Michael Nugent DDS
Hi, I am Michael and I practice dentistry in Pasadena, Texas. I focus on Cosmetic, General, Implant and Sedation Dentistry. Dentistry is a great passion of mine and I truly love all being a dentist. I have been voted Best Pasadena Texas Dentist multiple times.
I am married and have two amazing daughters. Work and family keep me very busy. I have several hobbies I enjoy. These hobbies include riding dirt bikes, target shooting and playing online video games.
In 1993 Doom came out and was revolutionary and jumpstarted the First Person Shooter (FPS) genre. The internet was just taking off. There was no high speed internet and connection speeds were 28k. I remember trying to play my buddies in Duke Nukem across the internet. It was very laggy and barely playable. But computers, graphic cards, and the internet were really taking off.
In college the game I played most was the groundbreaking Rainbow 6. The single-player game required brains and brawn to complete and had a compelling storyline. However, the best part of Rainbow 6 was the multiplayer that was supported by Microsoft. Players could easily create games with their friends. I played a lot of hours against my co-workers from Montgomery Ward. We would play against each other on Friday nights and then talk “trash” at work on Saturday.
I started playing the Call of Duty franchise in dental school. My current favorite game is Battlefield 4. It has huge maps and up to 64 players at a time. I like to play the ASSAULT class with a medic kit. The medic kit allows me revive downed soldiers on the battlefield. The downed soldiers do not have to wait for 30 seconds to get back into the game and do not have to respawn at the back of the map.
I built my last gaming computer in 2006. In 2010 I tried to extend the computers life by adding more ram, a new video card and Windows 7 64 bit. Early in 2011 my motherboard died and I decided it was no longer worth it to repair the older gaming rig. I bought an Alienware computer in 2011. My new gaming computer was going to be built for gaming and video processing. I have a lot of videos of the kids and am going to start dabbling in video editing.
My latest build:
- ASUS ROG Stix X870E-E WiFi Gaming
- AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU
- ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 32GB GDDR7 OC Edition
- Corsair iCue Titan Liquid Cooler w/Display 360mm
- Corsair 3500X Case – Black
- Corsair RS120 ARGB Fan 3 pack
- Corsair 96GB DDR5 6000Mhz Titanium Memory
- Corsair HX1000i Power Supply
- Samsung 990 EVO Plus 1TB M.2 (Windows)
- Samsung 990 EVO Plus 4TB M.2 (Games)
- Toshiba Gaming High Performance HDD 20TB (2ea mirrored)
- Windows 11 Pro
My previous computer:
- Obsidian 500D case
- K95 Rgb keyboard
- Nightsword gaming mouse
- H150i Liquid cooler
- Icue Nexus
- Asus ROG Maximus XII Formula
- I9-10900KF
- 64GB DDR4 3200
- 970 EVO Plus 2TB M.2
- 860 EVO SSD 4TB
- 12 TB HDD X2
- ASUS ROG RTX 3090 OC 24GB GDDR6X
- Noctura Fans X 3
- Corsair AX1000 Power Supply
- Windows 10 Pro
I really like playing online FPS because of how easy it is to log on and start playing. After the kids are asleep, I can log in and play a quick twenty-minute game before I go to bed.