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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.