Slimmer
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Have always had one, now my kid understands why I always have a good back up rig....ya never know.
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Jhenke
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Re: Backup gaming rig.
Sunday, April 18, 2021 4:54 AM
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Slimmer
Have always had one, now my kid understands why I always have a good back up rig....ya never know.
just pass it off as your wife's gaming pc and if yours has troubles with the GPU just rob it from hers haha
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Slimmer
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Re: Backup gaming rig.
Sunday, April 18, 2021 6:50 PM
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I think crypto is a valid reason enough for a gamer to have a second rig, "Damit, their using gpus again?"
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Re: Backup gaming rig.
Thursday, May 06, 2021 7:28 PM
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Always good to have a backup!
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Re: Backup gaming rig.
Thursday, May 06, 2021 7:52 PM
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My brother's a console gamer through and through. I tried giving him my older pc (so I could play games with him really lol) and he didn't want it. Good thing though, as I now have a backup gpu if my current one dies.
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Re: Backup gaming rig.
Thursday, May 06, 2021 8:13 PM
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Can never complain about having the backup ready to go when things get bad on the main one. Recently had to do that and it saved me much sanity while waiting with RMA.
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Eronus
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Re: Backup gaming rig.
Friday, May 07, 2021 11:07 AM
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Best backup for gaming is called PlayStation 
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Re: Backup gaming rig.
Friday, May 07, 2021 1:36 PM
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I keep one machine for work and one machine for gaming
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Slimmer
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Re: Backup gaming rig.
Friday, May 07, 2021 4:10 PM
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now we both have back-up cards / rigs, even though he thinks it's not needed (he will big time if his card goes down)
just till recently he was rocking a 4670k / 1060 6g w/ Win7 and would say no to upgrading anything because it was just fine to him, but some game he wanted to play was win10 only and now he has a 8700k / evga 2080s (i had to sneak the 2080s in ... im not kidding)
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TheCrunchyFox
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Re: Backup gaming rig.
Friday, May 07, 2021 5:00 PM
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Seriously. I had considered waiting until the RTX 30 series to make a fresh build, but built about 6 months earlier with discount parts just to have something while I waited. Glad I did, because the wait looks like it may be a long one.
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Re: Backup gaming rig.
Sunday, May 09, 2021 2:22 PM
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super good if you have second rig, never know when things can go south
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andreibondrea
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Re: Backup gaming rig.
Monday, May 17, 2021 11:59 AM
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some gamers doesnt have a gpu and you want a second gaming rig :) but yea...good to have
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