What to collect gaming PC in 2015
Technologies / / December 19, 2019
And to just avoid unnecessary disputes in the comments, I want to clarify one important point: this post It is my personal subjective vision, based on their own 15-year experience of friendship with the PC and games.
Processor: Intel or AMD?
I will give you quite a recent example of a toy that sunk into my soul. We are talking about Dying Light - parkour zombie action game with an open world. So, the main complaint of this game went like this: «Dying Light in general is not optimized for AMD processors." People with Intel to play comfortably, while AMD owners suffered and waited patches. over time, the patches come out, but the sediment remained.
Why it happens? responds poll, Which takes place every month on Steam. In it involved tens of millions of gamers. What shows us the statistics on the CPU?
This is a business. Just stand in place of the developer. You can focus only on one product, and to satisfy 75% of users. Does it make sense to invest time and effort for the remaining 25%? Of course there are, but not in the first place. The harsh truth of life, for you have to pay in the truest sense. Intel expensive.
But and colder. Once I went to another, he just did an upgrade, but chose AMD. Launched Battlefield 3 on Ultra, and then began the fun part. It seemed as if the room (not in the game) flies a Boeing 747, although there are no airfield. In general, once I decided for myself that the overpayment for Intel justified, and since then has never regretted the choice of his.
Core i5 or Core i7? Now I choose i7 from a desire to get the most promising new standards, which do not lose their relevance and expire a very long time, namely DDR4 memory, which is only in motherboards with Intel chipset X99. Motherboard with chipset out only under the socket LGA 2011-3, under which, in turn, there are only the i7 processors and there is no i5.
The manufacturer of the motherboard, as opposed to the same graphics card, in this case, the role does not play. As well as the positioning of the specific motherboard model. All motherboards based on Intel X99 gaming default byudzhetok not among them. Take any - will not regret it.
video card
And here I am again on the side of AMD. Why? Because drivers. Among gamers often joke about it: "Normal drivers from AMD? You, apparently, from a parallel universe. " Because of this, there are problems with the performance and stability. According to the same survey Steam, get such statistics, VGA:
Advantage in favor of NVIDIA almost doubled. People are overpaid and are satisfied. Conduct an experiment and ask anyone familiar gamer, that he would prefer. In response, you will hear: "If you have money to take a better NVIDIA».
Which one? In view of the changed prices more or less accessible before video card GTX 970 is now perceived as tops and GTX 980 generally as something beyond. Pay thirty thousand of them are ready not all.
Recently published budget GTX 960 is only partially considered budget. That is the price it is true in the lower range of game cards. But it's still a game card with the latest architecture Maxwell, a bunch of technology and very productive. If you are not one of those people who "want to basically everything on Ultra at 60 fps», the power of GTX 960 will be enough for any, absolutely any modern game: GTA 5, FarCry 4, "The Witcher 3», Battlefield 4, Battlefield Hardline and Other.
What to choose manufacturer? Any. Most likely, you will need at least five years, so that by experience in their own skin to understand the quality of a company, as well as their own good luck. Once I fanatel one extremely popular manufacturer. Then one by one I were covered two of its graphics card.
The expression "is not the same" here is perfect. Then I stupidly because of the shares at a discount Palit took and did not regret. This is the most personal experience, because of which some people call the best brand "A", the second - the brand "B", and the third - the brand "B". Maybe I was not lucky, maybe the truth "is not the same," but now I have a third card from Palit, and it works like a Swiss mechanical watch. Past video as obsolescence, I sold on the secondary.
budget Palit GTX 960 It exists in three variations:
- younger GTX 960 OC Edition with a small factory overclocked;
- the average GTX 960 JetStream with even more factory overclocked;
- older GTX 960 Super JetStream with even more pre-overclocked.
In tests all the same specialized Internet resources, all three variations, despite the presence of factory overclocking perfect "dorazgonyayutsya" yourself (if, Of course, there is a desire to plunge into the wonderful world of overclocking), but the average user (and me too, I do not like to experiment on your computer), it is unlikely to be interesting.
Another significant plus 9xx GTX and GTX 960 in particular is to optimize energy consumption. Map so little heated, that without appreciable load (ie, office applications, browser, when watching movies, and so on) generally stops the fans, creating a zero level noise. This technology is called the 0 dB Tech.
GTX 960 shows an average performance gain of 60% over 660 GTX.
In view of factory overclocking the gap increases. Perceive GTX 960 just as the evolutionary continuation of the junior series totally incorrect. It's a completely different level graphics card.
RAM
Everything related to memory and storage, I call one word - Kingston. For me there is no other manufacturer, and again I rely on personal experience. You can as much as necessary to prove to me the advantages of their favorite, and I say the answer is only one: the years of impeccable work without a hint of any problem.
If you collect or upgrade your gaming PC now, the number one candidate for a new memory - it Kingston HyperX Fury DDR4. Uncontested thing for those who want to get a game with the RAM timings understated, effective passive cooling and no need to upgrade the foreseeable future.
DDR3 has long been the standard for memory in the actual configuration PC, but nothing lasts forever, and now it's time to be updated on the DDR4.
DDR4 - the new standard for the next few years. In the context of the evolution of computer gaming goes just perfect: higher frequency, higher bandwidth, higher reliability, lower power consumption.
In short, the situation with memory is this: say goodbye to DDR3 and remember that it is now at the helm of DDR4. Everything. We put a 16 GB and forget.
SSD
Yet not everyone discover the charms of the SSD and SSD technology has already managed to make a new leap in itself. Previously, 100% solid-state drives working through SATA interface and were very, very fast. And even now replacing HDD to an SSD is the best option to upgrade an existing computer on the relation "result - the cost." But in the gaming world is always a little bit has its own atmosphere, and that seems to be too fast for a typical computer, is no longer so for the game.
If you do upgrade the data warehouse now, then you need look no longer in the direction of the SSD classic, working through the SATA, and new generation the SSD, working through PCI Express.
My saliva is released abundantly HyperX Predator PCIe SSD. This is just a monster. Definitely my next purchase.
1400 MB / sec for reading, 1000 MB / sec for recording, a top controller Marvell 88SS9293, the ability to install the adapter and through M.2 HHHL. The older model currently has a capacity of 480 GB, and is suitable for almost terabyte version.
Why such wild volumes? And you see how much space is required for GTA 5 after installation. Yes, 65 GB. And this is clearly not the limit for the near future games. It is hoped that such decisions will become at least a little more accessible.
Body, power supply, accessories, etc.
Do not pinch extra thousand for a good casing. Take a large, not to think, "Is this all you like vidyuha" with fishnet against dust. Then you say to yourself thanks. I now have quite a budget ThermalTake Element TI'm satisfied.
Among PSUs me too impressed ThermalTake. Power is better to take with some reserve.
Keyboard, mouse, pad - it is so individual, that even his own opinion does not want to express. Someone plays the Razer or SteelSeries total cost of 15 thousand or more. Someone on the Genius kit for 300 rubles. Someone even on the controller from the console. There's nothing you can not advise.
Gaming Headphones with Microphone - an obligatory accessory gamer. The reality is that the gameplay is "full immersion" requires isolation from its surroundings. The surrounding, in turn, will thank you for the fact that they do not have to listen to the vibrating apartment furniture, shakes the deep bass from the exploding shells and other delights of modern shooters.
Closed gaming headphone perfectly realize it. Closed type - always as a microphone. Any more or less serious network game includes voice chat. Just try to play harmonious in the same squad Battlefield 4. A very different level of sensations.
I started with a very simple headphones, then appeared on the Sennheiser money, but they are not gambling. Of particular gaming headsets I get a sequence of SteelSeries Siberia v1 → Razer Kraken with USB → HyperX Cloud II with USB. USB connection makes it possible to implement a simulation of multi-channel audio, you have a virtual 7.1. It helps to understand the position of the enemy in online shooters.
At first, I subconsciously rejected the headset from the HyperX, because for me it is primarily a company that manufactures memory and storage. In practice, Cloud II was comfortable. Tight, no pressure, good isolating external noise, and does not let the sound out. Most gaming headsets give too powerful lows and mids and highs swallow. Here the sound evenly over the entire range. Removable microphone good. Teammates hear me clearly and without distortion. C May the first heat got to realize the beauty of bundled velvet ear cushions. By the way, pretty good about the headset is told to YouTube-Channel manufacturer.
Discuss?
Actually, everything. The above configuration will allow the total comfortably play all the new games at high graphics settings and, except for the video card does not require an upgrade for several years. Due tricked SSD system has time to boot before you without mistakes and hesitation pronounce the word "ENT". The same disc will be happy to, if you are a designer or work with video or other heavy data. When the free money, it makes sense to look towards an upgrade to a more powerful graphics card GTX 970 or if life is good, even up to GTX 980.