Knowledge of the hardware components is extremely essential before you start building a gaming PC at home. This is similar to cooking a dish, you need to know the exact recipe to create the perfect meal, for example: cooking an omelet in your kitchen, you will need eggs, chillies, salt, pepper, oil etc. and then you need to follow the steps exactly as explained by the recipe book or from a video you saw in a TV show. In similar way when you need to gather all the computer parts necessary for running a gaming computer and then follow the steps in the manual to join them together into a gaming rig. If you do it correctly the computer will start working otherwise you will end up seeking help from an expert in the neighbourhood.
What Are Hardware Components Of Gaming Rig?
A gaming machine is composed of the following hardware components:
Gaming Case: This is a rectangular box which is available in full tower, mid tower and cube formats. A computer case is used to pack all the PC parts into a single unit where they work together to provide a PC functionality.
PSU: This is also called as power supply unit which is a power manager for your computer responsible to deliver the electricity to all the computer hardware. You can find power supply as part of a computer case.
Motherboard: This is large flat board which is made with silicon wafer that has tons of micro level circuitry to enable fast communication between different computer parts. There is slot for installing processor, system memory sticks, PCI cards such as 3d video and sound cards. Motherboard is also responsible for data transmission to and from hard and optical drives.
CPU: This is a computation guru of your computer machine which act like a brain of your machine and handle all the logics and data compilation to provide calculations to the questions posed to it. CPU stands for central processing unit which work closely with system RAM to compute real time processes. You will need high performance processor to get the best results.
RAM: Speedy multitasking is only possible when you have a higher degree of random memory available, which will make sure your processor does not need to wait for new chunk of data and all running programs data to be processed is hold temporarily at RAM which is then queued to processor for calculations.
GPU: This referred to as a video or graphic card which has separate CPU like chip but this one only handles the graphic related tasks and help to provide killer graphics on your computer screen. GPU stands for graphical processing unit which are installed on PCI slot of your motherboard, which has a dedicated memory and clock rate, higher values for these attribute will result in high visual performance.
HDD: Hard disk drive is the mass storage device which now-a-days are immense in size to make you trouble free from shortage of capacity to store files. You can store all kind of files on your mass data storage medium, these includes photos, songs, videos, games, software and system files etc. One important thing to note when you buying a hard drive, make sure to go for 7200RPM speed for faster data writing and retrieval time.
SSD: This is new medium for mass storage which has no moving parts and instead all the files are stored on integrated circuits which are assembled in a way to use as a memory. This is similar to flash memory sticks but these ones are much faster and large in size. Installing a Solid State Drive (SSD) will make your data storage speed twelve times faster than conventional spinning disk drives. This will dramatically increase your computer speed.
Optical Drive: An optical drive is an electronic device which can read and write CDs, DVDs and newer bluray enabled optical units can read or write on blu-ray discs. This is secondary storage medium which can be used to run hd movies as well as to write backup copy of your files on primary storage medium (HDD or SSD) as well as burn videos.
Choosing Only Gaming Grade Computer Parts
When you research market to buy parts for your gaming rig, then you need to make sure that gaming computers require heavy duty hardware and low performance parts cannot be used to build a gaming machine. So always choose gaming grade components. Rule of the thumb is to go for latest and heavy duty product that your pocket allows you to buy, for example: buy core i7 processors and do not go for i5 or i3 as this will result in affecting your PC speed and hence your games will lag and un-responsive. Similarly a high performance Geforce video card (1GB dedicated VRAM) from nVidia will provide brilliant graphics for high definition videos and games, where as smaller cards with 128MB or 256MB graphics memory will result in poor visual effects on your computer monitor. Having high specification PC will make sure you end up building a gaming desktop which is highly responsive and provides supreme quality gaming experience for the latest video games.
Benefits Of Building Your Gaming Desktop
One benefit after building your custom gaming computer is that you will never gone disappointed by making PC our computer on your own desire. If you did buy ready made gaming computer an after that some thing is missing or they end up much more expensive than custom ones. Ready to go gaming desktops are much more expensive in the market, however you can find some cheaper models but that is rarely the case. Custom desktop computer will allow you to easily over-clock your system to get the performance computer without spending more money. Some people prefer to build their own while other decide to find a machine which is already optimized for gaming.
