Pretty good, just wonder why no bigger SSD options or a Type-C on the back.

Also, would have loved some option for a bigger GPU like the 6650M XT or 6700M, but the 6600M is ultimately fine for what this is.

I this was a shoop job, until I found the video and...just wtf lol.

These cards are just so fucking dumb to look at, both in size and price. 

Also agree with the guy, I'm tired of the market treating us like kids, by having stupid looking GPU designs. I just want a sleek robust looking card, and I'm of the side that doesn't actually care about RGB this or RGB that, I just want a tidy case, clean innards and sleek/slim hardware, not chonky shit, more fans/RGB on GPU's (that are likely to die on me like one of my 1080ti Aorus fans did, thanks Gigabyte). 

Feels like the market side of the GPU industry forgot we existed after these 2 yrs, and now it's "what do consumers like again?, oh yeah, big chunky, RGB puke inducing, expensive tat!".

All these whacky and chonker designs make the FE design look like the sleekest shit I've ever seen, 2 gens in a row now...

4080 16GB performance leak:

4080s are such a joke that it's not even funny. Doesn't matter if it's 12GB or 16GB. The price to performance ratio is an utter embarrassment after the 30 series.

Personally I think FE cards always looked the sleekest every gen since Nvidia started making their own. The only problem was that pre-Turing were all blower cards that were hot and loud. Post Turing not only looked the part but performed very well too. Nvidia does cuck their FE power limits so they don't boost as high so the AIB cards can perform better but it's usually within 5-10% for a higher price than FE.

The Thursday news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

Games Workshop is giving away two custom Warhammer gaming PCs
https://www.pcgamer.com/games-workshop-is-giving-away-two-custom-warhammer-gaming-pcs/
Well, this is one way to score yourself an RTX 3080. Games Workshop is giving anyone subscribed to Warhammer+ (which costs £5/$US6/$AU10 per month and gives you access to Warhammer animations and hobby shows, a vault of old publications, free miniatures, and so on), whether new or existing subscribers, a chance to win one of two gaming PCs. One of them's in a case decorated with Total War: Warhammer 3 art to celebrate the open beta of Immortal Empires, while the other features the Grey Knights from Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters.
As well as a chance to win one of those, everyone subscribed by the end of the month will score the Ogre Kingdoms DLC for Total War: Warhammer 3 and a copy of hex-grid strategy game Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Relics of War. Those are being handed out as Steam keys on November 1.
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As well as subscribing by the end of October, to be eligible to win the Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters rig you also need to follow @ChaosGate on Twitter, and for a chance to win the Total War: Warhammer 3 PC, follow @totalwar on Twitter. (You don't need to link your Warhammer+ account, they'll apparently check at a later date) The winners will be drawn on November 2. More details are available at the Warhammer Community site.
>> Check the article to see the specs of each PC, as well as

The new Humble Bundle contains 400 hours of the best RPGs ever made for $20
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-new-humble-bundle-contains-400-hours-of-the-best-rpgs-ever-made-for-dollar20/
Hey, can I borrow you for the rest of your life? Because the latest Humble Bundle is a collection of some of the greatest CRPGs in games history, but you might need to quit your job and retreat to the woods if you want to finish them before the mid-century.
Humble's RPG Legends bundle will net you Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 plus the Siege of Dragonspear expansion, Planescape: Torment, Icewind Dale, Neverwinter Nights, and Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. They're all in their modernised Enhanced Edition form (except Pathfinder, since that only came out last year), so you won't have to spend time tinkering with mods to get them working like I had to do back in the day. You kids have it easy.
>> The bundle will last 20 days.

The Epic Store giveas away two titles:

• Rising Hell: https://store.epicgames.com/es-MX/p/rising-hell
• Slain: Back From Hell: https://store.epicgames.com/es-MX/p/slain

And next week, they'll have ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove!.

GOG has... several things for us:

• Publisher Chucklefish puts its games up to 80% off until October 13th: https://www.gog.com/promo/20221006_chuklefish_publisher_sale
• GOG has joined forces with The Video Game History Foundation, and are offering a bundle whose profits will go to the foundation. The deal will last until Sunday, October 9th, and you can find more info here: https://www.gog.com/en/news/support_game_preservation_by_buying_games_and_claim_the_video_game_history_foundation_goodie_pack_for_free
• And the GOG & Mad Catz Giveaway enters its encore state, because it will end soon, on October 10th. Learn more here: https://www.gog.com/en/news/mad_catz_gogcom_giveaway_encore

Steam has two new deals:

• The Ascent will be 67% off until October 12: https://store.steampowered.com/app/979690/The_Ascent/
• And 911 Operator will be 80% of until the same October 12: https://store.steampowered.com/app/503560/911_Operator/

Fanatical has two new deals:

• The new Star Deal is Outer Wilds, 52% off during 24 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/outer-wilds
• And the Platinum Collection BYOB for October is now live, with 18 titles to choose for your 3, 5 or 7 games bundle: https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/platinum-collection-build-your-own-bundle

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

3DMark releases XeSS benchmark update
https://www.pcgamer.com/3dmark-releases-xess-benchmark-update/
UL solutions, the company that develops the 3DMark benchmark, has released a new feature test for Intel's XeSS AI-enhanced upscaling technology. It's available as a free download to owners of the Advanced and Professional editions, though only if your edition includes the Port Royal upgrade.

MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Add some close encounters to Fallout 4 with this alien invasion mod
https://www.pcgamer.com/add-some-close-encounters-to-fallout-4-with-this-alien-invasion-mod/
We've known that aliens exist in the Fallout universe for a long time now, with crashed spaceships and alien corpses appearing in several games in the series. Heck, you can get beamed up to a mothership in an expansion for Fallout 3, and there's an alien invasion event in Fallout 76.
In Fallout 4 you can find a spaceship and fight a single living alien, but modder RascalArt decided it was time to finally begin a proper alien invasion. In the Zetans—Alien Invaders in the Commonwealth mod (opens in new tab), extraterrestrial visitors are done being coy and let their true intentions be known. The occupation of Earth has begun with flying saucers and alien ground forces.

GAMING NEWS

Here are 7 minutes of gameplay footage from EA’s WILD HEARTS
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/here-are-7-minutes-of-gameplay-footage-from-eas-wild-hearts/
Electronic Arts and KOEI Tecmo have released a new video, showcasing 7 minutes of brand new gameplay footage from their upcoming hunting game, WILD HEARTS.

First details & screenshots for Need for Speed Unbound leaked online
https://www.dsogaming.com/screenshot-news/first-screenshots-for-need-for-speed-unbound-have-been-leaked-online/
Japanese retailer Neowing has just revealed the first screenshots for Need for Speed Unbound. These screenshots will give you a glimpse at the game’s new art style.
>> More on that three articles below.

Dead Space Remake Official PC System Requirements
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/dead-space-remake-official-pc-system-requirements/
The official Steam store page for Dead Space Remake has revealed its PC system requirements. According to the specs, PC gamers will at least need an AMD Ryzen 5 2600x or Intel Core i5 8600 with 16GB of RAM and an AMD RX 5700 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070.

Resident Evil 7, Resident Evil 2 Remake & Resident Evil 3 Remake have received new PC patches
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/resident-evil-7-resident-evil-2-remake-resident-evil-3-remake-have-received-new-pc-patches/
Capcom has released new patches for the PC versions of Resident Evil 7, Resident Evil 2 Remake and Resident Evil 3 Remake. These patches address a number of issues that plagued these three RE games.

Need for Speed Unbound releases on December 2nd, gets official in-engine trailer
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/need-for-speed-unbound-releases-on-december-2nd-gets-official-in-engine-trailer/
Electronic Arts has announced that Need for Speed Unbound will officially release on December 2nd. In addition, the publisher has released the first official in-engine trailer for this upcoming racing game.

Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered October 6th Patch adds support for AMD FSR 2.1 & Intel XeSS, improves DLSS quality
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/marvels-spider-man-remastered-october-6th-patch-adds-support-for-amd-fsr-2-1-intel-xess-improves-dlss-quality/
Nixxes has released a brand new update for the PC version of Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered. According to the release notes, the October 6th patch adds support for AMD’s FSR 2.1 and Intel’s XeSS techs. Moreover, it improves the quality of NVIDIA’s DLSS tech.

Thursday news, part two:

Stadia's collapse means the exclusive horror game Gylt will finally release for the rest of us
https://www.pcgamer.com/stadias-collapse-means-the-exclusive-horror-game-gylt-will-finally-release-for-the-rest-of-us/
Remember Gylt? Perfectly fair if you don't: It's a singleplayer action-adventure horror game created by Rime studio Tequila Works, and it released in 2019 as a Google Stadia exclusive. And so it remained, despite some rumbling from the developers about going multiplatform. But the looming collapse of Stadia means it's finally going to happen—eventually.

Overwatch 2 queues are still a problem 24 hours later
https://www.pcgamer.com/overwatch-2-queues-are-still-a-problem-24-hours-later/
A full 24 hours after Overwatch 2's launch and it's still suffering from login queues, errors, disconnects, and account issues.
If you try to log into Overwatch 2 right now, as of Wednesday afternoon, you'll probably face a login queue in the thousands. Or you might get kicked out of line entirely with an error. And when you get in, you could be missing cosmetic items, currency, and heroes.

Overwatch 2 drops phone number requirement 'for a majority of existing Overwatch players'
https://www.pcgamer.com/overwatch-2s-new-phone-requirement-is-locking-players-out-i-cant-just-change-my-phone-plan-for-one-game/
Blizzard's plan to neutralize player toxicity in Overwatch 2 includes the significant step of recording all in-game voice chat, but a somewhat less drastic change has ended up causing considerable headaches and controversy all on its own—enough that Blizzard announced tonight that it's dropping a requirement to have phone numbers attached to Battle.net "for a majority of existing Overwatch players."

RimWorld's biggest-ever expansion brings mech armies, gene-splicing, and bouncing babies
https://www.pcgamer.com/rimworlds-biggest-ever-expansion-brings-mech-armies-gene-splicing-and-bouncing-babies/
Rimworld will shortly receive its third major expansion, called Biotech, and it's going all Crusader Kings on our ass. Biotech introduces three new features to the already pretty wonderful space colony simulator: controllable mechanoids, genetic modification, and good old human reproduction. Yep: time to make space babies.

Dead Cells adds a ludicrously tough boss rush mode for the lulz
https://www.pcgamer.com/dead-cells-adds-a-ludicrously-tough-boss-rush-mode-for-the-lulz/
Dead Cells' latest in a long line of great updates is out now, and adds a boss rush mode that certainly lives up to the name. This presents the player with four stages to fight through (...)

Intel Arc A7 GPUs lose 1/4 of their performance without ReBAR

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-arc-a7-gpus-lose-1-4-of-their-performance-without-rebar

Intel XeSS has been added to Hitman 3, The Riftbreaker, Enlisted and Redout 2

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-xess-has-been-added-to-hitman-3-the-riftbreaker-enlisted-and-redout-2

Spider-Man Remastered update lets you link your Steam and PSN account (also XeSS, FSR 2.1.1 and soon DLSS 3)

https://steamcommunity.com/games/1817070/announcements/detail/3299474214664311943

Sony games continuing to add PC centric features while MS and many other studios taking their sweet ass time

So overall, the new 4080 16GB leak does bode well for the 4090. If the 4080 16GB is indeed 20% faster in Raster vs overclocked 3090 Ti, than the 4090 most likely be around 50-60% faster than 3090Ti as it has over 6000 more cuda cores than 4080 16GB.

By comparison, the 3090 over 2080 Ti was around 40% faster in Raster but what really made Ampere stick out was the 3080 being 30% faster than 2080 Ti while being $700 vs 4080 16GB being only 20% faster than 3090 Ti while costing $1200.

The 4080 16GB is going to be a very good card, but not at that price. It need to be $400 cheaper.