Is it just me or does it feel like gaming has been slapped on pretty much everything at this point
I mean we're talking from stuff that makes sense like mice and video cards all the way to
glasses or chairs
But does using "gaming" components actually make your PC better for gaming?
Well,
We built these two PC's and tested them head-to-head
To find out and we're going to tell you after these messages from TunnelBear
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So our methodology was pretty simple we started with a well balanced machine core i5-8400
16GB of RAM GTX 1070 M.2 NVME SSD
Etc then we replicated the exact same config as closely as possible
Except that to the best of our ability we replaced every
single component with a 'gaming' version of the same thing so if it didn't have something about
"Powering up your squad" or just "gaming" right in the product name it was out
It actually ended up being a lot easier than we thought so
We have not only easy ones like gaming graphics card and gaming motherboard, but also a gaming SSD
gaming power supply
Gaming a AIO cooler
Even our case fans are all gaming-ed out. I mean look at this look at this packaging
According to these blurbs from the manufacturers their hardware will "deliver upon us a new era of gaming"
"It will bring a real body blow to your opponents"
"Attack its weak point for massive damage"
and even enable one to
"Master the decisive moments and succeed in all attacks"
Wow, that sounds great. Let's fire up some synthetic tests to
[*Massive Gasp*]
No
well
This can't be right. What what all these numbers are within 3% of one another
whatever in the world could be happening
I was promised a new era of body blows and decisive moment mastery success
Maybe to have the amazing gaming experience advertised on the box. I have to play real games
No. 'No' again
This is consistent with what we got earlier on
Just what in the hell is going on here?! okay in all seriousness though
Let's talk about what happened here many of you probably saw this coming, but it turns out that
Slapping a gaming monicker on a product and adding some RGB and fancy styling does not make it
Magically perform noticeably better. The only things that affect the performance of a PC are its actual specs
the clock speeds of the given products inside it and
potentially cooling for example when we clocked our reference non-gaming
gtx 1070 graphics card to match the speeds of the gaming version the results equalized so why is everyone putting
'Gaming' in their product names? Well our first guess was that they wanted to charge suckers more for it
But while your mileage may vary depending on the particular models you choose and how much you're willing to drop on additional
'enhancement elements' like RGB lighting and custom power supply cables our
gaming machine ended up costing about the same as our vanilla one and
actually included some tangible benefits. First up, our
GPU came with a higher boost clock out of the box, which it was easily able to maintain
thanks to its enhanced cooling. Gaming class cards also tend to come with extras like multiple temperature sensors or
OC switches that make kicking them into a higher gear a one-click affair
Second yeah, we have to bring it up
Style. Our gaming machines looks
immediately tell us what she was built for some manufacturers like ASUS even enable you to sync your system and
Graphics card lighting via their software. With that said more and more these days even vanilla parts, like the
ASUS PRIME Z370‑A in our non-gaming machine, come with RGB capabilities so some people like a
Nondescript box tucked under their desk turning out "them" frames while others prefer the other this one is clearly subjective
But we had to mention it. Bringing us to number 3
gaming parts often come bundled with game codes or
Paraphernalia like do not enter. I'm gaming door hangers and gaming related stickers and
That's it. That's about all we came up with our 2 systems cost about the same
Perform about the same and their quality is about the same
So then why dump so much money into the development and marketing of these products if they
Perform the same - Like why does ROG even exist well?
Because even though the base level of these gaming branded products do actually cost about the same
What these brands do are a couple of things. Number one is they allow companies to create
Halo models that do sell for a lot more for the people out there who value bragging rights above
performance per dollar and then number two is that even for that regular stuff that doesn't make more money
as marketing strategies go it seems to be working really well
When we did our last audit of orders through our Amazon affiliate code
We actually found that even for a category like video cards
Which never used to have gaming in the name since I think the manufacturers figured it was implied
Gaming models were out selling their non gaming counterparts
significantly
So there you have it
Gaming
Doesn't make it faster, but it also doesn't necessarily make it slower, so I think the real takeaway here is
um..
Come to think of it
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