hardware/software section on forums
for support and reviews etc on new hardware/software
General Chat - General Help.
I dont think a seperate hardware/software forum would be very active. Maybe in the first two or three month, but after that, this would be dead.
eMTi is right, but the General Help -description could be changed so that people understand that it is the right section for posting such things as "polls" about a mouse vs. another mouse and comparing keyboards/screens etc.
The forum section for "hardware/sotware" would definitely fade out to a very inactive part after the "NEW FORUM SECTION!!!!!1!11!2"-buzz goes off.
I dont think a seperate hardware/software forum would be very active either. The "other games" forum didn't turn out that well. I'm think we're fine with the forums we have at the moment.