if you're building a new gaming PC there's a good chance that you've heard
this piece of advice balance your build
which is an important rule to follow but
balancing is kind of a vague term so we're going to explain what balancing
means and what it doesn't mean the basic
idea behind it is to minimize the impact of bottlenecks a bottleneck occurs when
a weaker component prevents a stronger one from performing its best lowering
your overall system performance in the applications that you care about a
common bottleneck is overspending on a top tier gaming CPU and then under
spending on your GPU however it's worth
noting that this blade can cut both ways
and a weak CPU can also result in lower
than expected frame rates making matters even trickier the ideal CPU GPU balance
is going to differ depending on what kinds of games you play say for example
you're the competitive type and you play Esports titles where you're chasing the
highest possible frame rates instead of Maximum visual Fidelity well for you
balancing your build would mean making sure that your CPU can pump out hundreds
of frame rates per second reducing latency and giving you a Competitive
Edge and a good CPU might matter more than you think if you play simulation
type games like City skylines large cities can drag the game simulation
speed to a crawl literally slowing the in-game clock but on the flip side if
you like to enjoy beautiful AAA single player experiences at the highest
Fidelity you are almost certainly better off allocating all of your character
sheet points to your GPU before you even begin to allocate anything elsewhere
because modern techniques for rendering lighting and shadows are almost entirely
dependent on having a strong GPU so your best bet in any case is to figure out
your budget then read independent reviews for the games and the Hardware
that you're interested in to see how different CPU and GPU combinations play
with each other remember the GPU is often the bottleneck when trying to run
at high resolutions and high quality settings but the CPU is often the
bottleneck when trying to reach the highest possible frame rates as you go
through this exercise though remember that balancing your build does not mean
buying the highest end component just because you splurged on a different
component elsewhere in your system don't be pressured Ed into spending fistfuls
of money on let's say a fancy liquid cooler if an inexpensive heat sink is
good enough for your needs another example is extra CPU cores well those
can be worth spending money on if you're performing tasks that use them like
video encoding or 3D rendering but I pretty much guarantee you that most of
the games you play only use a handful of cores and a mid-range Chip is going to
do just fine but that's only CPU and GPU
what about the systems other components we're going to talk about those right
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balance is your RAM avoiding critical bottlenecks typically means having
enough RAM to run all of the programs you need at once without running out
and in modern games that can be a lot these days with 32 GB quickly becoming
the recommended amount to reduce stutter and even shorten loading times as you
move to New areas of the map but that doesn't mean that you should go
overboard and over by in the old days it
could be worthwhile to load your system up with as much RAM as you could afford
because newer programs might need more in the future and if you filled it up by
accident it could result in a full system crash but modern systems will use
their drive as an overflow which will slow down performance but it won't lock
up your system so you can just head to the store at your leisure for an upgrade
and besides if you have extra budget for your RAM today I'd consider putting it
towards faster RAM rather than more of it though there is a point of
diminishing returns so again read reviews to figure out what speed of RAM
to buy for your needs so you aren't buying something that's so fast you're
wasting your money balance outside of
these core components CPU GPU and RAM
there are some other considerations for balancing that may not affect your frame
rates in your games as directly but can still save you money for example there
isn't much point to getting some kind of gargantuan power supply That's rated far
in excess of what your system actually draws under load a good guiding star is
to look for a quality unit with 100 to
200 watts of Headroom for future upgrades cybernetic certifications on
the box never a bad sign and and I could
actually say something similar about components like your motherboard in your case for example getting the motherboard
with the right chipset is important so that your CPU will fit in it and so
you'll have enough PCI Express Lanes and other key features you might want like
Fast networking or USB ports but is
there really a point in getting a super high-end motherboard with a ton of extra
headers and overclocking Tom Foolery you're never going to use in a different
vein do you really need a gigantic space hogging case if you're just rocking a
mid-range graphics card and a single m.2 storage drive we can't talk through
every scenario like that there's a lot to consider to have a well-balanced
system but the underlying concept is simple figure out how you're going to be
using your computer and buy the components that fit your use case
without overspending and just because you spent a whole paycheck on an RTX 490
that doesn't mean you have to spend two more paychecks on a 64 core CPU you're
not going to hurt your graphics cards feelings I promise thanks for watching
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