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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The easiest way to check your specks would be to check the system information, just go to the start menu and type system and a ”system information” option should appear
The main specks of a computer go mostly acording to what components your PC is made of, so they would be mostly CPU(processor), GPU(graphics card), RAM, system memory(hard drives and SSDs), these would be the components that mostly matter, other components of the PC would be the mother board, the PSU(power supply), and a bunch of other stuff you can use…
The CPU/processor is what you have probably already heard about intel i3, intel i7, Pentium, ryzen r5 and all of those, this is a kind of complicated thing because there are generations, and ”sizes” so a ryzen 3 is smaller than a ryzen 5, but a ryzen 3 of the last generation is better than a ryzen 5 of the last one… Think about them a bit like boxers, usually a 100kg boxer will be stronger than a 60kg boxer, like a intel i5 is stronger than an intel i3, but a 100kg boxer that is 60years old can be weaker than a 25yo 60kg boxer, so that’s why the generation matters… you can ”know” the generation by the numbers that go after the processor, so for example, an intel i5 9400F is the 9th generation the 400 means how good it is within its own generation and withing the i5, so usually there will be a bit of range within a same generation so you can have i5 9500, 9400, 9300 and such, usually the higher number means a slightly better processor, but it doesn’t usually change a lot… what it can change a lot is what comes after those numbers so for example, you can see a i5 9600K, the K means its unlocked and you can overclock it (overclocking is kind of asking the processor to put on the turbo) so having a processor with the K means you can increase its power, but something like G means it has a built in GPU, these built in gpu are usually ”ok” and they can be enough to run simple games like fornite, CSGO or LOL, when the name has a T or a U it means its designed to work using less power and being ”smaller” so its a good option for something like a laptop, this is what you usually find in laptops, but a T or U processor is usually much weaker than the ones without the T or a U (this is kind of a douche move from intel), as for AMD, the numbers work pretty much the same, but they don’t have K processors since all of their CPUs are unlocked…
Processors, for gaming, don’t matter too much, gaming doesn’t use that much processing power, so you’re usually good with something like an i5 or a R5, or even a modern i3/r3
What gaming depends on is mostly the GPU, the graphics card, this is quite a long thing to explain so I’m sorry but I continue later XD
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