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Hey Nice setup! You can breath new life to the 2500 with an after market cooler as BTG said. I've been wanting to go Mini ITX for a while now. I love my CM690II but it's a bit too big sometimes you know? I think you could get better FPS with a GPU upgrade and a nice cooler, that 2500 should have similar performance to my 4430, you could go nuts with a 1060 or 480-580. Btw, I had that power supply from my old setup and when I got my new PC some months ago my new motherboard kept warning me about overload protection when booting to the point i had to disable that to boot. It was able to run my system with a 1070 but after a couple of weeks it turned really unstable (the PSU had like 2 years with me) and at the end I had to return that 1070 under warranty, it burned a friend's motherboard when we tired it on his system and got another one but also decided to upgrade my PSU to be safe. What I wanted to say is, I had an issue with it so be careful

I have a Wii U since 2015 and friggin loved it. First console since the GameCube, I skipped thw ii generation as I got into PC gaming way more. I played BotW on the Wii U, about 120 hours into it and I loved it except for the technical shortcomings. The game runs at 1280 x 720 with what seems to be trilinear filtering, no form of AA and is truly jaggy. I'm not sure if I noticed this way more because played it on a 768p screen. The framerate drops a lot more tha the Switch version (it has got better with updates though). Seen it emulated in CemU at 4K 30FPS or 1080p 60 FPS with AA and AF is truly amazing. If you guys are able to I highly suggest emulating it on PC. Playing at 1080p, 30FPS with some AF would already be WAY better than what the switch or Wii U could offer and I don't believe it requires more than an average PC gaming build (4 core CPU at least 2nd gen i5, some 2013-2014 mid-tier to high tier GPU) As for the Switch itself, a friend of mine is very convinced Nintendo did a Soft launch here. It's getting better with Arms, Splatoon 2 and Mario Odyssey coming soon. Fifa 17 might give it a kick too and if that oes well it may gain momentum with 3rd party publishers but we'll see. I'm getting one as a Nintendo Fan boy and specially Splatoon fanboy as soon as i can afford one.

I believe it won't go over it's kinda niche status if it doesn't improve quickly. VR is either too complicated in it's better form for the mainstream or unimpressive enough in its mobile incarnation to catch on ''Nintendo Wii'' style with the mainstream. When we get higher res, clearer headsets with no screendoor effect and no cables, easier setup for movement in rooms and lower PC requeriments or more affordability in PC hardware all together it won't catch on as we need. The industry is making a big effort but they still need to pull off some key moves to truly win everyone. VR doesn't have to be overwhelmingly intense. I believe designers and artists could create calm and peaceful experiences that don't make your senses soar as much as games, maybe other demographics other than gamers would be interested in that sort of thing. I would love to travel to some VR world while I get surgery done or something.

Just finished Fallout 4 and started with NV (I was put off from new vegas after playing like 5h and losing progress for not saving the first time I played it after Fallout 3)

Mine was CS 1.6 NOSTEAM. I was like 10 when I started to play and soon discovered Half-Life after encountering the props in mod servers and wondering what game they came from. I remember I had a 733 MHz Pentium III that could run GoldSrc but could not run Source so my uncle had a Pentium III that ran at 1 GHz and had a 16 mb video card so I installed Half-Life 2 on it (pirated) and took my first sip of Source in like 5 FPS. I went back to my PC and played the heck out of the GldSrc games, even Decay. At that time I didn't know anything about editing config files so it was until 2012 that I built my first PC with a C2D E7500 and a HD5750 and got myself the Valve Complete Pack and experienced all of the valve goodness.

People don't know you were at ground zero Freeman, you're just being paranoid.

There aren't old members of the forum just popping up again, Freeman. You're just being paranoid.

Not at all. I love sleeping with Jazz when I nap and I'm on a certain mood Some people like hearing sounds of nature like rainforests or waterfalls. Or crickets, ya know. Am I weird for enjoying rewatching TV show clips on youtube so much?

Do you have any Nintendo games that you would eventually like to talk about? Have you ever done grafitti?

Nothing like a good ol' audio interface to beef up your PC's audio game. My music has NEVER sounded clearer than when I used a Digidesign MBOX as my soundcard. I recommend keeping that part of your setup for all of eternity.

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So I finally made my full upgrade. I bought everything used but well taken care of. I said in previous posts I wanted to make my PC VR-Ready and I did so to some extent. I got the CPU, MOBO and RAM for $280 all together which was not a bad deal even though they're last gen components and got a MSI Gaming X 1070 for $500, which is not bad locally. Brand new Zotac 1070s go for that price ion local stores while the same MSI card brand new goes for $540 and it was only used for a month. I got a an ASUS z87-K, 8 GB of Corsair 1600 Mhz RAM and a Core i5 4430 which runs at 3 GHz and 3.2 in Turbo. According to the SteamVR thingy I'm all set. I'm not sure about the processor being all that futureproof for heavy, AAA VR but I just figured I can buy an i7 4770 or 4790 for cheap when this one falls short and take advantage of the OC capabilities of this motherboard and will have a decent performance boost. and will be all set for 2 or 3 years. Now I wanna upgrade my monitor because I have a fairly basic 1080p VGA screen. I wanna get a 21:9 but they're really expensive, specially the higher rez ones but I guess I'll have to save The performance right now is mind blowing compared to my HD 6750. GTA V runs at 100 and something FPS on ultra, same with Borderlands. I really don't play many exigent games (although I've limited myself to due to my system, except for running Metro 2033 on my Core 2 duo ) so the plan was really, really futureproofing myself with this build for at least 4 years, that's the least I expect out of the graphics card. Planetside 2 looks gorgeous as well and plays amazingly, it's another world compared to running it on minimum at 1080p with the 6750.

So, about my upgrade. I got a used I5 4430, an ASUS Z87-K ATX mobo and 8 gigs of Corsair Vegeance 1333 mhz for $280. Considering just an i5 6500 would run me $400 in the local market, it's a great bang for the buck.. I'm still stuck with the HD 6750 but for CPU intensive games, it's a world of difference from the Core 2 DUo E7500. Planetside went from 6 FPS on 720p to full 60 FPS on low settings at 1080p, I'm able to crank some settings up but in firefights it dips to 30 so keeping it at low so it stays at 50-60 during intense combat. I'm planning on getting a GTX 960 or probably a 380 as this board has crossfire support which could be a possibility in the future. I planned to go for a 6500 and something like a 970 or 390 but that's now way out of the money I can spend on this so I'm glad I got a decent update Edit: also, mimnimum and average FPS went up in games like Borderlands 2 and The Pre Sequel, I was able to crank up the draw distance and foliage distance and it looks way better, there's a lot less pop up which used to draw me away from the game a lot lol.

I would have liked to be born some thousand of years in the future to see the awesome technology and other planets and starts and shit lol

What's the FoV minimum you can bear? I can handle 65 as in Far Cry 2 but shorter than that may be painful. I wasn't aware this could impact performance, I always try to max it out.

If Ross doesn't set up any official communications players could set up private voicechats using servers like ´s. That way probably a few people can try to take over bases in group and we can have better coordination. If there´s lots of fire going on at a point because of one of these units people watching the stream may feel inclined to go there or follow whatever Ross says if he feels like commanding these groups through the stream or something. I'll be trying to run the game with my E7500 and HD 6750, which can handle games like GTA V and Metro last light in 1280 x 720 minimum settings. I'll mod the config files if needed. lol.

^this. Ediie may have been a childhood friend that moved to another town at an early age and when he came back in contact with Gordon he was this multi-disciplinary illegal dealer, which may or may not have influenced Gordon. Maybe that's why our esteemed theoretical physicist went all system and authority defiant. lol

Dude, It's actually a 780Ti. I think I might have stumbled across something. What do you think? The thing about going for a card on newegg or amazon is that the import fees can be abour 25% the price of the card easily or 30%. The guy also has a waterblock for $60 for it. lol. Also, I'f im going 960 I'm going 4gb for the sake of future-proof, eyecandy and a potential 4gb SLI being better than 2GB, so that's gonna drive the price up to $220 for the MSI on Newegg, plus importing. Should I go for the 780Ti? :B According to these benchmarks, it's next to the 970 in performance, with half a gig of ram less. http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-970-vs-GeForce-GTX-780-Ti

Guys, I have the option of getting a GTX 780 for $280. Do you think it's a good deal? Seeing that I could get a 960 for that kind of money, online + the shipping. I've seen the 780 can come ahead in most benchmarks. It needs much more power as well, The recommended PSU is 600W and mine is a Corsair CX500, which I guess that with my modest Core 2 Duo and 2 hard drives, shouldn't be saturated and could run the card as its maximum power seems to be 250w. I just calculated the total consumption of my current system with that card (as I may buy this ahead of the other components and install it on my system, even if it bottlenecks as f^ck it will be far better than my HD 6750 for the weeks I take to get the other parts) and it stands at 474W, with the future I5 and DDR3 memory, it ramps up to 484, so I may be pushing it a bit, what do you guys think? The i5-8gb system would consume 404w with the 970, I guess a bit less with a 9060 so with that setupp the PSU would not be an issue.

http://steamed.kotaku.com/steams-latest-hit-is-a-tough-as-nails-mars-base-buildin-1737025567?utm_campaign=Socialflow_Kotaku_Facebook&utm_source=Kotaku_Facebook&utm_medium=Socialflow Ross needs to colonize Mars.

I guess I'll just build my system with a GTX 960 to play everything current and maybe add another if the performance of the SLI is comparable or better to a single GTX 980 for VR. If not I'll just sell it and suck it upo and buy a GTX 1070ti or whatever they come up with. But theoretically and according to nvidia's own schemes, if the GTX 980 is enough for VR, the 960 SLI, provided with 4 gb cards instead of the regular 2gb, should perform well.

I'm aware that I'd end up with 3.5 gbs of ram instead of 4 but I'll have to read further on those issues on the GPUs. How's the AMD side looking in that regard? I've had funky experiences with AMD drivers and cards but i'd be willing to try a mid-high end card for this build if the value/performance for VR justify it. This all shakes up my plan . My problem with phones is that I HATE big phones. The biggest I've owned is Sony Xperia Z3 Compact with a 4,6 720p screen and that was still huge to me as my ideal size is the iPhone 5's. So Using a big 5' 1080p phone is still to foreign to me, much less a 5,5 4K phone. I grabbed an iPhone 6 one of these days and thought it was the Plus version just by how massive it appeared to me. That is way too much screen real state on my pocket. I'm actually thinking about upgrading to the Z5 as right now I'm rocking an iPhone 5, if Pokemon Go is as good as it looks I might end up upgrading, those high end Xperias are a lovely thing.

Hey VR Right now is at a VERY early stage with only low end experiences avaliable to the consumer market like those phone headsets from Samsung and Zeiss but with Oculus, Valve, HTC and Sony jumping into the wagon soon, it's gonna get interesting. And we've seen what Oculus is capable of and HTC Vive seems promising as well, specially coming from Valve. Is anyone looking forward to getting any VR solution? I've thought about getting either the consumer Rift of the HTC Vive when they come out. I'm planning on upgrading my PC and since a GTX 970 is what is said to be the minimum for VR right now, that's what I'm getting on the video side as it's also the best I can afford and maybe later on when VR is really worth it throw in another GTX 970 to get that high def high refresh rate awesome experience. I hope an i5 4460 or 4690 will be enough and I'll be getting 8 gigs of ram. I know that's all pretty standard nowadays but I'm coming from a Core 2 Duo E7500 and a HD6750. What's your opinion on the other headsets? Many people are also looking at the option of acquiring high end phones to use with those headsets as phones such as the S6 Edge and iPhone 6S+ have lots of power and great screens.

Have you guys looked into call centers? They usually don't care if you're overqualified (only qualification needed tends to be high school diploma). It's a boring job and you may or may not be takign calls from shitty people if you work on shitty accounts (example: calling people to colect debt) but some others are quite nice, you could end up doing polls on the phone or such, which is tedious but.. what job that you get into because you have no other option isn't? I'd rather work at a call center than security. By much. Idk if it's because I live in a third world country but that's what most people under 30 (and that know english) do.

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