Buying a graphics card feels increasingly like closing on a house or starting a small business. It was once as simple as saving up about 400 bucks, triple-checking which slots your mobo supported, and then buying the big box with the fanciest-looking fantasy character on it. The more fireballs and face paint, the better the graphics card within.
However, crypto farmers, lockdowns and egregious manufacturer price-hiking have made that purchase considerably more complexnow chugging along a bit. It doesn’t support DLSS frame generation. It never really got on with . It takes a deep breath whenever I hover over a ‘max’ preset in a graphics settings menu.