Yes mate, it was the MSI armor, not Asus. I own 2 direct cu2 Asus r9 290's,2 MSI 4G gaming 970's and an Asus strix 970,so I think I'm confusing myself by normally just owning these 2 brands, lol.

Wow...and I thought I was nuts keeping all the hardware I do

ATM I have a 1070Ti, 2x 1060ssc 3G's, a 980 Strix, a 780sc, two 770 classifieds, a 770sc, an R9 380, 2x R7 370's, an R7 260, a 570 2.5G (rare), 2x 560Ti's, 2x 460's, an old HD6970...I think those are just the Dx11 cards...there are a few 9800s, some 8800s...whew...

Maybe you should open a reuse centre mate!

lol, well, it happens, that's what I do

I have a gaming PC in the front room with the 2 MSI 970's hooked up to a 4K Sony Bravia, The strix is in the gaming PC in my bedroom hooked up to 55" LG TV and the 2 r9 290's are in my girlfriends PC which is connected to a 40" Samsung, also in our bedroom, lol, with a PS4 Pro and PS4 hooked up to the TV's in the bedroom, too. We like playing coop games online together........... We are sad, I know....... Lol.

If you have any old hardware lying around, the VERY best thing I have done in a while was to use an old 3770k and Asus Z97 mobo, I bought 16GB Crucial Ballistix ram on an Amazon lightning deal about 18 months ago for £42.95 (seriously, unbelievable with todays prices), I had a spare Thermaltake case and PSU, chucked in a 256GB SSD I got free when I bought the strix 970 and setup my own dedicated gaming server. Best decision I have ever made!

All these great online survival / multiplayer / coop games that are totally ruined by the majority of toxic tools out there. So, I initially looked into renting a server, but you are looking at a 10 player server for say ARK survival evolved, costing £15-20 a month, so I thought sod it, I would build my own. With the extra bits I bought, it had paid for itself within 12 months, got 7 days 2 die, Il2 1946, arma2 and arma3 etc etc on it.

One of the best feelings, going on your own server with your mates chilling out and having loads of fun, without fear of all your stuff being destroyed online while you are away for a few days.

Yeah, I had set up a Minecraft server some years ago, when the kids were still home and I only had 2-3 extra machines...

Those days are long gone, for sure...

They've played Ark, but (don't lauch) I didn't even realize you could set up your own server. Too busy with other stuff, and I don't play any of those games anyway. And the boys...well, they're 23+ nowadays.

Not that they quit playing...they just quit playing ARK. Now it's PUBG (and I heard about something called Fortnite)...too much to keep up with! I'll keep my few flight sims, thanks *lol*

Fortnite is like crack, Myself, my girlfriend and my 2 nephews aged 12 and 14 have been playing it a lot recently online together, and I think we may be starting to have an addiction. Made me laugh when you said your boys are 23 now..... I was 44 on Monday, I play loads of different games still............ Lol.

Just if anyone is interested in their own server, 99% of the time, most games server files are free to download and install, you don't even need to own the game to make your own server for it. Cheers.

EDIT : just out of curiosity, didn't cfs3 have online? Would be awesome to have a dogfight server for WOFF so you could all shoot me down......

CFS3 did have online; I actually did play OFF with my brother a few times. Alas, OBD elected to discontinue support for MP and I don't know if it will be restored. Many have asked about it - but one of the biggest things most love about WOFF is the SP aspect. No servers, no online...just play.

Thanks for the insight about ARK...I hadn't really thought of it. It makes sense about most games having servers; like I said, just got too much going on. I started to do one for RoF once; never even got off the ground (pun absolutely intended lol)

And the kids, man - by the time I learn anything about a game they're playing, they're off to something else. I'm still using PUBG as test on most machines I build, and now one kid said something about this Fortnite.

Mind you, I still play games too - just older ones I liked back when, and nowhere near the kind of time they have to burn on it.