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Kaapstad?

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Narn said:
have him check out remnants of the precursors
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I doubt he be interested. I bought him Stelaris back for his birthday, it's still not showing up on his Steam activity and that was months and months ago. He's absolutely addicted to Orion.
 
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TonyTurbo78 said:
I doubt he be interested. I bought him Stelaris back for his birthday, it's still not showing up on his Steam activity and that was months and months ago. He's absolutely addicted to Orion.
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is it the new master of orion he's been playing? remnants of the precursors is like a remaster of the original master of orion with larger and varied maps, new optional races and massive bug and exploits fixed
 
Narn said:
is it the new master of orion he's been playing? remnants of the precursors is like a remaster of the original master of orion with larger and varied maps, new optional races and massive bug and exploits fixed
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Oh, i didn't know that. I'm not sure, I'm guessing the original one, just shows him playing Master Of Orion.
 
TonyTurbo78 said:
He's all good guys, hooked on Master Of Orion though haha. He lost a lot of interest in PC hardware over the last few years, extortionate pricing, not a lot to get excited about etc but I've seen him and spoke to him recently.

Just wanted to update.
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Good to here and i don't blame him. PC gaming is not as exciting as it used to be along with the hardware. Kaap always bought at the high end to extreme's and it shows you how crap hardware jumps are if he can't get excited.
 
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TheRealDeal said:
Good to here and i don't blame him. PC gaming is not as exciting as it used to be along with the hardware. Kaap always bought at the high end to extreme's and it shows you how crap hardware jumps are if he can't get excited.
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Weren't the previous gen's Titan cards even more money though than the current 4090? £2.5k or thereabouts? Also didn't he used to go SLI?
 
TonyTurbo78 said:
He's all good guys, hooked on Master Of Orion though haha. He lost a lot of interest in PC hardware over the last few years, extortionate pricing, not a lot to get excited about etc but I've seen him and spoke to him recently.

Just wanted to update.
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I was reading this then thought i should tag Tony in this as i know you know him personally lol. Glad he's okay.
 
This has been the most interesting thread in this section of the forum for many months. Possibly years lol. It gave us something to worry about.
 
danlightbulb said:
Weren't the previous gen's Titan cards even more money though than the current 4090? £2.5k or thereabouts? Also didn't he used to go SLI?
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Yup very much so. I always got the impression he was never excited about the design of the 30/40 series, hates the size and look of the thing.
 
I went the same route as he, I have been in hardware/PC hiatus for almost 2 years now, though the reason was that my sister in law has been living with my wife and I untill she could get an apartment, so my gaming/office room was decommissioned and the PC's and all hardware was sent into storage.
Now she finally got an apartment of her own and my gaming/office room is back in business and the PC's have been hooked up again, which is nice. However frankly I do not have the urge any more to tingle with hardware nor have the latest and greatest. The increased living costs just outweigh the importance of new PC stuff, and where the hardware prices just have gone insane since 2018.

So right now I am fine with my 5 year old 2080TI's in SLI and the R 9 3950X.
Another hobby is taking my full attention these days, which is a bit odd since I've been in the pc/hardware loop since early 90ties.
Guess time and people change
 
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Vexr said:
Glad to hear he's fine, but good point here.

Is this the end of any updates to the benchmarking threads on this forum?
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Maybe not the end, but it won't be the same. Even when Kaaps was here it was not the same. As mentioned before, the greed from these companies have taken the fun away.
 
Still no sign of our beloved Kaapstad. Still not logged on since May 2023.

Safe to say he's doing something other than just 'touching grass' because 'the hardware is boring'.

So many benchmark threads / owner threads / etc left to lie fallow.

Perhaps OCUK should assign a willing mod or two to render a similar service to us that Kaapstad did for free. Can't be a terrible burden to the job description (I'm assuming they're paid for their work), and it enhances the forum massively.
 
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