition.
It really needs a CPU upgrade but I managed to find a PS5 last month and paying over the odds for AMD CPUs at the moment is annoying.
I’ve been taking PC’s apart and fixing them for 35 years and it still hasn’t got old.
Currently using an overclocked 2700X and 3090FE whilst waiting for my 5950X to turn up. Within the next 2 weeks I’ve been reliably informed.
All RBG switched off except for the 3090FE.
Do also have a PS4, PS4 Pro and PS5 in the house too. Games aren’t just for PC’s.
Game from the sofa with a controller now exclusively. No controller support, no purchase from me. Even have my PC next to the TV, 65” OLED at 4K 120Hz.
Currently using an overclocked 2700X and 3090FE whilst waiting for my 5950X to turn up. Within the next 2 weeks I’ve been reliably informed.
All RBG switched off except for the 3090FE.
Do also have a PS4, PS4 Pro and PS5 in the house too. Games aren’t just for PC’s.
Game from the sofa with a controller now exclusively. No controller support, no purchase from me. Even have my PC next to the TV, 65” OLED at 4K 120Hz.
seefarr said:
I've taken over the living room with mine. The Enthoo Prime is huuuuge
I like the look of that. I started with a fractal meshify C which at the time I didn't realise is actually quite a small case, then a Lian Li 011 dynamic and then the XL version of that same case. Great for watercooling. I then bought a couple of Fractal Define R2 XL cases. A kinda generation older than some of the latest stuff (no room for a 360 or 420mm rad) but the cavernous space made pc building much easier than the smaller other ones I had been working on.That car chair you have on your driving sim rig is spot on.
How do you like that truck driving Sim? I have been thinking about trying it or one of those snow runner / mud runner games.
Cheers
RW
I've been a PC gamer (I still like consoles too) since the Celeron 300A / Voodoo2 days.
I have a healthly collection of PC parts (both old and new) and happily class myself as a huge geek.
Unfortunately I don't have a Voodoo2 anymore, however I have a dual Slot 1 motherboard with two Cely 300A's
as well as about 10 AGP graphics cards from the late 90's early 00's. I have several motherboards, CPU's, etc from that era. It's my favourtite era for PC gaming and hardware.
I love building and tinkering with things, be it PC's, cars, electronics, Lego, DIY, etc.
I have a healthly collection of PC parts (both old and new) and happily class myself as a huge geek.
Unfortunately I don't have a Voodoo2 anymore, however I have a dual Slot 1 motherboard with two Cely 300A's
as well as about 10 AGP graphics cards from the late 90's early 00's. I have several motherboards, CPU's, etc from that era. It's my favourtite era for PC gaming and hardware.I love building and tinkering with things, be it PC's, cars, electronics, Lego, DIY, etc.
anarki said:
I've been a PC gamer (I still like consoles too) since the Celeron 300A / Voodoo2 days.
I have a healthly collection of PC parts (both old and new) and happily class myself as a huge geek.
Unfortunately I don't have a Voodoo2 anymore, however I have a dual Slot 1 motherboard with two Cely 300A's as well as about 10 AGP graphics cards from the late 90's early 00's. I have several motherboards, CPU's, etc from that era. It's my favourtite era for PC gaming and hardware.
I love building and tinkering with things, be it PC's, cars, electronics, Lego, DIY, etc.
Nice! In my quest for more doom2 fps from.my dx2 66 I bought a diamond stealth 2 gfx card. Was a big deal.at the time as a school kid I have a healthly collection of PC parts (both old and new) and happily class myself as a huge geek.
Unfortunately I don't have a Voodoo2 anymore, however I have a dual Slot 1 motherboard with two Cely 300A's
as well as about 10 AGP graphics cards from the late 90's early 00's. I have several motherboards, CPU's, etc from that era. It's my favourtite era for PC gaming and hardware.I love building and tinkering with things, be it PC's, cars, electronics, Lego, DIY, etc.
Edited by Steven_RW on Wednesday 14th April 09:26
Steven_RW said:
I like the look of that. I started with a fractal meshify C which at the time I didn't realise is actually quite a small case, then a Lian Li 011 dynamic and then the XL version of that same case. Great for watercooling. I then bought a couple of Fractal Define R2 XL cases. A kinda generation older than some of the latest stuff (no room for a 360 or 420mm rad) but the cavernous space made pc building much easier than the smaller other ones I had been working on.
That car chair you have on your driving sim rig is spot on.
How do you like that truck driving Sim? I have been thinking about trying it or one of those snow runner / mud runner games.
Cheers
RW
It's really nice to build a PC in a big case! That car chair you have on your driving sim rig is spot on.
How do you like that truck driving Sim? I have been thinking about trying it or one of those snow runner / mud runner games.
Cheers
RW
You may need to be a certain type of nerd to enjoy Euro / American truck sims, but clearly I am. Truckin' across the desert with hair metal on the radio just suits me! They're frequently on sale and the base game isn't that much.
Snowrunner (much better than the previous ones) was really good if you're a patient gamer - never has hitting 5mph felt like such an achievement.
seefarr said:
It's really nice to build a PC in a big case!
You may need to be a certain type of nerd to enjoy Euro / American truck sims, but clearly I am. Truckin' across the desert with hair metal on the radio just suits me! They're frequently on sale and the base game isn't that much.
Snowrunner (much better than the previous ones) was really good if you're a patient gamer - never has hitting 5mph felt like such an achievement.
These games sound good. Maybe take my blood pressure down a few clicks compared to nail biting pubg. You may need to be a certain type of nerd to enjoy Euro / American truck sims, but clearly I am. Truckin' across the desert with hair metal on the radio just suits me! They're frequently on sale and the base game isn't that much.
Snowrunner (much better than the previous ones) was really good if you're a patient gamer - never has hitting 5mph felt like such an achievement.
I'll have a look into them. Cheers
Steven_RW said:
Nice! In my quest for more doom2 fps from.my dx2 66 I bought a diamond stealth 2 gfx card. Was a big deal.at the time as a school kid
Nice - I don't have anything of that vintage Edited by Steven_RW on Wednesday 14th April 09:26
I've dug out what I could find, I'm pretty sure I have a couple more boxed away somewhere though. I know I've got a geforce 256!
From top left to bottom right:
Voodoo Banshee 16MB
Diamond Viper V770 (Riva TNT2) 32MB
Canopus 5400 PE (Riva TNT2 Ultra) 32MB
Geforce 2 Pro 64MB (maybe 32MB I can't remember)
Canopus Spectra X20 (Geforce 3 with a 263MHz core and 460MHz Mem)
3d Prophet III Titanium 200 (Geforce 3 Ti200)
Geforce 4 Ti4200 64MB
3d Prophet 4500 64MB (Kyro II)
Tyan Tachyon G9600 (ATi Radeon 9600 Pro 128MB)
All of them work flawlessly.
I'm enjoying this thread, thanks for trip down memory lane. The above brought back memories of buying my Matrox Mystique card which alleged to be great for 3D acceleration but turned out not to be so great. I ended up biting the bullet and bought a 3DFX2 card for much more money.
My background, started out with ZX-81, 16k Spectrum upgraded it to 48k, Amiga, 486SX25, then numerous decent PCs thereafter. Current machine is a few years old now, running an i7-6700k with EVGA GTX-980 in a SilverStone GD09B case that sits underneath the TV in our cabinet. No fancy RGB stuff as it's all tucked away. I'm still running at 1080p through our Panasonic TV.
I considered building a new fancy machine late last year, then realised what I wanted isn't available to actually buy due to stock issues and adding on a TV upgrade to 4k made it more pricey and left me with a perfectly usable TV that I wouldn't know what to do with. It'll happen, but more at a time where components are available and/or a TV upgrade is on the cards.
Also had numerous consoles, but definitely switch back to PC land with a steam account full of games I'll never get around to playing, approaching 1500 in there now.
My background, started out with ZX-81, 16k Spectrum upgraded it to 48k, Amiga, 486SX25, then numerous decent PCs thereafter. Current machine is a few years old now, running an i7-6700k with EVGA GTX-980 in a SilverStone GD09B case that sits underneath the TV in our cabinet. No fancy RGB stuff as it's all tucked away. I'm still running at 1080p through our Panasonic TV.
I considered building a new fancy machine late last year, then realised what I wanted isn't available to actually buy due to stock issues and adding on a TV upgrade to 4k made it more pricey and left me with a perfectly usable TV that I wouldn't know what to do with. It'll happen, but more at a time where components are available and/or a TV upgrade is on the cards.
Also had numerous consoles, but definitely switch back to PC land with a steam account full of games I'll never get around to playing, approaching 1500 in there now.
Fun thread, and certainly brings back memories of 386s and null modem cables for a death match, not to mention 3DFX cards, soundblasters and questionable approaches to cooling for that extra few Hz.
I switched to purely console probably around the PS3 era so I guess 2006/7 then weirdly switched to Xbox a while ago which led to gaming laptop to take advantage of Gamepass and now spend most of my gaming time on PC again.
Was thinking of doing a build but as getting a graphics card here is crazy a custom pre build is on the cards, seems excessive for a few hours FPS or driving a week (Xbox X, Laptop & desktop) but it is slippery slope.
Davie
I switched to purely console probably around the PS3 era so I guess 2006/7 then weirdly switched to Xbox a while ago which led to gaming laptop to take advantage of Gamepass and now spend most of my gaming time on PC again.
Was thinking of doing a build but as getting a graphics card here is crazy a custom pre build is on the cards, seems excessive for a few hours FPS or driving a week (Xbox X, Laptop & desktop) but it is slippery slope.
Davie
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