Question about Gaming PC.

[ItzFeeZyHD]

Please if you could answer all questions in full and number them please!

 

1. Overclocking. What is it? What are the Risks? What are the benefits? Should I Do it? Does it help gaming, streaming, and rendering?
2. Multiple CPU's (1,2,3,4? etc)? What does this mean? How Many should I have? How many can I have? What are the risks? Does it help gaming, streaming, and rendering?
3. DDR3 vs DDR4? Whish is better for gaming, streaming, and rendering?
4. Multiple Graphics/Video Cards? How Many should I have? How many can I have? What are the Risks? What are the benefits? Does it help gaming, streaming, and rendering?
5. Multiple Processors? How Many should I have? How many can I have? What are the Risks? What are the benefits? Does it help gaming, streaming, and rendering?
6. Is there any program that can scan my computer and check for drivers/hardware and software updates?

 

Thanks!

[rmac52]

Linus did a video recently about ddr4 and ddr3. I bet if you just searched the forum you could find all this info. What your asking is beyond the scope of an I have a question post

[ItzFeeZyHD]

Linus did a video recently about ddr4 and ddr3. I bet if you just searched the forum you could find all this info. What your asking is beyond the scope of an I have a question post

Or I can ask it here, and get the exact answer I want instead of spending hours upon hours browsing for the exact answers.

[ZacDaMan72]

1. Pushing the clock speed (eg 3.6GHz) higher (eg 1GHz) to make a component faster. Makes component faster, at the cost of lifespan of the component. Why not. For CPU-intensive games yes it helps. Streaming and rendering I'm not too familiar with but technically yes.

 

2. Having multiple CPU's on one board. This is some serious workstation/server stuff so stay away.

 

3. DDR3 is more mainstream but DDR4 is better. 

 

4. Have one single powerful GPU. Multiple graphics cards will obviously give you more performance but some games don't support it well or in some extreme cases not at all. There are some issues with SLI/CrossfireX though. More heat and energy consumption is the cost of getting 2 cards.

 

5. Having multiple CPU's on one board. This is some serious workstation/server stuff so stay away.

 

6. No idea for a single program. Motherboards can download updates for itself via its Windows software. GeForce experience and Gaming Evolved will update your drivers. 

[Archangel1994]

1. Increasing the operating frequency beyond the factory specification. For instance the 4790k has a 4GHz stock with 4.4 Turbo. Increasing the frequency to above 4.4 GHz is overclocking. The risks are potentially decreased life expectancy, sudden death of your CPU if your voltage is too high and you have increased heat output and power draw. You should only do it if you need it. It barely helps in gaming unless you have something akin to an FX-6300/8320, helps quite a bit in streaming and rendering

 

2. You are confusing multiple CPU's with multicore. Multiple CPU's is literally more than 1 physical CPU (So more than 1 socket too) on a motherboard. Multicore means it has more cores within 1 CPU, each of which acts independant from the other. Most games are optimized for 4 threads or less at the moment but they are predicted to use more than 4 in 2015. For streaming a Quad-Core with hyper-threading is recommended (Intel Core I7 or Xeon E3) or a 4 module 8 core AMD CPU (FX-8320 and higher). You can have 16 cores but that requires specialist components that cost a fortune. For the average gamer the highest you can get is 8 cores 16 threads (I7-5960x at $1049). There are no risks for multicore or Multiple CPU's. It does not help gaming but it helps streaming up to a certain point and rendering by a cubic buttload.

 

3. DDR4 is only better for rendering. DDR4 has no advantage over DDR3 in gaming or streaming at this moment in time.

 

4. Multiple graphics cards are run to achieve performance that would otherwise be unobtainable with a single card with the current technology. YOu should have one if you run on 1080p/1440p if you have a 60Hz monitor and 2/3 if you have a 120/144Hz monitor and refuse to turn down the dials. You can have up to 4 cards in SLI/Crossfire but it depends on the motherboard you have, the PSU you have and which CPU you have. (the names of multi-graphics card technology to make them work together on a single game). The downside is increased temperatures and increased power draw and the entire "array" of graphics cards will slow down to the slowest card (not often that this is an issue). The benefits are increased performance which would otherwise be obtainable with a single graphics card with the current technology. It helps gaming, does not help streaming and helps rendering if the graphics cards are Nvidia and what you render with supports CUDA acceleration.

 

5. As a gamer you only need 1. For the difference between multicore and multiple CPU's refer to 2.

 

6. Besides common sense and the notifications that popup you should not use one program to monitor it all. Those kinds of programs often come with significant amounts of bloatware (watch Linus' video on it) and are often inefficient. Just use common sense and pay attention to popups and regularly check whether you can update the drivers.

[Archangel1994]

3. DDR3 is more mainstream but DDR4 is better. 

Only for rendering/content creation. It has no effect on anything else

[rmac52]

Or I can ask it here, and get the exact answer I want instead of spending hours upon hours browsing for the exact answers.

If that's your attitude then your going to find a lot less people willing to help you.

I don't want to be an ass but you have to try to help yourself. This forum is a wonderful resource for learning about computers. But not by simply demanding people tell you. The info is there go find it

[bosfreak]

1. Overclocking is making a chip (memory, cpu, gpu) run at a higher speed, this increases the performance. risks of overclocking are: potentially unstable gaming and higher temperatures leading to system degradation

2. You only need one cpu for gaming, however, a cpu can have multiple cores(2, 4, 6, 8, 12) for gaming a 4 or quadcore processor is enough, if you want to do heavy tasks like rendering a quadcore with hyperthreading or a 6 or 8 or even 12 core cpucan help doing it faster.

3. DDR 3 is the old gen RAM, and is a little bit slower than DDR 4, but for DDR 4 you need a better and thus more expensive cpu and motherboard, for now DDR 3 is fine for gaming.

4. Having multiple graphics cards is not nescesarry (sorry if spelled incorrectly) unless you are running multiple or high resolution screens, the most you can have is 4 per system, more graphics cards generate more heat and consume more power.

5. A processor is the same as a Cpu, see point 2.

6. Yes, the programms i know of are: nvidia's geforce experience for your graphics card drivers and driver reviver for the rest.

Hope i helped you out with this post.

[Guest]

You need to go out and look for information. All of that info is out there. Linus did a video recently about ddr4 and ddr3. I bet if you just searched the forum you could find all this info. What your asking is beyond the scope of an I have a question post

He needs to know. You can't rust people. People told me that any quad core could play BF4 max settings. Someone else told me a 760 can max all games too. It was a long road for me until I got to this point.

 

1) It improves everything. Reduces life of components and risk breaking stuff.

2) I think 4 cores is enough for gaming. When it comes to rendering, the more cores the better I believe.

3) DDR3 is fine for gaming, not sure if things are better when it comes to rendering with DDR4.

4) Try to get 1 high end GPU, but 2 GPUs can cause micro stuttering. I'm not sure if that's a problem these days though. 2 max IMO

5) 1 processor

6) I don't know. HWmonitor shows you your hardware.

 

Don't quote me on this I "think" this is right.

[ItzFeeZyHD]

Thank you very much to everyone who was responded, and for number 2 my mistake, I wrote the questions down, just worded differently.

[GloriousPain]

1. Overclocking. What is it? What are the Risks? What are the benefits? Should I Do it? Does it help gaming, streaming, and rendering?
2. Multiple CPU's (1,2,3,4? etc)? What does this mean? How Many should I have? How many can I have? What are the risks? Does it help gaming, streaming, and rendering?
3. DDR3 vs DDR4? Whish is better for gaming, streaming, and rendering?
4. Multiple Graphics/Video Cards? How Many should I have? How many can I have? What are the Risks? What are the benefits? Does it help gaming, streaming, and rendering?
5. Multiple Processors? How Many should I have? How many can I have? What are the Risks? What are the benefits? Does it help gaming, streaming, and rendering?
6. Is there any program that can scan my computer and check for drivers/hardware and software updates?

1. Making things go faster than intended... Lower lifespan of part overclocked... Higherspeed... depends what you overclock OC'ed GPU will help more than OC'ed RAM(with few exceptions)... 

2. Server use only really no point in explaining...

3.DDR3... DDR4 is in it's infancy and only real benefit at the moment is lower powerconsumption and higher densitys, but it's cost is TOO DAMN HIGH and it only works with 3 CPUs that vary from $500-$1200 which only works with select $300+ motherboards (called X99 and i7s 5820k 5930k and 5960X)

4. You can have 1-4 Gpus... 1 or 2 (3's only for those with deep wallets and has little returns 4's for workstation use only it can actually diminish gaming performance)You can have 1-4 but AMD is considering allowing 5 but Windows couldn't address 5 and you'd need a very high end system to support it theoretically anyway

5. #2 or #4 you just said processor...

6. AntiVirus Windows has some of these features others are Nvidia Control Panel, or AMD's Gaming Evolved...