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Max Payne 3 + DLC is an awesome deal at $20.
I have to pass though.
At ~60GB, I need it in disc format.

Originally Posted by wbc1228 Max Payne 3 + DLC is an awesome deal at $20. I have to pass though. At ~60GB, I need it in disc format.

60 GB??!?!
Holy crap - does the DLC take up that much space?

I have Max Payne 3 (base game only) [Non-Steam Version from Amazon DVG] and it takes up like 29.1 GB.

Originally Posted by KaOTiK Arconis True Image Make clone of your drive on another one, use the backup drive only for that. Do it regularly or after doing important things that day. Set it up to do it at night when you are asleep or whenever is covenant for you. If your drive goes down for any reason (physic and/or software related) just turn your PC off, unplug bad drive and back up drive and plug the cable from the bad one into the backup. PC is back up and running like nothing happen and you can deal with the bad drive when you get the time

I'm literally doing this as we speak.

Cheers,
Tony

Originally Posted by KaOTiK Arconis True Image Make clone of your drive on another one, use the backup drive only for that. Do it regularly or after doing important things that day. Set it up to do it at night when you are asleep or whenever is covenant for you. If your drive goes down for any reason (physic and/or software related) just turn your PC off, unplug bad drive and back up drive and plug the cable from the bad one into the backup. PC is back up and running like nothing happen and you can deal with the bad drive when you get the time

I think the hamsters were running too fast, and one of them asploded. Acronis doesn't make any Hamster Recovery products (yet).

Am I the only one with 4 2TB drives? (8 TB total)?

Originally Posted by walkonshadows Am I the only one with 4 2TB drives? (8 TB total)?

ALL Internals?

Originally Posted by UW_Shocks Any other "gems" to be aware of? Please let us know of the gems you've found in the Amazon sales list.

Here ya go:

Total Annihilation:

http://www.amazon.com/Atari-40528nni...l+annihilation

This game is about all I remember of PC gaming growing up- and honestly it hasn't aged too badly. TA is Starcraft before there was Starcraft- no, it doesn't have an engrossing story or great multiplayer- but it is a fantastic game, probably the most fun RTS that I've ever played. I was happy to see that all the amazon reviews liked it too- it is a fantastic buy for $2.50.

I just want to say thank you Tony for the great black friday deals.
I hope you never leave your current position, as I would find it hard pressed someone would do your job any better. I have purchased more digital goods from you guys than steam or any other venue this year, and this black friday.

*Rubs brown off my nose.

Originally Posted by encendido5 How do you guys play multiplayer on one pc? Is it as easy as plugging in two 360 controllers? Also, how do you guys have so much room to install all these games? I'm down to 30 gbs on my 320gb drive and if you're using SSD, I can't even imagine.

I use 2 wireless xbox controllers to play nba 2k13 no prob. If you wireless you can do 4 controllers on one dongle. If its wired just plug em in and go.

Originally Posted by Amazon DVG Deals I'm literally doing this as we speak. Cheers, Tony

Imo, there's nothing like a decent backup computer. If you keep your active fileset in Dropbox or similar and you can be good to go when Nvidia kills your MacBook Pro on the way home.

Heck, I toss my game save files into Dropbox and symlink them. (Gives me the ability to easily roll back to a prior point in time.)

Originally Posted by encendido5 Also, how do you guys have so much room to install all these games? I'm down to 30 gbs on my 320gb drive and if you're using SSD, I can't even imagine.

2TB drive just for steam, other games on a couple of 500GB partitions.

Also would like to thank Tony. Spent more at Amazon than Steam. Hope you're not like me in that I get the desire to tip over the desk when I run across computer situations like that.

Originally Posted by MysterD ALL Internals?

Yep. All 7200 RPM. 2 Hitachi's, 2 Seagates (they are faster). That's not counting my boot drive or scrap drive. I figure by the time I build my next system, SSD's will be large/cheap enough to use those, and then make this system a network backup of that systems drives. My AMD A8-3870K / Radeon HD 6550D DirectX 11 (APU) doesn't choke on much of anything. So it will last quite awhile (awesome at emulating as well). The entire system cost me less than $400.

It's completely sealed air tight with 4 90 CFM fans as output (top rear. bottom rear, 2 top vent), with a heavy duty automobile intake filter mounted to the front bottom, right in front of the hard drives. I added an aftermarket CoolerMaster GeminII S524 to cool the CPU and it hangs over 8GB of Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz DDR3 to cool them as well. For a "budget build" it has left me breathless at moments. The hard drives never see above 80 Degrees Fahrenheit at full tilt. I overclocked the memory to 1800, GPU to 800, and can run the CPU stable at 4.5GHz. (Though at the moment I have everything back to "factory specs" cause I was hard crashing randomly and had to troubleshoot. Turned out to be a failing hard drive (old 500GB Hitachi).

Originally Posted by walkonshadows am i the only one with 4 2tb drives? (8 tb total)?

250 GB SSD
3 TB HDD
3 TB HDD usb 3.0

Originally Posted by walkonshadows Am I the only one with 4 2TB drives? (8 TB total)?

I have 7 2TB HDD in RAID5 for my movies (have 0.9TB free), 2 500GB HDD in RAID 1 for my data (doc, pics, etc.)...but only 1TB in my desktop for gaming.


Oh, and I have 13 1TB HDD that are my backups.

Originally Posted by rslater Also would like to thank Tony. Spent more at Amazon than Steam. Hope you're not like me in that I get the desire to tip over the desk when I run across computer situations like that.

It happened at 2:00am. I got complaints from the neighbors this morning. Definitely yelled,might havw broken this stupid paper standing lamp I've been meaning to throw away forever. Paddy was barking at me, I had a piece of Thanksgiving pie, broke the stupid lamp again and went to sleep.

Cheers,
Tony

Originally Posted by Neuro5i5 I have 7 2TB HDD in RAID5 for my movies (have 0.9TB free), 2 500GB HDD in RAID 1 for my data (doc, pics, etc.)...but only 1TB in my desktop for gaming. Oh, and I have 13 1TB HDD that are my backups.

Holy Shit. I just bought 2x 3TB internals to add to my 2x 2TB drives that I already have installed for a total of 10TB of storage space. But I'm a frickin' piker compared to you. lol

Originally Posted by Amazon DVG Deals It happened at 2:00am. I got complaints from the neighbors this morning. Definitely yelled,might havw broken this stupid paper standing lamp I've been meaning to throw away forever. Paddy was barking at me, I had a piece of Thanksgiving pie, broke the stupid lamp again and went to sleep. Cheers, Tony

Originally Posted by The End Holy Shit. I just bought 2x 3TB internals to add to my 2x 2TB drives that I already have installed for a total of 10TB of storage space. But I'm a frickin' piker compared to you. lol

HTPC + BD.iso = LOTS of storage needed

I can only hope my PC gaming collection in no way approaches my movie collection because there is NO WAY I can afford that much storage. It is kind of shocking to see the size of some of these game downloads, however. I still remember when I got Dragon's Lair for my Amiga 2000 and it was on like 6 or 8 3.5" floppy disks and I was like "damn, this game is HUGE!".

Originally Posted by Amazon DVG Deals It happened at 2:00am. I got complaints from the neighbors this morning. Definitely yelled,might havw broken this stupid paper standing lamp I've been meaning to throw away forever. Paddy was barking at me, I had a piece of Thanksgiving pie, broke the stupid lamp again and went to sleep. Cheers, Tony

LOL, sounds like a rough night Tony!

Originally Posted by lwhitit I use 2 wireless xbox controllers to play nba 2k13 no prob. If you wireless you can do 4 controllers on one dongle. If its wired just plug em in and go.

So you have a receiver-thing? I've just been using a wired 360 controller but I have a wireless lying around somewhere