Hi guys and girls! (Who am I kidding there's no girls on the Internet)

So I have been talking to Captain_Yuri (AKA Jizz) and you may or may not know that I've recently built a gaming PC. He's been a great help throughout everything and helped to build upon my own knowledge. We had a few arguments, but ended up getting something really rather great out of it and that's awesome. So we were thinking of sharing this with VGC.

In short, our plan is to build a "VGC Helpdesk" where we would help to answer any PC related questions, give our advice and opinions (threads like this http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=207350&page=1# are good examples) and hopefully help people out. Perhaps we could also extend it to new news and funny videos, for example like with Skylake. It's still very much in the planning phase, but I think it would be good.

So I guess we need your help. What do you think of this idea? What would you like to see and what structure would you advise? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

@Cone: I don't know what you expect from this thread. Since zarx left us it has been mostly... inactive .

And... you got a gaming PC? Now you have to post the specs, or at least tell us something about it.

Anyway, I'm all in for a thread like that, but I'm affraid that my contribution would be minimal and quite pointless. My contribution in this thread and others has basically been the post of rumors and news about new GPUs and things like that.

Yes I can see it's been pretty quiet, but Captain felt better posting something here to give people a "heads up" as it were. Will be sure to do that tomorrow, but it's an i7-4790k GTX 980 16GB DDR3 piece of kit. Not bad I say!

No, it's not bad at all!

The Chrome OS is based on Linux, so that wouldn't be much of a problem if it wasn't for the specs of most Chromebooks and that, if I've read it right, most of the work of those Chromebooks is made "on the Cluod".

Long story short: no, I don't think you can play games on your PC, spurge .

AMD has done a paper launch of the R9 Nano, with hardware hitting stores on September 10th.

http://videocardz.com/57444/amd-launches-radeon-r9-nano

And for Artic Island's 4xx series, AMD will use TSMC's 16nm FinFET technology like Nvidia, but for its upcoming Zen Processors, they will rely on GloFo and its 14nm process.

That's what Kitguru says.

I thought about posting some news, y'know, for the old times. Sorry for the formatting.

Star Citizen’s Social Module Is Now Available To Backers

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/star-citizens-social-module-is-now-available-to-backers/

Cloud Imperium has finally released the Social module for Star Citizen. According to the team, this module represents its first step into Star Citizen’s Persistent Universe. With this module, players will be able to enter your Hangar, load up Arena Commander and take the elevator to explore ArcCorp with other players.

Oxide Developer: “NVIDIA Was Putting Pressure On Us To Disable Certain Settings In The Benchmark”

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/oxide-developer-nvidia-was-putting-pressure-on-us-to-disable-certain-settings-in-the-benchmark/

When Oxide’s Ashes of the Singularity benchmark tool was released, NVIDIA issued a statement claiming that it does not consider this particular benchmark to represent what DX12 can achieve on its hardware. However, it seems that a lot has been going on in the background. According to one of Oxide’s developer, NVIDIA was pressuring Oxide to remove certain settings in its benchmark.

Khronos Group’s ‘Vulkan’ API, Performance Numbers Revealed – Prototype Build Show 89% Increase Over OpenGL in Intel StarDust 1.1 Benchmark

Valve fixed the July numbers to 80.00% ;)

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/?sort=chg

That's Valve for making me look like a fool .

That's because yesterday I posted that Valve now offers free games with the Steam Link and Steam Controller. They are going after me!

Since I purchaed a Steam Link and Steam Controller I was provided Rocket League free of charge. The game is an absolute blast to play and what an awesome gift to us early Steam hardware adopters. I've already got three of my friends who I play with on Teamspeak to purchase it so they can play with me.  At $20.00 a pop, so it's definitely a smart move by the developer too.

install linux and get steam, alot of smaller and indie games should run fine. but check if the games have a linux version on steam before buying

http://store.steampowered.com/browse/linux/?l=english