I'm currently running a HP Omen i7, bought as a pre built unit.
Yea, mine's kinda running a bit faster than most of the processors out there even today for the most part, except for the top tier parts anyhow. Essentially at the time, for around $800 I was able to build a system that performed like a several thousand dollar unit. I like to overclock and get every ounce of processing power I can out of a machine, and now a days, I only play one game, so finding the best choice is pretty straight forward.
I also like to get a excellent performance for the price. I do a lot of research about these sorts of things.
Quake Champions is very processor dependent, and it's a game that requires high frame rates and low latency. It's a game nobody plays because the requirements are fairly high, the game is extremely difficult to master, and there's a lot of old school guys like me who've been playing it for decades. So a real marginal, old school gamer thing, sorta in the vein of fortnight, or CSGO, I suppose.
Anyhow, it doesn't bother me much that the game isn't popular, it's familiar to me. I have lots of fun.
I was thinking about upgrading to say a threadripper or ryzen, but I get pretty good performance as things set, maybe I'll upgrade the graphics card to the RTX 3070, but I'll probably wait till I can get it under $450 or so, I'm not in a rush to upgrade anymore. It's always something new.
I've got a lot of drones I've been playing with too. I've got a DJI Mavic Mini, I've got a bigger Mavic Air with object avoidance, following sensors, you can make a film with it, goes almost 5 miles range, 30 min flight time. I've also got a tiny Tello drone for inside and just practice, doing flips, speed racing and whatnot, one that's got extra engines, and I don't have to worry about wrecking.
I like working on electronics actually. Same with the LED lights, I take them apart, trouble-shoot them, clean, reassemble.
