Professional software developer and all-around geek in Seattle.
Define “finished”. A lot of the games I enjoy are ones that don’t have an “ending”, like Crusader Kings or Civ.
In general though, I try to finish games I’m enjoying and quickly stop playing games I’m not enjoying so that I can move onto something else.
If I’m buying an AMD card, I buy PowerColor or Sapphire. If I’m buying an Nvidia card, I buy ASUS or MSI (quality isn’t as good as ASUS, but tends to be cheaper). No real reason for those picks other than preference and good experience over many years of using them. Just remember that it’s possible for any card to break regardless of brand so take reports with small sample sizes with a large grain of salt.
Ah yeah, I see them now. I don’t think they had been published when I responded earlier.
But yeesh, those benchmarks are pretty terrible for the price, at least if you’re looking for an apples-to-apples comparison without frame generation. Might as well save the 50 bucks and go with the 7600, since the average performance difference percentage is only in the single digits.
The 4060 isn’t out yet and hasn’t had independent benchmarks reported on yet, so I’m not sure how you can say how it compares to the 7600. Unless you meant the 4060 Ti? But that card costs $200 more than a 7600, so it’s not really comparable.
Star Control has a complicated IP situation and was never owned by Activision, anyway. You need to look to Stardock for future Star Control games. Do you mean StarCraft instead?