Is Elite Dangerous a Dad's Game Played mainly by "non-gamers"?

[nexxo]

Thanks for the recap from another perspective. I was never really big into modding specifically, though I am someone who drilled hex style holes in the side of one of his cases to put a case fan on. I've only ever built my own PCs, starting out using spare parts from old computers. I have a couple 8086 CPUs around still even that I'm hanging onto for nostalgia. I didn't build my own PCs from new parts until around the mid to late '90s, getting a Pentium 2 system put together. I kind of miss that old CPU card. I think I eventually ended up selling parts from that computer in a new computer I built for my place of employment at the time.

At any rate, as for the portion I quoted, I'd like to think of my case/radiator fans that I'm using now (see signature) as being halfway decent at least, fairly quite when need be, but with a good power potential on the occasions when I like to turn up the dial. I only ever got this CPU up to around 5GHz, stable enough to run benchmarks. Not the best, but not too shabby for using unmodded consumer type components. Long term stability (having an up time from weeks to months while being loaded) is more important to me now though, so I use a much more modest overclock that's a bit more energy efficient.

I do recall those little dinky and cheap card type fans you could get. Not sure how much good most of them really did. Funny to think of those now.

I feel ya, bro. My first mod was a Commodore 64. In fact, modding probably had its roots in the Apple I from 1979, which basically came as a kit with PCB and chips. You had to find your own PSU, keyboard and monitor and build your own case. Of course some people went all out and built lovingly polished and veneered wooden cabinets... in any case, people were used to the idea of tinkering with their home computer. VIC 20's, Commodore 64s and also ZX Spectrums and BBC Micros were frequently modified. You could even get aftermarket kits. I added a reset switch (two levels), a bi-colour CPU status indicator LED (home brew), a kernel switch bank that allowed me to switch between six different varieties of the C64 operating system, and a serial to parallel conversion kit for the floppy drive (off the shelf kits).

I didn't mod my Amiga much, but I built my second PC from scratch (Pentium II 266) and then my first liquid cooled system (Opteron 250) with arrange of home brew components. My current build is again mostly home brew: a CNC'd aluminium frame of my own design with a lot of parts turned on my own lathe and mill. I guess it's a hard habit to break.