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Thought I'd fix up my uni laptop a bit.

Some games will be much more CPU-heavy than others though. I'd still say it's never a good idea to skip out on a good CPU. CyberpowerPC have some nice gaming laptops, for example: http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/system/Fangbook_Edge_Gaming_Laptop costs $1289 and you can get an i7 4870hq, 970m + 8gb ram. you could upgrade to 16GB of RAM easily using their configurator given the budget you have. I bought a laptop from the british counterpart to cyberpowerpc (cyberpowersystem) a year ago and it still works perfectly. Just make sure you get a cooling platform for it to rest on.

That's the internet in my university's accommodation. God damn I miss that now I'm off. xD For some reason a speedtest won't complete on my home connection, but the last time I tested it, I had 38mb/s download, 1.9 mb/s upload, and 6 ping to a server in London, which is <50 miles from me.

My first job was at a Costa Coffee branch. I basically just worked the coffee machines and served cake to people, which was actually kinda fun and helped me overcome my introvert-ism somewhat. I got paid minimum wage (I was 17 so I think it was £4.40 an hour), but then double on the weekends, so I'd try to always fill my shifts up on weekends. I did this for 9 months or thereabouts, and then quit to focus on my university entrance exams. I've currently got 6 months off from university now so I'm considering getting a job of some sort again. Best of luck with your new job btw!

Norway, Switzerland or New Zealand would be tied for my top 3. If you really had to push me to pick one, I'd go with Switzerland, but it'd be a difficult choice. All three countries are nearly perfect, with Switzerland perhaps pushing the boundary and being the most perfect place on earth for multiple reasons. Other awesome countries: Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Australia, Austria, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Croatia, Thailand, Japan.

18 y/o british guy here. - I speak English fluently. - I also speak german well although I wouldn't call myself fluent, but it was enough to have extended conversations with people when I travelled around Switzerland and Austria last year and I would consider myself good enough to be able to live in a german speaking country permanently. I'd like to learn to "sound" more german though, since every native seems to be able to tell I'm british. - I speak some swedish but I'm not good at it (ex gf taught me some because she was half swedish) but I'd like to learn more, sverige ar ett fantastisk land! (yes I can't write the correct characters due to my british keyboard, apologies) - I know enough finnish and spanish to have some basic conversations with people. I'd love to become fluent in finnish but realistically I don't know if I have the motivation....all those vowels xD

Currently studying computer science at university. I achieved an average grade of 94% for my first year (haven't done final exams yet though) so I would say I'm not really struggling with it, but I'm considering switching to a different course because I don't really find it very interesting, a lot of it's very repetitive. Trouble is, I've got no idea what I'd switch to. x)

If I said I'm always honest, that in itself would be dishonest. I generally try to keep lies to a minimum though, an example of an exception I'd make would be when telling the truth would hurt a person's feelings more in the long run than lying to them would.

Weather. Usually raining in this sodding country, although admittedly the last few days have been pretty sunny or at least somewhat clear, which was cool.The promiscuity, delinquency and disorderliness of many of my peers throughout secondary school (high school equivalent in case Americans are reading), this has lessened somewhat as I've started university though.Food. I've travelled to almost thirty different foreign countries and in the vast majority of cases I'm embarrassed by how poor our cuisine is comparatively (even the general food you buy in supermarkets is superior in a lot of countries). It's also shocking how much of the normal shop-bought food is genetically modified in some way...The government. I could write for hours about why this is an issue but essentially they're not creating a bright future or many interesting prospects for individuals like myself who are interested in finding jobs after graduation - in fact I'd say the exact opposite, that things will be harder financially for my generation than they have been for quite some time. I live in the United Kingdom. I would absolutely love to move somewhere different in a few years, since while I do acknowledge that there are benefits to me being born and raised in such a country, I absolutely hate it here. I suppose a lot of the points I'd mentioned above could be applicable to a whole host of other countries in different scenarios though, maybe it's just the "grass is always greener on the other side" effect and I should get on with things.

I like rekorderlig, wild berries + strawberry/lime are awesome.

Hugs ftw! Unfortunately, most of my rl friends hate hugs (?!?!?!), so I rarely get any.

Yay an instrument thread! I play guitar, piano and the banjo. I've considered trying to learn the harp recently, not sure if it's worth it. :/

CPU: i7 5930k @ 4.2 ghz MOBO: Asus Rampage V Extreme E-ATX GPU: 2x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980 G1 Gaming (watercooled) RAM: 32GB (4x8GB) 2666MHz PSU: SuperFlower Leadex 1000W PSU SSD: Samsung 840 Evo 500GB HDD: Seagate Barracuda 3TB OS: W7 Ultimate Monitor 1: iiyama GB2488HSU-B1 (144hz) Monitor 2: iiyama XB2485WSU-B1 (IPS, 60hz) Mouse: Logitech G400s Keyboard: SS 6Gv2 Mousepad: Artisan Shiden-Kai Strawberry I'm pretty happy with my setup so far.

I was an only child for over 13 years, and although I didn't like it at first I got used to the idea of not having any siblings and began to see that there were upsides. When my parents told me I was getting a brother, it was never something I'd expected because of the ridiculous age gap between us. I hated the idea at first because it was sprung upon me from out of the blue, but I quickly adapted. I'm almost 19 now and my brother's almost 6 now, and as weird as it may seem since we don't really spend that much time together, I couldn't imagine what it'd be like if he wasn't here. So all in all I don't think I'd be devastated if I never had a brother and remained an only child forever (like I thought would be the case), but now that I do have a brother I certainly don't wish he was gone or anything. I think it's mostly about what you adapt to

Probably reindeer. I had some when I went to finland and it turned out to be literally the nicest thing in existence. Or maybe crocodile, which was uhm...okay.

I hate socks. Like, really, I just absolutely hate them, I don't see the point in them and I hate the way they make your feet feel. They're also all so plain and boring, and the ones that aren't usually are of such low quality construction that they break pretty much instantly. And they're just so painfully unnecessary if you think about it. If you're outside, you'll be wearing shoes, and it's not like a centimeter of cotton in between your shoes and your feet will make a world of difference when it comes to protecting yourself from stones and stuff on the ground? And if you're indoors, you have central heating or w/e so there's no need to keep your feet "warm", and even if there is, that's where slippers come in. And who's to say you can't give the middle finger to society entirely and just wear shoes indoors? so yeah. I got a bit carried away, but I hate socks. I guess that's probably the weirdest thing about me.

God damn, so many things. - Two gaming mice, Logitech G400 + Logitech MX300. - A mousepad called the Icemat. - Episodes of the Simpsons that were actually funny. - 10p Freddos. - Friends (the TV show!) - Singleplayer Elder Scrolls games. c:

Good call using NVIDIA over AMD for your GPU. Definitely get an Intel CPU. Something like a 4690/4690k would be more than enough for any gaming you're planning on doing. If you wanted to save money, you could even buy an older generation processor such as a 3570K/2500K or something, since the technology really hasn't advanced that much since then and if it could save you some substantial money it would be worth doing, in my opinion. The only downside is that you'd need to find a compatible motherboard with the correct CPU socket. If the money you'd be saving by doing that is negligible, however, then scrap the idea because there's no reason not to get the best if you're only gonna be saving 20 bucks or something by rolling your CPU back a generation or so. As far as the cheap/upgrade later vs "instant gaming rig" option, all I would say is don't cheap out on your motherboard, PSU or cooling. A decent i5 would be a good enough CPU for any game atm, and as far as a GPU goes a GTX 970 will run pretty much anything you could want, or a GTX 960 would also be a good option if you're not ready to spend that much yet. As for RAM, get 8GB and then upgrade to 16GB if you feel like you need it later (it's not really necessary for any game atm). However, you don't want your components to fail because you have a bad quality PSU, and you don't want your expensive hardware to underperform because it's always overheating! And then a decent motherboard would allow you to upgrade pretty much your entire system to literally whatever you want in the future, although there may be some CPU limitations depending on the motherboard socket you've picked. When I built my first PC, the PSU died within 3 days because I bought some cheap no-name crap and figured it'd be alright xD Learn from my mistakes because I certainly felt silly when it happened