If you’ve been to an electronics store in recent years, you know that there are tons of gaming peripherals that are up there in the high hundreds of dollars when it comes to price tags – the Logitech G19 gaming keyboard shown above runs a smooth $200 US retail, and the Razr Megalodon gaming headset can run you close to $130 US. Even Logitech’s shiny G9x gaming mouse is close to $100 US.

That being said though, the question remains – will they actually up your game? Will all the promises of more precise shots, tons more frags, better raids, and higher scores that come on all of the packages actually come true if you open your wallet? I, on behalf of Tom’s Hardware, set out to find out. I went from premium peripheral to premium peripheral from some of the top manufacturers, and then eventually wound up back to plain old OEM peripherals to see if I missed them, or if it really mattered to have them at all.

I tried each peripheral for close to a week, and went from premium keyboards to mice, to headsets to gamepads, and played some of my favorite and most familiar titles, like World of Warcraft, Call of Duty 4, Team Fortress 2, and more – my conclusions? Well – you’ll just have to head over and read my debut article at Tom’s Hardware to find out!

That’s right! This article is my first byline at Tom’s Hardware and was the result of several months’ work over some pretty hard times, so I’m proud of it. Check it out!

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