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Gigabyte’s ray tracing-ready RTX 3070 graphics card isn’t just available, it’s $130 off

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While the chip shortage has touched everything from appliances to cars, one segment of tech that’s seen the most challenges is graphics cards. The latest GPUs have been getting bought up and resold by price gougers since the beginning of the pandemic, but now, after signs began looking up in 2022, we’re getting the occasional deal.

Today sees the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3070 drop to $599.99 at Amazon and Best Buy. This is a $130 discount off its regular price of $729.99 and is the lowest we’ve seen thus far for this model. Now, that is still a little pricier than the base $499.99 Nvidia RTX 3070, but it’s common for manufacturers like Gigabyte to build off Nvidia’s reference design and enhance the specs — like this card’s Windforce triple-fan cooling system, higher clock speed, and extra HDMI port.

The 3070 line is perfect for 1440p gaming, and supports Nvidia’s DLSS upscaling and ray tracing for improved reflections. It’s also a bit more budget-friendly on both your wallet and your power supply, when compared to the 3080s of the world. Read our review.


Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3070 Gaming OC 8G (rev2.0) GPU 

Gigabyte’s RTX 3070 is a PCI-Express 4.0 video card sporting 8GB of graphics memory, DLSS, and ray tracing capabilities. This beefy GPU has two HDMI ports, two DisplayPorts, and even a touch of RGB lighting with an illuminated Gigabyte logo.

Over on the smart home front, Google’s latest Nest Mini smart speaker is down to $29.99 at a bunch of retailers, including Best Buy, Walmart, B&H Photo, and Adorama. Most have all colors on offer, so you can match the tiny puck-shaped speaker to your home aesthetic. While Google’s most affordable smart speaker has been around now for a few years, it’s still one of the easiest ways to implement Google Assistant controls into your smart home. You can easily give commands to other devices synced up with your Google Home app, or get some easy answers to requests like the weather and news. It’s far from the best sounding speaker, but it’s mountable to a wall and that does help its sound quality a bit. Read our review.


Google Nest Mini (second-gen)

The Nest Mini is Google’s smallest smart speaker, and it can bring Google Assistant to almost any area of your home. You can even mount it to your wall with no additional hardware.

The Ember Mug 2 makes for another nice quality of life improvement around the home, keeping your coffee or tea at the optimal temperature of your choosing for up to 80 minutes when it’s off its charging coaster. This may sound like an unnecessary indulgence, but if you hate not getting to enjoy your coffee before it’s gone cold, it may feel like a small blessing. Thankfully, the larger 14-ounce Ember Mug 2 in blue is $30 off at Best Buy, dropping its price from $149.95 to $119.95. Many Verge staffers are coffee fiends and swear by the handiness of these Ember mugs, but it’s best to pick one up when they go on sale from time to time.


Ember Mug 2 (14 ounces, blue)

The Ember Mug 2 is a temperature-controlled smart mug that keeps beverages hot for up to 80 minutes while on battery or all day when sitting on its plug-in coaster. The accompanying iOS and Android apps allow you to dial in a specific temperature, from 120 to 145 degrees Fahrenheit.

One of the most affordable and most colorful Xbox controllers is now even more affordable. The PowerA Enhanced Wired Controller is now just $24.66 at Amazon in the colorful seafoam green-blue. These controllers are already a great value at their full price of $37.99, even earning our pick as the best budget option in our Xbox controller buying guide, so knocking more than $13 off is even sweeter.

The only major drawback of this PowerA controller is that it still uses a Micro USB connection, which just feels outdated. But aside from that, this officially-licensed controller is comfy and even has two custom-mappable buttons on the rear as well as a rocker dial for wired headset volume. It’s a great value proposition if you don’t mind going the wired route for your Xbox console or Windows PC.


PowerA Enhanced Wired Controller (seafoam green-blue)

The PowerA Enhanced Wired Controller is a budget-minded wired controller for Xbox and PC that connects via Micro USB and features two customizable buttons on its rear. It’s offered in many different colors and licensed designs.

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