Ordered some new PC bits today after waffling about it for ages. Going from a quad core 2.6Ghz processor with 8GB DDR3 ram to a six core 4.6Ghz processor with 32GB DDR4 ram and a SSD. It's going to feel like I've taken cyber-cocaine and jacked into the matrix.
Is your old PC still on a regular HDD? if so, ye lords, the new computer is going to be like magic!
Going to an SSD is the single biggest "holy shit this thing is fast" upgrade in the world.
Ordered some new PC bits today after waffling about it for ages. Going from a quad core 2.6Ghz processor with 8GB DDR3 ram to a six core 4.6Ghz processor with 32GB DDR4 ram and a SSD. It's going to feel like I've taken cyber-cocaine and jacked into the matrix.
Is your old PC still on a regular HDD? if so, ye lords, the new computer is going to be like magic!
Going to an SSD is the single biggest "holy shit this thing is fast" upgrade in the world.
When it takes me longer to type in my password to login than it took to get through the entire boot sequence, well that's when I know I'm living in the future.
I just got woken up by a DHL call asking about granting POA for importing my new computer.
After waiting forever, I just went and used the NZXT pc builder and had them build everything for me. Not perfect, but the main parts are solid and the minor upgrades I can do myself.
Hopping from a Dell computer that was on the low-end of mid-range in 2014 to a beefy 2021 boy.
I hope this picture was taken from the comfort of a warm blanket
The temperature has gone back up to 2C, which is practically summer again.
I would rather die than live somewhere with those temps
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I'm hoping to put off a CPU/Mobo/RAM upgrade to next year, when hopefully I can put together something like a i5-12600K / DDR5 combo for less than new-to-market prices.
Ordered some new PC bits today after waffling about it for ages. Going from a quad core 2.6Ghz processor with 8GB DDR3 ram to a six core 4.6Ghz processor with 32GB DDR4 ram and a SSD. It's going to feel like I've taken cyber-cocaine and jacked into the matrix.
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Ordered some new PC bits today after waffling about it for ages. Going from a quad core 2.6Ghz processor with 8GB DDR3 ram to a six core 4.6Ghz processor with 32GB DDR4 ram and a SSD. It's going to feel like I've taken cyber-cocaine and jacked into the matrix.
Is your old PC still on a regular HDD? if so, ye lords, the new computer is going to be like magic!
Yes, a fairly elderly HDD that I think has been ill for a while. About 20% of the time these days when I boot Windows tells me it's fixing... something.
Ordered some new PC bits today after waffling about it for ages. Going from a quad core 2.6Ghz processor with 8GB DDR3 ram to a six core 4.6Ghz processor with 32GB DDR4 ram and a SSD. It's going to feel like I've taken cyber-cocaine and jacked into the matrix.
Is your old PC still on a regular HDD? if so, ye lords, the new computer is going to be like magic!
Yes, a fairly elderly HDD that I think has been ill for a while. About 20% of the time these days when I boot Windows tells me it's fixing... something.
Oh man, I'm excited for you. That first time booting an OS from an SSD, let alone launch games...magical
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I'm late to the best game of all time discussion, but here would probably be my top ten for considering such a title:
-- Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988; Nintendo; NES): King Koopa has kidnapped Princess Toadstool, taken over all seven kingdoms in the Mushroom World, and put his seven kids in charge of all of them. It's the Mario Brothers to the rescue.
-- Tetris (1989; Nintendo; NES): Differently shaped forms fall down into a 2D container. The forms, which can be moved and rotated, must be sorted in "on-the-fly".
-- Donkey Kong ‘94 (1994; Nintendo; Gameboy): Mario must save Pauline from the hands of her kidnapper, the giant gorilla Donkey Kong.
-- Chrono Trigger (1995; Square; SNES): Crono, a young boy, is thrust to adventure by destiny to destroy an oncoming threat that will destroy the world in 1999.
-- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998; Nintendo; N64): A young Kokiri boy discovers that his destiny is to free the Seven Sages and save the land of Hyrule from the treacherous sorcerer Ganondorf.
-- Worms Armageddon (1999; Team17; PC): Teams of worms armed to the teeth with the most advanced weaponry (including banana bombs and exploding sheep) battle in a crazy tournament.
-- Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (2000; Bioware; PC): Jon Irenicus, a sadistic secretive powerful mage bent on revenge, captures Gorion's ward and his/her party for a diabolical experiment.
-- Capcom vs SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001 (2001; Capcom; Xbox): Capcom vs. SNK 2 combines characters and gameplay elements from various Capcom and SNK fighting games, mainly the Street Fighter and The King of Fighters series.
-- Pokémon HeartGold (2009; Game Freak; DS): A young Pokémon trainer unravels mysteries in the Johto and Kanto region, battling to become the greatest Pokémon of all time.
-- Rock Band 3 (2010; Harmonix; PS3): Simulating the experience of performing in a band, up to four players use remotes modeled after microphones, guitars, bass guitars, and drums to engage with their favorite songs.
Ordered some new PC bits today after waffling about it for ages. Going from a quad core 2.6Ghz processor with 8GB DDR3 ram to a six core 4.6Ghz processor with 32GB DDR4 ram and a SSD. It's going to feel like I've taken cyber-cocaine and jacked into the matrix.
Is your old PC still on a regular HDD? if so, ye lords, the new computer is going to be like magic!
Going to an SSD is the single biggest "holy shit this thing is fast" upgrade in the world.
If you want the good shit and if your board has it grab a NVME drive
It's liberating the flash drive from the SATA data cable and it's extremely awesome, and small and easy install
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Yeah that's what I'm getting. A 1TB NVME.
I currently have a 1TB HDD for my games and a 250GB HDD with Windows and everything else. I'd like to reuse one. But like I said I'm pretty sure one of them at least is knackered. Is there a way to tell for sure?
I dropped outa school before I could tell you for real but are things are extra heat/sound or does it just crash loading files, a quick reformat after saving the things you want can tell ya if a drives dead or not if it keeps acting up afterwards it probs could do with a replacement
But if ya swap your HDDs to data storage they'll last longer, it's still a running clock but ya can prep for it
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My issues are varied and I guess could be nothing to do with the HDD. Sometimes the PC doesn't boot properly, it powers up but nothing shows on screen, and sometimes the same thing happens after it's been asleep. Might be graphics card/driver problems, cos sometimes my display just dies for no obvious reason, but the card is pretty new and the driver I just updated so I hope not. I put a new PSU in earlier this year so it's also hopefully not a power problem. But then sometimes after a crash I'll get the "Fixing Windows" screen when booting which I always associated with HDD problems.
I also wondered if maybe it could be a motherboard issue. As presumably a dying motherboard can cause issues all over the shop.
I guess I should find out next week once I have a mostly new PC.
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I currently have a 1TB HDD for my games and a 250GB HDD with Windows and everything else. I'd like to reuse one. But like I said I'm pretty sure one of them at least is knackered. Is there a way to tell for sure?
You could try looking at the SMART reporting for each drive. It's an internal digital drive diagnostic to detect drive failures which is probably right there in the drive, but mostly never gets checked or surfaced unless you explicitly grab some software to look at it. It can't predict every type of failure, but it exists for essentially exactly this sort of situation, so you might as well look at it.
Try Crystal disk info, it has a quick overview over SMART information and works for hdds and ssd too.
Don't be alarmed if it shows percentage of health lower than 100% for an ssd though, that's just the reserve cells it has left, it's normal wear and tear after writing a few dozen TB
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Yeah I try not to get obsessed about numbers even though it feels really important when you're choosing expensive parts and you see lots of people on the internet talking about making the numbers go a tiny bit higher. I just have to remind myself that I am not an elite level tech nerd and probably wouldn't even notice the difference and I just need to make sure all the bits go together okay. Upgrading from a Flintstones computer pretty much any modern piece of kit is going to feel like NASA built it.
Edit: Well I just had to make 4 attempts to boot my PC and when it eventually did I got "Repairing Disk Errors" so I guess that's a clue that the HDD really might be buggered.
I just looked up the expected lifespan of a HDD and Google says 5-7 years. These are just over 10 so I guess they've done ok.
Edit2: Though I just ran that crystal disk thing and it says the health of both my drives is Good, so who fecking knows
Yeah I try not to get obsessed about numbers even though it feels really important when you're choosing expensive parts and you see lots of people on the internet talking about making the numbers go a tiny bit higher. I just have to remind myself that I am not an elite level tech nerd and probably wouldn't even notice the difference and I just need to make sure all the bits go together okay. Upgrading from a Flintstones computer pretty much any modern piece of kit is going to feel like NASA built it.
Edit: Well I just had to make 4 attempts to boot my PC and when it eventually did I got "Repairing Disk Errors" so I guess that's a clue that the HDD really might be buggered.
I just looked up the expected lifespan of a HDD and Google says 5-7 years. These are just over 10 so I guess they've done ok.
Edit2: Though I just ran that crystal disk thing and it says the health of both my drives is Good, so who fecking knows
I finished Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy today. I am impressed by how good this game is, even though it is definitely not doing anything new when it comes to the gameplay. Still, it serves it's purpose and is generally fun.
Where this game shines is story, visuals, music, voice acting and atmosphere - I would never expect it to focus so hard on the plot and characters, and yet it does much more than anyone would expect, making it overall a very memorable experience.
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Yeah I try not to get obsessed about numbers even though it feels really important when you're choosing expensive parts and you see lots of people on the internet talking about making the numbers go a tiny bit higher. I just have to remind myself that I am not an elite level tech nerd and probably wouldn't even notice the difference and I just need to make sure all the bits go together okay. Upgrading from a Flintstones computer pretty much any modern piece of kit is going to feel like NASA built it.
Edit: Well I just had to make 4 attempts to boot my PC and when it eventually did I got "Repairing Disk Errors" so I guess that's a clue that the HDD really might be buggered.
I just looked up the expected lifespan of a HDD and Google says 5-7 years. These are just over 10 so I guess they've done ok.
Edit2: Though I just ran that crystal disk thing and it says the health of both my drives is Good, so who fecking knows
What GPU did you go with.
I love
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I'm sticking with my current Radeon RX 580 for now. I only bought it last year and GPUs are stupid expensive.
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Yeah I try not to get obsessed about numbers even though it feels really important when you're choosing expensive parts and you see lots of people on the internet talking about making the numbers go a tiny bit higher. I just have to remind myself that I am not an elite level tech nerd and probably wouldn't even notice the difference and I just need to make sure all the bits go together okay. Upgrading from a Flintstones computer pretty much any modern piece of kit is going to feel like NASA built it.
Edit: Well I just had to make 4 attempts to boot my PC and when it eventually did I got "Repairing Disk Errors" so I guess that's a clue that the HDD really might be buggered.
I just looked up the expected lifespan of a HDD and Google says 5-7 years. These are just over 10 so I guess they've done ok.
Edit2: Though I just ran that crystal disk thing and it says the health of both my drives is Good, so who fecking knows
What GPU did you go with.
I love
hardware
I'm sticking with my current Radeon RX 580 for now. I only bought it last year and GPUs are stupid expensive.
GPU is the only thing I hated buying in my new build. Not the GPU itself, but the fact that I paid at least a 50% markup, and it was the cheapest I could find it. Stuff costs more in Australia anyway, so GPUs here are Australia expensive + current stupid prices expensive.
I don't regret it because it's a beast, but it felt like part of my soul was sucked out when I pressed 'buy'.
If I wasn't going from a laptop to a desktop and I was in a position to keep a GPU to save a bit, I absolutely would have.
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Just in case anyone else, like me, needed a reason to grab an animal hunting game while it's free
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Going to an SSD is the single biggest "holy shit this thing is fast" upgrade in the world.
When it takes me longer to type in my password to login than it took to get through the entire boot sequence, well that's when I know I'm living in the future.
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After waiting forever, I just went and used the NZXT pc builder and had them build everything for me. Not perfect, but the main parts are solid and the minor upgrades I can do myself.
Hopping from a Dell computer that was on the low-end of mid-range in 2014 to a beefy 2021 boy.
I hope this picture was taken from the comfort of a warm blanket
The temperature has gone back up to 2C, which is practically summer again.
no thanks
I would rather die than live somewhere with those temps
Yes, a fairly elderly HDD that I think has been ill for a while. About 20% of the time these days when I boot Windows tells me it's fixing... something.
Oh man, I'm excited for you. That first time booting an OS from an SSD, let alone launch games...magical
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yes, it's also actually really good if realistic hunting games are your particular niche
*nods sagely* Ah yes, albatross.
ive never ever tried one but it sounds somewhat serene
for some reason, some games still have load times.
Even with a 2TB Samsung 980 Pro SSD and 32GB DDR4 RAM.
But on the plus side, in multiplayer game I'm usually the first in lobby
a housecat assuming you are a lvl1 commoner?
no
it's not as chill as fishing games, but it's a game us olds can play and not have to worry too much about reaction times
Gotta 360 noscope those fuckin feral hogs
Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
-- Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988; Nintendo; NES): King Koopa has kidnapped Princess Toadstool, taken over all seven kingdoms in the Mushroom World, and put his seven kids in charge of all of them. It's the Mario Brothers to the rescue.
-- Tetris (1989; Nintendo; NES): Differently shaped forms fall down into a 2D container. The forms, which can be moved and rotated, must be sorted in "on-the-fly".
-- Donkey Kong ‘94 (1994; Nintendo; Gameboy): Mario must save Pauline from the hands of her kidnapper, the giant gorilla Donkey Kong.
-- Chrono Trigger (1995; Square; SNES): Crono, a young boy, is thrust to adventure by destiny to destroy an oncoming threat that will destroy the world in 1999.
-- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998; Nintendo; N64): A young Kokiri boy discovers that his destiny is to free the Seven Sages and save the land of Hyrule from the treacherous sorcerer Ganondorf.
-- Worms Armageddon (1999; Team17; PC): Teams of worms armed to the teeth with the most advanced weaponry (including banana bombs and exploding sheep) battle in a crazy tournament.
-- Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (2000; Bioware; PC): Jon Irenicus, a sadistic secretive powerful mage bent on revenge, captures Gorion's ward and his/her party for a diabolical experiment.
-- Capcom vs SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001 (2001; Capcom; Xbox): Capcom vs. SNK 2 combines characters and gameplay elements from various Capcom and SNK fighting games, mainly the Street Fighter and The King of Fighters series.
-- Pokémon HeartGold (2009; Game Freak; DS): A young Pokémon trainer unravels mysteries in the Johto and Kanto region, battling to become the greatest Pokémon of all time.
-- Rock Band 3 (2010; Harmonix; PS3): Simulating the experience of performing in a band, up to four players use remotes modeled after microphones, guitars, bass guitars, and drums to engage with their favorite songs.
If you want the good shit and if your board has it grab a NVME drive
It's liberating the flash drive from the SATA data cable and it's extremely awesome, and small and easy install
I currently have a 1TB HDD for my games and a 250GB HDD with Windows and everything else. I'd like to reuse one. But like I said I'm pretty sure one of them at least is knackered. Is there a way to tell for sure?
But if ya swap your HDDs to data storage they'll last longer, it's still a running clock but ya can prep for it
I also wondered if maybe it could be a motherboard issue. As presumably a dying motherboard can cause issues all over the shop.
I guess I should find out next week once I have a mostly new PC.
You could try looking at the SMART reporting for each drive. It's an internal digital drive diagnostic to detect drive failures which is probably right there in the drive, but mostly never gets checked or surfaced unless you explicitly grab some software to look at it. It can't predict every type of failure, but it exists for essentially exactly this sort of situation, so you might as well look at it.
Don't be alarmed if it shows percentage of health lower than 100% for an ssd though, that's just the reserve cells it has left, it's normal wear and tear after writing a few dozen TB
https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo/
Edit: Well I just had to make 4 attempts to boot my PC and when it eventually did I got "Repairing Disk Errors" so I guess that's a clue that the HDD really might be buggered.
I just looked up the expected lifespan of a HDD and Google says 5-7 years. These are just over 10 so I guess they've done ok.
Edit2: Though I just ran that crystal disk thing and it says the health of both my drives is Good, so who fecking knows
What GPU did you go with.
I love
hardware
Where this game shines is story, visuals, music, voice acting and atmosphere - I would never expect it to focus so hard on the plot and characters, and yet it does much more than anyone would expect, making it overall a very memorable experience.
I'm sticking with my current Radeon RX 580 for now. I only bought it last year and GPUs are stupid expensive.
GPU is the only thing I hated buying in my new build. Not the GPU itself, but the fact that I paid at least a 50% markup, and it was the cheapest I could find it. Stuff costs more in Australia anyway, so GPUs here are Australia expensive + current stupid prices expensive.
I don't regret it because it's a beast, but it felt like part of my soul was sucked out when I pressed 'buy'.
If I wasn't going from a laptop to a desktop and I was in a position to keep a GPU to save a bit, I absolutely would have.
This is mine after close to 2 years (will be exactly 2 in Feb 2022). The 92% is the write life left.
Apparently theHunter has a few large, beautiful maps and you can treat it as a walking simulator through nature. You also get a camera to take photos of the animals and scenery
Just in case anyone else, like me, needed a reason to grab an animal hunting game while it's free