"Gaming" hardware

[Dilli]

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.

AMD is punting the new A8 for use in gaming PC's; consider it will apparently run most the MOBA and MOO games currently around (which is probably what the largest portion of the pc gaming market wants to get pc's for) they are probably right. Not too far off the R 2,000 "gaming" PC.

Except maybe for peripherals the use of the word "gaming" on hardware is just marketers making noise. Though it does usually signify that the marketers got to add various useless lights of some form on the hardware;

 

[malte]

AMD is punting the new A8 for use in gaming PC's; consider it will apparently run most the MOBA and MOO games currently around (which is probably what the largest portion of the pc gaming market wants to get pc's for) they are probably right. Not too far off the R 2,000 "gaming" PC.

Except maybe for peripherals the use of the word "gaming" on hardware is just marketers making noise. Though it does usually signify that the marketers got to add various useless lights of some form on the hardware;

lights are important, not sure where it was but there was a discussion about red led's for performance green for eco and blue for cooling etc

 

[Death the Kid]

lights are important, not sure where it was but there was a discussion about red led's for performance green for eco and blue for cooling etc

LED's are love, LED's are life.

 

[Mr-Day-Wing]

LED's are love, LED's are life.

Even cars need LED's

 

[malte]

here we go
http://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/2ojz1h/question_do_red_leds_or_blue_leds_make_your/

 

[Oj0]

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

edit:
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"

If you bought it to play older games then by all intents and purposes it is indeed a gaming laptop.

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 ?

An outdated sig. I'm at 4.4 GHz and the 780s made way for Titans.

Old

CPUs, Motherboard and GPU all discontinued...

It'll still pimp slap the hell out of your X99 setups, the only thing stopping me from going X99 is the 5960X would be a pretty large downgrade. I also rely quite heavily on FP64 performance, so Maxwell is rather rubbish for me.

Depends if your're running Windows Server on there or not

Windows 7.

AMD is punting the new A8 for use in gaming PC's; consider it will apparently run most the MOBA and MOO games currently around (which is probably what the largest portion of the pc gaming market wants to get pc's for) they are probably right. Not too far off the R 2,000 "gaming" PC.

Except maybe for peripherals the use of the word "gaming" on hardware is just marketers making noise. Though it does usually signify that the marketers got to add various useless lights of some form on the hardware;

Now that you've spent R 1,600 buying an APU you've got R 400 left for a motherboard, RAM, case, PSU, storage and possibly optical drive...

 

[malte]

If you bought it to play older games then by all intents and purposes it is indeed a gaming laptop.

i still think it's easiest to categorize it in low, mid range and high end hardware/computers
...and old computers

 

[Oj0]

[Sale] - Huntkey 550W Gaming PSU - R300 | Power Supplies

Item: Huntkey 550W Gaming PSU Age: Not sure Price: R300 Warranty: No Packaging: No Condition: Used Location: Paarl Reason: Not needed Shipping: Buyers cost and risk Collection: Yeah Link: The exact model PSU is wokring 100% BUT it does have coil whine during gaming, but only during gaming and...

carbonite.co.za

Cause I legit have zero clue what makes this a "gaming" PSU

 

[DeusExMachina]

I agree 100% @Oj0

The description and specifications of a "gaming PC" is subjective.

To better understand this concept... it seems many cannot, fear not, there is a "gaming console" for you.

That said, ads should not say "gaming PC" it means nothing to the buyer. Ads should have proper specifications/links, etc
I also see no problem with saying "gaming PC from 2008" if you have to advertise it as a "gaming PC"

 

[goldfritter]

[Sale] - Huntkey 550W Gaming PSU - R300 | Power Supplies

Item: Huntkey 550W Gaming PSU Age: Not sure Price: R300 Warranty: No Packaging: No Condition: Used Location: Paarl Reason: Not needed Shipping: Buyers cost and risk Collection: Yeah Link: The exact model PSU is wokring 100% BUT it does have coil whine during gaming, but only during gaming and...

carbonite.co.za

Cause I legit have zero clue what makes this a "gaming" PSU

Taking the piss. Even the manufacturer didn't bother to put "gaming" in the marketing material.

Also "HuntKey" is one of my favourite examples of poor choice of company name, because of the spoonerism (which is also a good reflection of their quality).

 

[Qui_Illustrati]

[Sale] - Huntkey 550W Gaming PSU - R300 | Power Supplies

Item: Huntkey 550W Gaming PSU Age: Not sure Price: R300 Warranty: No Packaging: No Condition: Used Location: Paarl Reason: Not needed Shipping: Buyers cost and risk Collection: Yeah Link: The exact model PSU is wokring 100% BUT it does have coil whine during gaming, but only during gaming and...

carbonite.co.za

Cause I legit have zero clue what makes this a "gaming" PSU

Also, if it has coil whine ONLY when gaming surely that's a sign of the PSU saying "Fukkit - I ain't no gaming PSU!" It's literally screaming in anguish in a high pitched frequency. Misleading - I reckon it's just a regular Microsoft Excel PSU.

 

[SCHUMI4EVER]

Gaming means one of 4 things:
1. Interchangeable with the word 'Enthusiast'
2. Capable of running recentish AAA titles at a somewhat decent clip, alternatively it needs to have been an absolute beast in a past life.
3. Featuring aesthetics only a gamer would care about.
4. Capable of running CPUs or GPUs beyond the office/integrated level.

Sure it's marketing nonsense but you can always boil it down to one of those 4 things.
I really don't see it as something one could be distraught about enough to make a whole thread for it.

Alternatively everything that isn't limited to being the bare minimum for web browsing and MS Office can be considered gaming....if one really wants to make an ass of themselves.