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I normally suggest to mates to look at what CPU you want to get.

Once you know if you getting AMD or INTEL, then look at the motherboard that will support the CPU.

Once you know what features you want on a motherboard and have selected the right one, I tend to tell the guys to download the manual for the board.

The alternative is to look at the manufactures website and see what memory sticks have been tested and are recommended by them.

this allows you to combine the right parts together and give you less hassles at a later stage.

 

I use to buy on the cheap when I was younger and had endless problems with blue screens of death and drivers crashing and sh*t.

But honestly in the last 5 years I have been spending big and have not regretted it yet.

the only thing I try and upgrade often is my graphics cards.

I tend to do this every year or second year, depending on what is out.

Still have the same motherboard, cpu and memory sticks.

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1 hour ago, mightbuyaford said:

My old PC

Gaming Rig

Case: Xstrike

PSU: Antec 900w gaming
Motherboard: MSI G45 Gaming

CPU: Intel Core I7 3770K Ivy Bridge
RAM: G Skill Ripjaws 16gb 

Monitor: 3x 22" eyefinity setup. 5k resolution

Graphics Card: HD 7970 x 2 crossfire 4gb each

HDD(s): Old sata II 500gb x 2

OS Used: Windows 7
Peripherals: Lots

 

 

Mine started life almost a twin of this one - 

3770k, 2x7970's, 16gb ram, 3x27" (middle screen was a different model too)

Sold the 7970's for GTX980's - will be using this setup for the 3 screen racing/flight simulator.

 

New setup being sourced atm with 6700k, 32gb, M.2 SSD and GTX1080's for the 4k screen (980's struggle at times with 4k, but unstressed on the triple screens)

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3 minutes ago, mightbuyaford said:

Im just using my m17x Alienware lappy on my tv for stuff now

 

I go through stages.

 

Won't even tough the desktop PC for months at a time and just potter round on the Surface

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Yep - currently (long, long project - am slack) building a separate unit for a modular racing/flying sim

(modular to swap between G25 wheel and Saitek flight controls) and to allow 2 people to race in between that and the triple screen setup (player 2 gets the "slow one")

 

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I've got the Yoke, pedals and a few dash controls. Starting to learn towards getting pilot licence so replicated a Cesna as close as I could.

HOTAS is on the cards for when the systems finally up and running.

 

Was all set to put it all together, get it going etc but I decided to move the office home and a couple of kids moved back in.

 

Shortage of a spare room for the toys took the momentum away. Hopefully being able to offload my current PC to be a dedicated system for it will re-ignite it all again.

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takes a good game for me to be into it.....Still play cs:go but and have played cs since it was a HL mod lol...


If any of you havent already id highly recommend going back and playing through an epic title that got you into gaming long ago if you have been into it for like 15 years or so. Pretty cool experiance.
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40 minutes ago, mightbuyaford said:

get a set of okulus CV1 to go along with it

 

Have the DP2 - an absolute blast with racing games - huge potential there once they mature a bit

 

Will definitely jump on a consumer version once the hype's worn off a bit and it's a bit more concrete which way to go forward with.

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