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Hope you enjoy it. Yeah even if you yeet out of a game to restart you have to re-engage the mods. I love the customizable options like Espionage etc. I hate the Espionage part and you can just turn it off. It is also constantly in development and refinement. Bugs get squashed pretty...

I mean those games already looked pretty **** good, they didn't need remasters..... but the Quest For More Money always wins

Sort of. 3DFX management f*cked themselves with the STB purchase, that was a terrible move that set them back on all sorts of levels. If they had just stuck with their oem partners and pushed harder on Rampage they could still be relevant today. Also Sega kind of helped with the screwing...

doesn't each additional drive just eat up pci-e lanes slowing things down?

eh, I dunno

And don't forget about the 1800w power supply you're going to need for this monster

wait, what? Is the thing just streaming now? or is this on top of the 100gb local install?

pffft..... "only" 32tb? what is this, a hard drive for peasants? /s :)

5700x3d is tempting but I doubt it's worth $180 upgrade over my 5700x. Is Civ V going to process AI turns twice as fast LOL :) ?

don't need, but definitely want

I think Microcenter will flash the board up if you buy a combo with a new cpu + not brand new mobo edit - oh they charge $30. Hmmm maybe not.

I've had a similar experience with an el cheapo microatx MC bundle Asrock B350 board. That one started with a 1600x, then a 2700x, now a 3700x.... and it could probably handle my 5700x in my main rig if I decided to bother any more. But I'm not doing nearly the video render work I used to...

yep. LTO9 is 19tb uncompressed and 45tb compresses. IBM has a drive that will do around 50 / 150. Tape is still very much a thing for archival.

These monsters aren't designed with home use in mind, they are aimed at enterprise / datacenter / cloud. For SANs, density is king. And they all throw a ton of SSD at the top of the stack for cache. Eventually the tech will trickle down to consumer level if there is any demand for it. But...

https://forums.civfanatics.com/forums/community-patch-project.497/ The expanded UI takes some getting used to, it throws a TON of info on the screen. On a big honkin' monitor, it's fine. On a laptop it makes for a cramped experience. Parts of it can be turned off. The AI is SO much harder...

LOL I didn't think Civ 5 even used that many threads. The end game on big maps gets brutal between turns. I still play Civ 5 with the Vox Populi mod. If you haven't tried it you really should. It changes/fixes SO many things. I have buyer's remorse for Beyond Earth and Civ 6..... I bought...

Now I can't even scrape up an hour or 2 with my friends online with voice chat. We figure if we have a couple hours to kill we'd rather meet in person and go drinking etc

Yeah my buddy and his roommate hosted every now and then like 20 years ago. We would always pop the breakers during heated fragging.... we each started bringing super long yardwork extension cords to plug into outlets in different parts of the house to spread the load out. Power and ethernet...

I read a new patch is out that fixes tons of stuff like stealth, speeders, etc. Maybe I'll wait a year until it gets under $30 and all patched up