Much higher resolution and immeasurably better peripherals make the PC a much better platform than other inferior choices, IMHO...=)
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Much higher resolution and immeasurably better peripherals make the PC a much better platform than other inferior choices, IMHO...=)
GPU, A Very Powerful one will cost you 400$ Like AMD R9 290 Non X Model
this Beast will turn Even Celeron to a very fast machine
not many games use a lot of cpu
although i reccommend going better than celeron to make Full Use Of 290
God I need a new PC. Seems like ages since I last sat in front of one to play a decent game.
A gaming PC I would say is a PC designed and built specifically for playing games, so if you want to play lots of the newer games you will need good hardware.
Hence the reason they cost so much!!!!
As a programmer,
I would say a good performance balance between CPU, GPU and Data Storage is the most important
so make sure you have spent on each components evenly.
good amount of RAM and SSD will make the data flow seamlessly,
while GPU become more and more important in both simulation and rendering, a good CPU still need for distribute commands and all other calculations
Perfect balance PC . it does not matter the pc is AMD OR INTEL OR any other. you can play games as long as you have good mid to high end GPU and related balancing hardware
Making the most of your budget.
It also depends on the user I guess and what they consider important. Not everything needs to run at extreme settings, medium settings running at a high fps beats high settings chugging along at low framerates.
120hz+ defines pc gaming for me , if you can get cheap 2600k + 8 gig ram and 7950 gpu or better , will play most games at ease.
This. Buying a massively powerful GPU without the CPU, RAM etc (whilst also keeping in mind resolution, game you play and so on) to feed it is wasting moneyQuote:
Originally Posted by Nipun
Take a look at this thread: http://forums.hexus.net/pc-hardware-...formancce.html
It was pre-release but most of the specs are similar in power to the new consoles and will play all games at 1080 @ High @ 60fps... which is more than most of the next games games are managing.
The idea of defining a good PC is really dependent on how you would define the word good.
A few years ago I had a lot of time and only a little money for gaming, so good then was a Phenom II X4 965 with at 5770, then after coming in to some more money I was able to upgrade to a 6990 for my graphics.
RAM was also increased from 4gb to 8gb but to be honest I can't say I noticed a performance increase, however it was a special deal at the time and I sold my 4gb (2x2gb) memory kit on eBay for around the same price that I paid for my 8gb (2x4gb) kit, which is bizarre but I didn't complain.
Now I have more money and less time my current rig is running an i7 3770k, the same HD6990 (for the time being), a 250gb SSD, the same 8gb RAM, full specs are in my profile, but I think you get the general idea.
My first rig would be good enough for many people, my second reg is still not good enough for me, I want to improve my graphics card (note that it's I want and not need).
I have been thinking about this question today, having put in a GTX 780Ti into my rig over the last couple of days, now don't get me wrong it's a great card and I'm really happy with the rig, but I think the rig that I remember with the most fondness is the one I had about 10 years ago, and this was not a very high end rig, it was almost the most basic rig that was only capable of playing games seriously reduced settings but it was my third or fourth self built PC (I can't even remember the specs other than it was probably an MSI motherboard and AMD CPU). The more I thought about it today the more I realised what it was that made that rig a good gaming rig, and that was the games I was playing at the time. Stuff like Unreal Tournament, with my rig and two other rigs I'd built in the same house, myself and my two nephews would spend hours playing LAN matches together, it was awesome.
solid GFX card with a Sandy Bridge processor. :P
A good gaming pc will need a good balance with the value of the components. Your graphics card should be the most expensive part, but not so much so that it bottlenecks your processor and you get bad performance. 8 GB is all you really need in terms of memory, though some games may benefit from more.
Good cooling is also fairly important, as a PC used for gaming will be under load for most of the time. Cooling can be improved with things like aftermarket CPU coolers and higher quality case fans. If the system's cooling is not sufficient, things like thermal throttling with GPUs or CPUs can happen, where the temperature gets too high and the motherboard sets the components's speed lower, causing a negative impact on performance.
A gaming PC is almost exactly the same as a regular PC, it's just that gaming setups generally have more powerful components than regular desktop PCs as they are used for a more heavy workload.
The GPU should be the most expensive part of your build, that's what I go by.
The components need to be well balanced, getting a Titan and pairing it up with a Celeron is as pointless as getting an i7 Extreme with a GT730 or an R5 230 if you're expecting excellent gaming performance from either combination then you just won't get it.Quote:
Originally Posted by SkullyJR