Upgrading Your PC for Gaming

Being a gamer is more than just going out to the Wal-Mart or shopping on eBay to pick up a new game and sliding it into the CD drawer of your desktop. Sure, you can do that and dawdle along the gaming plains for a bit until you get bored and move on to something new. That is barely a hobby gamer. True gamers realize that gaming is, in fact, a lifestyle choice, a culture. It is nearly generation specific, beginning in the 80's with the advent of true video game classic like Pong, Pac-Man and Pitfall.

The games that you play have an intricate role in how you will upgrade your computer for gaming. The games that you are playing now as well as those being released in the future need to be kept in your mind when going to upgrade the system you are using.

Online gaming needs differ from the needs of those playing simulation and so on. Games like Clive Barker's Jericho or F.E.A.R have more requirements than The Sims or Indy 500 Racing. Keeping your computer's maximum upgrade potential in mind goes a long way in knowing what games you will be able to play in the coming months and years.

Your processor is the undeniable workhorse of your computer system. The processor makes all of your games work as well as they do. Such things like how much data runs from point A to point B and how smooth your game will run under heavy gameplay will be determined by the processor. Most games will run perfectly fine on your standard Pentium and AMD chipsets. Dual processors have the added bonus of processing multiple strings of information at the same time without overheating. I prefer the AMD Athlon Dual Processor.

Games are, without a doubt, memory hogs. Being able to save data to your systems cache memory is important to keep your games moving smoothly. The more memory that you have translates into being able to resend the information that the software program uses during the course of the game back to the computer quickly and easily.

Memory also pushes the graphic processor to make the graphics smooth and crisp with minimal pixilation. The amount of memory you need is up to you. The majority of games today will not run on 512k very well. One gig of memory is a great starting ground for most games, however two gig would be much safer.

I love a crisp sound to my games and I love hearing dialogue without having to resort to subtitles. I'm fairly certain you are the same way. Most computers will run fine with the stock sound card but who wants that?

I personally love the full richness of the sound that is produced from a real sound card. Soundblaster has always had some of the best sound cards on the market and should never be overlooked because it will give the game that deep sound that the developers fully intended.

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