 Ever since manufacturers first discovered the keyword gaming, it feels like we've been on a bit of a slippery slope here. You see, at first, gaming was used primarily to describe products endorsed by professional gamers or that had features that were somehow directly related to their gaming utility, like headsets with noise canceling microphones, for example. But then came gaming power supplies, gaming chairs, and gaming computer memory, none of which perform measurably better than their similarly priced non-gaming counterparts. So where does this path ultimately lead us? To here, today, in this moment, to the epitome of bullsh** gaming marketing, the gaming micro SD card from HyperX. Today's video is brought to you by Thermaltake. Thermaltake's gaming level 20 cases feature radiator mounting for water cooling, gaming focused aesthetics, and beautiful tempered glass panels. Check them out at the link below. Let's begin with an entirely unironic read of the press release. The HyperX gaming micro SD card is an ideal storage solution for gamers who love downloadable content. Where are they finding these people? And downloadable games, but don't want to buy multiple cards or deal with long load times. This card features read speeds of 100 megabytes per second and write speeds of 80 megabytes per second, and capacities up to 256 gaming bytes. So you'll get fast access to your games and you can download to your heart's content. HyperX's senior manager for console business said that, our goal was to bring reliable high capacity and plug and play storage to mobile gamers. And HyperX is excited to make that happen. All ready then? So as usual, there's not a word about exactly what makes these cards gaming. And the only performance claims are asterisked as per the tradition. So let's start then by exploring just how they came to those numbers. We hooked up the 256 gig version to a USB three port on our Z370 test bench via Kingston card reader and ran Crystal Discmark, which is what the HyperX rep told us that they used for their performance claims. Now our results fell well short of the 100 read 80 write claims coming in at 88.7 megs on sequential reads and 66.3 on writes. And then when we sanity checked these results with a sequential file transfer, we ended up with very similar results. Now the disclaimer does say the speed may vary due to host hardware, software and usage. So digging for the truth, we tested the card again in all four major platforms. As you can see, when paired with an X299 motherboard, we actually came extremely close to the stated claims with X470 coming in at a close second. All right, fair enough then HyperX. Now we move on to our real world testing, mobile game loading times, excuse me, mobile game loading times, starting with Android. So we used a Razer gaming phone and PUBG mobile version 0.8.0 to determine how long it took from tapping the icon to reaching the login screen. And believe it or not, the gaming card actually managed to match our onboard storage on the phone, which I guess kind of makes sense given that it's got the fancy new A1 speed rating, which is a newfangled way of saying that it'll handle the random IO necessary to run apps better than traditional SD cards, which are rated only for sequential read and write speeds, which I guess brings us perfectly to our next challenger, our non-gaming high capacity 512 gig card from Integral. This puppy is rated at 80 megabytes per second read speeds. So not that different, but it spat out a, this card is slow morning when we first formatted it. And on its first run, it got absolutely stomped by HyperX's gaming card, gaming, sorry. So at this point, things were actually looking pretty darn good for the world's first gaming micro SD card. Or that was until we followed up the test with a couple more rounds of game launches and the issues with our Integral card disappeared never to be seen again. So after that first launch anomaly, our gaming card is faster, but only by about 8% or three seconds to put that in real world terms. Okay, well HyperX's marketing barely even mentions phones anyway. So let's move on to our next test device, the Nintendo Switch running the Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild. And in a massive surprise to no one, just like with our smartphone testing, the results came in only marginally different with the Switch's onboard storage being the fastest, no solution achieving a drastic experience altering performance Delta over any of the others. So what's left to say then? This is a perfectly good micro SD card with a lifetime warranty from a reputable company that will probably still exist in the time that you'd actually want any warranty service on this. So we are not saying not to buy this thing. We're just saying that there's nothing about it that seems to be any more gaming than the socks and sandals that I'm wearing right now. And that the main takeaway today is that regardless of what SD card you choose, the experience is unlikely to be dramatically different. That is unless you're the kind of person who gets off on sitting next to people with cheaper SD cards on the bus and opening up the same programs as them then gloating about your loading times for three glorious seconds before they are sitting in exactly the same staging area waiting to get on exactly the same parachute bus. Speaking of gaming, Mastrop is featuring some gaming peripherals. They've teamed up with Creative and are now selling their mouse and keyboard at 50% off the retail price. So we've got the Vanguard K08 keyboard which uses on-run mechanical switches. It's got 109 customizable RGB keys, those are gaming, and it includes dedicated macro keys. It's got one of those nice roller wheel volume controls and media keys and a removable wrist rest. Then we've got the Siege MO4 mouse. It has seven fully programmable buttons. It's got a PWM3360 IR LED gaming grade sensor, which actually that does matter having a good mouse for gaming is important. And it runs anywhere from 200 to 12,000 DPI. So check out the links below to grab yourself a new mouse and a new keyboard for gaming. So thanks guys for watching. If you disliked this gaming video, you can hit that button. But if you liked it, hit like, get subscribed, or maybe consider checking out where to buy this gaming stuff we featured at the link in the video description. Also down there is our merch store, which has cool gaming shirts like this one and our community gaming forum, which you should totally join for gaming discussion. I say, I thought that joke was going to get old, but it never did.