Need Help Building Gaming PC?
I want to build a Gaming PC and have 0 experience, So I need your help. My setup will be: Mother Board: MSI Performance Gaming Intel X299 LGA 2066 Processor: Intel Core i7-7820X RAM: 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4 3200 Graphic Card: GeForce GTX 1080 Ti CPU Cooler: Corsair H115i PRO RGB Hard Drive: WD Black 2TB x2 SSD: Samsung 960 PRO Power: CORSAIR RM850x ... Will this setup work and will it be able to play New AAA and Upcoming games?
Noob to PC building, need help on picking parts?
Yo, I want a PC that can run pretty much anything, and can stream anything. My current build: GPU: GTX 950 CPU: AMD FX(tm)-6300 Six-Core Processor Motherboard: MSI 760GM-P34 (FX) AM3+ AMD 760G + SB710 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard Power Supply: EVGA - 500W ---------------------------------------... I got this PC prebuilt and just upgraded the GPU and power supply over time. It gets really hot when I play games and also sometimes shuts completely off out of nowhere. I am looking to finally get a new PC or maybe upgrade this one. Here is a PC I put together on pcpartpicker: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/mX6Fhq Is there anything wrong with it? Should I try saving up for these parts? Or should I just upgrade my current PC. Any advice would be appreciated.
I'm going to build my own gaming PC, and I need advice. Can somebody fully explain the parts of a computer and its terms?
I think of the computer parts like this:Platform, this includes the motherboard, cpu and minimum amount of ram. The platform is the part of the computer that you will keep the longest, think 4-5 years minimum. The ram is upgradeable, so you can skimp on it, starting with one 8gb stick is just fine.Storage, I consider 250gb ssd the minimum for all but the cheapest computers. 1-2TB hdd on top of that. Storage is easily upgradeable, so you don't aim for futureproofing here. Also you can move storage between computers.Graphics system, includes the graphics card and the monitor. You size the graphics card according to the monitor resolution and refresh rate. This is also upgradeable easily, so even if you skimp on it you will be fine. This is also where you will get the most benefit as a gamer.Support, This includes the case, coolers and power supply, you size these based on the things you choose previously. You add a 25% buffer to the power supply. So if your pc comes up at 400W, then 500W power supply is the minimum you can get.
Is my PC overkill for gaming? Did I really need to spend $3,500 for a pc?
Overkill - yes. Did you need to spend $3500? No. CPU - an i7 isn't strictly necessary for gaming, but many gaming systems have one anyways. RAM - 8GB is plenty for gaming, and 16GB is considered high end. Above that isn't going to matter. HDD - First, why not a SSD for better performance? Granted, SSD's aren't as big, but you really don't need excessive space. You can always redownload and reinstall your games. And even a 2TB SSD would easily hold 50-100 games (or more). I'm also confused why you spent so much on your computer, but bought the cheapest monitor you could find. Of all the things that make up your computer, you're going to staring at the monitor the most. So why didn't you go for a 28-30" 1440p or better? Or even a pair of monitors, or even one of those extra-wide wrap around monitors? It's not all for naught though. Although you did buy high-end peripherals (keyboard, mouse, mic...) at least those should last you a long time, so you shouldn't have to buy new ones when you eventually buy a new computer.
What would be the better choice a 240gb SSD or a 1tb hard drive for a gaming PC?
Understand that when Window “runs out of RAM” it will move pages of RAM out to the hard drive, then back again into actual RAM when the associated process gets its slice of processor time. This can and will occur dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of times per second, depending on a number of factors. You can observe this occurring by monitoring “page faults per second” in system monitor.Mainly, page swapping and page faults are a function the amount of system RAM, but available RAM is also a function of not only “how much” but “how much is the system consuming for video, in the case of a laptop,” and other system allocations?”The problem is that folks glibly stating “I think 8GB of RAM is enough” aren’t considering the specific peculiarities of specific computers. For instance, most folks don’t know what page faults are or why they occur, whether a laptop has dedicated video RAM or shares system RAM, or take into consideration the slower speeds of laptop HDDs, relying instead on Microsoft minimum requirements for their answer. Microsoft specs are minimum, emphasis on minimum. Not to mention that not knowing the speed of the RAM is in itself a potential issue.Aside from all the realities of SSD booting faster and starting programs faster, quite possibly their biggest advantage is that they make page swapping about 10–25 time faster than a HDD, and considering that laptop HDDs generally spin at 5,400 RPM rather than the 7,200 or 10,000 RPM it should be easy to understand why laptops are different from desktops.Personally, and it’s just a personal opinion, I’d recommend a 500 GB SSD and 16 GB RAM in any system, as a practical minimum. You really don’t want to build or buy a system that’s already “brain-damaged” out of the chute.I might have added that the role of page swapping and page faults are virtual unknowns for most folks, and thus ignored or assumed to be a non-issue. In laptops with HDDs they are in fact the single critical issue in determining why a laptop has “slowed” over time. Installed and running program growth puts greater and greater demands for system RAM, and the system response is to increase page swapping.
Can I successfully install PC games in a portable hard drive and play them from this hard drive?
I do this with Steam all the time. In fact, with Steam, this makes your games exceptionally easy to move to another computer. Just run up Steam, point to the library on your portable and off you go.For other titles, ones that are installed in a more traditional way, you can still do this, but if you move your drive to another machine you probably won’t be able to run those games.Note the one clear exception to this that I’m aware of is Blizzard. They write their PC games to be registry independent, so all you need to do is navigate to the folder for the game and run the Blizzard launcher. The rest will take care of itself.As to performance. I don’t know the specs on your Toshiba drive, but if it’s in the Canvio series, then it’s a 5400 RPM unit. That means your games will probably launch more slowly and content loads from the disk will take longer. However, whether this matters will depend largely on the game. Smaller, lighter weight titles, won’t suffer much at all. Bigger games with heavy content loads will take much longer to get up and running.My solution was to buy an enclosure and a large capacity 7200 RPM drive and assemble my own external drive.
What should I use as storage for my new gaming PC?
240 SSD + 1TB HDDInstall OS and a few cherry picked games that require high performance and/or fast loading times onto the SSD.Create a programs folder for the rest of your games and any programs that don’t need to load quickly on the regular 1TB HDD.Also, move your “my documents, pictures, music, downloads, etc” folders onto the 1TB HDD. (this is very easily done, open file explorer and find the folders, right click and select properties. under location select move and than the other drive). By moving all of your bulk folders to the HDD you will free up space on the SSD for more games.Curate very carefully what you want to install on the SSD and everything else should be on the HDD.I currently have a similar setup though my documents and downloads folders are actually on a third drive that I happened to have laying around when I was putting this system together. But my main drive is a 240GB SSD with my OS and a few competitive games on it while my larger 1 TB HDD has the bulk of my single player games and other programs that don’t benefit as much from the SSD loading times.Even my next build will use the same concept just with larger drives, a primary SSD for the OS and some games and a larger data drive HDD for everything else:Core i7-7700K 4.2GHz Quad-Core, GeForce GTX 1080 8GB, Vengeance C70 (Black) ATX Mid Tower960GB SSD and 5TB HDDNo matter how big an SSD you get you’ll likely find that you will benefit from having an even bigger HDD for the bulk of your stuff and be selective about what goes on the SSD.