Games

Control got me to build a new PC. I had an average laptop before, but sold the laptop and built a PC with a 3080 in it for the sweet raytracing. Managed to pick the 3080 up at RRP before all the Crypto boom started, so I was stoked! Still going very strong after almost 3 years.

Dwarf Fortress

Star Citizen. Later refunded as it is a hot mess.

I tend to build a new PC every time a new Diablo game drops

For me, it was Cyberpunk 2077. I wanted to run around Night City with ultra graphics and raytracing. Too bad it launched in such a badly optimized state.

For me, it was Cities:Skylines. My old PC couldnt play it (first game i wanted to play that it couldnt run), so i upgraded.

Now that Cities:Skylines2 is coming out in a few months, i anticipate needing to upgrade again lol.

Back in the day, Cube World... RIP...

When the demo for RE4 Remake came out and it was just a total slideshow, I uninstalled it and began my journey. My i7 lasted well over 10 years, it got the full 10 gun salute

My old system was already 10 years old. When Hogwarts Legacy came out, I was able to set a goal for my future system. Being able to play the game on ultra settings on a 1440p Monitor with 144 FPS.

My old PC was able to reach about 33 FPS on the lowest Settings possible. Next week I should have the last part for my new PC.

My old system was already 10 years old. When Hogwarts Legacy came out, I was able to set a goal for my future system. Being able to play the game on ultra settings on a 1440p Monitor with 144 FPS.

My old PC was able to reach about 33 FPS on the lowest Settings possible. Next week I should have the last part for my new PC.

I upgraded because my previous PC was a dead end. It was a retrofitted XPS workstation I got from my father - I had slotted a SATA SSD and a somewhat improved GPU, but I couldn't push it much further due to the proprietary PSU form factor. There weren't even extra PCIe slots, which became a huge issue when I switched off Windows and wanted to get an Intel Wifi/BT card.

Never had a gaming PC before so I bought due to pandemic boredom and New Vegas running like crap on my Surface Pro.

Csgo then valorant. Lucky for me these games are very budget friendly.

Nier Automata made me do my first upgrade since I got my PC back around 2010. I was very excited to play it, loaded it, and slugged below 10 fps in the opening scene of the game. I was incredibly sad, but undeterred in playing what became one of my favorite games of all time. Got a 1070, came home, and forgot about power usage. So I had to go out again and get a new power supply. Then it became smooth sailing. Nowadays I'm looking to upgrade my whole PC since my I7 is probably slower than today's i3 maybe ( I know it's worse than an i5 now) but no game has given me issue right now (except D4 making my computer into an airplane.)

Even though the game was already a decade old at the time, Skyrim. I realized that mods could bring it up to modern game graphics and gameplay, then built a gaming PC to support that. And in a few months, it'll be used for Starfield.

Just wanted to mention that I've had the 6800XT for a little while now, and I am very happy with it. Runs the majority of games great at 1440p/144FPS, and I've never had any issues with temperatures or drivers. I will mention, however, that the 6800Xt is a big, big SOB and barely fit in my case, so make sure you measure your case a bunch.

My old system was already 10 years old. When Hogwarts Legacy came out, I was able to set a goal for my future system. Being able to play the game on ultra settings on a 1440p Monitor with 144 FPS.

My old PC was able to reach about 33 FPS on the lowest Settings possible. Next week I should have the last part for my new PC. 🤩

For me I originally built my PC 6-7 years ago because of Rainbow Six Siege and the leaning without ads and to be more competitive. Only upgrade I have done is the GPU and honestly should've waited but here we are.

God of War for single player games and Apex Legends for multiplayer.

I had never been a playstation guy but really wanted to play the new God of War and knew for a fact that my computer was not good enough. I used to be into Apex for a good couple years and could barely run it. Had to turn everything all the way down just to hid a semi decent FPS.

Now I don't even play Apex but I'm glad I got to play God of War on the highest settings and enjoy the game to the fullest. Still one of my favorite games and I'm definitely gonna get Ragnarok when it comes out on PC

I assembled my current workstation with an RTX 3080 to coincide with Cyberpunk 2077 release.

Now I was lucky I bought it right before prices got gouged by scalpers, and to this day its considered a high end PC. 2 years with 0 issues and easy customization.

In hindsight that piece of trash scam of a game was a blessing in disguise.

Do not buy parts for Starfield until it releases and reviewers report in.

I most recently upgraded due to no mans sky constantly struggling. But upgraded enough to get cyberpunk and path tracing. With it being out for iver 2 years when i upgraded, those hardware targets were known.
This machine should cover me for starfield though.

Starfield is unknown.

While I just needed an upgrade in general ( Went from a 1060ti/i7 8gen to a 3070ti/i7 12gen), I was in the middle of God of War and the improvement was incredible. Didn't realize how much better games could run. 😅

Sekiro - This was January 2020 so the timing was perfect just before covid hit (in my country). Back then I just had the opportunity to build one so I didn't think twice cuz I wanted a gaming pc since forever.

I had at the time so many games in mind for years and also in my backlog, so it was incredible to finally build one and play all of them during the lockdowns lmao

Skyrim back in 2011, and Cyberpunk 2077 more recently.

During the pandemic I had a power surge that torched my motherboard and power supply. I didn’t want to have to spend the inflated costs to replace my PC so I just sold my GPU and bought a NUC for a couple hundred dollars.

I used GeForceNow to play PC games on my phone or TV now. Works out for me. I have a PS5 for games that I want a local experience or aren’t available for GeForceNow. Pretty much any game that doesn’t fall into those two categories such OOTP can run on the NUC. Not a bad setup if you have the connection for it

Half Life Alyx convinced me to finally build a PC. Street Fighter 6's minimum specs convinced me to upgrade.

The game that fully got me into this PC madness was the glorious Battlefield 3 in 2011-2012.
Before that I had dabbled somewhat into PC gaming, even changing a graphics card and what not, but I was still rather clueless about it... Until EA and Dice dropped this fucking megaton into the unsuspecting world:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FktL2pu2wE

Nowadays, that gameplay above? It merely looks decent. But back in the dying days of the PS360 generation? That shit looked BANANAS, let me tell you. It was, legitimately, like a generation and a half of visual improvement. We couldn't believe it, it was fucking insane. And that, combined with the start of the golden era of PC and the disastrous aging of PS360, meant that I HAD to get a PC, like a decently built from scratch, purpose-built-for-gaming PC. So I started getting informed and saving for the components all throughout 2011 so that I could be there for BF3 day one on the ground floor.

I ended up saving around 450 euros, and this was back in the day when 500 bucks got you an pretty good computer. I got a Radeon HD 6850 and a Phenom 955, and the latter is still working to this day back in my family's house. Every buck and minute of research was worth it, and it even led me down the road of getting into IT as a profession. I have so much to thank to whoever were the people that made that reveal look so sick lol.

While I just needed an upgrade in general ( Went from a 1060ti/i7 8gen to a 3070ti/i7 12gen), I was in the middle of God of War and the improvement was incredible. Didn't realize how much better games could run. 😅

It was Battlefield 3! The moment I got in a helicopter with under 20fps I knew it was a need and not a want anymore. I had to get a gtx 480 and a new power supply to support it. Followed by a pci slot fan to help it out a little more

Gonna date myself a bit but Diablo 2 was the first time I really needed to upgrade our computer. Needed more space.

Then games like Crysis (shoutout 5970) and most recently cyberpunk

Alyx.

Jedi Survivor, it was a buggy release.

I always build a new PC whnen there is a new Diablo game

My first PC ever was built because I really wanted to play modded Skyrim, Minecraft, and Metro 2033. i3 3225 and a 7750, later upgraded to a 2500k with a 7950. That machine was insanely badass. When the i5 and 7950 were overclocked, they outperformed my brother's 4th gen i5 with a 970.

Cyberpunk 2077, bought it on sale and my 125 gb SSD, FX8350 and rx580 weren't terribly happy. Grabbed a used ryzen 3600 and used 2080 super for $200. Board, ram, and m.2 drive for about the same new. Now I'm debating the 5600xcd or just hold off till I want the AM5 chips, that'll depend on how Starfield runs.

A few games have gotten me to do that over the years.

Mass Effect: Legendary Edition was what finally convinced me to fit a 1TB SSD, and Control was what convinced me it was finally time to get a ray-tracing card.

Funny you should mention Starfield, my previous rig (up until 2020) I built specifically for Fallout 4, anticipating that I'd need something reasonably beefy for all the mods (4790k, R9 390). Didn't really gel with F4 but enjoyed Witcher 3 a lot at the time.

Skull and bones! Thought and set my own deadline to last autumn, but it still isnt out

Path of Exile lol.

iRacing has driven (heh) the vast majority of my PC upgrades over the past few years. Changing from monitors to an Oculus had me upgrading GPUs back in 2017, I got a 3080 two years ago which let me upgrade to a Reverb G2, then realized I was getting CPU-bound fps drops so I ended up with a 5800X, all in the interest of higher settings and more cars on track at once. Unless someone comes out with a worthy upgrade to the Reverb, I think I'm set for a bit.

My next computer is being built for Cities: Skylines 2 for sure.

While this wasn’t the sole reason (I was just kinda due for an upgrade anyway), I was interested in playing Half-life Alyx and Star Wars Squadrons in VR.

DCS World is the biggest reason that my most recent build had 64Gb of RAM.

guild wars 2. it's always guild wars 2 I come back to...