I have a bit of a mixed opinion on Selaco at this point. They went a bit over the top with the particle/fog/smoke effects. I had to turn them down. There's nothing more annoying than something blowing up creating a cloud between you and the enemies that you can't see through but they...
It's a shame because who knows if we will get another ME game. Supposedly there is one in pre-production but who the hell knows what EA will do, not like they have a good track record.
Definitely several bent pins on there. Again not saying it's your fault but they (b&h) probably has no techs on hand to fix so they just talk it up to a damaged product.
How is it not useful? Seems pretty apples to apples to me. Not every game supports those features, and some support frame gen while others don't. So this way they avoid the nvidia cherry picked slides they love to use.
I think it will be a departure from the norm from here on out if we have a game thread where someone isn't freaking out over DEI, or a female character's face being too fat, etc.
I've repaired many boards with bent pins and I agree with you. The amount of careless stuff I've seen (e.g. thermal compound on the pins) just tells me most of the time it's the initial installer. I've mentioned it before but another common one is people getting impatient and ripping the GPU...