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Just interested in the general feeling in FG for MW3 so poll time 🙂

So after around 5 years, my brother has decided he wants to upgrade his PC, but I think he might go down the route of buying new everything. He offered (maybe not serious at this point, I don't know) his rig for £300 and I'm wondering if you would? AMD Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7 GHz 8-Core Processor NZXT Kraken X62 Liquid CPU Cooler Gigabyte X470 AORUS GAMING 7 WIFI ATX AM4 Motherboard Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-2666 CL16 Memory Samsung 970 Evo 250 GB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive Seagate BarraCuda 4 TB 3.5" 5400 RPM Internal Hard Drive NVIDIA Founders Edition GeForce RTX 2070 8 GB Video Card GameMax Graphite ATX Mid Tower Case Corsair TX750M 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply Asus DRW-24D5MT DVD/CD Writer This is obviously an improvement over my aging i7 4790k and GTX 980. I believe it has the possibilities for upgrades without major changes being needed should I be able to afford to upgrade later on. Would you say it's a good deal? Being that I'm gaming at 1080p.

So, FG just officially hit it's anniversary last week and a bunch of us now have the 10 year badge. Congrats to all who have made it this far and to whose who keep the community what it is today. Thanks to prodigal son @Diddums for getting the show on the road and to @GazzaGarratt for keeping the wheels spinning 🖤 You can blame both these twats for my presence lol 🖤🥳👏🙈😍🍻😜

16 returning maps which is every single map from MW2 back in 2009. I know loads have asked for multiple maps in this list so I would expect some FGers to be over the moon with this! I'm just glad they're doing it in a big drop at once. The playerbase moaned about wanting loads of old maps so here you go. Favela I know is loved by a few here... Whats your thoughts??

What I would really appreciate is an extension of the 24/7 system…the ability to be able to choose a particular map to play. To just go select map > select game mode > play game Playing Shipment 24/7 is ok but to be able to select say large maps for sniping would be great

Kind of looking forward to it. There were a lot of maps that I liked in that rotations. It would be nice if the maps that are in MW2 are also part of the rotation. Don't see why not nice it basically a DLC of MW2 A lot of those maps are already in DMZ if you look carefully. So people that have been playing Warzone/DMZ might have slightly better map knowledge than those who don't

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Well, you can stop looking at me, I haven't got any plans to tap out in the near future

You don't need the internet for that mate 🖤😅

Thank you for helping visually show what I meant 😘

I'm perfect. Fuck you.

I really love this place. Like REALLY love it. And you lot. You're annoying, frustrating and absolutely hilarious at the best/worst of times. Our little home on the world wide webz is something to be proud of and shout about more in my eyes. We're far from perfect but I'd love more to know how awesome this place, and you guys and girls are. Here's to the next 10 years. Cheers for sticking around and getting involved and being a family for life. ❤️

10 years of people being massive cunts to each other online. What an achievement 🎮

It's not very often you come across gaming communities that last as long as FG which I think is down to each member but also the ones that bind everyone together.

Me too. Damn, had forgotten about Auptyk. Wasnt he here for a brief moment some years back?

10 years wow, got the badge 👍 Still remember the day @Diddums led us away from the tyranny of Auptyx to our new home. Like some sort of loud sweary Moses

I'm waiting until we hit 17 years just so I can play the following

Ah it's doing well to have lasted then 🙂 It's easy for little communites like this for people to drift away so though they won't blow their own trumpets it does take the efforts of individuals to keep somewhere like this going, I'm sure Lee will say it's all down to the community but it never is 😄 In my short spell here I can tell @GazzaGarratt is certainly a driving force of it so fair play to him 🙂 And @Diddums for all the work he must have put in all those years ago ^_^ And ofc you as well @phil bottle 🙂

If you're just using 1080p then you can expect to run most modern games at almost-maximum settings. There may be some issues with certain games especially the RAM hungry ones like TLOU but otherwise that's a half-decent rig that will keep you going for at least 4 years before you even have to consider really toning things down. £250-300 is a very fair price.

I should be receiving this next weekend. He decided £300 seemed excessive, so now selling me it for £250. It'll tie me over for a while until I decide what I'm doing. I'll have a think about what to do with the other desktop. If I can go smaller, I'll be tempted. She only plays Roblox anyway, so even though my 980 isn't going to fit in a smaller case most likely, I have a 560 Ti in a box I could swap for instead. If it means I can transfer to a smaller case.

Googling some benchmarks of the 2070 it can use high to ultra settings in games like Far Cry 5, Forza Horizon, Shadow of the Tomb Raider etc. and maintain over 60fps. So hopefully it should be quite a noticeable jump in performance. Some of that will be down to VRAM too, 8Gb is the minimum I’d go for these days as games are getting chonky ao your 980 was probably having to do some VRAM management which definitely wouldn’t help game smoothness. The motherboard is ATX form factor which means you can’t go too small but you can get some pretty small atx cases. Motherboad sizes are easy as the case will say what if they support it or not. It’ll just be some googling to make sure the 980 fits too.

Pricing up what I know second hand prices for CPU ~£40-£50 RAM ~£20-£25 GPU ~£130-£150 So £190-£225 just in those but you could add £40-£50 for the PSU. The motherboard is obviously an older version but if memory serves, the Auros 7 was one of best Ryzen 2000 series motherboards so probably add £50 easy (probably more) but makes it another £100 bringing the current total to ~£300. After that everything else is “free” with the cooler being pretty good too so another bonus. Drives are cheap these days so they won’t add much but always nice to haves. For gaming at 1080p that PC should be fine and still hit 60fps at quite high-ish settings. As for upgrades; yes there would be some easy upgrades. RAM is obviously easy but 16Gb is probably enough unless you’re playing some intensive games. GPU is also easy but for 1080p the 2070 should be enough. The 250Gb NVME drive is small these days but the motherboard has multiple slots so cloning the existing one would be easy (from memory Ryzen 2000 doesn’t have the pci-e lanes to run 2 nvme’s without some performance loss so it would be better swapping it out rather than use 2 but worth double checking as my memory of hardware specs from years ago could be wrong). CPU wise obviously it’s a few years old but the 2700x was the top of the 2000 series and it still holds up well today and I’m not sure it would be worth upgrading but it would be possible to swap it out for a newer CPU as the AM4 socket included 3000 and 5000 series too. You’d need to check on Gigabytes site but the Auros 7 was their top board so can’t believe it wouldn’t support newer Ryzen. There’s some downsides though namely everything is EOL. Ryzen now uses socket AM5 so you couldn’t go newer than 5000 series. DDR5 RAM is the current where this is DDR4. I wouldn’t put too much weight on these though as that PC should still last for years. It’s just worth noting so you’re fully informed. So overall is it a good deal? I’m always loathed to answer these sort of questions as so much of what it depends on is subjective but I’d say so, yes.

I have put down no for now, MW2 is the first COD I have picked up in a while and it's enough for me, I jump on more now for catching up with you guys more than anything. Couple that with being a little skint at the moment having spent more than I should have last month and wanting to get the new Fifa game (EA Sports) it is a bit further down the list. So for now it's a no, maybe when there is a deal on it or maybe christmas time when things are paid off I might contemplate it if there's a bunch playing on there regularly. But for now my COD fix is more than sated by the current game. I also have some great games to play at the moment, Starfields coming out too so I have a lot of gaming hours to put in as it is!

I am on no. It might be a great game, but they cant fix the general COD community, that has ruined the franchise.

Probably will but I don't see a need for pre-beta. It's not like they are going to run out of games

I'll most likely get it. As I've said before it basically sounds like MW2 but with all of the shit changed back that IW changed for no reason. So a proper perk system, Dead Silence/Ninja and a normal mini map.

Personally, I've pre-ordered already. MW2019 and MW2(022) have both been good and changes are being made for MW3 but don't see a great deal changing. I've put enough hours in to MW2 to get my money's worth so happy to pre-order.