toxicitizen Posted July 20 Report Share Posted July 20 Hey forum's finally back! I'm sure you've all been eagerly waiting to find out what I grabbed during the Steam sale. My big purchases were: I also grabbed a bunch of smaller cheap games that aren't really worth posting individually. And at one point I was pruning my wishlist to remove all the "if I haven't bought it by now, I never will" games, and that actually led to me grabbing some more dirt cheap games... Anyway, most of it should be here (just ignore Trails, can't be bothered to edit it out even though I already posted it): 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted July 21 Author Report Share Posted July 21 I also bought a bunch of stuff in the Steam sale... Assassin's Creed and Mirror's Edge Catalyst I just got cause I wanted to have them on Steam, the rest were cheap and I just thought looked cool. I'd previously tried TMNT when it was on Game Pass and it didn't click, but when I tried it again it really hooked me and I beat the whole game in one sitting. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted July 27 Author Report Share Posted July 27 Eventually I'll get to all these games... Eventually... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted July 31 Report Share Posted July 31 Also these huge spending sprees you guys have been going on got me feeling like 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted August 27 Report Share Posted August 27 Only two weeks until Marvel's back! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted August 27 Report Share Posted August 27 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted August 29 Author Report Share Posted August 29 I broke down. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted August 30 Report Share Posted August 30 On 8/27/2024 at 9:12 PM, Mister Jack said: I really wish they would bring this to PSVR2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted August 30 Report Share Posted August 30 I annoyed myself by watching an official video of showing some gameplay so I think that means I'm excited for it and it's 25% off at Currys so thought I would treat myself and try to play it near launch. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted September 4 Report Share Posted September 4 I guess I forgot to post it at the time but I pre-ordered this a few months ago Atlus went from not releasing on PC at all to actually having a PC Collector's Edition pretty quickly. You love to see it. Especially considering most publishers don't bother having a physical CE for their Steam releases. This release is kind of annoying, though. It seems the CE is exclusive to VideoGamesPlus in Canada but they're not carrying the PC version of the CE, for some reason. Might be because the SKU came later and wasn't included in their deal with Atlus or something. So I had to order this from Amazon US. Which means I'll have to pay an import fee on top of receiving the game late. At least it'll give me an extra few days to finish the Silent Hill 2 remake, I guess... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted September 6 Author Report Share Posted September 6 I have been on quite the adventure the last few days. It all started off, as you may recall, with me getting a Core i9 14900k in May. That led to me being dissatisfied with my GPU performance, which ultimately resulted in me breaking down and buying this: RTX 4090 ftw! I had carefully measured to make sure it would fit in my case, so I was very excited when it arrived and ready to install it immediately and start gaming. It did not fit in my case. So! One 2.5 hour round trip to Wichita later and I have this baby: Corsair 5000D RGB mid tower. Plenty of space, has the nice panel in the back to hide all the power cables, really a nice upgrade that was a long time coming, my old case was like 15+ years old. Anyway the new case can let you control the front fan colors with the temperatures of your system components. Neat! So I started setting that up and uh oh, turns out my CPU is regularly getting up to 100C during regular gameplay. Guess my CPU fan isn't cutting it. No problem, I can solve that! Cooler Master MasterLiquid 360mm water cooler! Hooray! That'll keep my CPU nice and chilled out. The water cooler arrived this morning, I installed it before work (didn't have to be in until 10:45 today), went to check how my CPU temps were doing and... it won't post. Go to work pissed, because by that time was out of time. Came home, did extensive testing, and determined that the entire B memory channel on my mobo was dead. Slots A1 & A2 both work, but putting anything in either B1 or B2 causes it to fail to post. As you are no doubt aware, the PC can only access one RAM stick per channel at any given time, so while putting sticks in A1 & A2 gives you the same total capacity as A1 & B1, it effectively cuts the speed in half. This is unacceptable. Which brings us to my most recent purchase, made only minutes ago: New motherboard and 32GB of DDR5 RAM, set to arrive Sunday. So anyway, basically I wanted a new CPU and have ended up replacing every single part in my PC except for the power supply and one fan (the rear exhaust). To close, I'll leave you with a comic: 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted September 6 Report Share Posted September 6 Upgrading to a 14th gen CPU given the issues they have and a 4090 with the 50 series right around the corner was certainly a choice lol. Hopefully that's the last of your issues with the build... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted September 6 Report Share Posted September 6 More and more I feel justified in just going with a prebuilt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted September 6 Author Report Share Posted September 6 47 minutes ago, toxicitizen said: Upgrading to a 14th gen CPU given the issues they have and a 4090 with the 50 series right around the corner was certainly a choice lol. Hopefully that's the last of your issues with the build... I ordered that CPU like a week before hearing about all the issues, and I specifically chose it because I didn't want to have to replace my mobo too... *Edit - As for the 4090, I have no justification besides the fact that several games came out recently that I've been very frustrated with the performance of my old card, and I got tired of waiting for the 50 series to be announced (it'll be next week now that I actually bought one). I am at least confident that once this PC is *working* I shouldn't have any trouble running games at least until the PS6 comes out. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted September 6 Report Share Posted September 6 (edited) 13 minutes ago, TheMightyEthan said: I ordered that CPU like a week before hearing about all the issues, and I specifically chose it because I didn't want to have to replace my mobo too... Damn, that sucks... 13 minutes ago, TheMightyEthan said: *Edit - As for the 4090, I have no justification besides the fact that several games came out recently that I've been very frustrated with the performance of my old card, and I got tired of waiting for the 50 series to be announced (it'll be next week now that I actually bought one). I am at least confident that once this PC is *working* I shouldn't have any trouble running games at least until the post PS6 comes out. Yeah, I'm with you on the performance. I'm not super satisfied with the way my 3080 handles demanding games (especially at my ultrawide's native resolution) and it's been tempting to upgrade now that I can afford to drop that kind of money on a whim. I guess I'm better with money than I thought, though, because I just can't bring myself to upgrade yet since this build still feels fairly new (and the GPU was the last component I added, too). The 40-series also didn't feel like a significant enough upgrade but the 5080 is going to be tempting... Then again, I haven't really been playing any demanding games lately. Edited September 6 by toxicitizen 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted September 8 Author Report Share Posted September 8 New mobo and ram arrived this morning, I got them installed and after it initially failing to post (because of course) it's working now! And I'm getting the performance I would expect. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted Sunday at 07:00 PM Report Share Posted Sunday at 07:00 PM Don't know if I'll have time to start either of them this week but I definitely want to play them in the near future and I just got a pretty nice bonus from my job, so fuck it. Nothing wrong with a little frivolous spending every now and then. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted Tuesday at 05:35 PM Report Share Posted Tuesday at 05:35 PM Mmm...monke. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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