Build A Gaming Computer

Knowing how to build a gaming computer is exactly the same as building a regular computer.  The difference is simply where you spend the money.  

Read the page below if you're building a gaming computer.  This is going to give your computer the extra power to give you a better gaming experience.  Once you're done make sure you head over to How To Build A Computer, where we will go into detail about the entire process of building the computer.  

This is a screenshot from the game World of Warcraft

RAM

When picking out parts, especially when you build a gaming computer, make sure you have at least 4GB, preferably 6GB of high quality RAM that is as fast as your motherboard will support.  If your motherboard supports it, run it in dual channel or multiple channels.  RAM is important because now data is loaded instantly instead of having to be found by your hard drive.  

Video Card

Spend somewhere around 20 to 25% of your budget on your video card.  Try to pick a card with at least 1GB of on board RAM.  The extra RAM on the card really will help your video performance when it comes to big maps or a lot of things happening on screen at once.  

SATA Raid

If you have and extra $100 in your budget, and your motherboard supports it, buy multiple hard drives and setup a raid.  This will help your system chew through loading maps or game loading.  

If you share your internet connection with others in your house, or if you constantly have multiple programs that use the internet, get a gaming router.  You can set them to let your video games have priority over other things, like torrents.  

What this will do is let your video game data get sent before other things, they'll simply wait in line until there is room.  That way everyone can use the internet but your game play won't suffer.

If you don't need a router, but would still like being able to set which programs get priority over your internet access, head over to the speed up my internet page.