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    Gaming: What's in your Rig?

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    • Mike Ralston
      Mike Ralston last edited by scottalanmiller

      So I know this is a completely Non-Business subject, but what for those of you that do gaming, what Hardware and Software do you guys run, and what brands do you guys tend to stick to?

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      • JaredBusch
        JaredBusch last edited by

        I don't game now, but I had various self built boxes over the years with the then current 2nd best nvidia card.

        Gaming now is just helping the girls learn to play their Disney princess or Dora the explorer game on the Wii.

        I tinker in the EverQuest Emulator community, but that game is 15 years old and can run on anything.

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        • Nic
          Nic last edited by Nic

          Windows 7, Intel i7 something or other, NVidia 680. SSD of course!

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          • MattKing
            MattKing last edited by

            I'm not a big gamer, but I recently upgraded my home workstation so I can get 60-80FPS in my Steam games.

            Except DayZ, I'm on hiatus from that.

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            • Mike Ralston
              Mike Ralston last edited by

              At the moment I'm only running an AMD A10 APU, with 16GB of RAM and an Nvidia GTX 660 SC. Still working on building a rig in a RaidMax Augusta tower with a i7-4770K, 32 GB of RAM, dual Radeon R9 290X cards, and a dedicated soundcard and it's all liquid cooled.

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              • David.Scammell
                David.Scammell last edited by

                I'm running Steam & Origin games on my Alienware M17X2 laptop. Windows 8.1 Enterprise (64-bit). Currently 8 GB of RAM. i5 Quad Core (each one @ 2.53 MHz). AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5870 video card with 1 GB onboard. 750 GB of hard drive space (250 + 500 GB drives). It was a free upgrade from a Dell XPS, so I'm not complaining! One day, I'm hoping to switch out the drives with SSDs and slap a second 5870 video card into it as well.

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                • Dashrender
                  Dashrender last edited by

                  Command and Conquer Generals was the last PC game I truly played. I think I had a P4 with 4 Gigs RAM and an ATI 2nd level video card ($500 was enough - $800 was just crazy).

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                  • scottalanmiller
                    scottalanmiller last edited by

                    I'm currently playing Knight of the Old Republic on the PC via Steam. I almost never have time for it though.

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                    • scottalanmiller
                      scottalanmiller last edited by

                      With my daughters I am playing Chaos in Deponia.

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                      • Mike Ralston
                        Mike Ralston @Dashrender last edited by

                        @Dashrender One of my favorite RTS games, really miss when the C&C games were good.

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                        • Dashrender
                          Dashrender @Mike Ralston last edited by

                          @Mike-Ralston said:

                          @Dashrender One of my favorite RTS games, really miss when the C&C games were good.

                          I really cut my teeth on PC gaming with C&C and followed it all the way to Generals - to me the golden days of PC gaming. I've never been one for FPS, but I love resource management games.

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                          • Mike Ralston
                            Mike Ralston last edited by

                            About the only games I don't play are turn based strategy. Huge fan of racing simulators, but I've been rather disappointed by the ones for PC.

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                            • scottalanmiller
                              scottalanmiller last edited by

                              I don't like turn based either. Way too boring. I get distracted and do other things while waiting on people.

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                              • Mike Ralston
                                Mike Ralston @scottalanmiller last edited by

                                @scottalanmiller Same here. Don't mind a classic JRPG once in a while though.

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                                • scottalanmiller
                                  scottalanmiller last edited by

                                  I've bought FF7 and FF8 from Steam:)

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                                  • JaredBusch
                                    JaredBusch last edited by

                                    @Mike-Ralston said:

                                    @scottalanmiller Same here. Don't mind a classic JRPG once in a while though.

                                    I loved the Dragon Warrior (Dragon Quest in Japan) series (1 to 4 or 5) back on my NES. Then I left the console realm and never really played the series again. I keep meaning to buy the ones I can for other platforms now, just haven't.

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                                    • Mike Ralston
                                      Mike Ralston last edited by

                                      My favorite of all those games was Legend of Dragoon, which I believe was a Sony PlayStation 1 exclusive. VERY lengthy game, came on 4 discs.

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                                      • scottalanmiller
                                        scottalanmiller @Mike Ralston last edited by

                                        @Mike-Ralston said:

                                        My favorite of all those games was Legend of Dragoon, which I believe was a Sony PlayStation 1 exclusive. VERY lengthy game, came on 4 discs.

                                        Wow. Very old. Never played that one but I remember it.

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                                        • scottalanmiller
                                          scottalanmiller @JaredBusch last edited by

                                          @JaredBusch said:

                                          @Mike-Ralston said:

                                          @scottalanmiller Same here. Don't mind a classic JRPG once in a while though.

                                          I loved the Dragon Warrior (Dragon Quest in Japan) series (1 to 4 or 5) back on my NES. Then I left the console realm and never really played the series again. I keep meaning to buy the ones I can for other platforms now, just haven't.

                                          Dragon Quest VII on the PS2 is one of my favorite games ever!!

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                                          • Mike Ralston
                                            Mike Ralston last edited by

                                            PS2 was the best console, such a great library spanning so many genres.

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