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I had no idea what half of that meant Subtle but it sounded pretty class
Well the past few days I've been completely bedridden with a near fatal disease. AKA man flu and just recovering.
And what a time to start recovering-for the release of Skyrim Special Edition later on tonight. Love free game upgrades. From what I've seen from the screenshots it looks pretty **** awesome. Makes upgrading the GPU even more of a priority now
And what a time to start recovering-for the release of Skyrim Special Edition later on tonight. Love free game upgrades. From what I've seen from the screenshots it looks pretty **** awesome. Makes upgrading the GPU even more of a priority now
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I have Skyrim DLC on Xbox 360, any idea if that is unlocked if i get the remaster on Xbox One? Or does the remaster include the DLC?
I really don't know to be honest when it comes to the Xbox version. I'd google it rather than have me get it wrong just to be safe
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Thought you would be balls deep in Civ by now.
Currently smashing through some of the Witcher 3 DLC before I have a mega civ/stellaris sesh at the weekend!
If anyone has an Xbox 1 there's a free game offer for Borderlands:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/sto...andsome-collection-unlock-bundle/bvrk77xxgbwb
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/sto...andsome-collection-unlock-bundle/bvrk77xxgbwb
I'll be getting it but will have to wait. My GPU is dying (had some crashes) so need to upgrade GPU when I get paid just over a week. The I3 does have integrated graphics but doubt will good enough for Civ. Though oddly can run Overwatch on the integrated GPU. Plus tbh still not in a fit state for gaming right now after my near fatal deadly disease lol
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Cheers mate, just downloaded. Have it on disk anyway but now I can sell it and still keep it!
Great deal if you have an XB1!
*Edit* seems like it's a free play weekend. Still good if you haven't tried it
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How powerful is the I3 integrated graphics? Mine runs well on the integrated A10 7980k
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Do you use that Toshiba laptop now mate?
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I use that mainly for work stuff now, got a desktop for my strategy games. Why you thinking about getting Civ? I can test it on it at some point this week if you want
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Interested in Civ mate but don't know if I'd get my head around it lol.
Actually looked at Civ 3 the other day as it was 79p to see if I could get in to it.
Basically only gaming I do is TV on and plodding through the seasons on FM lol
(also have you had the problem on the laptop where the screen doesn't come on when you start up? I've had it arounf 10 times now!)
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The 4gb RX 480 Nitro+ is down to £199 on Overclockers.
I ordered one for one of my rigs to replace an old HD 7790 that started to fail.
Free delivery, should be here Tuesday and only cost me €221 (cheapest I could buy it here was €299)
My mates will be delighted because somebody always draws the shorter straw on LAN nights and has to use the one with the dodgy GPU.
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No never, only problem I had was a Windows 10 update one with the last big update made my Laptop not work at all. Affected something like 0.001% of users had to revert to 7 whilst it got fixed
I had a look at some benchmark vids earlier, and saw games like: Arma 3 was in the mid-40s FPS, League of Legends was between 45-65 FPS, Overwatch in the 40s (however detail of maps will affect FPS-I've taken hits myself), GTA V in the low 30s-so it's quite a potent little GPU, but I'd guess at the cost of detail (there was no mention of which graphic presets were used or if it was 1080p or 720p). Also seen Rocket League being played at 1080p with 35-40 fps which is pretty good.
I would have stayed with AMD, but after reading about bottlenecks when people combo an APU with a GPU I thought be best to switch to Intel. Can't fault AMD though-served me very well, and my R7 240 surpassed my expectations
The 4gb RX 480 Nitro+ is down to £199 on Overclockers.
I ordered one for one of my rigs to replace an old HD 7790 that started to fail.
Free delivery, should be here Tuesday and only cost me €221 (cheapest I could buy it here was €299)
My mates will be delighted because somebody always draws the shorter straw on LAN nights and has to use the one with the dodgy GPU.
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Would have loved to get the 480 but badly strapped for cash at the moment so will have to plump for an RX 460 which can tide me over until I have money for 470 or 480 (leaning towards 470 due to lack of GPU intensive games I play). The 460 is now under £100 (saw one for £95) and it's pretty much good enough for what I play (FM, Starcraft 2, Overwatch etc).
They should make it clear if it's free play weekend-I didn't even notice that tbh
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Ah yeah, the 460 should tide you over until the January sales if you aren't playing graphics intense titles.
The most demanding there is Overwatch and with AA turned off you'll get a decent framerate at 1920x1080 on High settings.
Keep an eye on the B grade stock on OCUK this weekend.
You can get crazy bargains in there.
I recently picked up a B grade Asus H170 board for £55. It is in perfect working order with a 90 day warranty and was only missing it's original box and manual
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If I didnt only play strategy on PC I may have got the jntel myself but for the pricepoint and the quadcore 4.2Ghz (i think it is)I get I can't knock it tbh.
Does me for all my paradox needs, barely gaming right now which is unlike.me just so busy. I need to drop a GPU in my system though at somepoint ill get the latest amd r model I think pairs nice with the processor for my needs anyway.
I didn't really have much of a choice really. The FM2+ mobo's have no upgrade path, and by the sounds of it the next gen of AMD CPU's will be out of my price range, and (at the time) I got lucky being able to get the I3, 650 watt PSU, 8 GB DDR4 RAM, Gigabye mobo (LG1151) for just under £225 total. For that price it was very hard to resist and it's been a great upgrade.
I'll keep buying the AMD GPU's though as they have better support for the future compared to NVidia, and can get some great value cards. Plus with better support for Vulkan and DX12 it's pretty much a no brainer.