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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Hello,
Ok, you do have multi part question. I will start with the easiest one. How to find your specs. Easiest way is to push the “window” button on ur keyboard (or press the windows logo which is usually bottom left while you have the computer turned on) and type “system” one of the option that shows up should be “system information”.
This will get you an overload of all the specs. The main ones to look for are:
“installed Physical Memory (RAM)” : this shows much RAM you have. RAM is very fast small storage location, games use to temporary put the information they need for the game. So for example, the game will load your map into the RAM, so when you move from one room to another, instead of reading the shape of the room from the harddisk where the game was installed, they will read it from memory which is much faster. Thats partially what is happening during the “loading” stage of the game
“Processor”: That will have the name of the CPU processor you have, and inside the name usually there is a mention of A)speed which denoted with Mhz or Ghz, B) number of cores, and other stuff. for example Mine is : “AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 2700U w/ Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx, 2200 Mhz, 4 Cores”. So when i tell people about my cpu, i say, it is AMD(the company) Ryzen 7 (the model), 2.2 Ghz (the speed) 4 cores (number of cores). usually it is sufficient to say I have Ryzen7
Another important aspect, is your standalone graphics card. I do not have one on my laptop, but usually it will named something like
“Graphics processor”: this is very important for gaming, since how good that is more or less determines how good your gaming experience is… usually. It similar to the CPU name, it will have graphics card name, speed, and it might have the memory on the graphics card too (graphics card have their own temporary storage to access things fast )
Hopefully this helps
in the system info window, there are a loooooot of information about everything in your pc. You can get details about specific things in the other menus. Since this is only giving information, you can explore it, it is safe to look around there since you cannot change anything from that window.
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