My apologies for assuming that you were using the Big Picture mode, I thought you would use that since it's designed to make the navigations in Steam easier for controllers.

In my case, it's a per-game decision as I said before. Some play better with a controller and some play better with keyboard & mouse. For FPSs I wouldn't think of using a controller, as I'm the type of gamer that doesn't go run towards the enemy in a rain of fire, but rather leave some space and try to hunt them from cover, where the mouse offers an accuracy that no controller can mimic. Sadly, that game style means that I can't play some fast paced games, like DOOM.

As for my wrists, I'm not a kid either and I still don't have a problem with them even after spending my day at work in from of a PC. Then again, my gaming sessions almost never go beyond 2 hours so maybe that's the reason I don't have a problem with them.

First of all, thanks for acknowledging that Fifa isn't a good game XD.

Sadly, I didn't play RPGs back in the day, heck my first rol game was FF 7, and now those games like Pathfinder Kingmaker, Divinity or Pillars of Eternity seem to complex for a newby like me. But I plan to change that! I grabbed Pillars of Eternity when the EGS gave it away and I'll give it a go sooner or later (first I want to finish the trio of new Wolfenstein games, done with Old Blood and in the middle of New Order).

The PC hardware situation is sadly very disappointing. About this time last year I had to postpone my plan to upgrade half of my PC (new CPU and everything related to that, even RAM), but given how things have gone, I doubt I would have been able to upgrade without spending more money than necessary. Let's hope things start to settle down "soon" and prices go back to normal... whatever that means nowadays.

Launching their products two months after the competition had a sure impact, but we're not talking about the sales of the last year but the whole PC add-in board ecosystem. That 9% fall is not only because Navi 2x, but because AMD GPUs are losing appeal, probably because Nvidia leads and brings new features that puts AMD at a disadvantage.

And even then, I'm not sure it's gonna be really faster or less consuming than it does right now - just that it goes beyond 10 cores for Intel on the desktop...

Pillars of Eternity would be highest on my list of recommended games of those you mentioned, it's not as complex as Kingmaker or the Divinity games. It's quite difficult though, you need to be strategic a lot of the time. Divinity is the better game of the lot, but Kingmaker, to me, is a bit more fun and it works on a system very familiar to me since I'm an old RPG nerd since the mid-'90s.

Fun fact: AMD actually increased the amount of GPUs sold.

The problem is that 2020 due to the lockdowns the total PC sales went up a lot, and NVidia took the lion's share of that increase.

Navi 2x is actually countering the appeal  argument since they are much more appealing already than anything they had since Hawaii or Fury. But before they only had the leftover Polaris and Vega, which are very outdated, and Navi, which didn't come with a high-end and couldn't quite keep up with NVidia in performance per watt and didn't come with Raytracing, making it still an inferior product even though it was a massive improvement over Vega.

I'm also not sure if AMD was affected with short supplies before in their GPUs; I saw the Sapphire and Powercolor cards (the only ones I would buy since they are by far and large above the fray) often going out of stock for some periods of time. Considering that the Zen 2 Ryzen 3 were very hard to find and AMD extending  production of Zen/Zen+ chips, I'm fairly sure AMD already in early 2020 had supply issues, and it only got worse for them from there.

Long story short, don't overdramatize the drop in market share as only a small part of it is due to product quality, and that one has improved a lot since then.

Edit:

I'm quoting Conina here from his steam thread:

As you can see, AMD actually marginally increased it's market share from 10.42% to 10.60% in 2020, and that's beside NVidias total dominance in laptop GPUs and the fact that Navi 2x is still missing in the charts due to still being somewhere in the DX8 group right now

Noted. Thanks for the tips.

I'm not making a drama out of it, son't worry. AMD has been well below the 20% of the market before and has managed to revive again, but they've always needed some kind of extra to pull that off, something they don't have right now.

That AMD has sold more cards than the year before is obviously good news, yet it's irrelevant if the competition managed to sell even more cards. We're not talking about making a profit but the marketshare of each one, and they lost a chunk of it.

Now, is AMD hurting more because of the supply problems than Nvidia given that they also need to make CPUs and console APUs? Sure, they probably are, but they knew when consoles would launch and when they were going to launch their own products so it's not just a supply problem but also one of bad management for not being able to book enough waffers at TSMC.

All I'm saying is that it's not all black and white and, while the circumstances are the way they are, AMD needs to improve if they really want to claw back part of the market from Nvidia like they did with Intel.

Oh, and don't be naughty, boffer, that DX8 group not only includes Navi 2x, but also Nvidia's 3070.

Altus has a new survey up which you can fill to let them know your preference if you like:

https://personacentral.com/atlus-2021-online-consumer-survey/

The only kicker is that it takes 45 minutes to complete it!

DF revisited Horizon Zero Dawn on PC to see if the patches did anything

TLDW: Lots of improvements and fixes but still has some issues left. Went from Disappointing to Okay.

And huge performance improvements for GTX 1060 (probably also fpr other Pascal GPUs), it is now on par with the RX 580.

Alright so I think now that we have a good idea of where the CPUs and GPUs land, it's time to give out some recommendations! Now this is gonna be my own opinion thus it will have my own bias so feel free to make your own!

High End build:

CPU: Ryzen 5900X/5800X or Intel 10900k/10850k/11700k/10700k
GPU: 4k/1440P/Raster/RT/DLSS: Nvidia 3080 or 1440P/1080P/Raster/Okaysh RT: AMD 6800XT
RAM: G.Skill Trident Z CL 16 3600mhz 32GB
Motherboard: Asus Dark Hero for AMD or Asus Strix Z590-E for Intel.
PSU: Evga or Corsair 850 Watt
SSD: Western Digital SN850 for PCI-E 4.0 or Samsung 970 Evo for PCI-E 3.0
Case: Lian Li 011 Dynamic XL

Mid Ranged:

CPU: Ryzen 5800X/5600X or Intel 11700k/10700k/10600k
GPU: 1440p/1080p/Raster/RT/DLSS: Nvidia 3060 Ti/3070 - 1440P/1080P/Raster: AMD 6700XT
RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws V CL 16 3600mhz 16GB
Motherboard: MSI X570 Tomahawk / Asus TUF B550 for AMD or Gigabyte Aorus Elite Z590 / Asus Prime Z590P for Intel.
PSU: Evga or Corsair 750 Watt
SSD: Western Digital SN850 for PCI-E 4.0 or Samsung 970 Evo for PCI-E 3.0
Case: Lian Li Lancool 2 Mesh

From what I have seen, some of the Z590 motherboards are actually cheaper than the Z490 while giving you more features and having support for both 10th and 11th gen Intel CPUs. But it will obviously depend on the store and etc.

Personally I think the GPU line up is split into two main categories. High End and Mid Ranged. And based on the performance numbers, I think the 3080 is the key high end GPU and the 3060 Ti is the Key Mid Ranged GPU. It's only 10% slower than a 3070 while costing $100 less at MSRP. It also has the same memory bandwidth and capacity as the 3070. It's similar to how the 970 was vs the 980... Well before people found out about the gimped vram and false cuda core count on the 970 which hopefully won't happen this time around. Also you can save typically around $100-$150 if you don't get ram with RGB.

And a couple other things. I mean it continuously grew from 4.10% in October to now 8.64%. And I really doubt the Radeons and 3070 are together at 4.5% already.

But I really wonder what else is hidden in that DX8 group. Intel XE graphics, both the discrete and the iGPU variants, are almost certainly also in this group. However, I struggle to find anything else that could be in there. Some server/Workstation/Cryptomining GPUs maybe?