I used to build my own PCs and the time to upgrade came when I could afford to and whenever I felt the need. I stopped building my own PC when I bought this Alienware years ago. I had the money and needed a better computer. I got everything I wanted, for a hefty price, and I've loved it. Unfortunately, the GTX 690 I selected for its GPU is a dual GPU card and unfortunately not all games are able to harness the power of that setup. So, some games were only able to use half of the 690. It was Ark that made this issue apparent. I wanted to play Ark like it should be played and so I decided to upgrade the GPU to a GTX 980Ti Classified and I love it.

I think this PC is about 5 years old, I've had it for a few years at least. I still see no reason at all to replace it, it's going strong and I love it. Right now the only thing I'd like to change is the hard drive. I'd like to get an SSD, to help speed things up a bit.

That's what I love about having a "full blown gaming tower," because whenever there's a part I want to upgrade, I can do it quite easily.

Oh and I fully agree with graphic in this post, PC is the master race!

Jon, I thought the SSD would help games load faster, too. For me, Ark takes a few minutes to load, so I think putting it on an SSD would make it load much quicker. It doesn't take forever though. My PC runs fine, so I'm not in a hurry to upgrade, but right now an SSD upgrade is the only thing I can think of that I'd change. I have 16 gigs of RAM and that seems to be enough. I could look into upgrading my monitor, so I could get better resolutions, but again I still don't feel a strong need to do that.

Travis, interesting paradox! I wouldn't consider it a new PC unless all or most of the parts were different. Usually, I'd build one and over the course of a few years, I'd end up upgrading it. I've been through a few of them, in fact I think they're all still in my room. It's interesting to think about my PC history and how it evolved over time. But, the primary reason I buy or build tower PCs, because parts are more easily interchangeable.

I actually have an ASUS motherboard to my left. I'm pretty sure it was the last motherboard I bought.

I agree with the GTA Flying missions, learning to fly, trying to achieve those goals. It was tough and it sucked. I think I've done it twice now and I always tell myself that I never want to go through that again.

Some of my rage quits include Hearthstone and Faeria, because of forced PVP in which I really suck. Mario games can be like that, too, sometimes I get so annoyed with them.

Koudelka on PS1.

It was a shitty RPG to begin with, but the really rage inducing thing was that all your equipment could (and frequently did) break. There were no item shops in that game, all equipment had to be found or drop off a monster. After I had to fight through a string of battles with no weapons at all I finally got a spear to drop. I equip it, and it broke on the next fight. I turned the game off and traded it in for something else the next day.

I loved Gwent in the game, so I was interested in this. I don't know if there's a solo mode, but it seems there's a PVP mode, so I haven't checked it out yet since I'm not interested in full PVP. I signed up for the beta and I believe I have access to it, I just haven't tried it yet,

Confirmed, I do have my own code. It's for GOG, are your codes GOG, Steam, or what?

Ok, I played it a little bit, at least the tutorial parts. It is slightly different than the Gwent in The Witcher 3, in that it seems like there are more, or even new, abilities. Other than that, it's essentially the same, although the board doesn't look exactly like it does in the game. There is a single player "Practice" mode and a "Multiplayer" mode. I'm not sure how deep "Practice" is, perhaps I'll check it out sometime, but this still seems to be centered on PVP, which (in reference to your new post) makes me "rage quit." LOL

Well, since I was a Gwent beta tester (I signed up for the beta and played once), they're giving me a free copy of the Witcher 2 (which I already have). Now I have a key to get rid of. I think I'll try out our key giveaway system.