₩ăřņîñĞ Posted August 4, 2016 Posted August 4, 2016 We love it when developers show us their rigs, and we were overwhelmed with responses when PC Gamer readers showed us their rigs. It was time we returned the favor. These are the systems we game on at home. How does your PC measure up? Evan Lahti’s PC Tell us about your computer I’m happy with my build right now. A 144Hz, 1440p display might be the best upgrade I’ve ever made—I play a ton of FPSes, and that high refresh rate means a lot to me. Otherwise, I keep coming back to my Logitech G5 mouse, even after using a Deathadder and several others for spurts. I love this cube-shaped case from Corsair, which I swapped to in January. Great footprint. Oh, and I use Ikea’s Skarsta standing desk. What are you playing? I’ve put down Overwatch for now in favor of CS:GO, which I’m getting back into after the exciting ESL Major in Cologne. I wish I was better at Offworld Trading Company. Now that Arma 3’s first expansion is out, Apex, I’ll be spending a lot of time in there trying out user-created missions. What upgrade are you planning next? I’m happy with my build right now. I’ll probably delay upgrading to or skip altogether the current generation of GPUs, but I’d definitely benefit from a new CPU in games like Arma 3. If some cheap RAM appears, I’ll probably grab it. Evan Lahti’s PC Tell us about your computer It’s not much to speak of but it gets the job done. I first built this PC around 2012 or so with spare bits and pieces found around the PC Gamer office, and over the past four years it’s seen a lot of iterations—two motherboards, about eight different graphics cards for various testing purposes, and three different PSUs. I’ve been keeping it at a fairly mid-level spec (couldn’t resist the Titan when we first got one in, though), partially because I used to live in San Francisco which is expensive as hell, but also because when I’m reviewing a game I prefer not to play on a ridiculous system with quad-SLI—how many people have that? The time is fast approaching to phase it out and start over, though. What are you playing? I grew up on FPSs—namely Doom, Quake/Quake 2, Medal of Honor Allied Assault, and Battlefield 1942—so they still grab me. Gritty realism doesn’t do much for me (with a few exceptions, like the Red Orchestra series), so the sillier the better: Unreal Tournament, Max Payne, Bulletstorm, Lovely Planet. I also love adventure games, sports games (not enough on PC!), and I’m fascinated with space sims—though I think I’m more the Descent and Terminal Velocity type than the Elite: Dangerous type. Sometimes I log into EVE Online to read my messages. What upgrade are you planning next? I used to always have the option to pop into the office to play around on one of the beasts we’ve put together there, but that’s not the case anymore. After moving to Maryland a few months ago (and managing to leave my case’s side panels in California), I’m fixing to build a new system with all new parts. A GTX 1070, 500GB SSD, and 1440p display are in my future.
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