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is it just me or does it feel like gaming has been slapped on pretty much

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everything at this point i mean we're talking from stuff that makes

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sense like mice and video cards all the way to glasses or chairs

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but does using gaming components actually

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make your pc better for gaming well

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we built these two pcs and tested them head to head to find out

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and we're going to tell you after these messages from tunnelbear tunnelbear

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content try tunnelbear for free at tunnelbear.com

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LTT

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so our methodology was pretty simple we started with a well-balanced machine

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core i5 8400 16gb of RAM gtx 1070 m.2

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SSD etc then we replicated the exact

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same config as closely as possible

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except that to the best of our ability we replaced every

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single component with a gaming version

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of the same thing so if it didn't have something about powering up your squad

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or just gaming right in the product name it was out it actually ended up being a

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lot easier than we thought so we have not only easy ones like gaming

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graphics card and gaming motherboard but also a gaming SSD a gaming power supply

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gaming aio cooler even our case fans are all gaming doubt

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i mean look at this look at this packaging according to these blurbs from the

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manufacturers their hardware will deliver upon us a new era of gaming it

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will bring a real body blow to your opponents

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attack its weak point for massive damage

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and even enable one to master the decisive moments and succeed in all

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attacks wow that sounds great

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let's fire up some synthetic tests to oh

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no well this can't be right why why

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all these numbers are within three percent of one another

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whatever in the world could be happening i was promised a new era of body blows

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and decisive moment mastery success

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hmm maybe to have the amazing gaming

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experience advertised on the box i have to play real games

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no no again this is consistent with what we got

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earlier on just what in the hell

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is going on here okay

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in all seriousness though let's talk about what happened here many of you

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probably saw this coming but it turns out that slapping a gaming moniker on a

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product and adding some RGB and fancy styling does not make it magically

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perform noticeably better the only things that affect the performance of a

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pc are its actual specs the clock speeds of the given products

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inside it and potentially cooling

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for example when we clocked our reference non-gaming gtx 1070 graphics

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card to match the speeds of the gaming version the results equalized so why is

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everyone putting gaming in their product names well our first guess was that they

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wanted to charge suckers more for it

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but while your mileage may vary depending on the particular models you choose and how

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much you're willing to drop on additional enhancement elements like RGB lighting

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and custom power supply cables our gaming machine ended up costing

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about the same as our vanilla one and

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actually included some tangible benefits

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first up our GPU came with a higher boost clock out of the box which it was

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easily able to maintain thanks to its enhanced cooling gaming class cards also

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tend to come with extras like multiple temperature sensors or oc switches that

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make kicking them into a higher gear a one-click affair

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second yeah we have to bring it up style our gaming machines looks

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immediately tell us what she was built

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for some manufacturers like ASUS even

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enable you to sync your system and graphics card lighting via their

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software with that said more and more these days even vanilla

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parts like the ASUS prime z370a in our non-gaming machine come with RGB

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capabilities so some people like a nondescript box tucked under their desk

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turning out damn frames while others prefer the other this one is clearly

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subjective but we had to mention it bringing us to number three

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gaming parts often come bundled with game codes or paraphernalia like do not

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enter i'm gaming door hangers and gaming related stickers

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and that's it that's about all we came up with our two

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systems cost about the same perform about the same and their quality is

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about the same so then why dump so much money into the

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development and marketing of these products if they perform the same

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why does rog even exist

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well because even though the base level

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of these gaming branded products do actually cost about the same

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what these brands do are a couple of things

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number one is they allow companies to create halo models that do sell for a

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lot more for the people out there who value bragging rights above performance

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per dollar and the number two is that even for that regular stuff that

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doesn't make more money as marketing strategies go it seems to be working

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really well when we did our last audit of orders through our amazon affiliate

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code we actually found that even for a category like video cards which never

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used to have gaming in the name since i think the manufacturers figured it was

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implied gaming models were outselling their

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non-gaming counterparts significantly

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so there you have it gaming doesn't make it faster

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but it also doesn't necessarily make it slower so

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i think the real takeaway here is um

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