I'm on OCE, so not going to be much help. Don't play too regularly either (any more).

Ah! I'm not far away (~2hrs drive).

I'm a programmer in South East Queensland, Australia.

Those are still theory problems though. They're problems with a defined, theoretical solution. Good for a math major if they're sticking to math problems, but if outside of that, doesn't cover good practices for a number of other areas.

Admittedly, I haven't gamed as much on it, but I've otherwise had no issues with games in particular. Only thing I had issues with was Virtualbox.