I do. I travel a lot...so yes, I look at what the specs on my laptop is because it will be a gaming laptop.
Luckily, over the past year or two have had NO trouble with games myself, at least current games. My problems lie with Win8 and legacy games. I have had major problems getting some of the older games to run on Win8.
That's weird because my laptop running 8.1 runs older games perfectly. It's more likely a hardware issue than the OS.