NWNobleman

Wow! what an awesome giveaway! I like the keyboard best, but they are both fantastic. I'll rumble along on my ten buck Logitech K120 for now, clicking along-side with my Targus mouse besides. By the way, both are excellent for the price.

I like the Kova in white. Mostly because I like white stuff. Extra buttons for expanding capabilities is great too. Of course the Kiro is great too. I'd love to get my hands on either one.

Update: I have had all 4 DIMMs in for a few days now and they seem to work together fairly seamlessly. Now to get the PSU and video card into it when the former arrives some time this week.

Fallout 4, and a graphics card to run it on. And a PSU to power that. Or just a cure for CF for my kids. Or whirled peas.

I came up with the name "Chugosh" for a D&D character about twenty years ago, but only began using it as a handle maybe fifteen years ago. Turns out there is nothing like it on Google except for the Chugach region of Alaska, and so is much more unique than my given name, "Mike."

I was looking into whether it was an abuse of the system. Yes, the arguments over who gets to pay Skyrim on my ps3 are rather epic, and I can do without them. If only one person in the family has to take up the whole library and the others have to wait, that might not be the ideal. Mostly I play single player games, so multi user games for the whole family aren't really going to be a thing. There are enough cool games out there and coming in all the time that I think we will not have trouble keeping everyone entertainment. The kids have the ps3, after all, and will not be to bad off till Wild and Far Cry Primal come out and everyone want to be the cave man. Thanks for all of the good thoughts, guys.

It would be fun to do as a side project sometime to see if it would do, but I think y'all are right. I dd get a chuckle out of that one. Thanks. Noting that these are in the $90 range, and seeing that this http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500349 for less than twice the price; or this http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127906 could just about get it done for about the same price, even. Or for just a touch more, the next step up. Thanks, guys. An interesting discussion, and good advice. So, yeah: No. Just no.

I have three computers at home, and my kids are going to be quite interested in playing some of the games I'm going to be scoring in the coming year. So, is it ethically acceptable to buy a game and then install it on all of my home machines? Will it even work with modern IPA security software?

Oh, Boy! I'll be just fine, once I get a GPU card. I'm going to assume my motherboard's Intel HD is not going to cut it. My old gateway just needs a new little buddy. Would it be a little like putting the long barrel, sniper scope and muzzle brake on the pipe rifle? (Haven't played. Just grooving on all the play and hints videos. Looks so very cool.) Dear Santa......

Any excuse for a party, right? Just looking for a graphics card myself, and I would love to grab a 760. But I, too, am thinking of getting a slightly higher grade of GPU just to forestall future gaming needs. Sure Fallout 4 can run fine on it, but what of Far Cry Primal and Wild? Or what about editing for Youtube or whatnot, which I used t do some back when. Whatever excuse you need for the new shiny, there you go. Even if it is just how it looks in your rig.

Thanks for the help, guys.

Would it work? I know it is a pretty klugey approach, but I have three PCIE x1 slots and only one PCIe X16 on my Acer IPIMB AR motherboard and no budget for a full on rebuild or replacement. Probably cheaper to fill the big slot, anyway, in the end. I don't even know if there are any of the older gpus that support the multiple thing.

So here is the deal. I'm prying open my desktop, and having come from someone who couldn't tell you much about anything to a guy with a quarter's worth of community college tech course knowledge, I am naturally considering a few tweaks to the system to improve its workability, especially around games and graphics. I got some pretty good answers from the guys over in the gaming forum about graphics card and that my CPU is probably good enough for what I want to do. Thanks guys for that. It is a warm welcome to the newbie tech. I have 8 Gb of RAM in two sticks of 4 Gb, and that seems to be what the motherboard, an Acer Ipimb-AR, likes, but it has two more RAM slots, and that is where the question comes in. Do I pick up two more compatible sticks and plug them on in next to the old ones, or would it be best practices to get four sticks all new? To quote a site with the specs on, "4 x 240-pin DDR3 DIMM slots Supports Dual Channel DDR3 1333 non-ECC , un-buffered memory (Max 16GB)" According to here.

Yeah it may be a bit much, but it still beats the poo out of the price of a new ps4 or Xbox one, with a good bit more modularity and complete backwards compatibility. Right?

I heard good things about the GTX 750Ti type of GPU. I guess I could trade up a bit on the cpu but have only scratched at that. I have till after Christmas before I can buy anything, though, so I have time to look.