Even before that there was the “Iraqi super computer” myth where it was believed Saddam was hoarding thousands of PS2s to circumvent sanctions on computer hardware since it could be imported as a toy for children.
Strap a dozen PS2s together and you have a missile guidance system or something to that effect.
It gained a lot of traction in the US and I’m pretty sure Sony released a statement absolving themselves of any wrong doings after the consoles were purchased.
Wild time.
I bought a XFX Merc 7900XT for what would be $730USD which put it about $110 cheaper than the cheapest 4070 Ti in my region which also happened to be the incredibly ugly Zotac model.
While I can live without pumping bigger RT numbers it’s DLSS which I’m having a hard time losing when I do play something which benefits the use of upscaling since FSR, in it’s current long-standing state, leaves much to be desired.
There is a degree of buyer’s remorse since upscaling will only become more popular but I still feel pretty good about my decision to get it over the 4070 Ti for 1440p.
I made the switch to AMD after about 3 generations of Nvidia and losing DLSS is tough. RT isn’t really my jam but FSR and their frame gen tech still need time to be ironed out.
While I expected their frame gen to have growing pains I would feel a lot better if they kept regularly updating the baseline FSR image quality too.
Otherwise quite happy with the raster performance.
We’ve come so far and yet not that far since Hellgate London introduced in game ads in the subway system.