My Biggest Gaming Wish This Holiday Season: A Good Graphics Card
My biggest gaming wish this Christmas season was to obtain a fairly powerful graphics card for my PC. I bought my gaming PC in May this year with only a good integrated graphics processor. But something great is missing without the GPU. You may know that good graphics cards are so damn expensive these days that you could buy a new gaming console, laptop or hold a Christmas reunion party feast with the money in my country instead.
This year of 2021 was kind of crappy for PC gaming indeed. The Covid Pandemic here placed schoolkids indoors, making them demand gaming PCs for "online learning" from their poor, clueless parents. Computer shops/dealers also make false shortages to jack up prices. And also the Crypto bull market craze this year made would-be business investors to try out some experimental crypto mining. Add in the trouble with China were many of the GPU parts are made and you got a damn, tasty soup of GPU goodness being very expensive.
Common sense would be too wait it out until GPU stock prices stabilize next year and play on less, graphics-intensive games instead.
Big deal! Why not do some console gaming instead???
Two words that cannot be done with console gaming: Modding and Emulation.
Modding, because you can make old and new PC games so much damn better with mods (add in adult mods). And Emulation, because all the exclusive arcade, Sega, Playstation, and Nintendo games up to the 8th generation of video game consoles can be played on a PC with a very good graphics card and a nice emulator software program. Some of you might argue that emulation can be done on certain game consoles with storage devices. But Emulation is much easier to do it on the PC.
Having trouble setting it all up because of being a noob? Well, Google and Youtube are my friends!
All is not in despair, however. I can still do those things but with certain selected games on my humble PC.
Thank you for reading about my gaming wish rant this Christmas season. May the Almighty grant all of your holiday wishes to come true.
Merry Christmas and a joyful New Year to you all, HIVE community!
Sure, console gaming could be a solution but there's just so much more you can do with a PC. It's all about what you want to get out from it. Let's hope this charade with computer parts settles down soon so you can get yourself a decent GPU.
Yeah, I hope you are right. Merry Holidays to yah. 😀
I was surprised by the power that a PC can need to emulate certain games, even if they are from old consoles. Some games from the Wii or even the first XBOX my humble PC can't handle them haha.
Yeah, you need a powerful GPU for that to happen. And emulator developers keep fixing/updating their software so that certain games can finally be cracked and run smoothly.
I hope your wish becomes reality man. And believe me PC is much more useful overall.
Thank you. I hope you are getting your wish this Christmas too. 🙂
Hello my hive bee!
I pray that ASAP you get your graphics card. I AM A NOOB HERE ON HIVE BUT I am not a NOOB about computers. Whenever you make your decision to buy GPU graphics card you can ask for some suggestions here on hive.
Actually as you know better than me that there is so much variety of Graphics cards that sometimes it becomes difficult to decide which one to chose. May be some one here including me can help you about graphics card selection.
Take Care.
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