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What you need to know before choosing a gaming computer?
1. Selecting the game computer is selected from the choice of the game, in which you will play on it - more precisely, with the definition of the system requirements of the game (games) to the computer.
Games are a lot and all the requirements for the equipment are different. For example, Counter Strike is not at all demanding to the "gland", and Mafia III - on the contrary, can "brake" and on powerful computers. And the popular GTA V gamers is somewhere in the midstock: you can run it on simple computers, but if you want to enjoy the amazing graphics of this game on the maximum settings, then the computer will be required above the mid-level.
- The requirements of the game to the computer can be viewed on the website of the developer or publisher of the game, on the official website of the game, or you can ask our consultant (chat form with a consultant - at thenete site)
2. The second parameter, which is important to know before starting the selection of components is the resolution of the monitor (or TV), which will be connected to your gaming computer.
Why is it important? The higher the resolution, the more powerful video card you need to take for an acceptable FPS (number of frames per second).
- The screen resolution in pixels can be found from the technical documentation, on the manufacturer's website on the monitor / television model or in the device menu.
So, we learned 2 introductory data:
- System requirements of the game to the "gland";
- Resolution of the device that will show the picture.
Based on these two data, we will choose the package of our future computer.
How does the choice of playing computer begins?
1. The main character of the gaming computer: video card.
It is the video card that creates an image that we see on the screen, depends on its power - whether the picture is smooth or instead of the game we will get an intermittent slideshow.
The video card must cope with our game on our screen. Under the word "COLLECT" is meant that in the middle settings of the video card will be able to produce a stable FPS of at least 35 frames per second.
In this table you can find out the minimum-needed video card for some games and the most popular permissions at the end of 2017:
Didn't find the game in the table? Contact your consultants for help!
If you have not yet decided on the games, we offer to stick to the line that for most modern high-set games in fullHD resolution (1920x1080) NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti video card– This is a very successful video card that works quickly, and heat dissipation and energy consumption are at a very low level!
The greater and more expensive the video card (GTX 1060, 1070, and so on), the smaller will be the picture, the higher the graphics settings you can put in your favorite game– And thus get a more beautiful image, with shadows, glare, reflections and more accurate details.
What to choose from video cards: NVIDIA GeForce or AMD Radeon? NVIDIA video card is a little faster in games, less demanding of nutrition and cooling, and also cost cheaper! You can learn from the first table matching the performance of GeForce and Radeon from the first table.
2. Select the central processor.
Surely you heard that some kind of processor "reveals" (or vice versa) some video card. The phrase "Processor opens the video card" implies that the processor power corresponds to the power of the video card - that is, the processor is quite powerful to produce FPS not less than the video card.
Why is it necessary? Each gameplay consists of 2 main components:
- Physics. Number, interaction of objects, heroes, their behavior– It all calculates the central processor. Each game loads the processor in different ways. The degree of loading of the processor does not depend on the permission and is almost independent of the quality settings.
- Graphics. Speed \u200b\u200boverlay textures on objectsand their quality , Special effects, all this is the task of the video card. The higher the resolution, the higher the load on the video card.
The video card and the processor in games work in a pair. Each has its own zone of responsibility.
In order for the game, there was no slow-moving, FPS awards and other unpleasant lags, it is necessary that the processor gives the video card to 100%. That is, FPS in games should limit the video card, and not a processor. Otherwise it turns out that the video card– The most expensive component of the gaming computer– Does not work out all the money paid for it.
What is the processor to select for the selected video card?
The answer again depends on the permission of your monitor (TV)! The lower the screen resolution, the greater the FPS can issue a video card- The greater the FPS should provide a processor! And vice versa: the higher the permission- The less powerful processor can be taken for the selected video card.
In the table you see the minimum allowable processors for each specific video card, depending on the permission on which you will play.
The table is compiled on the basis of numerous tests in a variety of games.
For example, you want to play GTA 5 at the maximum settings on the monitor 23 "with a resolution of 1920x1080 and decided to take the NVIDIA GTX 1060 video card- So, for these purposes it is worth taking the Intel Core i5 or AMD Ryzen 5 processor, and better– Intel Core i7 or AMD Ryzen 7. But if you play the monitor with a resolution of 2560x1440 and above, then the processorIntel Core i5 or AMD Ryzen 5 will be enough
3. Motherboard for your new game computer.
Motherboards are much, but on the game, despite the 10-fold sometimes difference in the price, there are no significant influence. There is one universal advice: if you do not plan to exercise acceleration and want to save, choose a motherboard on the "average" chipset: for Intel it is B250 (B350 for new 8th generation COFFEE LAKE processors), for AMD- B350. It is important that the condensers on the motherboard are solid-state (Solid Capacitor in English): it will significantly increase the reliability of the board. If there are difficulties with the choice- Contact us for advice!
4. RAM.
Volume - N. e less than 8GB. Better than 16GB, but you can make a "installment"- Buy the second 8GB after some time after buying a computer. Most modern games still have enough 8 GB. Increase the operational memory independently very simple. There is no point in 32GB of RAM for the gamer computer today.
5. SSD or hard disk - what is better for the game computer?
SSD is very fast, but dear. SSD drives accelerate the boot of the operating system and remove any delays when accessing data on the computer. However, in SSD games, it accelerates except for downloading the game itself and individual levels, the use of settings, etc. Therefore, the ideal option is to install a SSD with a capacity of 120-240GB for OS and a pair of favorite games in which you play most often, and a separate hard disk with a capacity from 1TB for storing a large amount of personal data (photo, video, games, programs, etc.) .
But if the budget is limited, you can do with one conventional hard disk, the main thing is that the spindle speed is at least 7,200 rpm, otherwise there may be brazed in games: there were such cases in our practice!
6. Is it worth taking an expensive body for a game computer? Or can you do cheap?
The case, as you understand, does not affect the FPS. Even in the cheapest Core i7 package will remain itself and will not turn into Celeron. The main differences of expensive buildings from cheap, in addition to the design, are as follows:
- Metal thickness. The thicker, the fierce the confosition, which eliminates the possibility of deformation of the walls of the case and boards with time. In addition, the thickness of the computer case, the better its dust and vibration insulation.
- Thoughtful cooling. In expensive buildings, you can more often find additional fans or additional places for them.
- Lower location of the power supply. This improves heat exchange in the housing, its stability.
- Additional connectors and useful "chips". For example, twice the larger number of USB ports or a screen with a temperature indication, refobas (allows you to change the rotation speed of body fans)
Such a conclusion: on the housing you can save in the case of an inexpensive system, otherwise it looks like "savings on matches": the price difference between the simple case and the "advanced" is not worth losing all the advantages of the latter.
7. Healthy nutrition
- You need everyone, not only to people! The power supply is a very important component of any gaming computer. Power should be chosen based on the recommendations of the video card manufacturer (requirements are usually listed on the graphics card on the manufacturer's website). Modern video cards are distinguished by low power consumption. For example, for GTX 1060-based systems, it is enough for a 500W output power from a good manufacturer: for example, Zalman, Aerocool, Chieftec, FSP.
8. Cooling system. How to choose a cooler for a processor?
The processor heats up during operation and it needs to be cooled - this is a fact. How to choose an effective processor cooler? For this we need to know 2 things:
- Socket processor - i.e. The name of the connector ("sockets") in which the processor is installed. For example, Socket 1151 for modern Intel or AM4 processors for AMD Ryzen processors. Choose a cooler, the mounting of which is suitable for the socket of your processor or universal (designated "Socket-All".
- Thermal processor power (TDP, "thermal package") is a power in watts, which the processor allocates. It is important to choose that cooler, which dispels the power equal to or greater than the one that the processor allocates. If you plan to overclock the processor, it is better that the cooler had a power supply for no less than 30%. (i.e., at the TDP processor, the 100W cooler must have a TDP 130W)
Cheap coolers for the processor have an aluminum radiator. Models are more expensive have a copper core, they are more efficiently dispelled from the processor. It is even better to coolers with copper heat pipes: as a rule, they have the design of the tower type - the air flow they direct in the direction of the rear wall of the computer, and not towards the motherboard.
Remember: The main thing when choosing a cooler is to pay attention to compatibility with the socket, on the TDP and the noise level produced by the cooler. Excellent if the noise level is below 21 dB - in this case, you just do not notice it.
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Conditionally computers can be divided into three categories: office, home and gaming. It is logical that the characteristics of them will be minimal from the office, medium for home and high for gaming. Well, the price of all this is also, respectively, the more opportunities are the higher.
Go to the store, choose the cheapest - that's the easiest office option. Joke
So. Let's start with the office computer and let's deal with how the office computer should be.
How to choose an office computer?
To begin with, we define the meaning of "office", what do I mean by this? I see myself this computer, standing in any organization and office where accountants are working, managers and just workers. They do not need high performance. Nowadays, you will rarely meet computers and components with the requirements of the 2000s on the market. Mainly, these tasks are solved as: text processing, mailing view, Internet access and other uncomplicated operations. Let's go to directly to their choice.
System unit - Namely, that in it should be contained.
Approximately the characteristics of the modern office system unit must be as follows:
Processor model: Celeron® G540 or Intel Atom
CPU frequency: 1800 MHz
Family video card: Intel HD Graphics
Volume of video memory: Stand out from RAM
RAM: 2048 MB
Hard disk volume: 160 GB
Drive for reading CD / DVD discs: It can be useful
Operating system: Without OS
Briefly explain this choice. On such characteristics, the computer will "pull" all office applications, such as Microsoft Office, 1C, customers to work with mail, browsers, etc. The video card is not needed here, work with graphics is not provided, but all the same for work will be comfortable 2 GB of RAM. At 160 GB is quite enough. Well, the choice of the operating system leaves for you (but recommended Windows XP or Windows corporate).
The price of such a miracle is now about 6-8 thousand rubles.
Monitor - Now you will no longer find lamp monitors, everyone goes the LCD that good. It remains only the choice for a diagonal. Sometimes for a minimum today - it is 18.5 dums. Price from 3 thousand rubles.
Keyboard and mouse - Ordinary office without additional buttons. Just perform your functions. Price for the clave and mouse on average will be 300 rubles
Total: With 10 thousand rubles in the budget you can quite buy an office computer.
How to choose a home computer?
This question is more interesting. My home computer suggests: Working with documents, work with images, games, Internet access, well, something else ... For such a computer, you already need something more both according to the characteristics and for additional techniques. So, let's start as soon as possible.
System unit - The most important part of the question, here I will give the necessary average set, but you must always remember that in the clock \u003d teach you can upgrade it.
Exemplary average characteristics of the system unit for home use:
Motherboard It is suitable inexpensive, the main thing is that the socket on it was at that processor that you are going to install, the slots for RAM must have the standard DDR3, and the video card - or separate (discrete), or the motherboard must support the video card extension - that is, an additional slot Under the video card, in addition to the built-in video card.
The best in the opinion of most users are ASUS Motherboards. The company is very popular, its products are high-quality and cheap at the same time. To build a computer on the basis of Intel processors, such models are suitable as:
ASUS P8H61 IH61 DDR3 ATX (approximately 2000 rubles)
ASUS P8P67 IP67 DDR3 ATX (approximately 6500 rubles)
ASUS P8P67-M Pro P67 DDR3 MATX (approximately 3500 rubles)
Their prices are slightly different, but their quality is no doubt of millions of users.
CPU. It's easier, it remains only to choose Intel or AMD. Of course, the taste is, but the Intel processors are more suitable for the home computer. They coped perfectly with multitasking. These prices are very different, but for a home computer, such models will be suitable (Socket LGA1155), as:
Intel Pentium G850 2.9GHz VGA 5GTS 3MB 65W (approximately 2600 rubles)
Intel i3-2100 3.1GHz VGA 5GTS 3MB 65W Box (approximately 3600 rubles)
Intel Core i5-2320 Box 3.0-3.3GHz 5GTS 6MB 95W (approximately 5800 rubles)
All of them are high-performance and allow us to work normally with heavy applications and play powerful games.
Video card. Explicit leaders there are several: asus, his, palit. The best in this price segment is:
PCI-E HIS Radeon HD 6850 Fan 1GB GDDR5 DVI HDMI (approximately 5300 rubles)
PCI-E HIS Radeon HD6670 1GB GDDR5 DVI HDMI (approximately 2500 rubles)
PCI-E ASUS HD7750 / 1GD5 1G GDDR5 (128-Bit) HDMI DVI DP (approximately 3000 rubles)
PCI-E PALIT GF GTX 550TI 1GB GDDR5 DVI HDMI (approximately 3500 rubles)
Forums are just clogged with delighted reviews of users of these devices.
RAM I need a DDR3 standard. It is best to take two strips on 4GB, such as
DDR3 4GB Transcend PC3-12800 Jetram 1600MHz (approximately 1000 rubles)
or two, three or even four planks 2GB:
DDR3 2GB OCZ PC3-10666 (OCZ3G1333LV2G) 9-9-9-20 GOLD Series. (approximately 800 rubles)
All memory works stably and quickly. But do not forget that if you install the 4GB-8GB RAM, the operating system must be 64-bit - 32-bit versions more than 3GB do not see.
HDD - Warehouse all information choose to your taste. Recently, discs are relevant with a volume of 1000 GB or 1 TB, which are relatively inexpensive and allow you to save a lot of information. The best:
3.5 "SATA 1.0TB SAMSUNG SPINPOINT F3 (HD103SJ) 7200RPM 32MB (approximately 2000 rubles)
3.5 "SATA 1.0TB Seagate Barracuda Green (ST1000DL002) 5900RPM 32MB (approximately 2500 rubles)
all the rest are no different.
Optical drive - Here you already need to decide or not. You can choose anyone, but I would recommend Samsung or Pioneer. The price of them is about 1000 rubles.
Sound card - In principle, quite simple and reliable, such as ASUS Xonar DSX for 2000 rubles, will fit.
Card reader - Instead of FDD (floppy disk drive to read a floppy disk, stick this thing immediately and forget about the impossibility of working with memory cards. The price is about 1000 rubles.
Monitor - I recommend that the phase of inches per 20 minimum. From the firms would recommend BENQ. The price of the question is approximately 4,000 rubles.
Keyboard and mouse - Here, how you yourself want, with additional keys or without, what kind of design, what a firm, wireless ... In general, on average, you can spend a stage of 1,500 rubles. I have A4Tech XL-750BH mouse and a simple Genius KB-M220 keyboard.
Web camera - any, even with a built-in microphone and illumination, at least the simplest, main resolution is not less than 1.3 MPH. For about 1500 rubles. This is if you take with a microphone, backlight, mount on the monitor. There are also 300 rubles options, there are 8000. Deciding for you, I had a Defender G-Lens 2552 for 500 rubles I took something, I have already forgotten how much it costs, but no more than 2 years and no complaints.
Headphones - It happens what you need. The main selection - whether you need a microphone with them and what is the lining for the ears (so that you are not tough). The price is about 800 rubles.
Speakers - For home, it's okay, even when they are simply 2. I have a genius SP-S350 for 500 rubles somewhere. Here you can decide for what purposes. Since I only listen to one and I do not need to entertain guests, then these are quite suitable.
Total: the home computer will cost you at least thousands of 20 rubles.
Here it is already fun. There is a detriment for choice, the main thing is not to be mistaken. My friend gathered a couple of months ago for myself just a super gaming computer for 43 thousand. But here you should know that he collected everything himself, more precisely, he selected everything to the system unit knowsfully and the rest of the peruphoria is also only for his needs.
Here I will give the will of his fantasy and collect a gaming computer for myself ...
System unit:
CPU: Intelcorei7-2600K (approximately 9000 rubles)
Cooler: Zalmancpns10xperforma (approximately 1000 rubles)
Motherboard: Gigabytega-Z68X-UD3-B3 (approximately 4500 rubles)
Memory: Kingstonvalueram 2x4 GB (approximately 1200 rubles)
Video card: PalitgeForce GTX 570 Sonic Platinum (approximately 11000 rubles)
Solid State Drive: Intel SSDSC2CW060A3K5 60 GB (approximately 3400 rubles)
HDD: WDCAVIARGREEN 2000 GB (approximately 2400 rubles)
Drive unit: DVD-RW TOSHIBASAMSUNGSH-222AB (approximately 600 rubles)
Housing: Cooler Masterhaf 932Advanced USB 3.0 (ATX) (approximately 6000 rubles)
Power Supply: Chieftecnitro85 + BPS-750C (approximately 3400 rubles)
Sound card: Creative X-Fi Titanium HD (approximately 5800 rubles)
Total 48300 rubles.
Eh and I went around. The configuration is certainly worth it, but with some aspects you can argue. Yes, and cheaper can be collected.
Now I want to clarify my choice.
The senior Intel processor carries the index "K", meaning a unlocked multiplier and, therefore, not just officially allowed overclocking, but also the most lightweight. For the cooling of four, its cores responds to a quiet and very strong Zalman cooler, which has received very good estimates in the testing process. The amount of RAM has been increased to 8 gigabytes, however, there is no great need for practice yet, but, as they say, the stock pocket does not pull.
The chosen motherboard is based on the IntelZ68 chipset, which allows it to use cheap little SSD to carry out the caching of the main disk. In addition, by itself, it has all the necessary attributes of the latest motherboard: a full range of connectors, including USB 3.0, quite a large number of USB 2.0 ports, 2 PCIExpressX16 slots - if you decide to install the second video card.
Video card - model Palit GeForcegtx 570 SonicPlatinum, a bit overclocked version of the almost top chip NVIDIA: It is better to eat only GTX 580. And for those who are a fan of AMD products, it is possible to replace the card on RadeonHD 6970, which is very close at the price and performance.
The Z68 chipset simply forces us to add to the SSD system to not much to load your wallet, I added only an inexpensive 60 GB drive. It is needed more in order to put the operating system on it and in order for all processes to be much faster than if it was standing on the usual hard disk.
From the housings, I chose a heavy, large, very black and durable CoolerMaster HAF 932 Advanced, which in the latest version got a batch of USB 3.0 connectors on the front cabinet panel. As an accompaniment, it is a CHIEFTECNITRO 85+ power supply unit, which is a model with a significant set of loops, excellent efficiency and a quiet fan.
If you want to make this system with cheaper, it is possible to significantly reduce its cost, replacing the power supply with the case on the inwiniw-Mg134 as well as removing the SSD and the COREI7-2600K processor - it can be replaced much cheaper, but also very fast and suitable for overclocking Corei5-2500K.
There is an option that you want more, then you should think about changing the video card on the GeForceGTX 580, as well as about installing SSD, having a volume of 80-120 GB, refusal to the SmartResponce technology and installing not only the operating system, but also the applications and programs you use Fully on SSD.
The Creative X-Fi Titanium HD sound card is suitable for listening to music and movies and games.
Monitor: either 24x inch for 5,000 or 27 per 8000. On it and play well and movies to watch.
Keyboard - Leaders among gaming devices are SteelSeries and Razer. And the price of their keyboard begins from 2000 rubles. But I would take myself TT Esports by Thermaltake Gaming Keyboard Challenger Ultimate about the same amount. Even show a picture. Beautiful and reviews are good.
Mouse - The same leaders as the keyboards. Prices from 1200 rubles. But I have a mouse from A4Tech XL-750BH. I have already enjoyed 6 years old similar X710 and recently bought this (the cord has been too thin, but still not broke) and costs rubles 500 and everything suits everything.
Web camera - Here I don't know if she needs hemrames, but still come in handy. It is possible to proceed from those principles of choice that described above (about home PC).
Headphones - I recommend right to SteelSeries. And even I will not write anything else. Only the picture will throw off. (2000 rubles)
Speakers - well. To join so bind. Stand on the 5V1 system (the more sound card it will allow). I advise you to look at Microlab FC 730 for 5000 rubles)
Total all together to buy a gaming computer you need a minimum of 50 thousand rubles.
That's all on this. Who has questions and wishes - Write comments.
In the previous article, I talked about how to choose components for assembling a budget home computer. Such a computer is actually assembled within 15,000 rubles and it will be consolidated to work and study, and the launch of modern games on it will be impossible.
But someone wants to have a high-performance computer on which it will be possible, in principle, to do anything. This is the computer on which all modern games will be launched, powerful graphics programs will quickly work and in general - the whole system. Accordingly, such an assembly will cost you about 45000-50000 rubles and probably even a little more. But such a computer is quite unreasonable to buy if no one will play games or work in professional graphic editors! In this case, simply overpay a big amount ... In the end, you can take something medium (so for 25), on what you can play some modern toys (but not at the maximum graphic settings) and at the same time, of course, work.
Therefore, in today's article I will talk about choosing components for assembling a gaming home computer and, after reading this material, you will already navigate from which price category and which components you can choose and can buy everything yourself!
There is an option to just buy a ready-made (already assembled) system unit and not messing with the selection of components, but it will cost more and to crawl into it when assembling could not be especially high-quality details! Read more about buying a finished computer in the previous article, clicking on the link above. I recommend reading the article to understand the difference in components for a budget office computer and high-performance game.
If you are new and not yet orient to which computer component is for what is needed, as it looks and what characteristics have, you strongly recommend you to read this article:
Well, now we turn directly to the selection of all components for the subsequent assembly of the home game computer! We will not consider the choice of laptops / netbooks here and this will be discussed in one of the following articles.
We select components for the assembly of a high-performance gaming computer!
If you decide to collect a very powerful computer, then you have money, at a minimum, in the area of \u200b\u200b50,000 rubles today, because everything is known greatly rose. We will select the components to build a computer configuration computer. When assembling such a computer, the main money will fly to the processor and the video card.
In the previous article, I have already said that it is convenient, in my opinion, select components for the subsequent assembly of a computer through online stores, where there is the possibility of flexible filtering of the selected product in characteristics. Here is an example of such stores for the city of Moscow: Yulmart, Wow! , Sitilink. You can also choose the desired goods through the service from Yandex - Yandex-Market, which at the same time will indicate all the stores in your city, where at the moment it is possible to purchase the desired product and at what price!
The board supports the processor that I showed on the example in paragraph number 1. The board characteristics states that supports LGA 1150 socket and the Intel Core i5 processor type.
It has the desired PCI Express X16 3.0 connector to install a modern video card.
It supports installation of up to 4 modules of RAM with a total maximum volume of 32 GB and with a module frequency of 1600 MHz. We and 8 GB will have enough RAM.
It has USB 3.0 outputs. Create for connecting modern fast flash drives and external hard drives.
There are SATA3 connectors for connecting modern rigid and SSD inside the computer case.
Type of video card memory. The video card has its own built-in memory for storing game data in order not to use the RAM, the appeal to which will be slower and, as a result, performance is lost.
Now on the market you can meet the video cards with memory: GDDR2, GDDR3, GDDR4, GDDR5. The older the type of memory, it is faster and overall better than its characteristics. The most modern at the moment is GDDR5 and will be aimed at choosing a video card.
Video card memory. The greater the volume of the integrated memory in the video card, the more game data it can store there and do not seek them into a slower operational memory of the computer. As a result, speed is significantly increased! Now on the market, as a rule, you can find cards with memory from 512 MB to 6144 GB. We are not at all necessary to have the memory of the maximum amount of 6 gigs, but it is enough to have quick memory of the type GDDR5 and the volume somewhere from 2 to 4 GB.
Tire Blossomy Video Motion. This is the "highway" on which the data exchange between the processor of the video card and its memory occurs. The greater the tire, the more data will be transmitted simultaneously and, as a result, speed increases. The market has video cards with tires from 32 bits to 512 bits. Quite a bus in 256 bits, if the remaining parameters are also at a good level.
Cooling system. Video cards can be active and passive cooling. Passive is a simple radiator that is installed on the video card. Active - radiator + fan (cooler), which gives good cooling. Know that there is simply no cooling in the form of a simple radiator on a good gaming video card! Such a video card will constantly overheat and ultimately will simply burn. Passive cooling will go to budget video cards that are designed for "light", inappropriate games and run simple programs to work with graphics. The game video card must have active cooling, and now such viduhas have, often, several coolers (usually 2 or 3)
24-PIN ATX to connect the motherboard;
4-PIN CPU to connect additional power to the processor;
At least 2 SATA connectors for connecting a hard disk and drive (or 2-rigid / SSD / SSD, for example).
Choosing a processor. It will be suitable for a processor from the Intel Core i5 family of one of the modifications. I have never heard that even in steep games, a newer line - Core i7 is not loaded to the entire coil and that often some kind of significant difference from Core i5. At the same time, at one PC itself, Core i5 is installed, on another Core i7 and at the same time I and there I can run the same modern innovations with the same productivity. Then why should we now overpay within 4000 rubles? I think that there will be more than enough processor I5 with the addition of a powerful video card and good RAM.
The Core i5 processor (like Core i7 and almost all other rules) is sold not only in one modification, as newcomers might think. There are several varieties of these families of processors, differing from each other by the frequency, the number of cores, the volume of internal memory (cache) and other additional parameters. The range of prices for Core i5 processors will be approximately from 10,000 (if you take the cheapest Core i5) to 18,000 rubles.
You can take, for example, here's this: Intel Core i5-4690K, on \u200b\u200baverage, for 15,000 rubles (in my example - 15670 rubles.):
The selected processor, according to the characteristics, has a LGA 1150 socket, consequently, when choosing a motherboard, it will be necessary to watch the board support such a processor!
If you take everything to the maximum for the game computer, then in terms of cost it will cost some server computers and go beyond 150,000 rubles. Because even if you take the Core i7 processor, which is from a higher class, then their cost begins from 19,000 and may exceed 70,000 rubles! We, accordingly, we will not consider it :) We will meet anywhere in the area of \u200b\u200b50,000 rubles, taking into account that such a computer will freely pull out all modern games without carrying out for a long time for the future!
Selection of cooler (fan) for processor. Buying a good processor, the cooler, who goes with him in the kit you can safely drop aside :) We buy a powerful iron, which means you need to take care of good cooling. And if when choosing a budget version of the computer, the built-in cooler can safely install and not be afraid of overheating, then collecting the game PC is better to immediately buy a good cooler!
What company choose the cooler is everyone and there is some big difference in quality and price you will not see. But the most famous and proven themselves are: Zalman, as well as Cooler Master. You can purchase suitable for 500-700 rubles on average.
It is very important that the cooler approached the socket of your processor, otherwise you just can't install it on the motherboard! For this, compatibility with sockets is always indicated in the characteristics. If you take an example of a processor that I showed in paragraph number 1, it has a LGA 1150 socket. This means that in the characteristics of the cooler it must be specified that it is compatible in this socket!
Here is an example: Zalman CNPS 90F for 490 rubles:
A good cooler compatible with the selected processor socket and inexpensive.
Choice of motherboard. The motherboard for the game computer will cost us for money practically as much as we took a fee for a budget computer, on which you will not play high in the game. We definitely need support for the processor that we chose (in my example of a socket at the processor - LGA1150), modern ports, support for the most modern video cards and the ability to establish at least 8 GB of RAM with a frequency of at least 1600 MHz.
By firms, choose Asus, Gigabyte or MSI as the most priority and reliable, and at a price somewhere in the area of \u200b\u200b3,500 rubles. Such a fee will comply with our requirements.
Here is an example of a suitable motherboard for 3520 rubles:
On the board there is everything we need:
Selection of game video card. Buying a video card is one of the most responsible moments when choosing components for a game computer. To choose from this component, we will learn a decent round amount from the total budget - about 15,000 rubles! :) But we want to play modern toys without brakes and without brakes, while also leaving in the future new items? So, without a really powerful video card, there is no way to do.
According to the video processor, video cards are divided into 2 types: AMD Radeon (ATI) and NVIDIA GeForce. To talk about the advantage of any video processor from these two - meaningless. In one game, a video card with an AMD processor can better show itself to another - a card with a NVIDIA processor.
In mining, for example, the Radeon video cards significantly succeed and always earn more than GeForce. About what is mining, as well as about the results of my experiments, you can read, starting here with this article:
Consider the important parameters of the video card, which should be paid attention to when it is selected:
Also, when choosing a video card, a question may arise: "What manufacturer's video card to choose?". There is no unequivocal answer, but these manufacturers are most proven: ASUS, GIGABYTE, MSI.
Well, finally, we check according to the characteristics of the video card so that it has a PCI Express X16 3.0 connector to connect to the motherboard.
Good game video card, as I mentioned above, will cost you in the area of \u200b\u200b15,000 rubles.
Here is an example of a good choice (Gigabyte GV-N760OC-4GD, GTX760, 4096MB, GDDR5, Retail) for 16480 rubles:
Here is such an expensive pleasure - a video card, if you want to play all today's gaming news and have a reserve for the future :)
Select RAM. Everything is much easier here. For games we will need 8 GB of RAM or more. More will cost it quite expensive, while there are 8 gigabytes in a complex with a good processor and a video card, you can play in everything. The chosen motherboard must maintain the RAM, operating on at least 1600 MHz! If we consider the motherboard, which I took as an example for this article, then it just supports the operation of the RAM at this frequency. Accordingly, the operational memory is also chosen with the frequency of work 1600 MHz. Below you do not need, it will work slower!
We also do not forget that we need DDR3 memory, which is today the most popular. The motherboard should support this type of memory! And DDR4 appeared relatively recently and are still more expensive, as well as fees with support for such memory, respectively, will be more expensive.
In addition to the volume of memory, its type and frequency, the question may still have: "Take 8 GB of memory with one module or a set with 2 modules of 4 GB in each?" One bar will always cost cheaper than a set of 2 modules. At the same time, 2 planks on special technology work faster, but it is not essential, and you will not even notice the difference! Then why overpay, right?
By firms, choose Hynix or Kingston. I personally give preference to them. As a result, memory for the game computer will cost us 4,500 - 5,000 rubles.
An example of the selected RAM for 4880 rubles:
Hard disk selection (HDD). Hard disk does not have anything about the launch of games, but you will not just do it just to play games and on this everything :) you will store some files, documents, movies, programs and anything. Therefore, I recommend to take a hard disk with a volume of 1 TB. (1000 GB) with SATA3 connector, which supports the motherboard selected in my example. If you want to have a really modern and fast computer, then you also choose a fee for yourself, which will support modern connectors and tires, including - SATA3 to connect hard disks.
From firms, stop at Seagate or Western Digital, as on the most famous and reliable. I personally, as a rule, prefer Seagate.
The hard disk with the above parameters will cost in the region of 3200 - 4000 rubles.
An example of a selected hard disk (Seagate Barracuda 7200.14, ST1000DM003 1TB) for 3330 rubles:
Selection of power supply. Our collected gaming computer will be rather voracious in power due to the video card alone and therefore the power supply must be taken good. First of all, it follows according to the characteristics of the purchased video card to see which minimum power supply power is required for its operation. If you take an example of a video card from paragraph number 4 of this article, it requires at least 500 W. It means that the power supply takes the reserve, Watt on 600-700, to have enough for a feeding of our entire system. Accordingly, you need to choose the power supply, based on what video card you are chosen. If it requires a power of about 200-300 W, then it makes no sense to take the power supply at 600-700 in, as in my example.
The following is very important when choosing a power supply - the presence of connections for connecting all purchased devices. Especially pay attention to the presence of connections for powering the video card. In modern video cards, the power connector, as a rule, PCI-E 6-PIN or immediately 2 PCI-E 6-PIN connectors, as in the video card shown by me (see Article No. 4).
Also, the power supply must necessarily have connectors:
The manufacturers of high-quality power supplies are somewhat and some of them: FSP, Ocz, Zalman, Hiper Coolermaster, Chieftec, Foxconn. But many other firms produce decent power supplies sometimes for a lower price. Everyone has their own preferences.
The power supply we need will cost 3000-4000 rubles.
The selected power supply for 3610 rubles collected from this article:
CD / DVD CD / DVD Selection. This item is not required if you never use drives for any purpose! But personally, I still often need a drive to burn a DVD movie with a movie, a CD with music in the car. It is also more convenient for me to run all sorts of boot programs from the disk, including installing / reinstall Windows. Because doing all the above with a flash drive, very often there are various difficulties that simply do not want to waste time. And with disks everything is much easier.
If you need a drive, and I think it is needed by the majority, then when it is elected, it is necessary to watch the connector for the connection to be SATA. There are still drives with the Molex connector, but they have long been outdated! Moreover, the board you selected under the game computer is simply obliged to support SATA connectors for connecting such devices as drives and hard drives / SSD :)
Good firms to pay attention when choosing a drive: NEC, ASUS, Pioneer, Plexter
When choosing a simple CD / DVD writer, the drive can be freely docked in the area of \u200b\u200b1500 rubles.
An example is quite a good drive to record and read any CD / DVD discs for 1020 rubles:
Shopping Blu-ray drive I do not consider here, because they are expensive and need not everyone. If you need to record and read Blu-ray discs on your computer, you certainly have to spend somewhere from 5000 rubles instead of 1000-1500 :)
Just in case, here is an example of a good Blu-ray drive worth 5,500 rubles:
Choice of housing. Well, so I got to the hull, which will serve as a place for constant storage of all purchased components and will provide good air circulation :) Special requirements for the choice of the body, in principle, no. The main thing is its size. The body must freely accommodate all our components and the main thing - motherboard and video adapter. In order to understand whether we are suitable for the case or not, it has a characteristic - form factor. Form factor shows which motherboard will fit in the case. For example, if an ATX form factor is specified in the characteristics of the case, it will be able to place both the full-sized ATX format fee and its reduced version - miniatx (or MATX). What format the board you chose is indicated in its characteristics in the form "Form factor". The board from my example has a form factor - MATX and today it is most common.
Be sure to pay attention to the maximum length of the video card and the height of the cooler for the processor, which will be able to fit into the case. Modern gaming video cards are pretty bulky and will be sad if it suddenly does not fit into the acquired case :) You can see the size of the video card in its characteristics. The height of the fan for the processor (cooler) is also indicated in the characteristics. Well, in fact, the maximum supported dimensions of both indicated in the characteristics of the hull itself ...
We do not forget that we do not need to buy the body already with a built-in power supply, as it is convenient to do, buying a budget version of the computer. We have already chosen a good power supply for our system and all the more power supplies, moving together with the body often not very good quality, and for the game computer, reliable BP is very important!
The suitable body for our glands can be safe to buy up to 3000 rubles. Preferences to some definite firms will not give it. Each chooses a convenient, as well as frequently suitable design.
An example of the selected case (Cooler Master CMP 350, RC-350-KKN1) for 2390 rubles:
Well, it is over the selection of the necessary components to build a good computer for games :) If you calculate the cost of purchasing all components according to my examples from this article, then the amount is obtained: 51390 rubles! So much can do the build of a powerful computer. Of course you can and cheaper, but, therefore, lose somewhere in performance, playing future game hits.
You probably noticed that I did not affect the selection of a sound card in this article. Why buy it no need to buy it, I have already spoken in the previous article about the assembly of a budget computer, but I still remind you again. The sound card is built into 99.9% of all motherboards and its more than enough for standard tasks of all users. It is not suitable, perhaps, only for professional work with music. As an example - connecting the electric guitar or any other musical instrument and working with its sound through special programs. Here for such purposes you need to buy an external good sound card!
In one of the following my articles, I will tell you about choosing the main peripheral devices for a home computer, such as a monitor, sound columns (acoustic system), keyboard and mouse:
I hope that such my articles will be useful to someone :)
That's all. See you;)
In addition to the fact that the computer stores themselves divorced Nemerly, so to the same, in the stores themselves, the choice of both ready-made computers and individual components for them is simply non-amperating. Not a famous user, it will be incomprehensible what is responsible for and what to choose. Often, people are focused on prices, a number of gigabytes, Gigahertz, nuclei, or just listen to what sales managers will say them.
I, in turn, on this field, as the "Dog ate" said, and I know not only - what, with what is wateted, but also about more serious and important details, without having knowledge of which, you can make gross mistakes. In this post, I will briefly try to tell about some of the details of the selection of the system components and will give 3 examples of the configuration of the game computers that you can order and collect, both independently and in the store.
The first thing that should be taken into account when choosing a game computer - in no case cannot be bought! Those people who are engaged in the selection of components, in no way want to pick up the corresponding components for the game computer, moreover, the Ready PCs themselves, as a rule, are very expensive than the Comituer's own alone, or rather its components, for subsequent assembly and even considering That some stores take money to the assembly, you still have the same as you like, will be more powerful and cheaper than ready-made analogs. Therefore, forget about the finished solutions and go to the selection of components.
When choosing components for the game PC, the following factors should be taken into account:
1) And most importantly! Computer performance and its individual components cannot be measured comparing with other models based on the amount of memory in gigabytes, or based on the frequencies, the number of nuclei, etc. Real performance is measured in specific programs in real tests, which are held on popular, authoritative publications dedicated to computers and components, you can easily find information on individual components by lifting a request to Google, type - "Overview Intel i5-4590K", or For example, the "GTX980TI review". In order to make sure the truthfulness of the information, go immediately on 3-4 different reviews and make information if it is about converging everywhere, it means everything is true.
2) Intel processors, almost always, turn out to be more powerful AMD processors in games, and it is absolutely no important that the same Intel i3 has 2 physical cores, and in the same AMD FX-8300 as long as the big frequency. But the essence is that Intel processors are strikingly high performance of each nucleus and this productivity gives them an advantage over AMD processors in games, because the games are quite reluctant to optimize under multithreading (multi-truth). On this, choosing a processor, you need to focus on real tests in real games, and not on synthetic tests, such as Superpi. The most optimal processor for games, it is almost any Intel i5 with a frequency above 3.2GHz, and if you need great performance, then pay attention to the processors with a leafer "to" at the end, such processors can accelerate what adds in performance and sometimes very much ! The same, it is necessary to observe the balance between the processor and the video card, it is completely useless to put Intel i5 in combination, say with the GTX750TI, but the same, it will not be too logical to put i3 and GTX980Ti, it will be enough. It should be remembered that the processor should not cost more than video cards!
3) The video card is the main component of the game computer, based on this component, you need to build a game computer and the power of the video card is not measured in gigabytes, or just in megahertz, in fact, there is no power measurement in principle. There are separate indicators, such as the amount of memory, which is not so important if you have, over 3 gigabytes on a video card from 15000r, or from 2 gigabytes on cheaper maps, or the frequency of the graphics processor, which can be varied between different models, The same product (the same chip model, let's say GTX970, can produce a dozen companies and each video card will be different), etc. So, it is worth considering that there is a reference and non-reference design, what does this mean? Reference design, this is a standard design provided by the manufacturer for this video card model, the video card of the reference design is heated and no longer is not recommended for this. The video card is not a reference design is heated less and less noisy, as they have the best cooling system, with several large and quiet fans, and the same, sometimes have another component base, which allows them to more effectively accelerate, for this I recommend purchasing video cards only reference design.
4) the volume and frequency of RAM - in fact, the amount of RAM for Games, just 8 gigabytes are enough, more in fact it is not necessary, and the frequency of a special role does not play, this is the best choice, this is 2 4 gigabyte memory strips with a frequency in 1600 MHz, preferably Samsung Original, or HYNIX ORIGINAL. Planks without the word "Original" are fakes, on these chips and have the worst quality.
5) Hard disk and SSD - For most games, only an acceptable hard disk is needed, such as Western Digital Black and no positive reaction from the SSD installation, there will be no SSD in games, but the installation of the same SSD allows the system itself to work much faster and speeds up the download itself .
6) Motherboards are the biggest misfortune that expensive, cruulous motherboards give an increase in performance. This, alas, not so! The motherboard is a link between the processor, memory, video card and other components of the system, in fact, the motherboard is the wires between the components of the system. But the same, it is worth considering that the motherboard can have the functions that you are important and you must choose your motherboard based on your needs. When choosing a motherboard, in addition to obvious things, such as a socket selection (CPU connector) and checking compatibility with the selected processor, you need to look at the number of connectors you need - SATA for hard and drives, USB 2.0 and 3.0 m, and We look at the presence of features such as SLI, CrossFire, which allow you to install multiple video cards at the same time, if such a function is not needed now, it is better to give up the purchase of such a motherboard, for these functions you overpay huge amounts. The best option is a motherboard, worth 4-5 thousand rubles, ATX form factor with an 8pin processor power connector and 4 connectors for memory modules, as well as with 5-6 connectors for connecting audio devices.
7) Power supplies - the biggest misconception about the power supplies, this is what the more watts, the better. Nothing like this! The difference between the 65 and 1500 watts BP, for your system, if it is built on one processor and one video card, will not. The power supply must be chosen based on the system consumption. The most powerful video card cannot consume more than 350 watts, a processor, no more than 250 (rare specimens, in acceleration, without acceleration, powerful CPU is eaten about 80-100 watts), everything else consumes about 70 watts. Therefore, for the systems about 30000r, there are enough 500-550 "battles", for powerful PCs, with one video card, "under acceleration", 650 watts, and for the rest, depends on the number of video cards, but the rule is simple - +1 Video card \u003d + 300Vatt.
8) Do not forget about cooling systems, if the processor is accelerated, then it is necessary to choose the processor "cooler" based on the tests, the most optimal option, for example CoolerMaster S200. If the HEA processor does not chase, then you can choose from reviews on the same Yandex Market Cooler easier, to 500r.
This is somehow the components are so selected, and now I will give 3 examples of decent assemblies with a certain price category, these builds are intended only for games and do not meet certain requirements, but this does not mean that they can not say to work, or rendering / Processing audio. Also, consider that theoretically you can pick up even more optimal components, but for this you need to be pulled from shops and the presence of those in them, or other components, these components are selected in one store, which delivers goods throughout Russia and has its own representative offices in many cities. (Prices are taken from one popular store, its name cannot be specified according to the rules of chips).
And so here are 3 configurations from me:
Configurations themselves with links to the store:
30.000r:
Processor (CPU) - AMD ATHLON X4 860K Black Edition, OEM 4170R
CSP Cooler - Cooler Master S200
Motherboard - ASUS A88XM-A 3340R
RAM - DIMM DDR3 1600MHZ 8GB HYNIX ORIGINAL 3750R
Video card - MSI R9 270 Gaming 2G, R9 270, 2048MB, GDDR5, Retail 9430р
Case - Inwin IW-EAR007 500W4290R
Outcome - 30300r.
This configuration has a price within 30000r and is designed to replace the game consoles, it can be played in it in all modern and planned to release games on the settings close to high. If there is money, it is necessary to replace the Motherboard on AM3 + with AMD970 chipset, for example, from MSI and replace the processor on AMD FX-8300, it will cost about 3-3.5 thousand rubles, but it will cost that.
55.000r, Timecode on video 15:55:
Processor (CPU) - Intel Core i5-4590, OEM 13860R
Cooler for CPU - Cooler Master CP6-9HDSA-0L-GP 530r
Motherboard - ASUS B85M-G 3640r
Hard disk - 1TB, Seagate SV 35.5, ST1000VX000 3750R
Video card - Palit PA-GTX970 JetStream 4G, GTX 970, 4096MB, GDDR5, Retail 22170R
Case - Inwin IW-EAR007 4290R
Total - 52310r.
This system unit is designed for high and ultra settings in all modern games, like the previous system unit, it has exactly the same case, with a built-in power supply by 500 watts, MATX motherboard, such a hard drive for 1TB. But this configuration is not intended for overclocking, at least the processor, and the power of the video card and the processor allows you to play with comfort to all games.
80.000r:
Processor (CPU) - Intel Core i5-4690K, OEM 16620R
CPC Cooler - Cooler Master S200 940r
Motherboard - MSI Z97S SLI KRAIT EDITION 7520R
RAM - DIMM DDR3, 8GB (2x4GB), Kingston Hyperx Fury Blue, HX316C10FK2 / 8 3970R
SSD - SSD 128GB, PLEXTOR M6S, PX-128M6S 4500R
Hard disk - 1TB, Seagate SV 35.5, ST1000VX000 3750R
Video Card - MSI GTX 980 Gaming 4G, GTX 980, 4096MB, GDDR5, Retail 33450R
Case - Corsair Carbide Series Spec-01, CC-9011050-WW 3790R
Power supply - ATX CORSAIR CX 750, CP-9020015-EU, 750W 5930р
Outcome - 80470
This system unit is on the tip of technology. Motherboard with SLI support, an accelerated processor, a power supply and a housing are calculated to install two video cards, and an existing video card is a predestope and gives steadily high FPS in all games. This configuration is intended for a narrow circle of persons who crave a large FPS and a juicy picture.
Of course, not everything is picked up perfectly, but you can only select a specific person and his task.
On this, I hope you were interested to read this ton of text and it will be useful for you. And remember - in no case, do not buy ready-made computers, they cost you more and work much worse. In the modern world, there are shops in which you will collect and help in the selection of components for the system!
The gaming industry does not stand still. And every year, new products are becoming increasingly demanding to computer capabilities. This year was no exception: some of the announced games have already been released, and other projects of gamers are waiting from day to day, but not everyone can play them. Many have to do the update of iron, so in this article we will look at the Gaming computers 2015, prices and characteristics (prices in dollars).
Minimum configuration
We will analyze the characteristics of the initial level gaming computer. New processors with Skylake architecture have already appeared on the market. In this case, we chose Core i3, because even in minimal requirements, modern toys are asking for four nuclear processor. Yes, Core i3 has only two cores, but it can create two more virtual using Hyper-Threading technology. Cheaper Pentium on the same architecture, but does not know how to do this, so the game may simply do not start. Despite the same frequency characteristics, the new Core i3 will be slightly faster than the previous model - 4170, besides, it has less power consumption (51W, not 54W).
The motherboard and chipsets are practically no different from their predecessors (Intel H61). It doesn't make sense to choose a motherboard with support for DDR4, since it will not be visible on this configuration of productivity, only spend money. As for the volume of RAM, then less than 8GB is not relevant for the modern game at all.
The video card is selected by GTX 750 Ti 2 GB, because she has no performance competitors in this price range.
Optimal configuration
Consider the characteristics of the Middle Gaming Computer 2015. This is the optimal configuration today on a new platform. For those who want to save a little: you can choose Core i5-4460 ($ 205) and motherboard to it on Intel B85 ($ 90). But consider that the processor will lose on performance and energy consumption, although it is enough for a full relationship and working with this video card. Simply, in connection with the advent of a new line, the prices of these components do not grow as fast as on fresh. At least for now.
Soon the new Radeon R9 380x should appear. This video card will have more structural blocks than the predecessor, and the volume of video memory will increase to 4GB. Performance increases, and the price range promises to remain approximately at the same level.
This moment is likely to push the company NVIDIA to the creation of intermediate at the price of the models between the GeForce GTX 960 and GeForce GTX 970. And this will be very nice for us, because the difference in $ 150 does not please between them. The demand for models in this price category, of course, is, and so at least to choose from. The fact is that the video memory in 2GB is already not enough. In this case, the video card will have to use RAM for its needs, and it is slower with it than with its own memory.
Top configuration
| CPU | Intel Core i5-6600K (3.5 / 3.9 GHz, 4x256 Kb L2, 6 MB L3) | $300 |
| AMD FX-8320 (3.5 / 4.0 GHz, 8x1 MB L2, 8 MB L3) | $170 | |
| Motherboard | Intel Z170 (LGA1151) | $160 |
| AMD 990x / 990FX (AM3 +, USB 3.0) | $130 | |
| Memory | 16 GB (2x8 GB) DDR3-2133 / DDR4-2400 | $105/130 |
| Video card | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB, GDDR5 | $390 |
| Storage device | SSD 240-256 GB, SATA3 | $100 |
| HDD 2 TB, 5400-7200 rpm | $85 | |
| Monitor | 23-27, ", matrix IPS / Pls, DVI / HDMI / DisplayPort | $350 |
| Housing and BP | Middle Tower ATX, 650 W | $180 |
| PC Summa on Intel Platform | $1695 | |
| PC amount on AMD platform | $1510 |
This is how the powerful gaming computer 2015 looks like, the characteristics will allow you to put the settings in the game for the highest level (or ultrawife). Let's start with processors. You will immediately need to purchase a new cooler. Because even if it is included, first - it is very loud, and secondly, it will not be enough to overclock the processor. You most likely to overclock you, to get the maximum performance from the video card.
Lovers of the mostst video cards can choose between GTX 970 4 GB and RADEON R9 390 8 GB. Well, if the money does not play the role at all, then, of course, you can also put GeForce GTX 980 or RADEON R9 FURY. In the latter case, the increase in price absolutely does not correspond to the increase in power. But so it was always, it's the top!
Another feature of this configuration is the use of SSD drive. On him, of course, you need to put the operating system. But a couple of favorite toys will fit. This is done because the speed characteristics of such a hard drive is much higher than that of the usual HDD. If you want and play with it, you will have to fork out for SSD on 512GB, such a pleasure will cost from $ 180 to $ 200. It does not make sense less less, as games are already occupied not 20 - 30GB, but 60 -70 gb.