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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I didnt rly get what you tried to ask, so i wrote some simple definitions of basic computer components.
RAM – this is basically a “short term memory” for your computer – RAM is very fast, but gets cleared when computer is turned off, and has much much less space on it than a hard drive.
(in videogames RAM can for example store textures you see, so they can be quickly processed and displayed on your monitor. if not for ram, then the computer would’ve had to load everything from the hard drive every time you look at a texture.)
having more RAM is good, since when you run out of space on it, the computer deletes the least useful thing that is on there, but if it turns out it needs to use it again, it’ll need to load it again from the (slow) hard drive.
CPU – its used for calculating stuff, for example could calculate how fast you are moving, etc. basically does a lot of math stuff.
GPU (Graphics Card) – it generates the actual image for your monitor, it calculates other stuff that the CPU doesn’t. basically it makes the image you see on your monitor, from the information given to it by other computer components
hard drive – it stores stuff – its the place where all of the stuff is. the more space the hard drive has, the more files it can have on it. it stores documents, images, programs – everything!
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