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[Zerlargal]

Born in the late 60's, come of age in the 80's a devout techie who now enjoys some of the finer things in life. Consumed by the first of vast open virtual worlds Everquest, courted by Asheron's Call, engrossed by Vanguard: SoH, smashed by Warhammer Online and then spat out by Age of Conan this fellow has now retired from the massively multiplayer genre. Returning to his roots this connoisseur now enjoys the finer red's such as Tomb Raider, Doom, Farcry, Uncharted and a little Battlefield to elevate the heart rate. Been building his own computers since the very day he started working in that computer store 25 years ago he now enjoys doing it for others as well. He has progressed through one screen, then two, then three with SLI to achieve a whopping 5760 x 1080 combined single view for gaming only to find the lack of gaming support for triple screen resolutions and patchy gaming support for SLI in general meant hours of tuning had to go into every new game. After a couple of years of this he went back to a single screen and single GPU for simplicity, compatibility then he could just play. In fact for a period of about three years he went to console to see if he could save himself some money from the endless upgrade cycle of a performance gaming rig. For a few years he was happy, not having to touch a PC for anything other than work. It was a magic life.. focus on other things, have more fun with his kids, dabble with Raspberry Pi's, time with the dog.. cue the contentment music.

 

Then all of it, the happiness, the contentment, the smug son-of-a-bitchiness, all of it crumbled to dust when they dropped the GTX1080. A GPU that hit the magic trifecta, more than double the grunt, less power and smaller GPU size taking the power of a Titan from the hands of the gods and handing it to the people. The goose had finally layed the golden egg and their wasn't a snowflakes chance in hell this geek from the 60's wasn't going to be in on it. So a build was afoot and the PC was dusted off and reborn sporting an 1080FE and given its raw gruntiness it was time to deliver on a new screen. Something special, something worthy of the GPU and so came the time our geek finally started looking at 4K (UHD) and the prices suddenly went north in a big way. Finally after hosting a LAN party and seeing an imported XB321HK in action he waited until the first shipment hit the country and bought his own. Now his desk is a little shallow but by Jesus watching Lara Croft climb a wall is rather entertaining on a glorious 4K IPS panel. It was a shock to find the screen cost more than the graphics card. So that brings us to 2016, to get to 2017 well their is a story I have to tell you... hang on what was all this? Call it an introductions of sorts ;-)

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