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G15 myself, programmable gaming key setups

Rich-Ando wrote:G15 myself, programmable gaming key setups

Not to mention you have your own arcade

very true

a couple of £250 jackpot fruit machines

then an X-arcade tankstick http://www.gremlinsolutions.co.uk/produ ... kstick.htm

i will never grow up

If you want a full arcade machine, hand built with the best care EVER, you want one of these.... I know the guy who makes them.

It's a full MAME machine, comes with about every game you can imagine. No quality spared and the internals are amazing....OCD, some might say!!

i actually looked into making my own BG. all you need is the cabinet with monitor, the jamma pcb (unless you go for the mame) and then a couple of decent sanwa joysticks, but decided against it as the room it takes, i do not have left. the missus hates my fruit machines so i didn't want to make it worse. i have 5000 odd mame games on my pc instead.

there is one cabinet i would probably not be able to resist if i saw it at the right price though and that's an original Pacman cabinet. i think the originals go for £1500+.

basically calling peripherals a waste of time until a later date

I'm not sure if that was in reference to something I said, but I certainly didn't say they were a waste of time... The point I was getting at, was there are parts of a build that depend on other parts(CPU), and there are parts that dont(Mouse). To go cheap on a dependent part(Motherboard) for the sake of a non dependent part(Mouse) could potentially affect another part(CPU). I would invest in getting the best base parts for a good powerfull rig and then add other universal parts later. The Monitor wouldnt matter if the PC wasn't upto to the job, same goes for a mouse and a keyboard. Each to their own but having decent peripherals and sh*t components is like putting racing stripes on a 1.0L saxo.

consoles are sold at a loss, i thought everybody knew that? it still doesn't mean they compare to a high end gaming rig

Just in case they didn't... AND it does mean they compare to High(Define High End) end gaming rigs, if an Xbox 360 cost £200 to buy when it was new, it would compare to a rig double that cost to build, which is probably what the manufacturer is losing. Andrew Huang used that very argument in his defence against Microsoft when he hacked the 1st Xbox, he argued it was completely viable to reverse engineer because there was $500 worth of machine for $250 it just needed "unlocking"

i'd define a high end gaming rig as £2K+ for brand new parts, so no, it doesn't compare to that end but as i said earlier, if he was only looking at £600 he was better off with his current xbox360. i also explained why i said that about the mouse. we are all different in our views when it comes to what is worth spending money on.

a m8 of mine thought i was crazy spending £400+ on a graphics card but then i pointed out he spends over £300/month on beer and pees it all away. each to their own i say.

i like this

As much as I like that, I can't help but think it'd buy a fast car and a week at the nurburgring with some change to spare

In an act of complete overkill I've just bought a dual xeon, 32gb ECC, dual quadro powerhouse. Dual 24" monitors wallmounted perfectly for my 6'6" height.
So sick of my piece of sh*t laptop, got a £900 tax rebate and thought "Why not?"

Nice - was that the HP server that I saw the other day on hotukdeals?

It is a HP workstation but I'm buying it through a mate of mine who gets discount on this type of thing.

Hi Bradley,

I got my custom made computer from edited by Mod 6 who do amazing work. Although I spent £2,000 on my computer you can still get a decent rig and they set everything up for you so it's all plug and play. Before hand I had to buy my parts separately and piece it all together but my machine is a beast so I am happy I didn't get the fixing job lol.

That's part of the fun though, nothing like building a machine. If I was going for a custom build I'd never pay anyone to do it for me, nor would I trust them to.

Nice box of parts all laid out. And theres nothing like getting all your cables perfectly braided, tied and routed. Cooling perfectly tailored to the machine, then going "Yeah, thats nice"
Spend a couple of days configuring the software to your liking, jobs a goodun.

If I didn't get a hefty discount I would have built this machine to be honest.

I've got part of my kit on the way for my work machine, although, it's could easily be a gaming machine:

- top of the range i7 (Ivybridge, I think he said...)
- 16GB DDR3
- motherboard with all the bells and whistles.

Will have to see what it all is when it arrives *squeels*

BG

Mines more tailored to cad and design purposes but it plays games well over 60fps easily.

One thing I will say, get an SSD, ridiculous performance from it. Boots up in about 20 seconds and everything loads instantly, cracking bit of kit.