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Ever since manufacturers first discovered

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the keyword gaming,

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it feels like we've been on a bit of a slippery slope here.

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You see, at first gaming was used primarily

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to describe products endorsed by professional gamers

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or that had features that were somehow directly related

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to their gaming utility, like headsets

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with noise canceling microphones, for example.

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But then came gaming power supplies, gaming chairs,

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and gaming computer memory,

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none of which perform measurably better

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than their similarly priced non-gaming counterparts.

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So where does this path ultimately lead us?

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To here, today, in this moment,

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to the epitome of bull

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gaming marketing,

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the gaming micro SD card from HyperX.

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Let's begin with an entirely unironic read

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of the press release.

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The HyperX gaming micro SD card

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is an ideal storage solution for gamers

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who love downloadable content.

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Where are they finding these people?

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And downloadable games,

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but don't want to buy multiple cards

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and deal with long load times.

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This card features read speeds of 100 megabytes per second

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and write speeds of 80 megabytes per second

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and capacities up to 256 gaming bytes.

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So you'll get fast access to your games

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and you can download to your heart's content.

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HyperX's senior manager for console business said that,

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our goal was to bring reliable high capacity

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and plug and play storage to mobile gamers.

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And HyperX is excited to make that happen.

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Alrighty then.

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So as usual, there's not a word about exactly

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what makes these cards gaming.

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And the only performance claims are asterisked

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as per the tradition.

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So let's start then by exploring

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just how they came to those numbers.

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We hooked up the 256 gig version to a USB three port

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on our Z370 test bench via a Kingston card reader

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and ran CrystalDiskMark,

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which is what the HyperX rep told us

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that they used for their performance claims.

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Now our results fell well short

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of the 100 read 80 write claims

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coming in at 88.7 megs on sequential reads

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and 66.3 on writes.

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And then when we sanity checked these results

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with a sequential file transfer,

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we ended up with very similar results.

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Now the disclaimer does say the speed may vary

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due to host hardware, software and usage.

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So digging for the truth,

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we tested the card again in all four major platforms.

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As you can see, when paired with an X290,

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we actually came extremely close to the stated claims

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with X470 coming in at a close second.

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All right, fair enough then HyperX.

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Now we move on to our real world testing,

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mobile game loading time, excuse me,

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mobile game loading times, starting with Android.

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So we used a Razer gaming phone

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and PUBG mobile version 0.8.0 to determine how long it took

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from tapping the icon to reaching the login screen.

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And believe it or not,

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the gaming card actually managed to match

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our onboard storage on the phone,

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which I guess kind of makes sense

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given that it's got the fancy new A1 speed rating,

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which is a newfangled way of saying

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that it'll handle the random IO necessary to run apps

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better than traditional SD cards,

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which are rated only for sequential read and write speeds.

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Which I guess brings us perfectly to our next challenger,

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our non-gaming high capacity,

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512 gig card from Integral.

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This puppy is rated at 80 megabytes per second read speeds.

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So not that different, but it spat out a,

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this card is slow warning when we first formatted it.

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And on its first run,

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it got absolutely stomped by HyperX's gaming card.

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Gaming, sorry.

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So at this point,

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things were actually looking pretty darn good

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for the world's first gaming micro SD card.

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Or that was until we followed up the test

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with a couple more rounds of game launches

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and the issues with our Integral card disappeared,

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never to be seen again.

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So after that first launch anomaly,

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our gaming card is faster,

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but only by about 8% or three seconds

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to put that in real world terms.

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Okay, well, HyperX's marketing

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barely even mentions phones anyway.

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So let's move on to our next test device,

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the Nintendo Switch,

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running the Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild.

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And in a massive surprise to no one,

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just like with our smartphone testing,

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the results came in only marginally different

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with the Switch's onboard storage being the fastest,

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no solution achieving a drastic experience altering

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performance delta over any of the others.

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So what's left to say then?

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This is a perfectly good micro SD card

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with a lifetime warranty from a reputable company,

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that will probably still exist in the time

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that you'd actually want any warranty service on this.

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So we are not saying not to buy this thing.

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We're just saying that there's nothing about it

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that seems to be any more gaming

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than the socks and sandals that I'm wearing right now.

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And that the main takeaway today

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is that regardless of what SD card you choose,

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the experience is unlikely to be dramatically different.

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That is, unless you're the kind of person

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who gets off on,

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sitting next to people with cheaper SD cards on the bus

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and opening up the same programs as them,

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then gloating about your loading times

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for three glorious seconds

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before they are sitting in exactly the same staging area,

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waiting to get on exactly the same parachute bus.

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Speaking of gaming,

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Mastro is featuring some gaming peripherals.

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They've teamed up with Creative

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and are now selling their mouse

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and keyboard at 50% off the retail price.

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So we've got the Vanguard K08 keyboard,

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which uses Omron mechanical switches.

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It's got 109 customizable RGB keys.

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Those are gaming.

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And it includes dedicated macro keys.

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It's got one of those nice roller wheel volume controls

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and media keys and a removable wrist rest.

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Then we've got the Siege M04 mouse.

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It has seven fully programmable buttons.

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It's got a PWM 3360 IR LED gaming grade sensor,

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which actually, that does work.

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That does matter.

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Having a good mouse for gaming is important.

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And it runs anywhere from 200 to 12,000 DPI.

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