Gaming PC Parts Explained! 😃 A Beginner's Guide To Gaming Computer Components!

why absolutely adore PC gaming and the reason really is just because it is so flexible but when it comes to actually choosing the components for your gaming PC I think it can get quite confusing so I wanted to sit down with you and actually go through every single one of these components one by one so that you know what everything does and if you are picking up a new gaming PC hopefully it's a little bit less scary and you can have more information so that when you go into buying all of these things you know what they do and roughly how they're going to affect your PC and of course how much they cost but first a message from our pre-roll sponsor Nvidia and asus rog and their epic r-tx and gtx graphics cards high frame rate gaming not only brings lower latency smoother animations and better visibility but it can bring a genuine advantage over your competition as quicker reaction times only increases the chances of making that game-winning strike you can pick up an Nvidia frames win games graphics cards starting with a mighty gtx 1660 super and you can learn a little bit more about this and start your high frame rate journey with the links down below the first thing that you should always focus on is one of these graphics cards and the reason that graphics card is so important for all of your gaming needs is because this will actually handle all of the gaming aspects pretty much and it does all of the rendering and it's what directly sort of dictates what your frame rate is going to be and what sort of resolution you can actually run your PC with which is why it's always important to actually work out exactly what you're almost trying to achieve with your gaming PC and then get a graphics card that is appropriate for that so if you just want them to play maybe some lighter titles at 1080p then you don't need to spend much money and I grab it's kind of tall but likewise if you're wanting to go for 4k 120 Hertz then you're gonna need to the best graphics card that you can possibly guess and actually buying one is pretty simple these days all you need to do is look at the benchmarks for all of the different graphics cards and the sort of budget and that you actually have and then this will tell you what sort of monitor you can get what sort of resolutions that you have to run it at and it sort of all links very nicely and neatly together and you're typically looking at one from Nvidia this is an RT X 2080 super or you're looking at one for I am D so this is a 5500 XT and what you might notice is that this actually has two different sorts of branding on it you have the AMD monkey and then you have the sapphire branding so what's this all about well the way it works is that Nvidia and AMD will release a GPU or a graphics card and then it's actually up to the different manufacturers to sort of tweak this a little bit put their own cooling solution on it and then sell it to use you're almost buying a graphics card that's been made by two different people so here at B sapphire and AMD or if you get the stock or reference design or this is the founders Edition from Nvidia then you're getting a card that they've narni manufactured but one that they've bought their designs and the reason that some of them are a little bit bigger than others is plainly because depending on how powerful is it's going to generate more heat and you're going to need more cooling to actually dissipate all of that heat throughout your chassis all you really need to know is that if you buy it quite a powerful graphics card you're gonna need a better power supply and you are going to actually need to have the physical space to put this inside your case so don't go buying a huge graphics card if you're putting inside a tiny by DX chassis so that's the graphics card out the way anyway again that is a very important bit of the puzzle and if I was buying a gaming PC I would always pick the graphics card first it's gonna directly dictate what your frame rate is gonna be in game but the motherboard and CPU is a very close second place because this is pretty much the heart of your computer everything sits on here so that graphics card where to slot into one of these slots down below what we call PCIe slots our CPU is this thing here so I typically point you towards getting something like a rising seven CPU or maybe a intel i7 CPU is these are normally the best sort of gaming CPUs if you've got a fair bit of money that wrote it but likewise you can't go for an i5 or a rise and five and these are also great bet especially if you're looking at the more budget-friendly system six to eight cores is gonna be great for all of those really intensive games things like best build 5 or maybe something like wait if any pics legends if you're playing at a high frame rate does require decent CPU and all you need this to do is to be able to keep up with this they work together in they share data between two different things and things like physics within the game engine are normally handled by the CPU so if a lot of things are going on there's a big explosion and you don't have a rated CPU then you find that your game will start stuttering and then it will go back to normal so you want to avoid that by having the best CPU really that you can afford that sort of matches the performance I guess of the graphics card that's probably the best way of describing it I'll leave a loader tip from links down in the description below though and have more information so I'm not just rambling about some really good pairings for graphics cards and CPUs and you can check out current pricing things like that all of that good stuff moving swiftly on to this which is the RAM or the memory these have actually changed a fair bit in recent years they're getting a lot faster these are ddr4 sticks they've got RGB lighting at the top which of course makes your PC run so much faster right all you need to do is make sure that you're buying your right speed and the right capacity I would recommend getting at least eight gigabytes for a gaming system in terms of speeds anything above 3000 to be honest so 3,000 megahertz is a great place to start if you're running a super high and rise in CPU and 3600 it's probably the way to go there's a general rule of thumb get the fastest memory you can up until the point where it gets really expensive because it doesn't affect gameplay that much as long as you're not getting something that is super slow something else that doesn't directly affect your framerate per se but is actually incredibly important is the storage if you're building a brand-new PC then getting something like this which is just a normal spinning hard drive I wouldn't really recommend doing because they're quite slow their advantage is all about capacity and if you don't need that capacity then that only strength pretty much disappears very quickly so you're probably gonna want to look at something like this which is an SSD this is a 970 Evo plus from Samsung and this actually will go directly on your motherboard you have these little slots covered up at the moment with heat sinks so you'll screw them directly into the board you won't need any cables whereas if you're getting something like a Sat SSD it will look a little bit like this and actually goes in your case somewhere and then you hook it up with a SATA power and data connection at the top not really a big deal with it I suppose it is an extra step I would recommend that you do get an SSD at least in some capacity that's probably quite a good joke there I'm very proud of that myself on the fly joke just because booting into Windows it's so much faster with an SSD the OS is quite heavy these days so if you have just a normal spinning hard drive it can take ages to get in launch programs all of that stuff in terms of what capacity you should go for they're getting cheaper and cheaper but games are also getting bigger and bigger so I'd recommend that if you could only get one thing just get one Saturday so Steve make that your boot drive and just a couple of your games that your favorites can sit on there for now and then you can buy another hard drive a little bit later once you have a bit more cash you'll know exactly how much space you're going to need I've mentioned the power supply quite a few times in this video but I haven't actually talked about it specifically so this is what you're looking at it's a big boss this is be quite straight power 11 and this is a power supply which is let's be honest incredibly boring but exciting at the same time when I'm buying one there's two main factors really which is making sure that actually has enough power for your system this is a 650 watt power supply which in this day and age there's very few people I think that's going to need more than that it's only when you start to get multiple graphics cards and things in one system that things get very toasty or if you've got very clients CPU and you're overclocking it but then the other thing is whether you get a modular or non modular power supply and if you're buying quite a small case and you buy a modular power supply then this means that all of the cables can actually be detached directly from the power supply which does make it more expensive to manufacture and of course you pay more for the privilege but then it keeps your PC looking nice and tidy and you've probably realized at this stage that you will need some of these fans and they will if I can spin it they will actually attach to your case and get all of that hot air within your system and check it out fantastic and depending on the case you get you won't actually normally get some case fans included as standard obviously quite cheap cases or enclosures will come with few and pretty net fans but as you step up you're gonna get better and better cooling and the reason I'm holding this motherboard up again is because this is quite a big motherboard this is an ATX motherboard and you can only fit this inside a ATX case it will say this in the specifications it should be very easy to spot but if you want to go for something smaller than you're looking for a micro ATX motherboard or a mini ITX motherboard these are the main three sizes that you're gonna see out there and you're only gonna be able to fit these in a case of the appropriate size but when we're talking about individual component cooling then we're mainly talking about the CPU because the graphics card will have a caller on it already so you don't need to worry too much about that and there's pretty much two ways to go for processor cooling which is something like this which is an all-in-one radiator and a pump so the pump is actually within this block they'll sit on the CPU this then connects to your case and then all of the heat from the CPU will go up into the radiator and then the fans will blow the hell up your case and then the water so warm sort of circulate the heat if you like from the CPU to the radiator and then it's this nice cool loop it works quite well on the contrary though you could actually go for something like this an air cooler this is course as brand new a 500 the seems becoming a little bit back into fashion now and I do like air coolers but I find that they do typically need to be set up correctly in order to get the best level of performance and acoustics there's no right or wrong answer but I think for a lot of people especially if you're buying a mail-order one then a radiator is a bit of an easier solution and I think personally it looks better but if you get a really good air cooler that sets up properly then that's probably what I would actually want in my own personal PC the last couple of things to mention is that a great way to actually improve the looks of your PC is just to include a couple of these which are magnetic RGB strips they plug into your motherboard normally and you only need two of these they cost around about 15 pounds to repair and it will give your PC a nice glow they'll just make it look a whole lot better and don't forget you also need a copy of Windows in order for everything to work you can download this from the Microsoft Store but you'll need a product key to actually activate it and get rid of that horrible watermark that will appear and you can normally actually migrate your copy of Windows from your old PC to your new one and it won't cost you any extra money but that's pretty much everything I have to say if you do want to check out some of my suggested builds shall we say or current pricing on any of these products featured you can find them all linked in the description down below and of course while you're down there don't forget to check out our pre-roll sponsors Asus and NVIDIA and their awesome high frame rate graphics cards if you're playing multiplayer then frames win games and getting the fastest graphics card is oh so important a su sell the 1660 super from 209 pounds bringing 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Length: 11min 56sec (716 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 26 2020