Recent content by Inconspicuous Trenchcoat

This thinking is possibly becoming outdated. Watch Dogs and Wolfenstein: The New Order both recommend i7s, for example. Whether the developers successfully utilized the extra threads is another question, but it seems developers might be moving slowly towards supporting more CPU cores in their...

Notes: I don't have a laptop, because I'm too cheap to buy one I want, but any that I can afford I don't want. I also don't have a big screen, nice smartphone. Having either of these might make a tablet much less desirable or used, for me. I used to listen to this podcast. One of the hosts...

Let me name my saves, please. When a lot build up and you haven't played recently, it's a pain to figure out which one you want to use in certain games. Skyrim, for example. Oh, all my characters last saved in White Run. I have to mouse over them all to figure out which is my Orc/High Elf/Khajit...

1. SSX Tricky 2. Street Fighter IV 3. Trials Evolution: Gold Edition 4. Super Smash Brothers Melee 5. Rollercoaster Tycoon 6. Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars 7. Team Fortress 2 8. Earthbound 9. Skate 3 10. Dodgeball (Yes, this is a game. It was on the NES) Posting this...

For reference, from your poll, I've finished Bioshock: Infinite and The Last of Us. As I've played GTA 3, VC, SA and 4 on PC, I'm waiting for V's PC release. Bioshock was pretty and great to explore, but the gunplay was bleh. It was okay, rented and beat it on PS3, got it for free on PC but...

I perceive myself to be 40% melancholic, 40% phlegmatic and 20% Sanguine. I took the pieces from each category and reworked it a bit for a rough estimation of my self-perception. Nothing from Choleric, hehe. I am a pleasure-seeker. I often daydream. I generally struggle with following tasks...

Yeah, I dunno why. It was an old motherboard with DDR2 RAM. I always had paranoia that somehow that was slowing it down, but I've never heard of motherboards reducing FPS lol--and RAM barely matters in games as long as you have enough (I had 8GB). The next question is what settings were you...

Processors do make a difference. I used to use the AMD Phenom II 965 that AWAR is recommending. Buying that will definitely hold you back. I had a AMD 6950 graphics card; with that processor, I got 25-40 FPS in Sleeping Dogs. Usually around 35, it played a bit rough. When I built a new system...

Trials Evolution Gold Edition (PC) (I recommend you demo it first, as the port may run horribly on your particular PC) Platformers are one of my favorite genres, I loved Trials 2 and HD, and I also loved Excite Bike as a kid. A modern Excite Bike and sequel to a loved game would of course...

Yeah, sure. Like I said, I noticed a difference even on my modest headphones. You'll have to look elsewhere for specifics on PC audio and sound cards. My knowledge there is very low.

Most people don't care about sound cards. You can get one if you want, though. There will be a noticeable difference, especially if you have good headphones. My headphones are not particularly good, but I still noticed a difference with my ASUS Xonar DGK (a cheap card). It widened the soundscape...

A common mistake of first time builders is forgetting to screw in the stand offs for the motherboard before screwing in the motherboard. Stand offs are those little gold screws that hold the motherboard off of the back plate of the case. If you forgot those and the MoBo is touching the back of...

As for places to buy: CyberPower PC [http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/] - when I've configured PCs here recently, they've always seemed to have the cheapest prices. Maybe $150-250 over what you'd pay for the parts alone, so a pretty nice deal for pre-built, IMO. 3-year warranty too. AVADirect...

Things I'd take into consideration: -Do you really need a full tower case? Those things are huge, if you just want a computer to game on, even if you're planning on eventual Crossfire/SLI, you don't need a full tower. Get a mid tower; even consider a small form factor case with an ITX...

One day, I decided to really learn how fighting games worked. Picked up Street Fighter IV and started on a Logitech F310 pad (PS3 style casing with Xbox style buttons). I bought an arcade stick and transferred over. I was much worse. It took a lot of practice to get used to the stick. Once I...