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Always good to welcome more to the PC gaming 🙂 I'd disagree with Ren though about going prebuilt, while there is more hassle in building your own at your budget I'm almost certain it will be cheaper (or a better spec) and the warranty on individual parts is usually equal or longer to that offered by system builders. GPU - Parts are a pain at the moment but as James said an RTX3070 (or AMD 6800, maybe 6700 depending on benchmarks) at minimum should see you sorted for a good few years. Obviously if you want to splash the cash there's always a 3080 too. Or even simpler - buy the highest card up this list as your budget allows; https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html CPU - To disagree with Phil here, I think this is AMD all the way. The Ryzen 5000 series CPU's beat Intel in everything so that's what I'd be looking at. The numbering scheme is pretty simple; for your budget buy the highest number you can. Or, again, simpler - buy the highest CPU up this list as your budget allows; https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/reviews/cpu-hierarchy,4312.html Motherboard - will depend on which CPU you go for though I'd be aiming for middle of the road on price here. Top end has everything typically but is overkill unless you're pushing voltages and overclocks etc. The cheap end tend to use not so great caps and vrm's and some with no coolers on them either. Basically after that you're just looking to make sure they have the features you want (enough sata ports for however many drives you want, 3 or 6 audio jacks or optical, enough usb ports etc.) RAM - 16Gb 3200Mhz still seems to the be sweet sport for price and performance. 16Gb is the minimum I'd recommend but should see you good for a few years and somewhere you can save some £ now as it's easy enough to add another 16Gb in a few years if you find you need it. Power Supply / PSU - 650W should be enough though I'd probably say go for 750W as you'd be in a more efficient range of the PSU. PSU's are a pain though as every brand has good and bad ones, Corsair, SuperFlower and Seasonic generally fair the best but not all their PSU's are good. Find a few in your budget and google for reviews, there's usually full teardown reviews of them and it should let you know if it that model is a good one or not. Storage - NVMe for Windows, 500Gb as an absolute minimum but 1tb would be better. After that, it depends what you want to store and how much. Case - This will depend on where you want to put it though other factors to consider are to make sure it can fit your motherboard size (itx, m-atx, atx or e-atx - the motherboard listing will tell you). After that it's just down to how many drives you want, front panel usb's etc. Some cases come with front panel card readers which can be useful as it saves digging out cables camera's all the time. The final thing to consider is CPU cooling - depending on the route you choose you need to make sure it will fit. Almost all cases will list maximum height for air cooler and fan/radiator support for AIO liquid coolers. Monitor - As already said 1440p is the sweet spot still. 4k is still a bit out of reach for gaming at good refresh rates but 1440p isn't plus it's a nice resolution bump over 1080p. If you want it for photography, I'd look at one with good colour accuracy which generally speaking means an IPS monitor. However there are good TN and VA panels too so similar to PSU's this will be best done by googling for review of specific monitors.

Yeah, last September I got a Valve Index so different but basically the same and I can confirm they are awesome! I've mostly been sticking to sim racing with it but I've played a few other games. Like you I've also tried TV/movies on it though I've been meaning to sort out a better seat so I can watch a whole movie as I really want to watch the Star Wars original trilogy in 4k in VR.

Outside of the usual bath sets, t-shirts, chocolate and jelly beans the most notable was a new lens for my camera (slight fllex 😛) and a blend your own whisky set; where they give you a few different tasting whiskys (smokey, fruity etc.) and the stuff to blend them. So that's going to be some tasty to try out 🙂

I just completed this quiz. My Score 50/100 My Time 156 seconds  

Always the way isn’t it! Which gr3 did you get? Always hard when you’re starting out but you’ll soon find you have few cars coming out your ears.

And the award for the cover that most sounds like the original goes to...

You'll need to acquire them. The easiest methods are; - Do a driving marathon each day (26.2 miles) which gives you a random free car - Do each row of the driving school thing (I can't remember it's proper name) it's 8 challenges which has a gift symbol at the end. Get all gold and get a free random car. - Do circuit experiences, gold on each section and complete track will give you a free random car Worth noting that any driving you do counts towards the driving marathon, the driving school thingy and circuit experience included, so doing them to get your 26.2 daily miles can get you several free cars a day. The circuit experience also nets you a decent amount of dollar too though there's better ways to earn money. It used to be doing some of the league races with specific set ups but I'm out the loop of the fastest way to earn dollar these days.

I assume this is Dragon Trail seaside?

Without saying too much in case you do watch Rebels, it isn't currently known what happened to Ezra after Rebels. So it's possible he won't be in one of the shows or even mentioned. The whole reason people have been saying about Sebastian Stan to play young Luke is because they look so alike! The voice will be different but I don't think that would be such a huge thing.

I’m glad you took all our comments under advisement 😆 I’m not a huge fan of the rallying in gt sport so I’m happy we’re doing the circuit. Though if people want to do the rallying then i’ll be there.

Well that wasn’t what I expected though thoroughly enjoyed it. I would expect that the series will continue with the reclamation of Mandalor consider he is now the ruler of it. Yeah that scene from Rebels came to mind for me too. I can’t remember the exact details but Sabine doesn’t take the Dark Saber in battle either as she finds it in Darth Mauls stuff. You could say Bo Katan should have fought Sabine for it but really the Rebels scene is more just the returning of the Saber to a mandalorian that could reunite the clans and rule Mandalor. Though this could also be taken further that Bo Katan obviously lost the Saber at some point so has to win it back rather than be given it. It’s not ‘clean’ but I don’t think it’s the plot hole some people seem to be making it out to be. Also, yes Sebastian Stan should play young Luke. They wouldn’t need any CGI then. While it was cool seeing Luke back, I was hoping it was going to Ezra. With the human hand I thought it might be but as soon as you saw the gloved hand it was obviously Luke. Edit: Not to mention the x wing being a bit of a clue too.

I imagine it would, I'll let you know when it happens #fixed

The bits that I can’t work out is 1) how did nvidia ever think it wouldn’t get out and wouldn’t cause a massive backlash which leads on to 2) why didn’t they come up with almost any other reason as they could have chosen a number that would have left Hardware Unboxed without cards but without the fuss.

It certainly is a method that I'm happy to support especially as it seems helpful for smaller developers to make games as it's in essence crowd funding. The issue is that it can't work for all games; something like 7dtd works as it's a survival game and while they can add more stuff (either as new mechanics or actual things like vehicles) it will remain a survival game. How does that work for a story driven game though? The only real way to do it for a single player story driven game is similar to Destiny and release content periodically that continues the story. Though that then runs in to the problem that, for a game like CP2077, how to put in enough content to span the months between releases. Comparing to Destiny, even that struggles but has a lot more (raids, pvp, special events etc.) that do help give 'content' over a longer period of time. This whole situation reminds me of No Mans Sky and Hello Games. Sure the game launched badly but Hello Games sorted it out and from what I've seen so far, it looks like CDPR are so far doing the right thing and I hope they continue to do so. The first impression is the most important sadly, NMS is still remembered more for it's botched launch than the game it's become and I think CP2077 will be remembered similarly.

So first horde night done and well it was ...... interesting. We spent on the roof of another building to not risk what we’ve gathered so far. Someone (Crispy or Rich) joked about the town we’re in being decimated as we spend each horde night on a different building. Turns out they were right, right at the end of horde night the building collapsed! As it turns out, horde night is harder because the modded zombies (the ones on the menu screen) come out but zombies also regain health on horde night! It’s a hard one, we obviously need a proper base to have a chance of surviving horde night but ifs going to be a while until we can think about building a base.

Whoops! Forgot to rsvp to the event but happy to rearrange if no one else can make it.

Have you been driving 100 miles a day? 😆 It's a driving marathon (26.2 miles) to get a free car a day. Though other way to get free cars; Driving school - each row of 8 will give you a free car if you get gold in all 8 Circuit experience - get gold on each section and full track and you'll get a free car. (also a pretty good way to earn credits) Mileage exchange - not technically 'free' as you buy them with mileage points but there's very little to use mileage points on except cosmetic stuff (paint, wheels, driver poses etc.) so they tend to build up over time. As the miles per day counts in anything, driving 26.2 miles while doing circuit experiences can net you multiple free cars a day.

Makes sense though my only concern would be if everyone has a gr2 car. As there’s only (I think) 2 or 3 is unlikely people have had them as gifts cars so will need to buy them.

There's elements that are harder; for example clearing out the building we're on top of had 3 irradiated zombies in which is crazy for day 2. Though on the hand, things like food seems a easier with the amount of oranges, tomatos, carrots etc you can find in the world. Though food is an issue currently but it always seems to be at the start of 7dtd so I'd agree on balance the easier and harder evens out so far. Though I can see it potentially being more resource intensive to get things but we shall see. For reference, I chose scavenger and security to begin with. @tronic44 If you went hunter, does that give you more meat like in vanilla? I'm wondering if it would be best then for you to have the rifle so you can more easily take down bigger animals.

There's instructions on how to install the mod on their wiki: Installing The Mod | Wiki.js WIKI.DARKNESSFALLSMOD.COM A Guide on How to Install the Darkness Falls Mod Currently in the process of following it so will update if it works. Edit: Yup seems to work 🙂

I'm happy with going PvP .... but I think I'm busy that day.

It depends, if we race the weekly races they're only announced Monday so doesn't leave much time to do it but whenever there's time then that's the plan.

I’m not sure about WandaVision but it looks a more interesting idea than the Falcon and Winter Soldier which just looks quite generic action. Loki does look good too and if they write his character as good as the films it should be too.

Congratulations to all! Every single one well deserved and great to see @GazzaGarratthonouring the right people though you deserve plenty of credit yourself. On a personal level, @phil bottle I can’t think of anyone better to pass the torch of fg’er of the year to...well maybe not a Londoner but I don’t hold that against you too much.

Haha sneaky just don’t do my tactic then and use it so everyone knows what car 🤣 Though my 1:13 lap was done on hards 😉 Interesting to know though about fuel though, some more testing is obviously required. It’s that question again of can you make up the pit stop time using 2 sets of super softs against 1 set of hards.