After all the controversy surrounding the lack of RTX in the Exxon and the inflated pricing of the RTX 2080, today is the day that many of you have been waiting for: the launch of the less expensive and more obtainable RTX 2070. But just because something is affordable doesn't mean you should buy it. Intrigued? Good, that's the point of this entire paragraph. It's called a hook, and this part is called a sponsor. GlassWire allows you to instantly see your current and past network activity, detect malware, and block badly behaving apps on your PC or Android device. Use offer code Linus and get 25% off at the link below. Music. The biggest headline feature of the 2070, somewhat ironically, is the one that it doesn't have. So, for the first time since Nvidia changed to their current naming scheme back in 2008, the 70 value enthusiast card doesn't do SLI. All that remains of the 1070's SLI functionality is this sad little cutout in the shroud that no longer serves any purpose whatsoever. Not that we've really pushed SLI as a sensible solution for years, so I guess Nvidia's slow march towards killing what used to be one of their highlight enthusiast features only really bothers me on a nostalgic level. Let's change gears now, then, to something that bothers me a little bit more objectively: pricing. With the enthusiast RTX cards, this honestly didn't bother me as much because the 80 series has traditionally targeted the affluent gamer who cares less about price and more about raw power. But the reference RTX 2070 is priced at 500 US dollars, with the overclocked founders edition priced at 600 US dollars. That puts these new 2070 cards not directly up against the previous 1070, but rather the GTX 1080 from...