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Gaming desktop

May 11, 2018 12:43AM PDT

Post was last edited on May 11, 2018 12:59 AM PDT

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Good price but poor gaming.
May 11, 2018 9:27AM PDT

You can research that 1030 GPU and fortnight. It runs but poorly. Shop the 1050 GPU instead.

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Example.
May 11, 2018 10:28AM PDT
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Gaming
May 11, 2018 10:25AM PDT

It will be a good starter system for gaming.

As you get deeper into gaming you will need to start upgrading stuff.

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Gaming Drive
May 11, 2018 11:10AM PDT

Hi, if the drive that is included in that PC is a gaming drive, it should be just fine. We always recommend using a drive that is optimized for the use it will have, in order to fulfill the their purpose, providing an excellent gaming experience.

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Re: gaming drive
May 11, 2018 12:25PM PDT

I see that Seagate calls their internal SSHD's a gaming drive. Unlikely that this PC has such, and - moreover - very unlikely that all games will be (that is: startup?) five times faster, since the SSD part (if it has a good algorithm) contains the most used files only.

Can you explain why an SSHD is optimised for gaming?

I think this post is just useless marketing.

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Yes. Seagate is marketing their drives again.
May 11, 2018 1:00PM PDT

Maybe a bit more aggressively than before.

Any word about the many failures I'm seeing?

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Have to agree.
May 11, 2018 1:39PM PDT

That post seems like a misleading marketing ploy. As Bob mentioned, we see many issues regarding Seagate drives.
Dafydd.