got my computer working again after it shit a turd last month. had to upgrade my mobo, and since that was so old it also meant i needed a new cpu and ram. i went from a super old mobo with its ddr3 ram, lga 1155 socket, and no built-in wifi/bluetooth or m.2 support, to a much nicer z490 chipset mobo with built-in wifi/bluetooth, m.2 support, and up-to-date versions of all the mentioned sockets. with this i also upgraded my i7-3770 to an i5-10600k and my old 16gb 1600mhz ram to 32gb 3600mhz. now i can play pretty much anything at its highest settings with zero stuttering 60fps, and it only cost me an unreasonable amount of money considering the difference it actually made. i kind of wanna go back and reinstall ‘cyberpunk 2077’ to see how much of a difference it actually makes (and if i can now run it with ray tracing), but i’m too lazy for all that. did i mention i had to buy two of the same mobo because i broke the first one while installing the mount for my cpu fan? i was being impatient (read: stupid) and instead of going out to my car and grabbing my ratchet set, i decided to tighten it down with a couple pairs of pliers. one slipped, broke off a capacitor, and i learned a lesson apparently worth $225.. but hey, at least i’m a bit more future-proof in case i ever wanna look into a screen that’s better than 1080@60hz.
as far as games go, i didn’t get as many done as i normally do in a month’s time. i started off with ‘detroit: become human’, which carried over from the end of january, then followed that up with ‘ori and the will of the wisps’. other than those two, i put a few hours into ‘hades’ to finally complete the story, and also played a couple short games. aside from those few, the others were all so i could complete cj’s monthly in a month event, with a bulk of time going towards completing ‘middle-earth: shadow of war’.. which took quite a bit longer than i thought it would. it was really one of those games i thoroughly enjoyed, but the exact moment i unlocked that final achievement i just alt-f4’d and uninstalled, simply glad that it was finally done.
february 2021 completed games:
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Detroit: Become Human
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Jack Lumber
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Late Shift
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Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™
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Ori and the Will of the Wisps
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Valfaris
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When the Darkness comes
february 2021 beaten games:
february 2021 unfinished games:
none..!
Sorry to hear about the first motherboard. But hey, it could have been the CPU? :S
Some excellent progress this month in games!
Congrats on all of your assassinations! Seems like you had a fun month!