GAMING MOTHERBOARDS GRAPHICS CARDS FAST CPUs
GAMING MOTHERBOARDS, GRAPHICS CARDS AND FAST CPUs. Whether you are going to buy a factory built brand computer gaming system or build your own from scratch using carefully selected computer parts, these three things will make up the heart and soul of your system. Here are some important technical specs that every computer gamer should know that will make their gaming computers everything it should be and give you that gaming experience you deserve.
1. DEDICATED GRAPHICS CARD – Your dedicated graphics card should be the number one thing you are concerned about if you want the best gaming computer for your money. I don’t think anyone will argue with me that ATI or nVidia are the only real two choices. Depending on the model and all other things being equal relatively speaking, ATI is more affordable than nVidia, but nVidia will outperform ATI.
2. FAST GAMING CPU – Yes the processor is important. The best gaming CPU has a need for speed. Here, like in your graphics card, there are also really only two choices. Those choices would be either Intel or AMD. Once again, all things being equal, AMD will save the damage done to your wallet, but Intel will give you that extra bang for your buck
3. GAMING MOTHERBOARD – You’re going to need a compatible gaming motherboard. The key word here is compatible. Now if you buy your gaming computer already put together as a factory stock brand model this won’t be an issue, until of course you decide you want more and better and faster. The two parts to be most concerned with as far as compatibility goes is the motherboard and the CPU, but I would also include the dedicated graphics card so make it three parts. Today’s gaming motherboards have crossfire and 3-way SLI configuration and some can even handle more than one graphics card. Unlike the graphics card and CPU there are several manufacturers of excellent gaming motherboards. ASUS, Gigabyte, EVGA, XFX are just to name a few. There are five popular sockets in gaming motherboards, but again this all depends on your CPU and video card. Make certain all three are compatible.
4. COMPUTER MEMORY – You’ll need some quality fast RAM of at least 2GB. 4GB will be much better. Skimp on the RAM and all that money you put into your dedicated graphics card, CPU and gaming grade motherboard might as well have been flushed down the toilet. On the other hand, extra RAM on lower quality parts won’t do a damn thing for you. The RAM should be DDR2 with at least 800MHz. The RAM has to be compatible with the motherboard.
5. HARD DRIVE – Your hard disk will determine how much information you can store and how fast you can access that information. Information builds up fast, especially in games where you are collecting more of it. If you can afford it, a solid state drive (SSD) is probably the way to go, but they are much more expensive than your standard HDD’s and their data storage capacity is much much lower. Ideally you might want to go with a smaller more affordable SSD for your system drive and the largest HDD you can afford for your data drive. A 64 GB SSD and 1 TB HDD should run just fine.
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