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in july of 2016 Nvidia released possibly their most important GTX card, the GTX 1060, this card for years was popular amongst budget gamers, offering great performance in games at a much more palatable price than the GTX 1080 or the GTX 1070, Nvidia's GTX 1060 for years after its released remained the most popular graphics card according to steam's hardware survey, even as of today over 9% of steam users still use the GTX 1060, despite Nvidia trying to recreate their breakthrough, because to be quite frank, the budget market is the most important, in the top 10 steam graphics cards, not one xx80 card is visible, the most expensive card in the top 10 is the 2070 super, which still only holds 2% of steam's userbase nvidia tried (and failed) with the 2060, a card offering RTX support, but the only RTX specific features it could handle on decent settings was RTX voice and Nvidia broadcast, the 1660 (and 1660 super/ti) at MSRP the 1660 cards are complete rip-offs, even before cr...

Firstly I want to preface by stating that I don't have the card on hand right now, i will be posting both a first impressions and a review once I get the card on hand, i'm mostly going to be talking about the journey it has been to even secure the card.  My troubles with GPUs started wayy before nvidia's new ampere cards were "a thing" in early 2020 i was depending on a friend's 1060 3GB and while it was fine it was severely bottlenecking my system with most games requiring 4GB of vram to run on anything more than low texture quality, initially i had my sights set on a 2070 super as thats what my friends had, but since everyone else decided to build PCs the price of 20xx cards increased, by the time i had enough money all i could afford was an open box 1660, the MSI gaming X 1660 to be exact, as talks of new cards started happening i decided to try and get a 2070 again seeing as under normal circumstances the prices of soon-to-be outdated cards would drop sign...

  If you've been in the loop with VR or more specifically the quest 2, or if you've owned a quest 2 yourself then you are probably aware of one of its biggest flaws, in my first impressions with the device I showcase how you can DIY a better headstrap with a pair of headphones, however that gets a bit cumbersome and doesn't keep the headstrap from getting dirty, recently i opted for the quest 2 elite strap and I have mixed feelings with it. The Pros the HMD is definitely allot more comfortable now for long periods of time and sits well on my face, there is allot more adjustability and the elite strap is less prone to getting dirty The Cons the elite strap can cause the facial interface to leave an imprint after long periods of time and sweat builds up allot more Conclusion the elite strap is definitely worth it although I would recommend purchasing it alongside a new interface by the likes of VRCover and such

Debug Focus is a website I made because I a lot  of random tech and impulse purchases and often have very strong opinions on them, however I don't always want to flood my youtube channels with reviews of everything that comes through my door, or sometimes I want to go more in-depth with a product without making a 30 minute long video that will cause viewer retention to drop, whatever the case, I have this site now! Contacts To provide general feedback you can comment on the applicable post - currently this blog supports anonymous commenting however this may be disabled at a later date. For Photography related enquiries such as partnerships, reviews, clients, media requests etc. please email photo@debugfocus.com For Virtual-Reality, other Tech related products and all other enquiries please reach out to blog@debugfocus.com The Categories This site features a few categories to filter posts by, on both mobile and computer it can be seen under the menu bar and categories drop down...

  My First contact with VR was when I was with my best friend at a comic convention in my local city all the way back in 2016 I was like 12 or 13 back then and i'm fairly sure the "VR" I experienced was just simple phone VR. But nevertheless it was enough to get me hooked, 2016, and 2017 was spent binging Jacksepticeye and various other early VR adopters, I wanted VR however it was always just out of reach, you see at an MSRP of $600USD for the Oculus Rift CV 1 (and an eye watering $800 for the HTC Vive, the headset i wanted at-the-time) it was out of reach for some kid in rural Australia, even if i got my hands on the adequate funds, you would have needed close to $1500 to build a competent VR ready (and recording ready cos i was a dumb kid with ambitions) bringing the minimum total to over $2000, and for what? Job Simulator? however that didn't stop me fantasizing over owning one of these amazing contraptions and just wishing  that they came down in price or became ...

  Apple have a track record for being typically pricy and out of range for any budget conscious consumer with their cheapest new phone still costing at least $400, and their cheapest new computer still being over a thousand dollars, so with all that in mind is it possible to get into the apple ecosystem for under $700? For starters I wanna preface this by saying that the items selected are, in my opinion the best cheap ecosystem, this list does not include an iPad as a tablet doesn’t really fit my day-to-day life and anywhere I would use an iPad a laptop would still be preferred For the phone which acts as like the gateway to the apple ecosystem I went with the iPhone 8 as it was $250, I could have opted for the SE for $400 but in my country the SE is price hiked to just over $500 equivalent, however the iPhone 8 is still about 75% of the SE at 50% of the price, it runs the latest iOS, looks identical and isn’t that much slower, you’ll be getting at least a couple years of softwa...

The taotronics sound surge 90s position themselves as a budget alternative to common active noise cancelling headphones, priced at an attractive $90 aud they are only a fraction of the price of the Sony and Bose counterparts making them appear as a good alternative for the budget conscious consumer, however one doesn’t just make an identical set of headphones for a fraction of the competitors cost, there are some cut corners as with any piece of budget tech, namely the ear cups are too small, im 17, by no means am I full grown and the ear cups whilst they do fit, quite comfortably actually, its up to debate whether they will get a good fit on larger ears, this could be me used to my razor krakens’ circular ear cups where as these feature a more oval’d shape, another design oversight is the media controls, they call it a multi function button, but I call it pretty much useless, the single click pauses, press and hold turns the headset off, fair enough, however double clicking calls your...