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Epic also has PC Building Simulator 1 AND 2, with the IT expansion pack. That one hit a bit too close to home for me :) They also have a free weekend trial for The Crew Motorfest this week. It feels a LOT like a Forza Horizon clone.

Can I get a Metallica battleship to shoot back at them? :)

It's still better than an Engadget "product review", where they basically just copy and paste the talking points memo from the manufacturer.

Well... probably not a 4060 16GB. It doesn't seem to have the memory bus bandwidth to fully utilize 16 GB of VRAM. It really feels like they tacked on that extra 8 GB of VRAM at the last minute to appease reviewers.

In my mind, LTT and Gamers Nexus serve different markets. If you want a 40-minute video where every facet of a product is tested in excruciating detail, Gamers Nexus is the review you want to watch. If you just want a 10-minute summary review of a product, LTT is the place to go.

That's great if you're a 1080p gamer, I guess. I game at 1440p on a 2060 Super, so the current 4060 series offerings aren't much of an "upgrade" for me. Maybe Nvidia will come to its senses and offer a reasonably priced "4060 Super" with better 1440p performance. If not, I'm sure that AMD or...

Umm... that 3060 came with 12 GB of VRAM. The 4060 only came with 8 GB.

NVidia is marketing it as the "Ultimate 1080p" GPU, and the weaker reviewers (looking at you, Engadget) are following their lead and playing into the strengths of the card. The better card reviews are testing the card at 1440p to better demonstrate the issues with limited memory bandwidth...

Linus seemed to be OK with the 4060 Ti: From what I see, it doesn't really make sense to upgrade if you already have a 3060 or a 3060 Ti. Maybe it makes sense if you have a 2060 Super and you're playing at 1080p and you want to crank up the ray tracing settings? The 1440p performance on the...

By the way they focused on 1080p performance in the press release, something tells me that the 1440p performance isn't going to be good. Not good enough to consider upgrading from a 3060 or a 2060 Super, anyway.

I ended up getting an LG 38WN95C-W. Nice monitor!

You're right, sorry about that. I'll be using this for work from home sysadmin work, so the workload is going to be 2 browser windows, Teams, Outlook, and a bunch of console windows all open at the same time. This will be plugged into a 16" Macbook Pro, so USB-C connectivity would be nice. My...

What is a good single widescreen monitor replacement for 2 1920x1200 monitors? I was thinking of getting a single 38" or 42" widescreen monitor with a resolution of around 3880x1600, but those are somewhat expensive. Is the image quality improvement worth the cost?

I see that Epic is offering The Sims 4 for free as well. That one kinda makes sense, as the game seems kinda incomplete on its own and they really want you to pay for a bunch of expansion packs.

It seems that with the latest drivers, Intel Arc cards no longer suck at playing older games: Now that the Arc 750 is only $250, it's probably one of the better mid-range cards out there at the moment.