About this site
Gear Geeks Gaming exists because most gaming gear advice is a ranked list of products somebody was sent for free, and because the interesting questions in this category have exact answers that nobody was bothering to work out.
The premise
A large part of competitive gaming gear is measurable. Sensitivity conversion is arithmetic on a published engine constant. Polling rate latency is half a report interval. Frame timing is a reciprocal. Pixels per degree is trigonometry. Where a question has an exact answer, this site works it out and shows the working.
The rest of the category is genuinely uncertain: how a shape feels in your hand, whether you prefer a control pad or a speed pad, whether an ultralight mouse suits you. For those we try to give you a framework and the reasoning behind it rather than a verdict, and we say when we are expressing a judgement rather than reporting a fact.
What this site refuses to do
- Publish "best of" lists that are really availability lists. If a product is not in our reference set, it is because it did not add information, not because it did not send us anything.
- Present opinions as measurements. Every figure on the site is labelled as derived, manufacturer-stated, or our own framework.
- Manufacture certainty. Where we do not know, we say so. Where a value is community-established rather than verified from a primary source, the page says that too.
- Chase a product cycle. A new mouse with the same shape and a higher sensor number is not news, and covering it as if it were is how gear coverage became advertising.
The pages that hold us to this
- Editorial standardsIndependence, sourcing rules, how figures are labelled and what triggers a correction.
- How we test and researchWhat we measure, what we take from manufacturers, and what we deliberately do not claim.
- CorrectionsEvery substantive correction, dated, on one public page.
- PrivacyWhat the site collects, which is very little, and what the calculators do with your inputs.
- ContactHow to reach us, and what we can and cannot help with.
Where to start
If you are new here, the three pages that best represent what the site is for are the sensitivity converter, the click-to-photon chain, and the upgrade order. Between them they cover the arithmetic, the systems thinking and the editorial position.
Every guide in About
- Editorial standardsHow Gear Geeks Gaming decides what to publish, how figures are sourced and labelled, our independence policy, and the conditions under which we issue a correction.Updated September 8, 2026
- How we test and researchWhat Gear Geeks Gaming measures directly, what it derives, what it takes from manufacturers, and the claims we deliberately do not make.Updated September 8, 2026
- CorrectionsEvery substantive correction made to Gear Geeks Gaming, dated, with what was wrong and what changed. Plus how to report an error you have found.Updated October 7, 2026
- PrivacyWhat Gear Geeks Gaming collects, what the calculators do with your inputs, what third parties are involved, and how to control it.Updated September 8, 2026
- ContactHow to reach Gear Geeks Gaming, what we can help with, and what we cannot.Updated September 8, 2026