What are Gaming PCs?

today we're gonna talk about the difference between gaming computers and not gaming computers the x2 9 & 9 series motherboards from EVGA feature powerful designs both gamers and overclockers want like robust power delivery featuring active vrm cooling plenty of em 2 slots for fast storage and simple yet powerful bios for world record overclocking and testing step up your next build and be ready for the new Intel x-series processors with EVGA X 299 motherboards to learn more head to EVGA comm you know something's happened over the last let's say ten years or so and the amazing advancement of computer technology and the smaller ring of processes and the speeding uppers of computers what I'm trying to say here is as computers have gotten faster there's a bit of a blurred line now between what's considered a gaming computer and I think it's confusing a lot of people and it's making people spend more money than they really need to so today I'm gonna try and talk about with a little bit of visual aids here of what what is a gaming computer in 2019 so we're gonna start things off here with a bit of an extreme case the n1 9 to 8 it's a bad dead pun there but this is my personal gaming rig based off of an Intel 99 ATX II CPU I already had but it's an 18 core 36 thread behemoth of a CPU now why am I even mentioning this well because this kind of goes a bit too far to be a gaming computer although this is being built for gaming this is also an enthusiast build designed to just use something that's very high-end and not necessarily the most balanced for its needs gaming computers today really do leverage and prefer clock speed over core count now why is that well that's because games more often than not use what's called a world thread that one thread that's responsible to tying the game to the CPU and handle all of its well world rendering by world it just means the game itself and then from there it's gonna kind of delegate out those tasks and talk about NPC control other game model or characters that have to be rendered on screen now with multi-threading now being a much more prevalent thing the game is now doing a much better job at delegating those threads to other well core threads without having to have the world thread handle everything but the world thread is still responsible for a lot of the overall performance of the game which is why you're still hearing single-threaded performance being a thing in 2019 now this is an enthusiast build design just to be high-end stuff for the hell of it 228 ET is in sli which we know aren't even a thing anymore this is an example of a way to waste money if you're building a gaming computer but this would be a hell at workstation because workstation programs now are definitely utilizing graphics cards when it comes to or CUDA acceleration when it comes to things like well not so much Adobe but I believe this DaVinci Resolve loves fast cuda pretty stuff like blender yeah blender would definitely leverage the graphics card they would leverage all the CPU that's for sure but the point I'm making here is the fact that this is a gaming computer Elise it was supposed to be a gaming computer that would be also a badass workstation now if we look over here we've got some CPUs on here we've got a FX CPU we've got a 3900 X box because it's over there whoa could you imagine but we've also got the 3400 G which is still an AI GPU and the reason why I'm even bringing that up is if we go back about 18 to 20 years if we go back to like the Pentium 3 era of the Pentium not so much pin him for a PM 3 on Pentium 2 even the CPUs used a CPU slot on the motherboard and then you had a graphics slot that you had to put a graphics card into cpas back then did not use eye GPU they did not have graphics built into the CPU like we have right here and on almost every single Intel CPU will Intel mainstream this does not have an IDP either but that's because it's on the extreme platform back then you had to make a choice were you gaming and stuff were you just using a basic VGA card or a video graphics array then back then you also to make a decision is it a 2d card or is it a 3d card and if you had a 2d card installed you couldn't even launch any game that needed 3d acceleration hence not why 3d effects and Voodoo and all those cards became a thing but even then those cards were not necessarily capable of running some of the tasks that 2d needed so the reason why I'm even bringing up the history is because the lines are blurred it's no longer a choice you necessarily need to make every computer as a gaming computer and every computer is a workstation computer but how good it is at each of those tasks that is dependent on the parts that you have installed fortunately for you if you're looking at building your first gaming computer or updating pretty much anything you can buy today is good in fact all three of these things from the hundred Balogh hundred dollar range all the way up to the twelve thirteen hundred dollars graphics card are capable of running the same games the difference is going to be the FPS at which they can run it at very rarely now do we have a oh that's just garbage in fact all the bickering and that takes place now on the YouTube comments and the heck even amongst the tech reviewers that are you know sitting here struggling over what card is 1c cooler than the other what does that tell you it tells you things are definitely better than they've ever been in terms of the the downfalls that we can find between one product and another is three C of cooling and you know 2 DB of noise tells us that we have a very good era on our hands when it comes to the parts that you can buy for your gaming computer but graphics cards today are more powerful than they've ever been like we've got a 20 80 TI right here capable of a stupid amount of fps and we've still got the very relevant although being phased out now 578 gigabyte it's still capable of giving you a hundred fps in many titles in 1080p which is still the dominant resolution making the 2080 eye very similar to my build right here overkill and unnecessary if your goal is just to play video games but both of these cards are also very capable of professional tasks no they're not going to be the fastest blender renderer no they're not going to be super fast at 3d modeling neither of these cards have double precision capabilities but they're still capable of hell out allowing you to have a very fast professional workstation in fact Phil's rendering station the one that he uses to bring you every single video that you've been watching on this channel is a gaming computer it's got a 99 hundred K 32 gigabytes of RAM and a 20 80 TI that by haul intensive purposes is the like pinnacle of game right now is that make it any less of a workstation computer no does it make it a dominant gaming computer well obviously it's capable of it pretty much any computer you could build today is capable of being a streaming computer it's capable of being a work computer it's capable of being a gaming computer we have more rounded systems today than we've ever had in fact you can get a 3400 G like this guy right here still do 1080p gaming at low to medium settings and have a respectable gaming computer no longer do you have to now sit here and choose which parts are going to be for your gaming rig and which parts are going to be for your web browsing computer is that really a thing remember the early 2000s like get your web computer like remember eMachines yeah there was like the computers that were completely branded as being nothing more than surf for your email and get your webs but the point is things today are better than they have ever been in my opinion which you would want to prioritize for a gaming computer would be getting yourself the fastest GPU that you can afford without bottlenecking it fortunately we live in a time right now where you have to try pretty hard to bottleneck your graphics card only and when we go up to something like a 20 atti or a titan r-tx card do we start to see the true definition of bottlenecking where the graphics cards are no longer running at 100% or 99% utilization because they're waiting on the slow world thread to keep up with the communication of the graphics card because of the fact that the CPU is being overtaxed yes we're seeing games now utilize way more cpu than they ever ever have in the past but we've done some pat some pieces in the past here where we've kind of shown like how far down do you have to go to actually start bottlenecking your computer and what we found is that you've got to go down to like two threads running at like three gigs and and even then we start to see just a slight amount of fluctuation with mainstream cards not 2080 TI's I don't think most people are going to be buying a twenty atti and pairing it with a 3400 G because that would just be a terrible mix another thing I would I think I would prioritize with my gaming system is an SSD because load times no one wants to sit there and look at the stupid splash screen I think anyone running a computer today should be running an SSD in 2019 gaming computers in my opinion don't exist anymore they're just computers and they're all kind of awesome now if you think that we've missed any points here on what makes a gaming computer a gaming computer in 2019 please comment down below I think this is a difficult piece isn't as someone as someone who's experienced with all of these parts to try and explain the difference between a computer and a gaming computer because well I guess I take that back Intel's AI GPUs kind of suck don't do that one you if you have it if you have an Intel CPU put a graphics card in there any of them even the GT 1030 still better than an iris or HD graphics there's nothing HD about Intel's internal graphics 3400 G over an Intel eye GPU anyway if you think we've miss any important points comment down below I just see this is the season people are starting to build their systems and they're either getting Christmas money and they're putting together Christmas lists gaming computers just feel confident that you can pretty much game on just about anything today in fact CPUs and GPUs have gotten so good now that the idea of a second system or a dual system computer to do your live streaming is kind of obsolete and outdated I've been arguing this point to brands that want us to do a dual system build because they're like well I say why and they go for streaming and I'm like why CPUs with all the core counts that you've got now just set to two or four threads if you've got a multi thread CPU to your renderer put the rest of games you're done you don't have to worry about it any more the idea of using a capture card or the seco system and stream and good that's way more headache than it's actually worth gaming computers today are just computers prove me wrong [Music] Gaming hi no hey let's do again and that has is and I thought about what I'll just say today

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Length: 10min 57sec (657 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 16 2019