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MonsterDrank
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I'm a gamer. PC, Console, and Handheld. The modern day gaming trifecta.
I have an AMD Ryzen 3800x PC with a nice X570 Motherboard running 2 seperate PCIe Gen 4 SSDS.. both 2TB each and a separate Sata 2TB SSD for media storage. It also have a Asus Strix RTX 2080ti GPU, 16GB DDR4 Ram, watercooled with a Thermaltake AIO and housed in a Fractal Design Define S2 Vision RGB ATX case. Right now that PC is plugged into a Viewsonic Elite 27" gaming monitor and also a Samsung 65" 4K Curved QLED.. all Thermaltake peripherals. It's a sick setup. I might get an RTX 4090 series card and upgrade my power supply to a 1200w from an 850w when the 4090 series arrive later this year.
I've also got an Xbox Series X, and a Playstation 5.. both using an extra 2TB PCIe Gen 4 high speed storage in each console.. sitting right next to those guys is the Nintendo Switch OLED white & black model that came out next year. My PS5 is sporting Dbrand Darkplates and it had this Batman vibe. It's pretty sick.
Batman Style!!!!
I know this sounds like a lot but I haven't gotten to what I consider to be the best part yet..
A year ago I signed up for the Valve Steam Deck and made a reservation for the 512GB model. I signed up about 3 hours after they started taking preorders and I still ended up waiting just slightly over one year for it to be my turn to purchase one. On July 3rd I received an email stating that the time had finally arrived. I whipped out my card immediately. It arrived a few days later and I was thrilled.. that was until I took it out of the box and tried to start it up. It would not let me get through the Initial Setup. Error after error occurred.
I spent about 4 to 5 hours troubleshooting. I went through all the recommended steps from Valve Support to try and get it running. No dice. Finally I tried a more advanced method of mounting an image of Steam O/S on a USB flash drive and used the Steam Deck Bios to boot off of that drive and re-imaged the Steam O/S from a downloaded 2.5GB file. I figured this must be the answer to my problems.. I was wrong. Error after error occurred. It was a living hell. Finally after hours of defeat I thought.. well maybe this is an Internet issue.. I'll swap out the router and see what happens. Boom. Fixed it.
I guess the router from my ISP didn't like the request my device made to retrieve data from Valve's servers. The required update during the initial setup to get Steam O/S running might have been blocked my the router firewall. Anyways.. to make a long story shorter.. I finally got the Steam Deck running last night. I started downloading a big chunk of my library and went to bed.
Pretty slick carrying case..
Beautiful...
Now I've got titles like Final Fantasy XV, Red Dead Redemption II, Doom, Chernobylite, Ace Combat 7, Batman Arkham City, Witcher III, etc... all loaded up on the Steam Deck. It's a portable gaming PC in handheld form factor. It has a custom made AMD Zen 2 CPU with 4 cores and a 3 5Ghz boost clock, 16GB of super fast DDR5, and a 512GB Superfast PCIe Gen 4 SSD similar to my desktop PC but in a very small portable chassis. I can slide it in a case and take it anywhere. I often travel when I can back and forth between here in NY and my 3 favorite destinations.. Vegas, Maui, & Cancun. Now I can bring a gaming PC with me anywhere. I love it. Besides having awesome specs, since this is more of a PC and less like a console... you can use nearly any Bluetooth or USB peripheral you want.. including gaming controllers, portable mini keyboards, wireless headphones, etc.. it is very impressive.
I highly recommend to anyone in the market.. about $700 USD total gets one of these things delivered to your door via FedEx from Valve's website. It's a lot of power for such a small device. I've seen people doing all kinds of cool things with their Deck. Everything from running Microsoft Windows to using emulators to play Nintendo Switch Titles and getting much better performance than the Switch itself thanks to the upgraded hardware. Another guy had an old Nintendo Wii remote paired to his and was playing Wii bowling. You can run your VPN on it and download torrents and watch movies or stream from any and all the most popular apps. Anything a PC can do this can do.. because it is a PC. It's not so much a console like the media called it. It's a PC you can tinker with and the sky is the limit really to what you can do. You can also of course.. play games. Demanding titles like Elden Ring and Red Dead Redemption II which are newer Triple A titles play on it and so do older titles from Valve's library. I just loaded up a bunch of old school Sega Genesis titles from the 90s on mine this afternoon actually.. theres no limit to what you can do.
The NY Times calling it a console...
It's an amazing machine. There's not many out there in the wild yet.. but they're slowly becoming available. It only takes a $5 USD deposit to get on the reservation list and when it's your turn to buy Valve gives you a whole 3 Days to pay the remaining balance. Some folks I know that weren't prepared to foot the bill had taken advantage of PayPal "Pay in Four" Zero interest, no credit financing. They make three different models.. a $399 64GB model, a $529 256GB model.. and a $650 512GB model.. all three will support up to a 1TB Class 10 V30 SDXC memory card. I slapped an additional 512GB in my 512GB Steam Deck. Personally I don't think saving $120 or $250 and getting the cheaper models made sense because I wanna load mine up with a good sized library. Some folks were talking about disassembly the $399 model and installing their own third party SSD and trying to save themselves $100.. I'd rather keep my factory warranty intact and spend the extra money personally. The 512GB model also has a nicer carrying case and an anti-glare screen besides being having a larger storage capacity. Here are the 3 main choices in machines..
3 different flavors...
and a shot of my Deck up and running..
Anyways.. so yeah.. I like gaming.
It's not a cheap hobby however. With over $5k put into my PC and close to $2k in console & console peripherals.. and then a $700 new Steam Deck on top.. its a significant investment in me having a good time. Being a single father and raising 3 girls alone for most of the past 20 years I did have to be home however a lot more than most folks.. fortunately I have a great job and can afford the best toys at my age. I started having kids when I was younger and the mother developed schizophrenia which is a genetic problem and went kinda nuts.. she had to be removed from the home for being so dangerous to be around. She actually ended up dying of an overdose in 2020.. which sadly I predicted would happen a long time ago. So having great games and spending a lot of time home has always been important to me. My 2 oldest kids have actually graduated and recently moved out..ones in college but I still have an 11 year old.. different mother but also she's not in the picture much. The unfortunate side effect of liking them hot, young, and dumb. lol.... Oh well.
I was raised in the 80s. I grew up with the Coleco Vision, the Atari 2600, NES, and old vintage Intel 80286, then 386, then 486 CPU's and eventually played old school Wolfenstein and then Doom on big VGA CRT tube monitors. It's all come so far. From playing games loaded up from floppy disks to now downloading them wirelessly onto super fast flash memory or solid state drives.
Its also cool that the same day my Steam Deck arrived I had also recieved a package from JBC seeds... it was a very good mail day.
I know this is a rather long.. large post.. but I hope some of the information I shared was fun to read and or helpful to other who have a shared interest in not only the plant we all love.. but gaming as well. I've always felt.. even since an early age that relaxing at home with a controller and doing nothing but kicking back and immersing yourself in a computer generated world.. its can also in itself be very good medicine for the soul. Do what makes you happy. Life is short.
I have an AMD Ryzen 3800x PC with a nice X570 Motherboard running 2 seperate PCIe Gen 4 SSDS.. both 2TB each and a separate Sata 2TB SSD for media storage. It also have a Asus Strix RTX 2080ti GPU, 16GB DDR4 Ram, watercooled with a Thermaltake AIO and housed in a Fractal Design Define S2 Vision RGB ATX case. Right now that PC is plugged into a Viewsonic Elite 27" gaming monitor and also a Samsung 65" 4K Curved QLED.. all Thermaltake peripherals. It's a sick setup. I might get an RTX 4090 series card and upgrade my power supply to a 1200w from an 850w when the 4090 series arrive later this year.
I've also got an Xbox Series X, and a Playstation 5.. both using an extra 2TB PCIe Gen 4 high speed storage in each console.. sitting right next to those guys is the Nintendo Switch OLED white & black model that came out next year. My PS5 is sporting Dbrand Darkplates and it had this Batman vibe. It's pretty sick.
Batman Style!!!!
I know this sounds like a lot but I haven't gotten to what I consider to be the best part yet..
A year ago I signed up for the Valve Steam Deck and made a reservation for the 512GB model. I signed up about 3 hours after they started taking preorders and I still ended up waiting just slightly over one year for it to be my turn to purchase one. On July 3rd I received an email stating that the time had finally arrived. I whipped out my card immediately. It arrived a few days later and I was thrilled.. that was until I took it out of the box and tried to start it up. It would not let me get through the Initial Setup. Error after error occurred.
I spent about 4 to 5 hours troubleshooting. I went through all the recommended steps from Valve Support to try and get it running. No dice. Finally I tried a more advanced method of mounting an image of Steam O/S on a USB flash drive and used the Steam Deck Bios to boot off of that drive and re-imaged the Steam O/S from a downloaded 2.5GB file. I figured this must be the answer to my problems.. I was wrong. Error after error occurred. It was a living hell. Finally after hours of defeat I thought.. well maybe this is an Internet issue.. I'll swap out the router and see what happens. Boom. Fixed it.
I guess the router from my ISP didn't like the request my device made to retrieve data from Valve's servers. The required update during the initial setup to get Steam O/S running might have been blocked my the router firewall. Anyways.. to make a long story shorter.. I finally got the Steam Deck running last night. I started downloading a big chunk of my library and went to bed.
Pretty slick carrying case..
Beautiful...
Now I've got titles like Final Fantasy XV, Red Dead Redemption II, Doom, Chernobylite, Ace Combat 7, Batman Arkham City, Witcher III, etc... all loaded up on the Steam Deck. It's a portable gaming PC in handheld form factor. It has a custom made AMD Zen 2 CPU with 4 cores and a 3 5Ghz boost clock, 16GB of super fast DDR5, and a 512GB Superfast PCIe Gen 4 SSD similar to my desktop PC but in a very small portable chassis. I can slide it in a case and take it anywhere. I often travel when I can back and forth between here in NY and my 3 favorite destinations.. Vegas, Maui, & Cancun. Now I can bring a gaming PC with me anywhere. I love it. Besides having awesome specs, since this is more of a PC and less like a console... you can use nearly any Bluetooth or USB peripheral you want.. including gaming controllers, portable mini keyboards, wireless headphones, etc.. it is very impressive.
I highly recommend to anyone in the market.. about $700 USD total gets one of these things delivered to your door via FedEx from Valve's website. It's a lot of power for such a small device. I've seen people doing all kinds of cool things with their Deck. Everything from running Microsoft Windows to using emulators to play Nintendo Switch Titles and getting much better performance than the Switch itself thanks to the upgraded hardware. Another guy had an old Nintendo Wii remote paired to his and was playing Wii bowling. You can run your VPN on it and download torrents and watch movies or stream from any and all the most popular apps. Anything a PC can do this can do.. because it is a PC. It's not so much a console like the media called it. It's a PC you can tinker with and the sky is the limit really to what you can do. You can also of course.. play games. Demanding titles like Elden Ring and Red Dead Redemption II which are newer Triple A titles play on it and so do older titles from Valve's library. I just loaded up a bunch of old school Sega Genesis titles from the 90s on mine this afternoon actually.. theres no limit to what you can do.
The NY Times calling it a console...
It's an amazing machine. There's not many out there in the wild yet.. but they're slowly becoming available. It only takes a $5 USD deposit to get on the reservation list and when it's your turn to buy Valve gives you a whole 3 Days to pay the remaining balance. Some folks I know that weren't prepared to foot the bill had taken advantage of PayPal "Pay in Four" Zero interest, no credit financing. They make three different models.. a $399 64GB model, a $529 256GB model.. and a $650 512GB model.. all three will support up to a 1TB Class 10 V30 SDXC memory card. I slapped an additional 512GB in my 512GB Steam Deck. Personally I don't think saving $120 or $250 and getting the cheaper models made sense because I wanna load mine up with a good sized library. Some folks were talking about disassembly the $399 model and installing their own third party SSD and trying to save themselves $100.. I'd rather keep my factory warranty intact and spend the extra money personally. The 512GB model also has a nicer carrying case and an anti-glare screen besides being having a larger storage capacity. Here are the 3 main choices in machines..
3 different flavors...
and a shot of my Deck up and running..
Anyways.. so yeah.. I like gaming.
It's not a cheap hobby however. With over $5k put into my PC and close to $2k in console & console peripherals.. and then a $700 new Steam Deck on top.. its a significant investment in me having a good time. Being a single father and raising 3 girls alone for most of the past 20 years I did have to be home however a lot more than most folks.. fortunately I have a great job and can afford the best toys at my age. I started having kids when I was younger and the mother developed schizophrenia which is a genetic problem and went kinda nuts.. she had to be removed from the home for being so dangerous to be around. She actually ended up dying of an overdose in 2020.. which sadly I predicted would happen a long time ago. So having great games and spending a lot of time home has always been important to me. My 2 oldest kids have actually graduated and recently moved out..ones in college but I still have an 11 year old.. different mother but also she's not in the picture much. The unfortunate side effect of liking them hot, young, and dumb. lol.... Oh well.
I was raised in the 80s. I grew up with the Coleco Vision, the Atari 2600, NES, and old vintage Intel 80286, then 386, then 486 CPU's and eventually played old school Wolfenstein and then Doom on big VGA CRT tube monitors. It's all come so far. From playing games loaded up from floppy disks to now downloading them wirelessly onto super fast flash memory or solid state drives.
Its also cool that the same day my Steam Deck arrived I had also recieved a package from JBC seeds... it was a very good mail day.
I know this is a rather long.. large post.. but I hope some of the information I shared was fun to read and or helpful to other who have a shared interest in not only the plant we all love.. but gaming as well. I've always felt.. even since an early age that relaxing at home with a controller and doing nothing but kicking back and immersing yourself in a computer generated world.. its can also in itself be very good medicine for the soul. Do what makes you happy. Life is short.
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