Gaming Gear Showdown, Simplicity vs. Hype

Slack3r78 writes "Gizmodo is running a feature putting the gaming marketing hype to the test and seeing whether it really makes your playing any more 1337. They match up the latest products from Razer and SteelSeries along with some five-year-old Logitech products and come to the conclusion that ... it doesn't seem to matter that much. It looks like maybe you can't buy your way into finally beating that annoying 13-year-old at your favorite FPS after all."

Re:It's not about the real effect.

[JaredOfEuropa]

Gotta be honest though. Having the 'leetest rig' just makes you top of a very small pile.

A pile of what, exactly?

It seems that "leet" mostly means a side window, big fans (preferably with a control panel in one of the drive bays), really weird SATA cables, and lots and lots of blue LEDs.

It is not the size of your joystick that matters

[Orion Blastar]

it is in how you use it.

Re:It's not about the real effect.

[evanbd]

Blue? You haven't gone to UV yet? I hear it's worth at least an extra 0.4FPS.

Re:It's not about the real effect.

[Hatta]

Pasty pencil necked geeks. If you've got to be in that pile, you really do want to be on the top.

Re:it was never about status or edge or hype

[Anonymous Coward]

Have you ever kissed a girl?

Re:You don't say?

[Slack3r78]

As stated at the end of TFA

You know that you've just implicitly admitted breaking one of Slashdot's oldest and most revered rules, right? ;)

Re:it was never about status or edge or hype

[CubeRootOf]

I'm prett sure you will be in the same state either way:

Hungry, tired, thirsty, and in need of a trip to the nearest bathroom... unless you have the 1337 catheter add-on for your gaming rig.

In that case, I guess you would be in better shape. Just hungry and tired, because you can always drink from the catheter.

and I bet you would even be able to spell catheter at

Re:You don't say?

[antifoidulus]

What is spending $150 on a Keyboard and $90 on a mouse when your talking about spending countless hours using them. Your getting a lot more bang for your buck then you would for darn near anything else you'd spend the money on.

I dunno, your mom is going to want you to EVENTUALLY kick in for food and use of basement.....

Re:Um

[erlenic]

I'm 41 and at most games I've play online, and they are many, I totally own the 13 year olds.

I'm sure your mother would be proud.

... as she yells down the basement stairs to tell you that it's time for dinner.

Re:It's not about the real effect.

[Gerzel]

UV is nothing.

My rig puts out high intensity GAMMA radiation, have it face into my roommate's rooms so they know what I have...haven't heard from them in a while though, and their rooms are starting to smell funny, but I'm not gonna walk across the stream or leave my rig.

Keeps my pizza warm tho.

Re:You don't say?

[Gilmoure]

Next you're going to say that Brilliant Pebbles [machinadynamica.com] don't reduce comb filter effects in the corners of your listening room.

Re:Stupidest Adware Ever

[crossmr]

Not just objective. Definitive as he puts it.
Everyone else will have an identical experience using the same hardware as him because he is Joe Everyman.