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a GTX 660 with 2 gigs of dedicated VRAM and that card has three fans. I mean it's massive. You put it in there into the PCI slot, it takes up two spaces on the back of the computer and you need separate power going to it and a bracket just to hold up the weight of the thing so you don't like snap your motherboard in half. So if you don't know what you're doing, you try to build one of these machines with like a dedicated GPU with three fans, a two slot card, I mean these things are heavy. And if you forget that bracket, you're going to crack your PCI slot right off your board as soon as you stand the tower up. And I mean the GTX 660 was a powerful card for its day like 12 years ago, 10 years ago, 12 years ago. But now, I mean it can't even run games anymore, not AAA games that's for sure. But when I want to play stuff like that, Steam Deck. Gosh, I don't know if you responded after. You mentioned that your wife was thinking about a Nintendo Switch. And I sent you the video of the retro layout on the Steam Deck, the way I have it set up. Now that doesn't come out of the box like that. You do set it up, configure it, drop your games, and download all that box art and those little mini videos that show you what each game plays like and stuff. But with a Nintendo Switch, it won't nearly run all of those older game consoles. It plays Switch games at like 720p. The Steam Deck will play them at 1080p no problem. You know, and obtain in games. It's like gray area, you know, borderline against the rules type of deal. But who follows tech rules man? Once code is out there, freedom of information for all is my motto. But I've got that thing running incredibly well, and that interface is just spectacular. I mean you pick your system, you pick your game, and boom you're off to the races. Your controllers automatically get configured. It's fantastic. So I'm just curious, have you decided on a Nintendo Switch? Which I wouldn't get if it was me. But Steam Deck, oh man. It's a powerhouse. It's got a custom AMD Ryzen chip in it, 16 gigs of unified memory. The base Steam Deck is 256 gigs of storage built in, but you can buy micro SD cards. They have to be fast ones. They have to be like V30 cards. But you can install all your AAA games on there. Steam has all the Switch games that are out, except like Mario's and Donkey Kong's. All the games that are out for the Switch, and the Switch 2, you can also buy for PC at much cheaper of a cost. So depending on what games you're looking to play, if it's Animal Crossing, Mario Kart, and like...