So we are going to pretend that there wasn't a 5 month absence of blogging.
So good news! I'm building my own computer. Actually, technically, I already built it. Rocking an FX-6300 processor, an Asus R9 290, and equipped with 8GB of RAM, this thing is a gaming beast. And the name: D3VASTATOR.
Or as it appears in my imaginary tax write-off: DEVESTATOR 3.0
The question arises, where are the other revisions of the Devastator? Well, grab some popcorn kiddies, cause it's story time!
So, the very first computer I owned was a sucky Acer Aspire craptop. GMA graphics, Pentium single core processor, 3 GB of RAM. Despite those limitations, I played the original Bioshock and Portal on it. Great memories. Later, this laptop would be given the name "DEVESTATOR Mini" as it was really a smaller version of the real DEVESTATOR, which came only a couple years later. The original DEVESTATOR was a prebuilt Dell Inspiron. Pentium Dual-Core, GMA Graphics, 6GB of DDR2 RAM. So basically it had the power of two DEVESTATOR Minis put in one. However, I loved the thing. Played all sorts of old games on it. COD4, Portal, Peggle, Plants vs Zombies, Postal, Star Wars Battlefront II, Halo.Great experience. So I had this all the way up till around 2 years ago. I started really getting into Computer hardware. And I realized that I could be playing all my favorite console games, on my PC. All I had to do was upgrade. So, I bought a motherboard, CPU, and graphics card and had someone modify the Inspiron case to hold ATX parts, including a new PSU. This cost about $500 total, including servicing fees. When it was complete, the DEVESTATOR 2.0 was born. Equipped with an FX-4100 processor, a Sapphire 7790 GFX Card, and 8GB of RAM, this thing was truly a masterpiece. So at this time I was playing my favorite games on high/ultra. Call of Duty Black Ops II, Ghost Recon Phantoms, Portal 2, Assassin's Creed III, StarCraft II, Borderlands 2, Skyrim. Man, the fun I was having on that thing. Until one day, early this year, an unfortunate overvoltage accident fried everything in the case. PSU, Mobo, RAM, GPU and CPU, gone in the blink of an eye. I was devastated. But not defeated. For I had saved the original parts from the old DEVESTATOR 1.0. So I plopped those back in, and realized how terrible it was. Couldn't even run Fallout New Vegas without lagging to hell. This is April of this year. I know I can't run a YouTube channel over the summer with this POS. But I was a little short on money since I had just invested it all on a capture card, mic, and a bunch of games to cover for my channel. So buying a new one or building a new one was out of the question at the time. So I decided just to upgrade the 1.0 as best I could. First, tossed the old Pentium Dual-Core (literally gave it to a friend as a gag gift). Put in a Core 2 Duo E8400 in its place. Not the best in the socket, but for only $60 it gave me a whopping performance boost. Next, I needed a GPU, GMA wasn't going to cut it anymore. But with a weak OEM 400w with no PCIE connectors, my options were looking non-existent. Then Nvidia released the GTX 750 and my prayers were answered. Picked one up for $120 and popped that in. Boom! All the way up until now, that was my PC. The DEVESTATOR 1.2, locked and loaded. According to Game-Debate, my go-to source for anything PC gaming related, the system should handle most modern games on medium-high, with the processor being the only bottleneck. And I'd say that's pretty accurate. Any optimized game released to this point runs pretty well. Call of Duty Advanced Warfare, Titanfall, Assassin's Creed IV, Battlefield 4 and Shadow of Mordor run great medium to high at 1080p. But nothing too demanding or unoptimized. But PC was my secondary platform; anything I couldn't run on it I could easily get for Xbox. So I had my sights set on an Xbox One for the holiday season, and was saving up for that until August of this year; when I was converted to the Master Race by /r/pcmasterrace. I pretty much accepted PC as the best gaming platform. But in order to truly ascend, I needed a new rig. So I kept saving up, but this time not for an Xbox One, but for a gaming PC.
Which brings us to now. The D3VESTATOR is the third evolution in a line of PCs that I've owned. It's the most powerful, the most badass, and the most personal. Built from the ground up to deliver me a solid 60fps at 1080p. Suck on that, consoles.
That's all this time.
Keep on pwning and owning,
~noob622
Programming and Game Design from the mind of a noob.
