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Excellent comment! Graphics card naming schemes are the worst of the lot. Without being an enthusiast and keeping up with benchmark reporting it's impossible to tell say, if an AMD RX560 is faster than an RX480. I mean 560 is a bigger number which means it's faster, right?


Having just done this recently, and still being fairly plugged in on what's hot vs. what's not, the worst part has been picking a motherboard. There is an infinity of different enthusiast/gaming motherboards, all of them almost, but not quite, functionally the same. And damned near every single one has an average 4 out of 5 star rating on newegg, so you have to spend eternity wading through reviews trying to decide whether or not motherboard makers are just bad or gamers are just fussy assholes (or both).




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