New Gaming Rig
Rusmil may see a resurgence of PC gaming soon – I treated myself to a new PC as my Atom based desktop was just lacking behind what I needed for it. It’s primarily been built for my work as I use LaTeX for my writing and while this can easily be edited on any PC with a text editor, when you come to compile the code, it requires CPU and the Atom just wasn’t coping. it’ll also mean I can go back to a dual screen setup, making it easier to work as I can view a PDF on one screen and Word or Texmaker on the other.
Therefore I purchased the following:-
- Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H
- ATI HD3850 Radeon GFX
- Intel E5300 @ 2.60GHz
- 320Gb Samsung HD
- Kingston 2Gb
- OCZ StealthXStream 400W SilentPSU
- Cooler Master Elite 335
- Coolermaster Hyper TX3 Cooler
- Windows 7 Professional
The aim is to over clock this when the TX3 arrives (it’s currently running on the stock Intel cooler) and apparently it should easily reach 3.9GHz but we’ll see what happens. This all came from Aria (except the TX3, which is coming from Play).
Of course, with the power, it can play some games which I intend to use it for at times. I’m eagerly awaiting the new Dawn of War 2 addon, Chaos Rising, that arrives in March. I’m currently going back and playing through the campaign and the new downloadable content, Last Stand, where you have to face multiple waves of enemies until you die.
I also bought Titanquest and it’s add on from Steam a while ago but was unable to play it so I’ll be having a go at that as well – it’s the closest game I’ve seen to Diablo 2 which is a personal favourite so that’ll be played. I also have Blazing Angels but this doesn’t appear to work on Windows 7 with Steam which is a royal pain and I cant get a refund on this without getting Titanquest refunded as well so I’ll stick with it and hope it gets updated.
Anyhow, it’s nice to be back!
I’m currently playing through Command and Conquer 3 (I tried it on the Xbox but got disappointed about the gamepad controls) and replaying Dawn of War 2 in anticipation of the new add on (what can I say, I’m a big sci fi nut at heart!) – I’m tempted to purchase Borderlands as your reviews make it look quite good but I’m waiting for it to come back into stock at Game as I saw it there online for just over £15.
