when did the boards die?

My graphics card fan die last month. Decided to get whole new pc and got tons and games to go along with it, and came back today to see the boards.

no new topics in a long time. dang folks what y'all be up to.

ACW, overall traffic and topic starting is about the same or greater on the neighborhood boards. I don't see as much in "Random Stuff", probably because people do their random stuff on Facebook now. Or at least I do.

The Day the Music Died

When you left us, AW, when you left us.

Brooklynian may have been actually raptured.

...meaning that we were all left behind as typing zombies.

We must rebuild.

armchair_warrior said:

My graphics card fan die last month. Decided to get whole new pc and got tons and games to go along with it, and came back today to see the boards.

What kind of hardware did you get? Thinking about a rebuild sometime soon, but waiting to see what Bulldozer brings.

I was desperate at the time, didn't do any research just slap something to gether lol. i need a system to play games right away since there was tons of games coming out about the time.

I always go with nvida but not this time lol. I usually when building a friends pc have them test out ati cards .

i got a amd one instead. i went for budget system.

amd A2 x4 640 and amd 6450 hd and some asus mb and some creative sound card lol.

I would of gotten something else

I normally use this site to see what i should get and get slightly better components if i could fit it into my budget .

http://www.sharkyextreme.com/guides/MVGSBG/article.php/3928716

Even so, it's amazing what a few bucks will buy you in hardware these days. I'm sure that that's still pretty playable unless you've got a monster monitor.

What games? I think that I'll pick up Bioshock II sometime soon. Just got around to playing STALKER: SoC. I liked the gameplay, but the ending(s) blew - if I'm going to play 40 hours or more, don't just give me a 30 second clip at the end. Might do Dragon Age II when a GoTY version comes out.

i got a ton of old school games i already own on on cd and dvd but this time got them on gog and steam and impluse.

but new games i got are

"drakensang river of time expansion", its the d&d of germany. in the past they release their american games as arcania, like star trail and few others.

also go witcher 2

dungeons dlc

i spend mostly playing old school games first .

i reuse my old monitor and keyboard and mouse and speakers and sound card .

I'm currently playing Bioshock2. It's a lot like the original Bioshock - I'm undecided on whether or not it's a good thing. A large part of the fun of Bioshock was unwrapping the mythos of Rapture - something lacking here, of course. So far, it feels more like an expansion pack than a sequel.

Witcher 2, huh? Are there nice sniper rifles? I like sniper rifles.

lol no idea play it for a few seconds and it was buggy. didn't play it since.