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This thread will attempt to provide a place to discuss past/present/future PC gaming deals. While mainly focusing on Steam games, any standout sales may also be presented. I will not be updating every Daily/Weekly/etc. sale. The tools to help individuals become a smarter shopper will be provided below.

See this POST for links to store sale pages, threads of interest and other tools to help you become a more informed PC game shopper.
 
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AdmiralGialHackbar said:
sure he talked to that guy or maybe his brother did

anyone else suprised mysterD doesnt have one of these?

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Are you talking about the hard-drive dock?

Or the SSD that's in there?

I have a hard-drive dock, but I don't have a SSD.

 
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Where is Tomasety when you need him?

Also this is a bag of Dicks, thank you.

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It's SFW it's just a big ass image.

 
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Motoki said:
I think the Woodle Tree dev is trying to give away more copies of that game than there are people on the Earth.
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Somewhere on the earth twins were just born, so here are two more copies:

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Woodle Tree Adventures PJY4D-BD3ME-LJ0AJ

 
MysterD said:
Are you talking about the hard-drive dock?

Or the SSD that's in there?

I have a hard-drive dock, but I don't have a SSD.
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Okay, seriously? It looks like a toaster was the gag. And also, what do hard drive docks do? Is it just so you can connect a HDD to your PC without going inside of it? I prefer going inside.

 
FoxyPie said:
And also, what do hard drive docks do? Is it just so you can connect a HDD to your PC without going inside of it?
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More or less, yes. I'll get to the "why" I bought one of these, in a few lines or so. I love 'em, personally.

The dock itself connects via USB 3.0.

I have an Orico 6619 hard-drive dock, which can take laptop-sized hard drives (which can also include SSD's) and desktop-sized HDD's. Can take either kind, if I want - up to me.

Originally, I had the hard-drive dock connected to my laptop - b/c I wanted 7200rpm, since the laptop came with a 5400rpm internal drive; I wanted faster loads. But, the thing is - the dock's kinda bulky to carry around with a (desktop-sized) hard-drive when travelling, as I've found out the hard way. Plus, kind of a pain to keep breaking down and setting it up, when travelling.

So, for now, I've moved the dock to my desktop so this dock actually gets usage - and also since I've pretty much just came close to having filled-up every damn internal in my PC; I have 4 internals in my desktop of varying sizes. I'm so lazy, I know - I so need to cut some games to my externals, to DVD's (smaller sized games), or something.

The other thing I really love about the hard-drive dock is I can just use the dock as a hot-swap for hard-drives. I can just swap any hard-drives in and out of that dock whenever I so feel like it. Right now, I keep a 2TB Toshiba 7200rpm in there - but, even one of my old (Secondary) 150GB hard-drives (with some Steam games on there) from my older Win XP desktop can get some use, if I feel like swapping it in (yes, I have tried it...and it works!).

 
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MysterD said:
More or less, yes. I'll get to the "why" I bought one of these, in a few lines or so. I love 'em, personally.

The dock itself connects via USB 3.0.

I have an Orico 6619 hard-drive dock, which can take laptop-sized hard drives (including SSD's) and desktop-sized HDD's.

Originally, I had the hard-drive dock connected to my laptop - b/c I wanted 7200rpm, since the laptop came with a 5400rpm internal drive; I wanted faster loads. But, the thing is - the dock's kinda bulky to carry around with a (desktop-sized) hard-drive when travelling, as I've found out the hard way. Plus, kind of a pain to keep breaking down and setting it up, when travelling.

So, for now, I've moved the dock to my desktop so this dock actually gets usage - and also since I've pretty much just came close to having filled-up every damn internal in my PC; I have 4 internals in my desktop of varying sizes. I'm so lazy, I know - I so need to cut some games to my externals, to DVD's (smaller sized games), or something.

The other thing I really love about the hard-drive dock is I can just use the dock as a hot-swap for hard-drives. I can just swap any hard-drives in and out of that dock whenever I so feel like it.
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You don't have an SSD for your laptop?

 
I use a HDD dock (which is why/how I have all those drives).

I personally love being able to swap or switch to a different boot if I wanna try something.  Plus, with all those sketchy sites anymore, it's nice to have a drive that I can do whatever I want without worry the thing is going to get worms/virii :p

 
MysterD said:
See this post again:

https://www.cheapassgamer.com/topic/341407-steam-deals-mega-thread-all-pc-gaming-deals/page-2352#entry13358919
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IJS how do you have like multiple WD Black HDDs to swap out and are worried about 7200 RPM but haven't sprung for a SSD? You can get 500GB for around $100 and 1TB for maybe $150 or $200. You could have gone without one or two of your HDDs. I'm assuming you are a digital hoarder who can't sacrifice a little size for increased speed and performance because you need all those TBs to back up all your games?

 
AdmiralGialHackbar said:
I dont have a SSD either, yet. When they get a little cheaper I'll be onboard.
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Yeah, b/c of my laziness, I just tear through HDD space quickly - so I'd really like to get a big SSD, if I bought one.

When I do build my next PC, whenever that might be - I'd definitely have a SSD as the main drive. No doubt about that. How big it'll be, I don't know - depends on prices. But I do at least want a faster OS boot, at least; even if it's a small one.

I seem to these days throw most of my games on secondary internal drives anyways, not the main drive.

 
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FoxyPie said:
IJS how do you have like multiple WD Black HDDs to swap out and are worried about 7200 RPM but haven't sprung for a SSD? You can get 500GB for around $100 and 1TB for maybe $150 or $200. You could have gone without one or two of your HDDs. I'm assuming you are a digital hoarder who can't sacrifice a little size for increased speed and performance because you need all those TBs to back up all your games?
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B/c you haven't bought me a SSD, that's why! :p

Seriously, though - I wanted to have multiple TB's, not just a few measly hundred GB. I seriously am very lazy & blow right through HDD space like it's nothing very-very quickly. I download a lot of games (one of my problems), even if I don't get to them even.

Also, when it comes to uninstalling games these days - especially when games have tons of DLC's, Season Passes, and also my terrible rate of finishing games - yeah, I pretty much don't uninstall them, for the most part.

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Oh, and all of my 4 WD Black HDD's are internals on this desktop, BTW.

 
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Seasonal Rant: Where is Brut when we need him for this hardware talk?

Everyone talking about SSD you need to step your game up and get one of these:

headpiece747 said:
Got the Samsung 950 Pro M.2 and it is fast as heck transferring files not noticing any with games but it is really the size of a pack of chewing gum:

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Syntax Error said:
I'll get an SSD when it's free on Gleam!
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I mean, outside of like showing people how you can go from hitting the power button to watching porn in mere seconds, SSDs probably don't have much appeal unless you use a lot of programs that would benefit from faster data transfer speeds. I game off of a refurb HDD so the SSD doesn't help me there.

 
I don't have a free PCI Express slot to use one of those chewing gum sticks on.

Speaking of SSDs, any suggestions for a cheap 240 GB one? I have loads of Amazon credit and I figure I should buy one now because I'm running out of room.

 
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Foxhack said:
I don't have a free PCI Express slot to use one of those chewing gum sticks on.

Speaking of SSDs, any suggestions for a cheap 240 GB one? I have loads of Amazon credit and I figure I should buy one now because I'm running out of room.
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I have used the AMD ones (OCZ but branded AMD), PNY, and Adata. No issues with any of them. Just make sure they are well reviewed. The Samsung Evos are "the best" but you are also paying way more for them so you can decide if that's worth it. I think with OCZ you have to make sure you buy the right line (one is apparently really good and the other sucks). Newegg sells some from TeamGroup that seem appealing. I am using their RAM with no issues.

 
IkedaTeramusa said:
I bought a 960Gb 2 weeks ago for... $164 (at Best Buy... gasp) using their Pricematch policy.
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I only need like 120 GB for the OS and the rest would be to keep a Steam game or two, those that would benefit from the super fast loading times.

I also need a new HD to store music and stuff on. Blah.

 
if your worried about drive space why not do what like 90% of people do, a good size ssd, ~400-500gb which can be had for ~100$ for your OS drive. Then large multi-TB drives for games and everything else. Windows also understands space needs and lets you move your documents/pics/movies/music folders to another hdd so they dont waste space

You can also get a cheap 64gb ssd to go along with it, and use intel rapid store to set it up as a cache drive for your larger one, so after ~3 reads of the same data its cached and you now get ssd speeds. I use it on my game drive and my large map games load just as fast as ssd

 
Gotta be honest, my first SSD was my "boot" and I put Steam games on the other.  But honestly, I bought the bigger one because, screw it.. I wanna go fast!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzlbaMboCiM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh9x4NqW0Dw

I shouldn't be hype for an ubisoft game ever again.
This is the same game I was hype for before and decided not to buy at the end.

Maybe ubisoft should stick to marketing and trailers since it's what they do best.

 
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Wait a minute, I had no idea they'd gotten Ted Cruz to be in Watch Dogs 2! Awesome to see he's not going to be out of a job anytime soon.

 
Foxhack said:
I only need like 120 GB for the OS and the rest would be to keep a Steam game or two, those that would benefit from the super fast loading times.

I also need a new HD to store music and stuff on. Blah.
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Yeah, only the more intense games would benefit from being on a high-capacity SSD. Cache loading has improved for HDDs, so you only really need an SSD if you have a formidable GPU and run current-gen, high resolution games on ultra.

And THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU ONLY LISTEN TO FLAC, YOU MUSIC SNOB! Lossless is a good 5-6 times larger than what I reencode downloaded music to. I prefer having 12,000 songs at ~230kbps VBR than 2,000 at 1411kbps flac/wav. musicbackloghairflip.gif

 
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Blade said:
Yeah, only the more intense games would benefit from being on a high-capacity SSD. Cache loading has improved for HDDs, so you only really need an SSD if you have a formidable GPU and run current-gen, high resolution games on ultra.

And THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU ONLY LISTEN TO FLAC, YOU MUSIC SNOB! Lossless is a good 5-6 times larger than what I reencode downloaded music to. I prefer having 12,000 songs at ~230kbps VBR than 2,000 at 1411kbps flac/wav. musicbackloghairflip.gif
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I was thinking stuff like Arkham Knight or other graphic intensive (read: poorly optimized) stuff.

And I'm actually running out of space for other reasons. I rarely back music up to FLAC anymore... I need the space for another project I plan to begin.

 
Some people in the System Shock 2 free on GOG thread are all like Wow this Galaxy client is amazing and DRM free too what more can you ask for?

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