What game are you playing?

[Mapman]

I've also gotten back into Sudoku after many years.

Are you familiar with the YouTube channel Cracking the Cryptic? They solve incredibly difficult variant Sudoku. (I'd recommend their shorter videos to start; many of their recent videos are on the long side due to the increasing difficulty of the puzzles over time.)

[DavidW]

Are you familiar with the YouTube channel Cracking the Cryptic? They solve incredibly difficult variant Sudoku. (I'd recommend their shorter videos to start; many of their recent videos are on the long side due to the increasing difficulty of the puzzles over time.)

I'll have to check it out!

[drogulus]

    I note that the Arc B580 price is now dropping to the $300 range, though not yet at MicroCenter (peace, blessings, whatever). Now on purely game performance the Arc is not outstanding. For me it's a good option because I need QSV to squish my videos in a reasonable amount of time. With the B580 I'm free to select an AMD CPU, which I might want to do.

[DavidW]

I note that the Arc B580 price is now dropping to the $300 range, though not yet at MicroCenter (peace, blessings, whatever). Now on purely game performance the Arc is not outstanding. For me it's a good option because I need QSV to squish my videos in a reasonable amount of time. With the B580 I'm free to select an AMD CPU, which I might want to do.

The RTX 5050 is out this month, and it should be priced at $250. The RTX 5060 is already out and readily available at $300.

[drogulus]

The RTX 5050 is out this month, and it should be priced at $250. The RTX 5060 is already out and readily available at $300.

     The 5050 is a major POS. It tests hideously against the B580 on the PassMark site, 10,727 v 15,760. Even the lowly A580 gets ~12,000.

     The 5060 is better at ~20,000 but with 8GB of VRAM it's gonna be obsolete by lunch tomorrow. The MSRP for the 16GB 5060 Ti is $449 and good luck with that.