The hardware we amass and place upon snap-in thrones on our motherboards in the name of gaming frame rates is absolutely incredible. Our graphics cards can turn over gazillions of teraFLOPS, our CPUs laugh in the face of 4K video codecs, and our motherboards can interface with any piece of storage media created since Cool Britannia. And since by default we use that hardware very staunchly for gaming, reading about gaming, and talking to people about the things we’ve read about gaming, it comes as quite an epiphany to realise they can do quite a lot more, and to a high level, too.
Due to their typically powerful CPUs