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Bethesda and AMD announce limited edition Starfield GPU and CPU at QuakeconBut you can’t buy them
But you can’t buy them
Image credit:AMD / Bethesda
Image credit:AMD / Bethesda
AMD and Bethesda have unveiled a limited-editionStarfield-themed Radeon RX 7900 XTX GPU and Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU at Quakecon 2023. Both are decorated according to the forthcoming open world space-me-do’s “NASApunk” aesthetic, a blend of cool whites, blues and yellows which I will admit to finding rather attractive, as somebody who generally finds gaming hardware aesthetics an absolute turn-off. It’s certainly better-looking thanNvidia’s lurid Cyberpunk 2077 GPUfrom 2020, but if you’re similarly beguiled, there’s an unfortunate catch: only 500 of these GPU/CPU sets are being made, and they’re exclusively available as part ofa Quakecon giveaway.So what’s going on beneath that lustrous lunar coating and aura of cosmic adventure? Here’s our James’sRX 7900 XTX review: he summarised it as “the best of the current GPU generation, should you want a 4K card at a price that doesn’t quite feel like a personal insult.“That’s going back to December 2022, mind you: pestered for an update, James opined that “since that review I’d probably go for theNvidia RTX 4070 Tiinstead, if I wanted a 4Kgraphics cardthat was cheaper than the RTX 4080”. He adds that the CPU has just had a price drop - as of yesterday, you can get the standard 78000X3D bundled with a copy ofStarfieldand a set of Gunnar glasses for£380.Introducing the Limited-Edition Starfield AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and Ryzen 7 7800X3DWatch on YouTubeI’m going to take this opportunity to pre-screen an article I’d like to write at some point: why does so much gaming hardware have toLookLikeThat? Specifically, why does every desktop chassis have to look like a sleeping cyborg predator? My current gaming PC is relatively bare and unthreatening, but it still has a glowing cleft down the front which vaguely resembles the mouth of some cross-dimensional invader. The Starfieldy CPU/GPU above at least looks like it’s not going to take a chunk out of my leg.
AMD and Bethesda have unveiled a limited-editionStarfield-themed Radeon RX 7900 XTX GPU and Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU at Quakecon 2023. Both are decorated according to the forthcoming open world space-me-do’s “NASApunk” aesthetic, a blend of cool whites, blues and yellows which I will admit to finding rather attractive, as somebody who generally finds gaming hardware aesthetics an absolute turn-off. It’s certainly better-looking thanNvidia’s lurid Cyberpunk 2077 GPUfrom 2020, but if you’re similarly beguiled, there’s an unfortunate catch: only 500 of these GPU/CPU sets are being made, and they’re exclusively available as part ofa Quakecon giveaway.So what’s going on beneath that lustrous lunar coating and aura of cosmic adventure? Here’s our James’sRX 7900 XTX review: he summarised it as “the best of the current GPU generation, should you want a 4K card at a price that doesn’t quite feel like a personal insult.“That’s going back to December 2022, mind you: pestered for an update, James opined that “since that review I’d probably go for theNvidia RTX 4070 Tiinstead, if I wanted a 4Kgraphics cardthat was cheaper than the RTX 4080”. He adds that the CPU has just had a price drop - as of yesterday, you can get the standard 78000X3D bundled with a copy ofStarfieldand a set of Gunnar glasses for£380.Introducing the Limited-Edition Starfield AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and Ryzen 7 7800X3DWatch on YouTubeI’m going to take this opportunity to pre-screen an article I’d like to write at some point: why does so much gaming hardware have toLookLikeThat? Specifically, why does every desktop chassis have to look like a sleeping cyborg predator? My current gaming PC is relatively bare and unthreatening, but it still has a glowing cleft down the front which vaguely resembles the mouth of some cross-dimensional invader. The Starfieldy CPU/GPU above at least looks like it’s not going to take a chunk out of my leg.
AMD and Bethesda have unveiled a limited-editionStarfield-themed Radeon RX 7900 XTX GPU and Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU at Quakecon 2023. Both are decorated according to the forthcoming open world space-me-do’s “NASApunk” aesthetic, a blend of cool whites, blues and yellows which I will admit to finding rather attractive, as somebody who generally finds gaming hardware aesthetics an absolute turn-off. It’s certainly better-looking thanNvidia’s lurid Cyberpunk 2077 GPUfrom 2020, but if you’re similarly beguiled, there’s an unfortunate catch: only 500 of these GPU/CPU sets are being made, and they’re exclusively available as part ofa Quakecon giveaway.
So what’s going on beneath that lustrous lunar coating and aura of cosmic adventure? Here’s our James’sRX 7900 XTX review: he summarised it as “the best of the current GPU generation, should you want a 4K card at a price that doesn’t quite feel like a personal insult.”
That’s going back to December 2022, mind you: pestered for an update, James opined that “since that review I’d probably go for theNvidia RTX 4070 Tiinstead, if I wanted a 4Kgraphics cardthat was cheaper than the RTX 4080”. He adds that the CPU has just had a price drop - as of yesterday, you can get the standard 78000X3D bundled with a copy ofStarfieldand a set of Gunnar glasses for£380.
Introducing the Limited-Edition Starfield AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and Ryzen 7 7800X3DWatch on YouTube
Introducing the Limited-Edition Starfield AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and Ryzen 7 7800X3D
I’m going to take this opportunity to pre-screen an article I’d like to write at some point: why does so much gaming hardware have toLookLikeThat? Specifically, why does every desktop chassis have to look like a sleeping cyborg predator? My current gaming PC is relatively bare and unthreatening, but it still has a glowing cleft down the front which vaguely resembles the mouth of some cross-dimensional invader. The Starfieldy CPU/GPU above at least looks like it’s not going to take a chunk out of my leg.
