It's certainly better than what is currently there, but it's still total garbage, and as you noted, waaaaaaaay too busy.
To open the menu, you normally click the start button. Why the f**** would you put all of the programs and recommended garbage that you don't want CLOSER to the mouse than the PINS WHICH BY DEFINITION ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS?
What is even crazier is it took them 4+ years to do something that still isn't as good as a single one of Windows' predecessors. I can only start to imagine how much money they spent on something a child could have done a better job of in an hour.
I actually don't game at all, although I have toyed with getting a VR headset with this kind of computing power. I'm actually intending to use it for CAD design work and video editing. Things like 2D Photoshop, and 3D in Solidworks. The reviews I've read seem to show the 5070 Ti to be the faster card for this kind of work. Ray Tracing can be around 25% faster with the 5070 Ti, and on Blender's benchmark it's more than double the speed of the AMD (7591 vs. 3109 points). https://opendata.blender.org/b....0&group_by=device_name
I also plan to rip off the air cooler and get a liquid cooling block, so waiting gives the added bonus of allowing time for those to become available. My decommissioned rig was also water cooled, and efficiency goes a long way not just in performance, but also keeping the room comfortable in the summer months.
I don't think the 9070 XT is a bad card. But I think it's overpriced for what it is. If it were $200 cheaper or more, I'd get one. But for $100 or less in savings, I'll take the NVidia.
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