Consoles are great for many people, but here’s why I started questioning if I really needed one.
Let’s get one thing straight, I don’t have anything against consoles. I grew up with them, spent countless hours, and still think they’re great for a lot of people. But every time I consider buying a gaming console today, I start thinking about the drawbacks. Consoles have limited upgrade paths, overpriced games and higher costs for online services, and then there is the never ending tug-of-war between performance and fidelity modes.
Related: I bought a $180 mouse to play one PC game, and I’d do it all over again The problem? That meant either dragging my giant desktop into the living room or building something new. The case for the case The one thing I had to replace was my old mini-ITX case, the SSUPD Meshlicious. While I absolutely adore its aesthetics, the riser cable was giving me trouble, and I wanted something easy to carry and travel with.
That’s where the Nvidia RTX 4060 came in, specifically, a compact single-fan model from Zotac. Now, I know what you’re thinking: “The 4060? The one everyone roasted when it launched?” Yep, that one. It sips power, runs cool and quiet, and in real-world gaming at 1080p or 1440p, it punches far above the internet’s worst takes. Throw in DLSS frame generation, and suddenly it’s handling titles like Cyberpunk 2077 and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor far better than the memes would have you believe. It’s no surprise that the RTX 4060 is also the second most popular discrete GPU on Steam’s hardware survey.
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