5060 ti , zero issues, more than capable as Drac has said ! . Even though Nvidia recommends a 600 watt psu, the ti draws about 200 watts of power nominally, not counting for other draws on your psu, such as fans, the cpu , & power spikes due to things like gaming . Unless you running a tower with a boatload of rgb fans or the like, a 650 watt should be ok . Personally , I'd invest in a 750 watt psu . Better to have too much power than not enough . I have an evga 3080 ftw3 ultra (10gb of vram) . That card can draw , sometimes, over 400 watts by itself, & needs 3 8-pin pci cables just to function . An rx 6800 xt draws less, but has 16gb of vram . Ray tracing while definitely nice, is not a basic requirement , more of a "want" than a "need". Ray tracing means , in simple terms, a game was optimized with Nvidia cards in mind . An AMD card with enough ram is adequate as well, but, their ray traving abilities are not really there . AMD does have a ray tracing equilavent of sorts, but doesnt function quite as well, at least not yet . AMD cards are , how to put it, more for raw performance , without the bells & whistles of an rtx Nvidia with ray tracing abilities . Nothing wrong with an AMD . Ok, long winded post over, lol .

Happy birthday hagatha.

We're getting close to the finish with this week's Squiggle!!

They obviously wanted the option to check the peephole to make sure nobody could see them checking through the glass.

We have smoke here from the Canadian wild fires.

Thanks, BET 😬

Thanks Marian!

Test Flight 13 was scrubbed when 4 of its 33 Raptor engines on the booster failed to ignite forcing a shut down. SpaceX will destack the launch pad and return both booster and the ship back to production. They are having issues with these Raptors. Test flight 12 had issues with them.

Two views of ignition and shutdown:

Arial - scroll to 31 min

Ground - scroll to 1:59:00


SpaceX Raptor

Starship Live

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ADDED: SpaceX has set another launch date for test flight 13. July 20th at 6:45 pm EST - SpaceX

There is another Starship ready to go

Hi Remi ... good solve

Sounds like a more erudite/intellectual direction which I should perhaps explore: thank you!

Not on sale, but I see on Epic that there is a new Metro game coming.

Good to know, rtrooney. I have the CE version but haven't played it yet.

Merci.

And that's a wrap