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The key is to set your subscription to automatically expire. For the time being, you can actually get Game Pass for $1 a month since Microsoft isn't making their $1 offer a one-time deal. Just let your sub expire, wait a day, go back in and subscribe again for a buck. Do that every month and...

So I was planning on buying Watch Dogs: Legion which is coming out in a few days. I went to the Ubisoft store and was about to go through the editions available and see whether I there was any reason worth buying over the standard. Then I notice: More than likely I'm going to spend a ton of...

King's Quest. I played the original on a IBM PCjr back in the 80s. lol.....I thought I was king of the nerds with that system since all my friends had Commodore 64. That game was so awesome. Great memories.

I was pretty much done with PC gaming after growing up entirely dedicated to it. But during grad school, I needed access to a dedicated Unix PC and so I went over to Mac as I didn't care for Linux. For gaming, I moved over to PS3 and Xbox 360. It was fine. My sons, however, fell in love with...

JRPG I love western RPGs. Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Elder Scrolls, etc. Can't get enough. I just can't get into JRPG. I try to force myself because there are so many out there and they look so cool. But typically I can't get into the gameplay. I'm not giving up though. Sometimes I...

To me, building your own is much more satisfying than buying a pre-built. And I've done both. Don't get me wrong. There is nothing wrong with buying a prebuilt especially if someone isn't comfortable with or just doesn't want to build. It is fine. If you do build, find a good youtube...

What is the price of the PC you have listed there?

Nvidia hasn't announced the new GPU lineup yet so we don't know. Oh.....and let me also say that 4.0 isn't a "requirement" at all. PCIe is backward compatible. So a PCIe 4.0 capable device will work on PCIe 3.0 motherboard. It will just operate at 3.0 speeds. Hope that made sense.

PCIe is the bus that peripherals such as graphics cards, storage such as SSD, and other devices use to send data to the CPU. So when you plug your GPU into your motherboard, you are plugging into a slot that uses the PCIe bus. The same is true when you plug an NVMe SSD drive into an M.2 slot...

X570 supports PCIe 4.0 and faster RAM speeds. I recently built my PC using Ryzen 7 and I went with X570 to take advantage of future technologies that will use the improved PCIe 4.0 bandwidth. NVMe SSD, in particular, will benefit from this and you may regret not being able to use the faster...

Hi all. I've posted a few times and just saw this thread. Name is Christopher, but everyone calls me Topher. I'm a web/software developer in Atlanta, GA. I'll be 50 this year and I've been gaming all my life. My first PC was the ill-fated IBM PC Jr. It didn't have great support, but it...

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Yeah....Witcher 3 was truly awesome.

coin-op Space Invaders

Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast The best Jedi game I've ever played. Agree with others who said Half-life 2. Probably the best game ever made.