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[KL8209]

N64 was awesome for those games! We played the crap out of all of those too, especially Goldeneye. That led me to eventually buying a PC and playing Unreal Tournament 2004 which is what really got me hooked on FPS.

For the current upgrade I had to replace the cpu, video card, motherboard, and ram. I held on to my 2500k as long as I could, but it started bottlenecking. Current set up is a 9700k @ 5ghz, 1070ti, and 16gig ram. Runs pretty much everything at ultra and 60fps. Wish video cards weren’t so overpriced as I would like to have a 144hz 1440 monitor and a 2080ti.

I’ll buy a PS5 eventually. I don’t want to miss out on stuff from Naughty Dog. There are some games that you can’t get on PC which make a console worth it.

Out of curiosity, once you weren't bottlenecked anymore, how many frames did you gain going from the 2500k to the 9700k while @ 1080p and (assuming you tried) running on Ultra?

Pretty solid setup. What's your memory speed? Ssd? Mobo? What max temp does your CPU hit under full load?

I haven't been gaming seriously/competitive enough to warrant an upgrade in the last few years so it's a bit dated. My last upgrade a few years ago were the video cards that I got cheap and more recently the SSDs just to keep things going.

I have two identical gaming PC's and my third is running the same build just without the video card. I favor AMD > NVIDIA for no other reason than their business practices.

I also have a home server with around 120TB of storage and a massive home theater.

At the time these were top of the line except for the video card

Mobo - GA-990FXA-UD3
CPU - AMD FX 8350 @ 4.5 (OC'd), doesn't even hit 65+ under full load
Heatsink - Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO (Amazing heatsink)
Video Card - AMD RX 480
Memory - G.SKILL ARES Series 32GB @ 2000mhz (1866mhz OC'd)
Main SSD - Samsung EVO 860 PRO @ 1TB
Other SSDs - Samsung EVO 850s @ 500gb
Monitor - 1ms 24" AOC (Shitty brand but got them at a good price)

In two to three years I'll be replacing these with top of the line setups but they've been pretty solid for me @ 1080p

 

[KL8209]

I played the hell out of Goldeneye in high school. We'd literally have like ten hour multiplayer sessions after school.

My first FPS was Wolfenstein 3D on Atari Jaguar and then Doom soon after in the early to mid 90's. Then played Doom 2 on PC. I was super into Halo on the original Xbox back when it came out and beat it on legendary difficulty. Haven't really gotten into any FPS games since then besides one of the Halo games on Xbox 360.

I'm definitely picking up a PS5 later this year when they come out.

Oh man, Goldeneye tournaments were good times. We did the same thing. We basically lived on pizza, chips and soda.

One thing we found hilarious was I remember playing Facility and being just outside the bathroom doors on the stairs and being blown up by a remote mine. Somehow ended up being blasted literally inside of the wall. I was able to running around behind the walls and shoot people but they couldn't see me or shoot back. They could see my screen but couldn't accurately pinpoint me on theirs.

I ended up having to stand flush against the wall and they all detonated a ton of mines at once so I'd die and respawn but each mine was barely doing any damage. Took like 1-2 solid minutes of repeatedly setting off mines. We couldn't ever re-create it though.

Doom games were great. Still play them from time to time.

We had a decent amount of systems growing up. Ones I remember having are Commodore 64, Sega Saturn, Sega Genesis, Sega GameGear, NES, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Sega Dreamcast, Nintendo GameCube, PS1 & PS2, Nintendo GameBoy

Mike Tyson's Punchout for Sega Genesis was a great game

I still have most of these systems and kept all the games too.

 

[JMpMasterSteve]

Mike Tyson’s punch out! Fckin classic !

 

[Perrin Aybara]

I still have a Playchoice 10 arcade machine my dad bought me when I was like 8. It's got Mike Tyson's Punchout, Double Dragon, Contra, Rad Racer, and Wild Gunman on it. It's rigged up where you don't have to put quarters in to play. The screen is a little discolored, but it still works.

I was after a perfect game on Contra for years when I was younger. Best I've ever done is beat the game only using one life. That level with the flamethrower things is stupid hard. I wanna say it's level 7.

All these years I've never beat Mike Tyson on Punchout.

 

[KL8209]

I still have a Playchoice 10 arcade machine my dad bought me when I was like 8. It's got Mike Tyson's Punchout, Double Dragon, Contra, Rad Racer, and Wild Gunman on it. It's rigged up where you don't have to put quarters in to play. The screen is a little discolored, but it still works.

I was after a perfect game on Contra for years when I was younger. Best I've ever done is beat the game only using one life. That level with the flamethrower things is stupid hard. I wanna say it's level 7.

All these years I've never beat Mike Tyson on Punchout.

Wow that's awesome and I always thought my cousin having an actual arcade pinball machine was great.

I wouldn't mind, once we have our new house built, having an arcade room with whatever I can find. Have always wanted one.

We plan on having a huge home theater too. Check out this thread to see more on my current home theater if interested.

 

[Perrin Aybara]

Wow that's awesome and I always thought my cousin having an actual arcade pinball machine was great.

I wouldn't mind, once we have our new house built, having an arcade room with whatever I can find. Have always wanted one.

We plan on having a huge home theater too. Check out this thread to see more on my current home theater if interested.

The Playchoice is cool in that you can swap the games around in it.

If you're a DIY guy and don't mind it's not an original setup you can build a custom arcade setup. Using one of those Raspberry Pi computers and then building the arcade machine cabinet out of wood around a screen. You can easily get tens of thousands of old game ROMs online and put them in the Pi with emulators. Choose your controller setup. It's one of those things I always meant to do over the years and never got around to. There's a lot of plans for these online.

I do have most of the NES and SNES ROMs on my Wii with classic controllers.

 

[4Figgy]

Out of curiosity, once you weren't bottlenecked anymore, how many frames did you gain going from the 2500k to the 9700k while @ 1080p and (assuming you tried) running on Ultra?

Pretty solid setup. What's your memory speed? Ssd? Mobo? What max temp does your CPU hit under full load?

I haven't been gaming seriously/competitive enough to warrant an upgrade in the last few years so it's a bit dated. My last upgrade a few years ago were the video cards that I got cheap and more recently the SSDs just to keep things going.

I have two identical gaming PC's and my third is running the same build just without the video card. I favor AMD > NVIDIA for no other reason than their business practices.

I also have a home server with around 120TB of storage and a massive home theater.

At the time these were top of the line except for the video card

Mobo - GA-990FXA-UD3
CPU - AMD FX 8350 @ 4.5 (OC'd), doesn't even hit 65+ under full load
Heatsink - Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO (Amazing heatsink)
Video Card - AMD RX 480
Memory - G.SKILL ARES Series 32GB @ 2000mhz (1866mhz OC'd)
Main SSD - Samsung EVO 860 PRO @ 1TB
Other SSDs - Samsung EVO 850s @ 500gb
Monitor - 1ms 24" AOC (Shitty brand but got them at a good price)

In two to three years I'll be replacing these with top of the line setups but they've been pretty solid for me @ 1080p

I upgraded from a 7970 to the 1070ti first. That brought frames up about 20% or so, but that caused the 2500k bottleneck to come on strong. Once I upgraded the MB, ram, and 9700k I went from teens-35-ishin BF1 on 1440 to 80fps at 1440 (old Chinese 1440 monitor than can be overclocked). At 1080 I’m guessing the entire upgrade would have at least doubled to tripled the max FPS if you had a super high refresh rate monitor.
RAM is stock @ 3200. No need to OC ram for gaming. The 1070ti is OC maybe 15-20%. I’m running an old SSD for the OS, and an old HDD for my games and photos. Would like an MVE, but there’s no point in my life now for one. COU temps when gaming are usually in the mid 70s. Case is a storm scout, and is kept in a pretty cool room so temps have never been an issue unless benchmarking an OC.

 

[KL8209]

The Playchoice is cool in that you can swap the games around in it.

If you're a DIY guy and don't mind it's not an original setup you can build a custom arcade setup. Using one of those Raspberry Pi computers and then building the arcade machine cabinet out of wood around a screen. You can easily get tens of thousands of old game ROMs online and put them in the Pi with emulators. Choose your controller setup. It's one of those things I always meant to do over the years and never got around to. There's a lot of plans for these online.

I do have most of the NES and SNES ROMs on my Wii with classic controllers.

For sure. I've seen a lot of crazy things done with the Raspberry Pi's and plan on messing around with different projects that use them after we move. That's a great idea.

What's really cool about emulators and roms as well, that not many people know about, is you can actually now compete online through emulators playing games like Mario Kart and Goldeneye. Really cool.

 

[KL8209]

I upgraded from a 7970 to the 1070ti first. That brought frames up about 20% or so, but that caused the 2500k bottleneck to come on strong. Once I upgraded the MB, ram, and 9700k I went from teens-35-ishin BF1 on 1440 to 80fps at 1440 (old Chinese 1440 monitor than can be overclocked). At 1080 I’m guessing the entire upgrade would have at least doubled to tripled the max FPS if you had a super high refresh rate monitor.
RAM is stock @ 3200. No need to OC ram for gaming. The 1070ti is OC maybe 15-20%. I’m running an old SSD for the OS, and an old HDD for my games and photos. Would like an MVE, but there’s no point in my life now for one. COU temps when gaming are usually in the mid 70s. Case is a storm scout, and is kept in a pretty cool room so temps have never been an issue unless benchmarking an OC.

I've always had really good performance with certain coolermaster cases in regards to temps.

Like you, I also had a 7970 and noticed a bit of improvement with the 480. One thing I'm definitely looking at is Vulkan and how it's now being implemented into basically most if not all modern games so right out of the box it supports cross platform which is awesome.

I pretty much only ever play @ 1080p and possibly years from now may end up going higher res but for right now I just don't see the need for it. I'm working way too much and won't notice much, if any, benefit.

Even game studios like Bethesda have said from hereon out they'll always be supporting Vulkan. It's good news for everyone and great news for the industry IMO.

This is awesome tho I'm glad to see other like minded people on here.

 

[4Figgy]

Gaming at 1440 and 1080 is actually quite different. As long as your comparing the same refresh rates, 1440 is where it is at right now.

The hdr 4k 144hz monitors are insane! Eye candy for days. You need 2 2080ti’s to actually run it though which gets into the absurd gaming pc money.

 

[KL8209]

Gaming at 1440 and 1080 is actually quite different. As long as your comparing the same refresh rates, 1440 is where it is at right now.

The hdr 4k 144hz monitors are insane! Eye candy for days. You need 2 2080ti’s to actually run it though which gets into the absurd gaming pc money.

Yea 1440 definitely looks and even feels better when you have the frames to support it. My main issue is I don't have enough time to warrant an upgrade as I rarely ever game anymore due to lack of time

I remember when SLI and XFIRE was first introduced and some of the enthusiasts I knew literally spent thousands $$$$$$$$ on different video cards on their quest to gain every single bit of fps they could.

They're still on that never ending quest lol

You can get sucked right into that world where you're barely even gaming anymore or doing much of anything other than just constantly "tweaking" your system

The amount of money some of these people spend without thinking about it blows my mind