Recent content by Luther Bird

56 year old gamer here. Mostly World of Warcraft lately. Other favs are Skyrim, Terraria, Gears of War, Borderlands, Mass Effect, so forth. You ever notice that gamers often refer to the other players as "kids"? Happened to me the other day...good times.

So glad to hear that. Thanks!

I'm hoping I can just upgrade my GPU from an earlier build rather than do a new build. I want to put in the GTX 1080 into the following rig (only CPU, MB and PSU listed): Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ASRock Z87 Pro3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard XFX 650W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX...

I haven't pulled the trigger quite yet (still waiting for a little more room in the budget) but I plan on going with pretty much what you recommended, with the ASRock MB. I do have a question though: What is the reason for going with a 2.5" HDD vs the 3.5"?

Perfect. I'll go with the ASRock. Thank you!

Thanks for all the great advice! I think I would like to stick with the MicroATX form to allow for more future upgrade options. Plus I suck at cable management and working in confined spaces in general. Also, I would like to take your advice and opt for a little better MB. Does this one look...

I will be using mics. Simple stuff. I'm a trumpet player so I'll be using a keyboard and bass for rhythm tracks, then adding horns over the top. These will just be personal recordings. I'm not looking to produce anything commercial. I'll probably use something like Reaper for mixing and...

I've built two gaming rigs in the past year that I'm very happy with. You guys were of tremendous help! Anyway, I'm at it again only this time I'm looking for a inexpensive rig that will be exclusively for recording music. I'll be using a USB recording interface (Focusrite Scarlett 2i4) so I...

Thanks guys!

I originally set out to build a budget i3 but since I'm getting a little work bonus :pt1cable: I am now looking toward an i5 setup. With a monitor included, my budget is around $1800. Primary use will be gaming and some audio recording. My thinking was to slant my funds toward the GPU. I'm...

Wow! You guys are great - thanks for the input Clearly I should rethink the graphics card choice. I wasn't really married to it. I get good vibes from Logain's choices so I think I'll go with that. cdrkf - I don't mean to discount your AMD FX input but I'm running a i5 on another machine and...

This is my 2nd build. This will be used for non hardcore gaming and audio. What do you think? Any recommendations? Thank you. PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/c93qVn CPU: Intel Core i3-4150 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor ($109.49 @ SuperBiiz) Motherboard: MSI H81M-E33 Micro...

Thank you!