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Meh, I feel like getting this off of my chest cause it's been annoying me for a while. What exactly is "gaming" hardware? It would imply that it is hardware made exclusively with gaming in mind.

  • A "gaming" CPU? It's just a standard CPU, there isn't a range dedicated to gaming unless you're looking at using integrated graphics.
  • A set of "gaming" RAM? People talking about "gaming" RAM are normally talking about fairly slow RAM with loose timings and a big heatspreader, remove that heatspreader and it's suddenly identical to every other set out there.
  • A "gaming" PSU? It's just a PSU with a high enough power output, a wide selection of power connectors and a decent efficiency. None of which specifically have gaming in mind.
  • A "gaming" motherboard? This one I can kind of let slide - a NIC which is designed to decrease latency when gaming does not a gaming board make, neither does having four PCI-E connectors or high quality onboard sound. The combo, however, is chosen with gaming in mind.
  • A "gaming" graphics card makes complete sense, while at the same time not. Would you consider a GeForce GT 730 to be a gaming card? I'm going to actually say yes! Which brings me to the last and MOST important point.
  • A "gaming" PC - that's any PC that is used for gaming. I don't care if it's a Celeron with 2 GB RAM and onboard graphics, if you use it mainly for gaming it IS a gaming PC. It might not be any good at playing any recent games, but if I buy it to play some Half Life 2 what exactly makes it NOT a gaming PC? It is a PC, it was bought to play games, I am playing games on it. It's a gaming PC.
If someone has a budget of R 2,000 for a "gaming" PC, don't laugh and say it's impossible. Find out what he wants to do with it, for all you know all he wants to do is play a bit of Max Payne 2 again.
 
This is very subjective as many would prescribe what they would consider a gaming pc. As you mentioned even a low cost celeron rig can be classified then as one can claim it was purely used for solitaire. I would be of the assumption that when a wanted thread posted for a gaming pc a clear indication of what type of games the person has in mind. Atleast this way he can gauge what's available and with a bit of help be steered in the right direction.

As for gaming pc sales that's upto the buyer to decide if his interested as to what will suit his needs, but yeah my opinion will always remain subjective on this.

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I think what makes people make snide remarks or negative comments on such wanted threads or sales is the assumption that everyone is an "expert" ,
beyond this though is just lack of respect or being intolerant of other people who might not necessarily be aware that they are erring on description of somethings, granted it is everyone's right to sell my stuff on my descriptions and my price.
I do agree with [MENTION=22979]abs1[/MENTION] that , a simple question like which games you plan to play helps a long way with providing advice, granted it might not always be welcome.
 
Oh I'm not just talking about adverts looking for hardware, I just used that as an example. I'm talking about the comments that I see all too often when someone is selling a Core 2 Quad with GeForce 9600 GT as a gaming PC. There are obvious exceptions, such as when they'll make a claim that said PC can play anything at maximum detail at 4K, but when no such claims are made there's no need for the snide remarks.
 
+1 to that ^

As for what can be construed as a "gaming pc", in my mind it's more about the looks than anything else. I like a gaming rig to physically reflect its use. Lighting, pointless heat spreaders, colour coded cables and whatnot just make you smile before you even hit the power button.

Gaming on a Dell optiplex + gpu just doesn't quite feel the same.

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+1 to that ^

As for what can be construed as a "gaming pc", in my mind it's more about the looks than anything else. I like a gaming rig to physically reflect its use. Lighting, pointless heat spreaders, colour coded cables and whatnot just make you smile before you even hit the power button.

Gaming on a Dell optiplex + gpu just doesn't quite feel the same.

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why? do you literally use the PC as a gaming component, so it has to look good?

that is where good looking peripherals come in

do you think some people mod their PCs because they plan to just game with them?

just good to see that others also accepted that "gaming PC" is relevant only to the person who used the PC (even though the REAL gamers on here probably don't like it with their SLI Titan X/980TI systems)
 
I have a Samsung note 4 gaming phone for sale. Will trade for normal note 4 plus cash from your side :cool:
 
I have a Samsung note 4 gaming phone for sale. Will trade for normal note 4 plus cash from your side :cool:

I have seen way too many ads like this!

"I have a i5 Gaming CPU I want to trade it for a normal i7 + cash from you."
 
I have seen way too many ads like this!

"I have a i5 Gaming CPU I want to trade it for a normal i7 + cash from you."
Almost every ad on Gumtree: gaming pc for sale, plays everything on full graphics.

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i agree with Oj0, there is no "gaming" RAM or "gaming" PSU etc.
i would rather categorize it in low, mid range and high end hardware than gaming, workstation or normal

question is : when does it become a gaming PC?

i would say it's a gaming PC if it's used/bought for gaming and if it's able to play the newest games
and with playing the newest games, it doesn't need to be on highest settings ... as long as you're able to play the games.

well that's how i see it
 
Almost every ad on Gumtree: gaming pc for sale, plays everything on full graphics.

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Till you ask for specs,and die from laughter when you recieve it.

Gaming is a term used by most sellers hoping to get maximum profit out of an uneducated buyer.i still get alot of questions from people that visit asking,is that a pentium 4? Lol how do i explain to this idiot what haswel or sandybridge etc is
 
Gaming pc with Gpu 6600le
plays all new games maxed out
sometimes i reply to these ads when im bored to to see the response.
 
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Wish you could leave comments on Gumtree ads.


Would get rough though lol.

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i agree with Oj0, there is no "gaming" RAM or "gaming" PSU etc.
i would rather categorize it in low, mid range and high end hardware than gaming, workstation or normal

question is : when does it become a gaming PC?

i would say it's a gaming PC if it's used/bought for gaming and if it's able to play the newest games
and with playing the newest games, it doesn't need to be on highest settings ... as long as you're able to play the games.

well that's how i see it

By that definition this PC is not a gaming PC?

Celeron 300A @ 504 MHz
192 MB PC-166 RAM
S3 Trio64V+ 1 MB 2D graphics card
2x Voodoo3 2000 12 MB 3D graphics cards in SLI
6.4 GB HDD + 80 GB HDD

So what is it? Judging by the SLI'd 3D cards I'd have thought it was built with gaming in mind.
 
By that definition this PC is not a gaming PC?

Celeron 300A @ 504 MHz
192 MB PC-166 RAM
S3 Trio64V+ 1 MB 2D graphics card
2x Voodoo3 2000 12 MB 3D graphics cards in SLI
6.4 GB HDD + 80 GB HDD

So what is it? Judging by the SLI'd 3D cards I'd have thought it was built with gaming in mind.

hehehe, he didn't mention "newest games" of what era though :p
 
By that definition this PC is not a gaming PC?

Celeron 300A @ 504 MHz
192 MB PC-166 RAM
S3 Trio64V+ 1 MB 2D graphics card
2x Voodoo3 2000 12 MB 3D graphics cards in SLI
6.4 GB HDD + 80 GB HDD

So what is it? Judging by the SLI'd 3D cards I'd have thought it was built with gaming in mind.

lets see, can you still buy any of that hardware new at a shop?
how old is that hardware?
that would fall under "very old gaming PC"
...or "retro PC" :p
at the time you could buy the stuff i guess it was able to play all the latest games then
 
By that definition this PC is not a gaming PC?

Celeron 300A @ 504 MHz
192 MB PC-166 RAM
S3 Trio64V+ 1 MB 2D graphics card
2x Voodoo3 2000 12 MB 3D graphics cards in SLI
6.4 GB HDD + 80 GB HDD

So what is it? Judging by the SLI'd 3D cards I'd have thought it was built with gaming in mind.

if this was 1999 I'd be Jizzing ma pants right about now.
 
hehehe, he didn't mention "newest games" of what era though :p

Touche ;)

lets see, can you still buy any of that hardware new at a shop?
how old is that hardware?
that would fall under "very old gaming PC"
...or "retro PC" :p
at the time you could buy the stuff i guess it was able to play all the latest games then

Nope, absolutely not.
I got all of it except the last 64 MB RAM and 80 GB HDD in 1998-2000.
"Very old gaming PC" or "retro gaming PC" - still a gaming PC.
When I got it there was nothing it couldn't do, it left Pentium 2s way behind and beat out the Pentium 3 450 MHz as well (we used the Quake 2 timedemo and SiSoft SANDRA as benchmarks back then, we weren't yet spoiled with the likes of 3DMark).

if this was 1999 I'd be Jizzing ma pants right about now.

It was mah baby, don't you be jizzing all over mah baby!
 
yes, it's still a gaming pc but the point is, at that time it was high end
it's not like you trying to label an intel celeron with 2gig RAM and on board graphics as a gaming pc

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but if you want to compare 15 years old hardware to new one, then even my intel atom netbook is a gaming laptop, since it can play all the games that you played on your Celeron 300A PC

no need to argue or complain about hardware getting labeled as "gaming hardware" :p
 
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How would one categorise this ?

2x Xeon X5690 6 Core CPUs @ 3.9 GHz || EVGA Classified SR-2 || 48 GB DDR3-1600 || 2x GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 780 || 1 TB Samsung SSD
8 TB Storage || Corsair Obsidian 800D || Be Quiet! Dark Power Pro 10 1200W || Creative Sound Blaster ZX Sound Card

Is this a gaming PC ? Specs seem a bit lacking no ? Is that 48GB of gaming RAM ?
 
How would one categorise this ?

2x Xeon X5690 6 Core CPUs @ 3.9 GHz || EVGA Classified SR-2 || 48 GB DDR3-1600 || 2x GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 780 || 1 TB Samsung SSD
8 TB Storage || Corsair Obsidian 800D || Be Quiet! Dark Power Pro 10 1200W || Creative Sound Blaster ZX Sound Card

Is this a gaming PC ? Specs seem a bit lacking no ? Is that 48GB of gaming RAM ?

All-round High End PC
 
The term gaming hardware or pc was made up for marketing purpose....to sell hardware more or less better than ref but not as extreme as enthusiast users i recon.
Wither or not your pc is a gaming pc is say thats up to you...
 
How would one categorise this ?

2x Xeon X5690 6 Core CPUs @ 3.9 GHz || EVGA Classified SR-2 || 48 GB DDR3-1600 || 2x GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 780 || 1 TB Samsung SSD
8 TB Storage || Corsair Obsidian 800D || Be Quiet! Dark Power Pro 10 1200W || Creative Sound Blaster ZX Sound Card

Is this a gaming PC ? Specs seem a bit lacking no ? Is that 48GB of gaming RAM ?

that's not a gaming PC, that's just sick :D
 
How would one categorise this ?

2x Xeon X5690 6 Core CPUs @ 3.9 GHz || EVGA Classified SR-2 || 48 GB DDR3-1600 || 2x GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 780 || 1 TB Samsung SSD
8 TB Storage || Corsair Obsidian 800D || Be Quiet! Dark Power Pro 10 1200W || Creative Sound Blaster ZX Sound Card

Is this a gaming PC ? Specs seem a bit lacking no ? Is that 48GB of gaming RAM ?

Old :p

CPUs, Motherboard and GPU all discontinued...
 
How would one categorise this ?

2x Xeon X5690 6 Core CPUs @ 3.9 GHz || EVGA Classified SR-2 || 48 GB DDR3-1600 || 2x GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 780 || 1 TB Samsung SSD
8 TB Storage || Corsair Obsidian 800D || Be Quiet! Dark Power Pro 10 1200W || Creative Sound Blaster ZX Sound Card

Is this a gaming PC ? Specs seem a bit lacking no ? Is that 48GB of gaming RAM ?

Depends if your're running Windows Server on there or not :cool:
 
Arrrg partserve only does msi laptops...
Gaming Components is all marketing gimmicks...like trimmed down versions of thier top tier workstation mobos or overclocking mobos vendors normally colour variant mobos....
MSI its clearly color marked...yellow M power series(Overclocking) v.s red(gaming)
Gigabyte...red g series(gaming) v.s orange soc series(overclocking)
 

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