I'm back my friends. After a several year hiatus from current gen PC gaming, I'm back. I recently purchased a new video card and power supply, cracked open my case and got it done. For the first time in over 10 years (I believe it was about the time Diablo and Quake 2 were spinning in my CD-Rom) I have a PC capable of running any game out there. First off, I'd like to thank the Giantbomb forum goers who advised me on how to get this done at a reasonable cost ($106 for the card, and $50 for the power supply). 
I was all set and resigned to get the inferior xbox 360 version of Dragon Age, but opted to upgrade and now am running it all on the highest settings - beautiful. 
As I sat at my PC late into the night on Friday and Saturday (slaying the vile darkspawn) I was reminded of my late middle school/early high school days doing the very same thing. Now at 28, I have indeed returned to nerd-dom. 
As for Dragon Age, I'm loving it and I can honestly say I have not spent this much time thinking about a game while not playing it in over 10 years. I was a little unsure whether the hardcore nature of it would hold my attention, but it definitely is. I'll admit, I switched it to easy for the first boss, but now I'm back on normal. I'll probably have to switch it back to easy here and there, but that's okay. Maybe on my second playthrough (probably not for several weeks yet) I'll be able to hack it on normal all the way through. We'll see.

I'm back my friends. After a several year hiatus from current gen PC gaming, I'm back. I recently purchased a new video card and power supply, cracked open my case and got it done. For the first time in over 10 years (I believe it was about the time Diablo and Quake 2 were spinning in my CD-Rom) I have a PC capable of running any game out there. First off, I'd like to thank the Giantbomb forum goers who advised me on how to get this done at a reasonable cost ($106 for the card, and $50 for the power supply). 
I was all set and resigned to get the inferior xbox 360 version of Dragon Age, but opted to upgrade and now am running it all on the highest settings - beautiful. 
As I sat at my PC late into the night on Friday and Saturday (slaying the vile darkspawn) I was reminded of my late middle school/early high school days doing the very same thing. Now at 28, I have indeed returned to nerd-dom. 
As for Dragon Age, I'm loving it and I can honestly say I have not spent this much time thinking about a game while not playing it in over 10 years. I was a little unsure whether the hardcore nature of it would hold my attention, but it definitely is. I'll admit, I switched it to easy for the first boss, but now I'm back on normal. I'll probably have to switch it back to easy here and there, but that's okay. Maybe on my second playthrough (probably not for several weeks yet) I'll be able to hack it on normal all the way through. We'll see.

Congratulations! It feel great to have a good gaming PC, right?
DA:O is definitely my game of the year so far.

Congrats on your gaming PC, I myself run DA:O on medium-ish settings (decent mid-range PC) and am loving it. I'm surprised that I'm doing fine on Normal, because I haven't really played any games with this type of combat before. 
Also, would you mind telling me what new video card you got? :)

Welcome back to the bright side of life! (Well, for me at least :p )

Dragon Age Origins is still good on the consoles, but to me it's just something that needs to be played on the PC because of the atmosphere.
Oh and I don't need a comfy couch when I've got a comfy computer chair.

I am still stuck on Hard though, Nightmare I simply cannot do because of the fact that particular roles only have either a 'good' or 'evil' character for them.

what card did you buy?
dao is incredible

Congrats on the new rig dude, glad you're enjoying yourself. DAO is one of the best PC games to get in a long ass time. It gives me he same kind of throwback to old PC RPGs that I played oh so long ago. I absolutely love the game.

"Congrats on your gaming PC, I myself run DA:O on medium-ish settings (decent mid-range PC) and am loving it. I'm surprised that I'm doing fine on Normal, because I haven't really played any games with this type of combat before.  Also, would you mind telling me what new video card you got? :) "

"what card did you buy? dao is incredible " 
 

Congrats man! I wish I would have joined you on upgrading my PC but I am afraid I'd have to do a little more than you to get me up to par, thus the 360 version is what I play on. I still get to experience the great story and characters though.
 
Anyway... enjoy your Dragon Age on PC and congrats! That's awesome!

i have to run it on medium on my laptop, and sneak a setting or two down to low on the more heavy bits :(
 
it isn't a gaming laptop though