Scotty Pippen Jr., son of former NBA player and Chicago Bulls legend Scottie Pippen, is officially now a PC gamer.
Per a new post from the ASUS Edge Up blog, Pippen Jr. recently reached out about wanting to switch from a console to a gaming PC, and Stuart Tonks, manager of GGF and a professional case modder, answered the call, helping the South Bay Lakers player upgrade to a white-themed system that features NVIDIA’s flagship gaming GPU and much, much more.
Here’s what Pippen Jr., whose favorite game is Call of Duty, is now gaming on, according to ASUS:
Headlining the list is none other than the mighty ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4090. At the very top of NVIDIA’s 40 Series graphics card lineup, this beastly GPU is poised to give Scotty excellent frame rates in any game on the market. A custom liquid cooling loop with parts from EK and Singularity Computers, including a special block for the GPU, keeps the high-performance parts in this rig cool and comfortable under pressure.
The system also happens to feature Intel’s newest flagship CPU, as well as premium storage and memory from XPG:
A high-performance processor helps make sure that Scotty gets the most out of his new graphics card. We opted for the Intel Core i9-14900K CPU, and gave it a home in one of our latest Z790 motherboards: the ROG Strix Z790-A Gaming WiFi. Armed with a robust VRM ready for overclocking, DDR5 RAM support, and a PCIe 5.0 x16 slot ready for the best graphics cards of today and tomorrow, this motherboard has everything Stuart was looking for in a high-end gaming build, and it’ll look the part, too, with its white and silver heatsinks and I/O shroud.
2TB of fast storage from XPG will give him a spacious and speedy gaming library, and a 32GB kit of XPG Lancer RGB ROG Certified DDR5 RAM will let him multitask with ease. The mirrored finish on the sides of this memory can’t be beat — and we know that Stuart appreciated how this memory has undergone extensive testing by ROG for compatibility with ROG Intel DDR5 series motherboards. The “ROG Certified” mode in BIOS allowed him to fire up optimized memory overclocking settings with just one click.
ASUS goes on to say that it even gave Pippen Jr. a ROG Ally when it learned that the player never found a great way of gaming while on the move.
“I really haven’t had the chance to. Having a console and having to pack it has been a lot of work,” he said, although that problem has now seemingly been solved with his gift of ASUS’ gaming handheld, featuring an AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme processor.
Pippen Jr. scored just over 40 points in the South Bay Lakers’ recent game versus the Ontario Clippers.
Masterclass by Scotty Pippen Jr.
— South Bay Lakers (@SouthBayLakers) December 11, 2023
The man dropped 41 points 🤯#SBLakers x @spippenjr pic.twitter.com/FhEdy4OczI