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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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It may have been Last Stand, when he calls out Adobe Flash for having terrible performance when even Crysis can run well on his system. Yeah, I think so.

They are mentioned in a Game Dungeon, probably Wolfenstein but I'm not sure. He has a quad core AMD and a decent graphics card and some beefy storage but nothing too fancy really that I remember.

I'd love to see 61.75. Freeman has an encounter with border patrol and due to his guns and bloody suit runs off and exchanges fire with the authorities of Norway or Chile or something and employs self-defense, again. xD Or he just finds the highway, drives off in the jeep and finds some motel and a dinner.

You know, there is some form of exploitation in every product you consume. Most of out electronics are manufactured by workers in factories that violate worker's rights, have very low wages for the time they work, and often have heavy psychological consequences on their health (see Foxconn Plant incidents). And that is the tip of the iceberg. Most minerals, including Coltan, gold, silver and diamonds present in our devices are extracted from mines in Africa where guerillas are paid by multinational companies to exploit the local workers, to the point of mutilating them when they defy authority and making women systematic sexslaves. And that is just what the programmers USE to get exploited. We could talk about Nike factories exploiting children, the meat industry or anything else.. but that's just to prove that point, when it comes to the actual gaming industry I think that when this ''slavish ethic'' gets stereotyped in a field, such as programming or others it is very difficult to eliminate because part of the responsibility falls on the workers themselves wanting to work those hours (because we all need to eat), so there will always be another guy willing to crunch those hours for less money because he needs the experience or the money. and companies take advantage of this to make it a standard, save money and make bigger profit. It happens from DJs in bars and clubs to programmers in video game companies. I don't know how it can be called. .

What specs are you gonna put on it? How are you choosing them? This makes me think I should have kept my pentium III or the AMD @ 267 MHz that I had before it.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131981 (ASUS Z87 motherboard for $100) For brands, I'd say to stick to ASUS and Gigabyte. (they also produce some of the best boards there are for gaming) Stay away from ASRock and Biostar! I'd also recommend going at least to DDR3 1866, as there is no price difference, and you'll usually get a noticeable increase in framerate. (up to 10 FPS in some games that would otherwise be going under 45 FPS) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820104461 (HyperX DDR3 1866 4x4GB for $85) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233278 (Corsair DDR3 1866 4x4GB for $89) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231617 (G.SKILL low latency DDR3 2133 4x4GB for $95) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231671 (G.SKILL DDR3 2400 4x4GB for $95) *my recommendation for you* http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233778 (Corsair DDR3 2400 4x4GB for $95) Finally, DO NOT GET THE 970!!! Get 960's, or a 980, but don't even consider the 970. (there is a MAJOR flaw in the memory design that causes a drop to 5-10 FPS in certain games that should be going at 60+ FPS) http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&IsNodeId=1&N=100007709%204814%20600358543%20600007787%20600565061%20600559642%20600536050%20600374090%20600007797%20600537575%208000 (here's a decent list, stick to ASUS, EVGA, and Gigabyte for the best results IMO) I cannot deploy so much money just on a GPU man :S.The 960 is good right now but I'm going for some future-proofability and I still wanna be able to crank things up to high in a couple years. Can you provide me with some more info? I checked some reviews oon youtube and nobody even mentioned it. The mobo is really good, probably what I will get

Every farm needs a dog in the family.

Welcome to the staff, my brother. You're now a scarecrow of the farm.

It would be amazing if the artists shared the images in high res for wallpaper use or personal prints, the ones in this episode are all great, and they deserve some recognition for belonging to these somewhat obsucre games (Nyet III has new art, when was the last time that happened?)

Guys, I'm Still rocking the following: Core 2 Duo E7500 2.93 GHz @ Stock 4 GB of Corsair DDR2 ram AMD HD6750 1GB some 1,5 tb of storage on 2 drives Cooler Master CM690II Basic Case (With extra LED fans) Corsair CX500 500 PSU I need to upgrade to run GTA IV. I plan to get a i5 4960, 8 gigs of DDR3 1600, a 970 but I'm still not sure on the motherboard as I haven't kept up with the latest in most reliable brands and new features in motherboards, I've used budget chipsets for my builds (this is an embarrasing G31 that I didn't even list up there) and had some bad experiences with reliability so I'd like to avoid that but still don't go into premium territory. What are your suggestions?

You're totally not paranoid, BTG. You're just being paranoid.