New PC Inc

I’m building a new PC!  The first step is trying to figure out what I’m going to use it for. 

With that being said - let’s get started!

Gaming and streaming are two of the biggest reasons for the new build.  I currently have SLI’d Nvidia GeForce GTX 460s - they were great when  I first got them several years ago, but there are so many new features available with the newer graphics chipsets I feel like I’m missing out.

While I could just update the graphic cards, the draw of DDR4 with a Haswell processor is also appealing.  This means $$$ - so I really have to know what I want and where to sacrifice so I’m not spending way more than what I really need.

Don’t get me wrong building a computer with 8x SLI’d Nvidia Titan Z, 1T of DDR4 RAM, 8 core 4GHz Haswell  w/16x 2TB SSDs….sounds amazing (Pretty sure it isn’t even possible in desktop computing, because of capped out buses on current motherboards available)  And even if it was possible there is no computing at this point where I’d actually ever be able to utilize it.  Not to mention the astronomical price to accompany it.  Unfortunately it is...not something I can afford.  

So what does it take to game and stream these days?  What type of compute is required?

It boils down to five high level components -

1 - CPU - How fast can data be processed

2 - RAM - How fast and how much data can be processed

3 - Graphics Card - How fast and how much graphical-type data be processed

4 - Drive - Load times….I feel like I’m preaching at this point

5 - NIC - HOLY CRAP NO WAY MORE SPEED??

We as gamers are purely looking for speed...in a way PC’s are our cars and we care about three things...efficiency, reliability and speed.  

Much like gaming streaming just requires more of the same.

With that let’s see what we can build!  - Next up let’s figure out a CPU!