I consider myself a pretty avid gamer, been playing games for the majority of my life, and as I start making gaming friends and playing more mmos and fps’, I’ve had people ask me about my PC. The specs, how much RAM, etc… can someone explain what all that is? I have a general idea but would like to know enough to be able to hold a conversation with someone. Also, how does one check their specs?
Edit: thanks so much for all the in depth replies! Learned a good bit as well 🙂
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Right click on the task bar in Windows (i.e. where your windows button and search bar are, but just in an empty space), then click on Task Manager. Click More details. Then click the Performance tab. You’ll have everything you really need to know here (and can see resources being utilized, which is neat). I would look into each component individually if you want a better understanding of them, but as far as what “matters” when listing things out for other people, just look at the following:
* CPU: Click into it and look at the name in the top right e.g. Ryzen 5 3600.
* Memory: Take the largest number underneath “Memory” and then click into and take the speed, e.g. 32GB 3200 MHz
* GPU: Click into it and look at the name in the top right e.g. RTX 3080
* Storage “Disk # (<drive letter:>)”: This doesn’t often matter as much to people, but if they’re ever curious, count the amount of disks you have, note the type (listed below the Disk # heading e.g. SSD), and click into each one to see the capacity. If you’re familiar with storage sizes, you can basically round up. E.g. 932 GB ~= 1TB.
* Ethernet doesn’t matter, but it shows your network activity if you’re curious.
Again, there is more nuance to each component, slight variations between the CPUs and GPUs even of the same name, and there are other important components in PCs, but these are generally what people want to know when asking for specs.
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