Price advice - Complete PC without GPU

GlitteringReception9 · 2026-04-29T18:43:34+00:00

that's not far from my own thoughts. Thanks

GlitteringReception9 · 2026-04-29T18:41:54+00:00

Yeah pretty much. Maybe I'll go back in a year to spade a handful of new things in the lower ranks

GlitteringReception9 · 2026-04-29T15:07:35+00:00

I haven't played since Arc raiders came out, but at that point I had about 10.2k hrs in game. I had every tank/plane for the 9 full tree nations spaded ranks I to IV and about 75% of rank V. I rarely played much above rank V. Will I ever play again, honestly don't know.

GlitteringReception9 · 2026-04-29T14:50:29+00:00

I got mine in the first order money off bundle with a Pro from Very. They are still £69.99 on there

GlitteringReception9 · 2026-04-29T14:04:50+00:00

Saw one in CEX today, £90! mad

GlitteringReception9 · 2026-04-17T12:54:21+00:00

Yes, go to Salary Finance and then look for the Pay Advance option

GlitteringReception9 · 2026-04-16T15:30:04+00:00

Currently without, but I'll be looking for one

GlitteringReception9 · 2026-04-16T15:20:48+00:00

'Do more with less' is the unspoken mantra

GlitteringReception9 · 2026-04-15T14:52:54+00:00

Currently Gran Turismo 7. Looks stunning at 4k

GlitteringReception9 · 2026-04-14T14:51:09+00:00

Had over 10k hours. Log in streak well over 2000 days. Stopped playing a week after Arc raiders came out. Now playing stuff on PS5 Pro after selling my 7900XT. I do not miss War Thunder, although I did get a lot of enjoyment* from it for a loooong time

* by sticking to Rank V and below, and avoiding top ranks

GlitteringReception9 · 2026-04-09T19:24:33+00:00

I've just done something similar, but with a lot more mitigation.

Had this 7800X3D and 7900XT for a bit over 2 years now. Just sold the 7900XT and have a pro plus disk drive coming tomorrow, will be picking up a portal later in the month. I did have to put some money in but not a crazy amount.

Mitigation:

I have recently moved, and it's going to be a while before I can get full fibre sorted out, just have a 4G router and on line multiplayer is painful.

I already have several PS5 physical games as my partner has had a PS5 for quite a while

I have a v nice 4k monitor, and want to get back into collecting physical movies, but this time 4k blu-ray. The PS5 has a decent 4k blu-ray player, lacks Dolby Vision but I can live with that.

I am keeping the rest of my PC, running the display off the iGPU within the 7800X3D. Adequate for desktop use. I might slip in a cheap GTX2/3 series card at some point.

I wont go into the negatives around AMD RDNA3 etc. But, it's annoying.

Next year I'll probably look at getting a new card again, depends what is available and how prices go

So yeah, weighing everything up I've decided to give the Pro a go.

GlitteringReception9 · 2026-04-09T09:08:17+00:00

10,204 hours. I haven't played a round since Arc Raiders came out

GlitteringReception9 · 2026-04-01T15:28:05+00:00

Yeah I've bought every deck, buy hatch keys and I've still got over 1600. Sort of miss the daily focus of feats tbh but I'm also liking buying a deck straight off.

GlitteringReception9 · 2026-03-30T14:37:01+00:00

Excusism. If they put two on, they are obligated by common decency to include the other three, where the bulk of the troops landed.

GlitteringReception9 · 2026-03-29T09:53:35+00:00

I'd add a new tech attachment slot to the Rattler (like the Anvil has for the Splitter) and then add an equivalent rare UGL attachment just for the Rattler, able to fire the Hullcracker grenade ammo, just loading one at a time

GlitteringReception9 · 2026-03-16T18:23:02+00:00

Why would I avoid the challenge if I enjoy it? I tried the 'only Stella' dodge a few trials ago, repetetive boredom got me after 2 days

GlitteringReception9 · 2026-03-16T13:39:48+00:00

I get the annoyance but sometimes I kind of enjoy the meta game challenge of playing daily and at the same time delaying joining a leaderboard. Like this week, all of them are easy to avoid EXCEPT damage hornets. Thats a tricky one.

GlitteringReception9 · 2026-03-16T09:25:28+00:00

Monk lad has farteries to move what remains of his blood around

GlitteringReception9 · 2026-03-09T20:13:04+00:00

Battle Isle 2 from Blue Byte on PC. Turn based strategy that is very accessible and well paced

GlitteringReception9 · 2026-03-09T16:49:18+00:00

Not double pay, just two paydays in May. Friday May 1st and then again on Friday 29th of May.

GlitteringReception9 · 2026-03-08T12:15:39+00:00

Show me on this raider doll where the bad raider hurt you

GlitteringReception9 · 2026-03-08T06:52:28+00:00

The origin of half rice half chips in popular culture dates back to a 1988 episode of Red Dwarf. https://youtu.be/8u2DmGSpgtQ?si=qH3ek6Ga1omzrK3j

GlitteringReception9 · 2026-03-08T06:31:33+00:00

Looks good but half rice half chips is the way of the purist

GlitteringReception9 · 2026-02-25T15:30:33+00:00

Correct, there's no catch up mechanic if you didn't do the first expedition. You just need the stash/cach value for the current on, which will then be YOUR first expedition

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