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Steam Summer Sale started yesterday. Lots of huge deals, and new ones posted every day.

http://store.steampowered.com/

 

Building a PC is very easy.

It's almost plug and play, really. Once you have the motherboard, buy some ram and a videocard and plug it in the assigned slots (you get a map with your motherboard so you can see what goes where). If you're unsure about how much thermal paste to put on the CPU, the guys at the shop you buy from can do it (first time I did it on my build, it went awesome, and have been running it overclocked 24/7 for 8 months now).

IMO the hardest part was putting the power supply in, it takes a bit of patience but once again, everything is mapped out .

By doing it yourself vs buying a fully assembled PC you can get much, much better parts for the same cost.

 

i actually watched some videos, looks very easy and fun! i'll probably be ordering some parts from newegg this week. here is a list, my friend would give me a graphics card and a power supply. https://secure.newegg.com/WishList/MySavedWishDetail.aspx?ID=19697092

i hope u can see this list and tell me if my friend recommended good parts or not

 

I completed Assassins Creed Revelations a couple of days ago, will go back and replay a few missions for 100% sync, then uninstall to get drive space for the my next game.

ACR was an excellent game, and I'm looking forward to the next one - setting in America during the Revolutionary War, with the British as adversaries. Wondering how the Brits will react to this...perhaps UBI will issue a reversed-adversary version for them? Doubt it.

Right now, I'm trying to decide what to spend the next 40 game bucks on - Kingdoms of Amalur or Skyrim.

 

this list should show up, any advice would be great! http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=19697092

 

after talking to my friend i would get a graphics card from him, and a 600 watt power supply. i plan on gaming/visual design/programming for school. also for rendering videos haha. a lot of things!

 

The tiny plugs where a ***** for me. Not impossible, but did take a lot of double checking. I messed 2 tiny ones up and it wouldn't start and it took me about half an hour to figure out wtf was happening!

The CPU bit was scary indeed...

 

That's a great trailer. I might have pay up and get it in first release. Unless exceptional, I usually wait till a game's been out for a year or so and then buy it @30-50% off MSRP.

Thx for the heads up...definitely won't be getting KoA.

I've hesitated on Skyrim for awhile because frequent crashes occurred with both Elder Scrolls and Fallout 3, and didn't with comparable games such as AC Revelations and The Witcher 2.

I was still working in architecture when I bought my current system, and got a dual-head graphics adapter and set it up with two screens to switch between 2D and 3D views with my CAD program.

 

Building a pc has gotten much easier over the last few years, and it wasn't that hard to begin with. I think I built my first one about 10 years and had it together and running within the day. My latest I did about 6 months ago and only took an hour or two. You get so much more out of it too, it's cheaper by far and you can always upgrade to whatever is next.

 

I've been playing Saints Row 2 for the past two days.

 

It's probably worth taking a chance on. Finished AC Rev and grown tired of hunting roving guards down and shanking them. I need a new big game.

 

Ordered Skyrim PC yesterday, $26.69 including tax with Amazon Visa reward points, free 2-day shipping with Amazon Prime membership.

 

Aan anyone make a recommendation for a great game for the imac 27' i5 without installing a Windows emulator?

 

Done, thanks.

 

Skyrim PC up, running, and smooth, looks good even at the lower settings I'm limited to.

Great game so far...I can play this one for months at writer's burnout breaks.

 

So I finshed Gears of War III (xbox360), and I'd have to say it ended a lot better than it started. I was pretty skeptical at first, not really into 3rd person shooters. Its an arcade style game. But the ending was terrific and well worth the 50 bucks iirc.

 

I'm now well into Skyrim, played for six hours straight last night. This could become a serious addiction problem.

 

haha i ended up playing that long on skyrim on xbox. i didnt tell any of u but ive had a pc now for a couple of weeks. its pretty good! i havent been able to test out any new games with good graphics yet, but i can do just about everything and the windows performance

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz 7.6
Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB 7.6
Graphics AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series 7.4
Gaming graphics 4841 MB Total available graphics memory 7.4
Primary hard disk 775GB Free (931GB Total) 5.9

the lowest score was the hard drive as u can see, but everything else ranked higher than i thought it would.