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 pcs and tested them head to head to find out
and we're going to tell you after these messages from tunnelbear 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
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 a gaming power supply
gaming aio cooler even our case fans are all gaming doubt
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 oh
no well this can't be right why why
all these numbers are within three percent of one another
whatever in the world could be happening i was promised a new era of body blows
and decisive moment mastery success
hmm 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 moniker 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 z370a in our non-gaming machine come with RGB
capabilities so some people like a nondescript box tucked under their desk
turning out damn frames while others prefer the other this one is clearly
subjective but we had to mention it bringing us to number three
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 two
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
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 the 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 outselling 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 what did we learn today
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