Bob Buskirk

The NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti 8GB is nothing new, we covered the launch back in June of 2023. It turned out to be a great card for 1080p gaming with the benefits of NVIDIA features like DLSS3 and RTX. Well ASUS has taken that card and made it a bit more interesting by adding an M.2 SSD slot on the card. I’m honestly surprised we haven’t seen this sooner as an M.2 SSD can take advantage of the extra PCIe lanes and this gives you the ability to add an additional SSD to your system quite easily. The card specifically is the ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti SSD OC Edition, which is based on the ASUS Dual design. The 2.5-slot card makes use of a dual-fan cooling solution and features a slight overclock of 2565 MHz for the GPU boost. Let’s take a look!

This week on the podcast we go over our review of the ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti SSD OC Edition Graphics Card which has an M.2 slot on it! We also discuss details on Intel’s upcoming Arrow Lake processors, disappointing AMD Zen 5 sales, new keyboard launches, and so much more!

Intel’s upcoming Core Ultra 200 series is expected to be released at the end of next month. With this new launch it appears that we will be getting a retail box redesign with new accent colors. Let’s start with the flagship model, the Core Ultra 9 285K. It looks like Intel is going with a black box this time we blue accents. On this model you are going to see grey plastic packaging on the inside, which will protect and hold the processor.

About This Mod / Build: To celebrate the launch of Final Fantasy XVI PC Edition, Chillblast and Square Enix have teamed up to produce a unique custom-built Special Edition PC. Modeled after The Warden of Ice – the Eikon ‘Shiva’ – this high performance PC is built to the exacting standards and attention to detail that you would expect from two masters of their art.

When you think of Fractal Design you probably think of their cases. Over the years we’ve reviewed a handful of their cases and have always been impressed. Earlier this year at CES, Fractal told us that they would be releasing a product in a category they’ve never been in before. While I had hoped it would be a NAS designed like

Nintendo’s highly anticipated Switch 2 mobile gaming console is expected to be announced before April of 2025. We’ve heard and have seen various leaks with different SoC’s mentioned that could power the console, but it seems like AMD has lost the bid for the console. The main reason for this is concerns over battery life.

It seems like each new generation of graphics cards requires more power and that is likely going to be the case with the upcoming NVIDIA RTX 5090. While NVIDIA has said that their “Blackwell” graphics architecture will bring with it architecture-level performance/watt improvements and the switch to the TSMC 4NP node will have node-level improvements the latest rumors suggest that the NVIDIA RTX 5090 could make use of two 16-pin power inputs.

This week on the podcast we go over our reviews of the Fractal Design Refine Gaming Chair and the Corsair iCUE LINK TITAN 360 RX RGB Liquid CPU Cooler. We also discuss details on the RTX 5090 possibly requiring two 16-pin connectors, Intel Core Ultra 200 new retail boxes, a new product from Logitech, Sony celebrating the PlayStation’s 30th anniversary, and much more!

SteelSeries, the original esports brand that fuses gaming and culture, today unveiled its latest innovation, the Apex Pro Gen 3 Series keyboards.

About This Mod / Build: This week for Case Mod Friday we have a very compact build done inside the Jonsbo N1 called “The Toaster”. This build, done by Billet Labs is quite impressive as they were able to pack in an RTX 4090, i9-14900K, and water-cool everything in this tiny 13L case!