Hey Max! Its good to hear from you. If you get the itch and have time we're looking for a chanter!

I don't have any good advise on the hardware but I will say that investing the time to run network cables was a huge benefit for me.

Wife very rarely complains about the TV's or computers failing to connect ( unless we have a real power outage and the service blips )

In memory of Eddie Van Halen who passed away this weekend.

I was just mentioning how we need a little eggy born funky base music thing to a couple people!

Still have the purple axe?

Hope you are doing well and if you get the itch ...

Too funny. There for a minute I thought you'd found some ancient time machine for ES dating back to 2000's

As a recruiting officer I should point out that now is an excellent time to come back and try your hand at the game.

We can always use more healers.

i appreciate everyones input especially RAP who posted this thread for me. thank you all. not sure what the wait time is looking like. my current PC will run for maybe an hour or 2 before it blue screens so i dont think ill be making the raids untill im squared away on the new PC. hopefully its soo...

Gibsalot wrote:proprietary copy of Windows

Having the original installation media so you can do a clean wipe / reinstall is good.

If your new machine prompt you to create a rescue disk. Do it.

.. has its own proprietary parts ... Don't get a Dell if you plan to try and add anything, they still play tricks. The others are pretty standard parts, but most of the time they skimp on the PSU and provide JUST enough power to run what you purchased. Which makes sense since most people who buy a ...

Are out of the box machines a good buy? I've always had the dude down the street build one for me. Its all about risk vs reward ( or cost ) ------------------------------- Option 1 - Prebuilt Out of the box machines can be a great value with respect to time and price. When a big chain over estimate...

unfortunatly that 800 1 in sold out in my state, but how about this VS that one fae and zarg listed https://www.microcenter.com/product/624585/powerspec-g507-gaming-computer?rf=PDP_altSell+%3e+Cross_Sell+%3e+Cross+Sell+Desktop+Computers+Gaming+Specific This looks good too: $1000 CPU: AMD 3600 GPU: ...

Those machines with the Nvidia 2060 were a good deal. Not surprised if they are sold out. https://www.microcenter.com/product/624824/powerspec-g163-gaming-computer I still think this is the next best option. $800 for the same CPU, RAM, SSD as the $1K machine but has an older AMD 580 GPU. The GPU is ...

Checking out GPU benchmarks GTX 1650 - baseline AMD RX 580 +39% RTX 2060 + 93% AMD RX 5700 +116% RTX 2060 super +118% ---------------------------------- Any of the machines listed at $1k are all pretty nice. If you can't swing that the $800 one zargut listed would be my 2nd choice: It has the good s...

AMD 3600 - 3.6 x 6 core (boost 4.2) Intel 10400 - 2.9 x 6 core (boost 4.3) I'd rather give AMD the win. Higher steady state and Intel missed the boat on their CPU's. Both PSU are more than enough. Didn't check out the different flavors for the GPU to see which is better. Both are 2060's which are so...