Question

Discuss your gaming computer design process. Consider the following:

• What are your top considerations for your computer design?
• What steps and sequence will you use as you choose your hardware and OS?
• What drives your hardware specification requirements?
• What challenges are you facing? How might you address them?

Answer 1

Top considerations for best gaming computer design is derived from the following components-

Motherboard

All the required hardware ports must be there like usb ports there is also a port for wireless adapter. Socket types need to be compatible between the motherboard and the CPU. For RAM; type, speed, capacity, size, and the number of RAM slots needs to work with the motherboard and the PC case you want to use. There should also be a support for dual memory card.

CPU/Processor

As there is a huge requirement of multi-threading workload so there should be more than one core processors to handle the requests. For Full HD gaming experience you’ll need at least a 2.5Ghz processor with i5 or i7.

RAM

There should be a good ram basically includes DDR3 or DDR4 RAM comes in different types, which must match the motherboard’s requirements. Most modern motherboards use DDR3 or DDR4. For RAM; type, speed, capacity, size, are the most important factors.For gaming, 16GB to 32 GB is usually sufficient.

Monitor

If you are looking to play in 4K you also need to have a 4K support monitor.

Storage drive (HDD/SSD)

You can use any of the storage drives from traditional hard drive(HDD) or a solid state drive(SDD) to store your data. An HDD is cheaper in comparison to SDD. Generally, 250GB-500GB is enough size for HDD required for gaming, you require a cache memory of 8MB to 16MB for gaming and 7200RPM.Whereas SDD drives a expensive but provides quicker read/write latency times and faster game loading