Thursday, 15 September 2016

I have finally transcende

It's been a long journey, but I've finally done it. In 2008, I was given a PS2 for Christmas (2 years after the ps3 came out). It was a joyous time. In 2011 I saved up enough and sold enough of my stuff to get a Xbox 360, and was finally able to play games with friends.
And in 2012, my family gave me my first taste. I was gifted a half decent laptop for graduating high school. An HP laptop with an AMD A-10. I quickly upgraded the ram, and put a SSD into it. It played everything at the time. At 720p and medium-high settings. Oh the games I played. Oh the games I bought. My steam library quickly grew to 200+ (thanks humble bundle).
And then black Friday 2015 happened. I bought a Xbox one. At my place of employment, I did a good amount of one on one work with customers... And dealt with a lot of reseller's. And around that time, one of the resellers, for some reason, gave me a gift card for a certain store. A $200 gift card. I was dumbfounded. And that store..they didn't sell anything computer related.. So I bought an Xbox one. Many friends had one, it was a decision I don't regret. I mean hey, it was $200 off.
Roll around to 2 months ago, a friend of mine um earthed his old old rig. Athlon II x3, 9800gt, 4gb of ram.. It was a mess, but I did what I could with it. OC'd the hell out of the CPU. Slight OC on the GPU. Threw my SSD from the laptop into her and gave her life again (will link post when I'm not on mobile). Used her for about 2 months.
About a week ago, I bought a 8350 and mobo on Craigslist and replaced the guts of the old rig. Friend sponsored (bough for me) a cheap case and PSU. Finally, I get to really make my own rig. And yesterday, another friend upgraded to a 1060 and gifted me his evga 750. I'm blown away at how, even this lower end card, can run some of the games I want to play at high settings.
And now for the point of this post, yesterday, I listed my Xbox one on Craigslist, and today, is the last I'll see of her. She's gone, but not forgotten. Now I'm stuck on deciding on upgrading GPU, or replacing the games I played most on Xbox, rainbow 6 siege and overwatch.
Long sob story, but hey, I'm happy. Haha



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