Go for it, you already have an SSd from your buddy and all and well your learning in doing it will help someone like me who only plans on getting the 64gb model at some point xD.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Rumored To Be Slower Than RTX 3070 Ti, AD106 & AD107 GPUs Utilize PCIe x8 Interface

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4060-slower-than-rtx-3070-ti-ad106-ad107-gpu-pci-x8-interface-rumor/

As usual for post Turing, the lower you go, the less of a performance jump you get. On the bright side, least this will be more powerful than a ps5 regardless which will hopefully mean cheaper PCs.

CDPR Hints At a Full Cyberpunk 2077 Sequel

https://technclub.com/gaming/cdpr-hints-cyberpunk-2077-sequel/

I do hope this happens. I feel like Cyperpunk was a game where they were stretched too thin between supporting the last gen consoles and next gen consoles and pc. Hopefully with the next one, they will learn their lesson and focus on one generation instead of multiple. There is a great game underneath the bug filled mess that it originally shipped with and while the city won't be as lively as something out of GTA, the single player story is still worth playing through imo.

Yea think of OW2 more like OW1.5. And yea, BP route is pretty lame. Ironically I liked their implementation of lootbox system because I knew they were gonna come up with something shittier. Least with the lootbox system, you would get the gameplay essentials like heroes and such for free + day 1 and only cosmetics are locked behind it. And lootboxes were easy to get and you could unlock specific skins and such if you had enough in-game currency from lootboxes. So if you were patient enough, you could eventually get the skins and such that you wanted assuming you didn't already get it from the lootboxes.

The BP system feels much shittier with needing to grind out to get the hero and obviously certain cosmetic skins and such most likely being completely locked behind a paywall. But my biggest question is what happens if you don't grind it out? I skipped OW1 for like 2-3 years cause I had OW fatigue. If I did that with OW2, am I gonna not be able to access the heroes at all? Personally it just feels shitty.

Intel Price Hike To Affect Upcoming CPUs, Motherboard Chipsets & Other Components In Q4, Up To 20% Increase

https://wccftech.com/intel-price-hike-to-affect-cpus-motherboard-chipsets-in-q4-up-to-20-percent-increase/

The pricing battle will be interesting. If it ends up being 7700x about the same price as 13600k, then I think it will be an easy Ryzen recommendation for most people in terms of gaming. Cause having 8 big cores is better than having 6P cores and 8E cores in most gaming scenarios. We will see though.

Intel wants to get the same money they made before despite the lower sales, that's why they're raising the prices.

And I'd say that the price increase is already happening. In several stores the Alder Lake processors are more expensive now than when they launched, at least both the 12600K and the 12700K.

Rumor: Intel Arc GPU effectively cancelled: 'decision has been made'
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/88393/intel-arc-gpu-effectively-cancelled-decision-has-been-made/index.html
Well, here we are once again... and we have leaker Moore's Law is Dead reporting (once again, but this time with more meat, or should I say salt for the rumor mill) that Intel's desktop Arc GPU is so bad that, that Intel has canceled discrete Arc GPUs internally. MLID says it's not because Intel doesn't have the balls to hit the GPU market and compete against AMD and NVIDIA... but rather from a financial perspective (and I'm sure a lot more behind the scenes) they just can't do it.

Almost feels like we finished off the Pascal era and headed towards the Turing era for CPUs where we are going to have a "new normal" pricing for products despite the jump not being as impressive as they used to be.

Rumor: Intel Arc GPU effectively cancelled: 'decision has been made'
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/88393/intel-arc-gpu-effectively-cancelled-decision-has-been-made/index.html
Well, here we are once again... and we have leaker Moore's Law is Dead reporting (once again, but this time with more meat, or should I say salt for the rumor mill) that Intel's desktop Arc GPU is so bad that, that Intel has canceled discrete Arc GPUs internally. MLID says it's not because Intel doesn't have the balls to hit the GPU market and compete against AMD and NVIDIA... but rather from a financial perspective (and I'm sure a lot more behind the scenes) they just can't do it.