If you've never heard of Arma 3, I'll give you a quick explanation. Then after a few afternoons of trying to find the perfect game to truly test my new PC's capabilities, I discovered Arma 3.
I plugged in my headset and told my friends it was going to be a few days before they heard from me again. It took a night of head scratching, swearing, and Wiki How articles, but I eventually had a black and red box connected to a brand new 1920X1080 HD monitor. After drinking a little more than I should have and a few quick Amazon searches, I was less than a week away from having what would essentially be a thousand dollar Playstation. Ian was a technology junkie for as long as I had known him and after giving him my price range he quickly compiled a list of the parts I would need. It all started one night when I passed the idea of building my own rig by my friend Ian. The only reason I'm saying this is so you understand why ten years later I decided to blow my tax refund on a high end gaming PC. A First World Problem by definition I know, but it did mean a lot of the games my friends enjoyed were off limits to me. When I was 13 the only computer I had available to me was a six year old Dell that would struggle to play a pirated copy of Oregon trail. PCs held the limitless possibilities of modifications, expansion packs, and the brand new concept of online gaming. I was always jealous of the people I knew who had top of the line computers.
