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| 1201785 | 2011-05-12 11:12:00 | I'm looking at building a pc for the first time. Have been looking at this website and in particular this machine they have built www.tomshardware.com I am looking for a machine that is an all rounder - that is some photo manipulation, word processing, excel, emails and some gaming. My question is what differentiates between a gaming machine and an all rounder ? For example the one they have built here has been specified as a gaming machine so surely it is good for graphics therefore should be good for Photoshop No ? If not how does one determine what one needs for a specific purpose. Realise this may be a big question to answer but any advice is most appreciated. |
globe (11482) | ||
| 1201786 | 2011-05-12 11:22:00 | You will spend more to get good gaming performance. If you are a senior member this might be overkill. |
PENTIUM (426) | ||
| 1201787 | 2011-05-12 11:23:00 | If you are a senior member this might be overkill. ?? I have no idea what you mean there ? |
globe (11482) | ||
| 1201788 | 2011-05-12 11:32:00 | Yep, a gaming machine will do everything else very well. | Metla (12) | ||
| 1201789 | 2011-05-12 11:33:00 | ?? I have no idea what you mean there ? Just an ignorant insult to our senior members.:waughh: |
Metla (12) | ||
| 1201790 | 2011-05-12 11:35:00 | Put simply a gaming machine is defined by a great graphics card, fast CPU and decent amount of ram in that order A graphical editor is defined as large amount of ram, fast CPU and a decent graphics card in that order. imo |
DeSade (984) | ||
| 1201791 | 2011-05-12 11:35:00 | He means if you're an old bugger, don't waste your money lol. I'm an old bugger & I do what you want to do on a core2duo 2.1ghz & it does it just fine. Granted when encoding dvd's it can take a bit of time, but not as much as the old P4 pentium it replaced. I don't play many games so a zillion frames per minute doesn't matter. Use that time to go make a cuppa |
Phil B (648) | ||
| 1201792 | 2011-05-12 11:36:00 | Make sure you get local prices, as I have been contemplating a new build I was doing some research and the Asrock board that was being touted overseas as the best budget solution is more expensive locally then a more fully featured Asus board. | Metla (12) | ||
| 1201793 | 2011-05-12 11:36:00 | Don't forget that's an american site. toms hardware uses usd so everything will be about quadruple the price. And I'm almost not joking. Metla's right though. If you build a machine to game, it will be able to do almost everything else as well. In any case though you don't need a powerful graphics card to edit photos, just alot of ram :) If you're editing video and your card supports offloading rendering to the GPU, then sure, otherwise you don't need one that flash. |
8ftmetalhaed (14526) | ||
| 1201794 | 2011-05-12 19:38:00 | I My question is what differentiates between a gaming machine and an all rounder ? . LOL . The graphics card . If it has a decent graphics card and CPU, RAM to match (and not bottleneck) then it's a gaming machine . No GPU, no gaming . Gaming PCs of course, can also be used for accounts, internet, word processing, photos, whatever . Like mine . Non-gaming machines can do most of the above but not gaming . There are gaming PCs and non-gaming PCs . |
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