[H] Long time and new desktop gaming PC?

[Bino Gopal]

Hey all, LONG time no talk/see!  Glad to see the collective is still here 
and going strong!  Who's running/hosting the list if I may ask?

Anyway, that aside, question for you all as I haven't been keeping up with 
stuff the last few years...

My main desktop gaming PC died *years* ago and rather than replacing it I've 
been using my laptop as kind of a stopgap (yeah I know, but when I got in 2011 
it was a Core i7-740QM with a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 and then I upgraded 
it with 16GB RAM and a 1TB SSD so it's been pretty bad-ass; just has heat 
issues when I really hit graphics intensive games...)

Anyway if I wanted to get a really bad-ass gaming PC but not necessarily go 
through the trouble of building one myself, anyone got any recs on builders 
that give you the whole shebang that offer the best customizability.  Like 
Falcon Northwest or Puget Systems, etc, etc?

Budget-wise I don't know; what *should* I spend on one of these??

And is there any new tech I should def get, like all 3D monitors or 
multi-screen gaming or Oculus Rift something like that??  I've been mostly 
playing Xbox360 and then iOS games lately lol! :P

BINO

  

[H] 5TB hard disk

[Jason Chue]

Hey guys,

Thinking very hard about pulling the trigger on the Toshiba Canvio 5TB
external drives. Has anybody heard and used them?

The only 5TB drives that Toshiba list belongs to their enterprise line up.
7200rpm, 5 platter design and 128MB cache.

Jason

[H] GPT disk moving?!

[joeuser]

Have a 3TB disk I installed in my Win7 box. Planned to backup a bunch of
stuff & pull the drive for safe keeping. I used GPT as it has the 3TB
support. I pulled drive then put it on a SATA to USB 3 cable to read the
drive. Win7 acted like it never saw it. I opened disk management & it
asked me if I wanted MBR or GPT... I picked GPT & now it wants to format
the drive... WTF did I do?! GPT is foreign to me & Google searching is
making me panic with results! I stopped after selecting GPT, again - I
did not format...


Regards,
joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...

"...now these points of data make a beautiful line..."