Which cables are best for gaming, cat5 e or cat7? I have top tier internet connection. So im just looking for latency to the minimum
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Voting to close as cable recommendations for gaming have nothing to do with programming. This is unlikely to be ontopic on any SE site unfortunately. – Carcigenicate Sep 26 '17 at 15:22
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@Carcigenicate so, where should we post hardware questions? I have a question about a Lan card, and I also posted it here, and it got downvoted. I wanted to find a corresponding forum, but this one was the best variant for my problem. I am not arguing, I am asking for help. – Sergio Larin Aug 12 '18 at 01:37
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@SergeyLarin Super User, another site in the network, is for computer problems. Most sites here are for objective problems though, not suggestions. Reddit probably has a computer hardware subreddit for things like this. – Carcigenicate Aug 12 '18 at 02:21
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As long as the cable is working correctly it has zero impact* on whatever workload you put on it. Gigabit is as fine over Cat.5e as over Cat.6 or Cat.7 or Cat.8.
*Not true with absolute precision: Cat.7 has a velocity factor (VF) of .79, so with a 100 m cable run it would actually save you 90 nanoseconds in comparison to Cat.5e (VF .66) each direction - or 9 ns for a 10 m cable. You might well round that off to zero though.
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