| Thursday, February 23, 2006 |
| Tonight's Tech Check - P.C Gaming - what to look for. |
Greetings Fox 6 viewers - don't forget to listen to Chase and Sam every Saturday at 11:00 AM hosting Tech Talk on WAPI 1070 AM.
Special thanks to Larry at Hack of All Trades (click here) for letting us film this week's Tech Check in his shop. If you need computer service or hardware sales - give him a call at 871-6521.
If you are in the market for a new computer, and you want it to play the latest games, then the $599.00 special that the local Walmart is carrying just won't cut it. The reason is that most budget (sub $1000) desktop and laptop computers don't have a graphics card - they instead let the processor handle most of the graphics processing. In order for a computer to play today's best games, it needs an 8x AGP graphics card with 128 megabytes of ram at an absolute minimum, and even with that, it won't handle the latest games particularly well - you'll have to dial down most of the graphics settings. Several companies make computers that are made for gaming, like Dell, Alienware, Falcon Northwest and Velocity Micro. You can also build one yourself, or order a custom pc - make sure it has a video card (not onboard or integrated graphics) a sound card, and at least 784 mb of Ram.
Pertinent clicks:
Velocity Micro's 3d gaming glossary,
Toms Hardware (click here) is a good place to start in educating yourself about the hardware needed for high end computer tasks like gaming, video/graphics editing, etc.
Here's a link to their reviews of the latest Computer graphics cards (click here)
Budget gaming guide
Did you wonder how we were playing old Atari games on our pc? Click here to check out the Stella project, where you can download a free Atari emulator for the pc. (You'll have to read the directions - we can't help you with support for this project)
An interesting thread on the Tom's Hardware forums about building the ultimate gaming pc.
Pricey gaming systems of the past
Next week, we'll help you upgrade an existing system to make it more gaming friendly, and offer some advice on when it's time to get a new computer, rather than upgrade. |
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