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- Feb 9, 2017
- RedCents
- 1,394¢
So I finally broke down and bought a new computer. After boxing on two HP computers 6 plus years and I might add the best 1,000. (2x500. each) I spent at the time for strictly boxing eq. With stick figures I could run up to 30 toons on each computer. Most of the time 15 on each computer was sufficient when needed. As everquest became more intensive, things began to slow down. Time took it's toll on the hardware, the hard drive was crying for help.
My wife always gets my hand me downs most of the time because I hate seeing her spend money on computers when she seems to have a way of cluttering them up to the point of needing restored. I retired her 10 year old hp and moved one of my beloved boxes to her office and started shopping. I may be a tight wad at times, but no no she is not deprived and she has a brand touch screen new laptop,
I came across what I thought was a good fit on ebay. Omen 30L Desktop GT13 with an Core I-7 processor liquid cooled, 32 gb memory and fit for a gaming. With the mining boom, people are buying these and removing the gpu for mining. Selling the remainder of the computer ready for a gpu. After a bit of research I found these going for over 3,000 on the HP website. I tossed a bid on it for 700. and low and behold I win the computer for 650.
The computer arrived in the original box like brand new only missing the GPU. Being an on and off miner I had plenty of cards laying around to use. I had 60 cards running back in the day and a couple years ago slowly started selling off my rigs. In my stack I had a GTX 1080 ti that needed a fan. I spent all of fifteen minutes replacing the fan and slapped the GPU into the computer and fired it up.
Wow, talk about a huge difference in speed, performance and quality. I was amazed that after all these years of using my beloved boxes there was so much improvement in computers. I see now why these kids cry and moan about getting the latest computer or graphics card when it hits the market.
Now the fun began. Installing everything that would make my new computer feel more like home. Lets face it, when you get a new computer you always have in the back of your mind what a pain it is to transfer all of your stuff to the new computer. Then you slowly realize it was way more of a pain than the pain you remembered.
So I started by plugging in my old hard drive via usb port and copying over all of my eq and mq2 files. Installing my must have programs like 7-Zip and Notepad++. Then the process of optimizing everything for optimal performance. Everything worked like a dream and I was ready for a new gaming experience.
I started up mq2 and then loaded a toon. The everquest login music that I haven't heard in years sent emotions flowing. The graphics are unbelievable to the naked eye. I almost wanted to just create a new toon and start all over again, but that quickly faded. Once in game I went about optimizing everything in game for maximum performance but couldn't bring myself to completely go all the way. I guess for now I will enjoy some of the things like effects, sounds and details that I have missed for so many years.
My review of the Omen 30L is nothing but positive. For the price (650 usd) I can't really see how you could go wrong. I have been running 12 toons on it for several days now without missing a beat. Absolutely satisfied with the results. Thank you for reading and happy gaming.
My wife always gets my hand me downs most of the time because I hate seeing her spend money on computers when she seems to have a way of cluttering them up to the point of needing restored. I retired her 10 year old hp and moved one of my beloved boxes to her office and started shopping. I may be a tight wad at times, but no no she is not deprived and she has a brand touch screen new laptop,
I came across what I thought was a good fit on ebay. Omen 30L Desktop GT13 with an Core I-7 processor liquid cooled, 32 gb memory and fit for a gaming. With the mining boom, people are buying these and removing the gpu for mining. Selling the remainder of the computer ready for a gpu. After a bit of research I found these going for over 3,000 on the HP website. I tossed a bid on it for 700. and low and behold I win the computer for 650.
The computer arrived in the original box like brand new only missing the GPU. Being an on and off miner I had plenty of cards laying around to use. I had 60 cards running back in the day and a couple years ago slowly started selling off my rigs. In my stack I had a GTX 1080 ti that needed a fan. I spent all of fifteen minutes replacing the fan and slapped the GPU into the computer and fired it up.
Wow, talk about a huge difference in speed, performance and quality. I was amazed that after all these years of using my beloved boxes there was so much improvement in computers. I see now why these kids cry and moan about getting the latest computer or graphics card when it hits the market.
Now the fun began. Installing everything that would make my new computer feel more like home. Lets face it, when you get a new computer you always have in the back of your mind what a pain it is to transfer all of your stuff to the new computer. Then you slowly realize it was way more of a pain than the pain you remembered.
So I started by plugging in my old hard drive via usb port and copying over all of my eq and mq2 files. Installing my must have programs like 7-Zip and Notepad++. Then the process of optimizing everything for optimal performance. Everything worked like a dream and I was ready for a new gaming experience.
I started up mq2 and then loaded a toon. The everquest login music that I haven't heard in years sent emotions flowing. The graphics are unbelievable to the naked eye. I almost wanted to just create a new toon and start all over again, but that quickly faded. Once in game I went about optimizing everything in game for maximum performance but couldn't bring myself to completely go all the way. I guess for now I will enjoy some of the things like effects, sounds and details that I have missed for so many years.
My review of the Omen 30L is nothing but positive. For the price (650 usd) I can't really see how you could go wrong. I have been running 12 toons on it for several days now without missing a beat. Absolutely satisfied with the results. Thank you for reading and happy gaming.