**The Importance of Choosing the Right Motherboard for Your Gaming Computer**

When it comes to building or buying a gaming computer, one of the most crucial components you need to choose is the motherboard. The motherboard serves as the main circuit board of your computer and plays a vital role in determining the overall performance and capabilities of your system. While it may seem like a straightforward decision, choosing the right motherboard can be a daunting task, especially for those new to building computers.

**The Benefits of Choosing a High-End Motherboard**

Going with a high-end motherboard can provide you with a multitude of benefits that can enhance your gaming experience. For one, higher-end motherboards often come equipped with advanced features such as UEFI bios, which offer more flexibility and customization options than traditional BIOS systems. These UEFI bios also allow for real-time monitoring of system performance, providing you with valuable insights into your computer's health and behavior.

Furthermore, high-end motherboards are designed to handle overclocking, which can significantly improve the performance of your computer. Overclocking involves increasing the clock speed of individual components, such as the CPU or GPU, to achieve better performance. While overclocking can be intimidating for those new to it, it's a powerful tool that can unlock significant gains in gaming performance. By choosing a high-end motherboard, you'll have the ability to take advantage of these features and push your computer's capabilities to the limit.

**The Importance of Solid State Drives (SSDs)**

Another crucial component to consider when building or buying a gaming computer is the storage drive. In recent years, solid state drives (SSDs) have become increasingly popular due to their impressive performance and efficiency. SSDs offer several benefits over traditional hard disk drives (HDDs), including faster loading times, reduced latency, and improved overall system responsiveness.

In terms of gaming, SSDs can significantly improve the player's experience by reducing loading times and increasing frame rates. This is because SSDs are capable of reading data from storage at much higher speeds than HDDs, making it ideal for games that require quick access to assets and levels. While SSDs may not provide a direct increase in frames per second, they can still have a noticeable impact on gameplay performance.

**The Importance of Adequate Cooling**

Finally, when it comes to building or buying a gaming computer, adequate cooling is essential. The video card alone can generate significant heat, especially if you're pushing the limits of your system with intense games and overclocking. Without proper cooling, this heat can build up inside the computer, causing temperatures to soar and potentially damaging components.

To mitigate this risk, it's essential to choose a case that includes adequate ventilation and cooling options. This may include front, rear, and top fans to ensure airflow is properly directed around the computer. In addition to these external fans, it's also important to consider internal cooling solutions, such as liquid cooling or large heat sinks on the CPU.

**General Tips for Building or Buying a Gaming Computer**

Based on my personal experience and knowledge of PC building, I've compiled several tips that can help you make informed decisions when choosing components for your gaming computer. First and foremost, it's essential to choose a processor (CPU) that meets your needs and budget. If you're planning to do heavy overclocking or video editing, consider investing in a high-end CPU with multiple cores and threads.

Another crucial component is memory (RAM), which should be sufficient to handle the demands of your games and applications. While more memory never hurts, it's rare to notice significant improvements beyond 16 GB. When choosing a graphics card, remember that you don't need the most powerful model available; a balance between performance and price can provide great results.

Finally, I recommend giving building or buying a computer a try if possible. Not only can you save money in the long run by avoiding sales prices and shipping costs, but you'll also have complete control over what components are included in your system. Additionally, building or buying a PC allows you to experiment with different configurations and find the perfect balance between performance and price.

**A Little Bit About Me**

As for myself, I've been working with computers for many years and have developed a deep passion for technology and innovation. In my free time, I enjoy sharing knowledge and insights with others through my YouTube channel, where I post regular videos on PC building, gaming, and other related topics.

Whether you're new to PC building or an experienced enthusiast, I'm always happy to share tips and advice on how to get the most out of your computer. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to reach out to me through social media or in the comments section below.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enmotherboards multi-core processors Heat snc fans memory modules sound cards hard drives video cards fans network cards power supply units solid state drives DVD drives and a big ass case do you know what to look for when buying your next computer what's up everybody you're watching Jays 2 cense and today we're going to be discussing buying or building your own gaming PC and things you need to know for starters I'd like to say I am an advocate for building your own computer it creates a sense of pride a sense of joy to put together something you know you are going to be spending hours on and you are going to have a high level of respect for a piece of equipment that you yourself have built with that if you don't don't think you can build a PC uh I've got news for you you can build a PC PCS these days are very simple everything is very straightforward you no longer have the old days of dealing with IDE and slave drives and master drives and having to have the jumper in the right location or the hard drive or the DVD drive on the right slot on the cable now everything's done through software you've got SATA cables you simply plug it in to the motherboard you plug it into the DVD boom you're good you're golden so I just want to say right now if you think you can't build yourself a computer I've got news for you you can and the flavor of this video If you will is going to be a little bit more geared towards those people who are building their own PCS I get asked on a regular basis what parts I feel they should buy and what parts uh they should stay away from and before you can answer that the first thing you have to ask yourself is what am I going to be doing with this computer am I going to be primarily gaming am I going to be doing video encoding or photography uh rendering am I going to be doing Graphics design animation or am I going to be simply playing video games if I'm only going to be playing video games I don't want the fastest or the most expensive processor on the market games simply do not use more than four cores and you'll notice on the market today you've got AMD bulldozer which has eight cores and you've got the Intel i7s which have eight cores and you are not going to see much if any gaming Improvement whatsoever what you will notice with a higher core count are the programs that actually make use of those cores like your video editing software or your photo editing software will run much much quicker so I wouldn't actually recommend one of those Fang dangled 8 core or even six core processors unless you know for a fact you are going to be doing more with your computer than just gaming the next common question that I'm regularly asked is how much RAM do I need in my computer uh do I need 8 gigs 16 gigs 32 gigs well uh as you may have guessed the question honestly once again what a am I going to be doing with my computer if I'm going to be playing simply games and games only 8 GB of RAM is all I'm going to need I will never use more than 8 GB of RAM playing video games now if I am once again going to be doing video editing photo editing or anything that puts a heavy CPU load on the computer then I am going to probably want to recommend 16 GB as The Sweet Spot 30 2 GB in most instances unless you're running some sort of a server and I don't mean a file server and I don't mean a music server I mean a server you do not need 32 GB it is bragging points and it gets you nothing performance-wise I'm also regularly asked about video cards the video card is the single most important part of your computer the video card takes the brunt of the force when it comes to rendering video games so you want to go is something that's the best that you can afford there are many options and many many different price brackets when it comes to video cards on top of having to decide on the brand whether it be AMD or Nvidia either brand you decide to go with your gaming experience will probably be just fine so when it comes to video card and if you're gaming don't be cheap put your money into your video card and you will notice a better smoother gameplay experience motherboards are an interesting piece of equipment when it comes to the computer you will very rarely ever see any sort of gaming or speed Improvement of your computer overall by going with a high-end motherboard versus a mid-range or even a low-end motherboard what you gain by going with the higher end motherboards are bells and whistles bios functions and usually overclocking if you plan to overclock or you're not afraid to overclock I would definitely recommend going with a motherboard that has a ufi bios fortunately these UEFI bios are becoming more common even on the lower in motherboards if you're not familiar with what a UEFI bios is basically it is a new type of format that the BIOS is displayed in that allows you to use your mouse and keyboard uh rather than just having the old blue green with the yellow font and having to use your keyboard to click around and also allows you to save various profiles uh and can give you all sorts of information about your computer in real time generally the higher-end motherboards are expensive due to their overclocking abilities so if you don't think you're going to overclock or you are too afraid to overclock then you can save some money on the motherboard you won't see any real improvements especially when it comes to gaming another thing I'm commonly asked is about solid state drives and whether or not they improve the gaming experience the answer is both yes and no um I'll start with a no first you are not going to see any sort of frames per second Improvement or smoothness uh of gameplay improvement with a solid state drive however what you will notice is that the loading time of the game is much much faster but that's not true for even just games uh that's true for Windows booting any program that you open that's actually stored on the solid state drive or any files that you're trying to access uh I defragmented my solid state drive the other day and it took approximately 4 minutes to read the entire drive so that's very very fast the last topic I'd like to cover is kind of an important one um it's regarding case and cooling options for your gaming computer you definitely have to have adequate cooling the video card alone depending on the model can get up to 90° C or hotter and that's a lot of heat that's getting dumped into the air and your computer will be recycling this air so it's important that you have adequate air flow I would recommend a case that has at minimum front rear and top fans the front would obviously be pulling air into the computer and the rear and the top would be expelling or exhausting air out of the computer those of you who have seen my PC setup have noticed that I am water cooling my computer I've been water cooling any computer that I have owned since about 2001 uh every computer I own from here on out will also be water cooled and I do this because I do a lot of heavy overclocking with my equipment and I have to keep the temperatures as low as possible so water cooling is something that would be an entirely different topic uh maybe you look for that in the future but when it comes to PC cooling you want to make sure that you have a large heat sink fan on the CPU because the stock fans that come with the computer are just simply not adequate enough I prefer something that's either a heat pipe design or has large uh fans on the CPU dissipating the heat having a large CPU Cooler will keep the temperatures overall fairly low which will then increase the lifespan of your processor okay so what did we learn today you need to pick your processor BAS based on the tasks you're going to be doing with your computer if you're going to be doing nothing but gaming if you thought that new Intel i7 looked really appetizing and you're not going to do anything else you might be surprised at how much money you can save and how comparable the performance of an i5 could be you also could save a lot of money by scrimping on the video card a little bit if you're not planning on doing gaming and when it comes to memory remember more memory never hurts however it very rarely actually helps so stick to that 16 G Sweet Spot you'll find that it's more than enough for almost anything you can do at it I personally run 16 GB and I do a lot of video editing with my computer these tips apply whether you're building your own computer or buying a computer however I would suggest giving a shot at building your own computer because you can save a lot of money in the long run and a lot of headache and you are in complete control over what ends up inside your computer I hope you've enjoyed today's video click the video on the left to learn about a and misconception by console Gamers when it comes to PC gaming click the video on the right to learn a little bit more about who I am and my love for technology and as always click that like button click subscribe and follow me on Twitter for upto-date details on what I'm doing on YouTubemotherboards multi-core processors Heat snc fans memory modules sound cards hard drives video cards fans network cards power supply units solid state drives DVD drives and a big ass case do you know what to look for when buying your next computer what's up everybody you're watching Jays 2 cense and today we're going to be discussing buying or building your own gaming PC and things you need to know for starters I'd like to say I am an advocate for building your own computer it creates a sense of pride a sense of joy to put together something you know you are going to be spending hours on and you are going to have a high level of respect for a piece of equipment that you yourself have built with that if you don't don't think you can build a PC uh I've got news for you you can build a PC PCS these days are very simple everything is very straightforward you no longer have the old days of dealing with IDE and slave drives and master drives and having to have the jumper in the right location or the hard drive or the DVD drive on the right slot on the cable now everything's done through software you've got SATA cables you simply plug it in to the motherboard you plug it into the DVD boom you're good you're golden so I just want to say right now if you think you can't build yourself a computer I've got news for you you can and the flavor of this video If you will is going to be a little bit more geared towards those people who are building their own PCS I get asked on a regular basis what parts I feel they should buy and what parts uh they should stay away from and before you can answer that the first thing you have to ask yourself is what am I going to be doing with this computer am I going to be primarily gaming am I going to be doing video encoding or photography uh rendering am I going to be doing Graphics design animation or am I going to be simply playing video games if I'm only going to be playing video games I don't want the fastest or the most expensive processor on the market games simply do not use more than four cores and you'll notice on the market today you've got AMD bulldozer which has eight cores and you've got the Intel i7s which have eight cores and you are not going to see much if any gaming Improvement whatsoever what you will notice with a higher core count are the programs that actually make use of those cores like your video editing software or your photo editing software will run much much quicker so I wouldn't actually recommend one of those Fang dangled 8 core or even six core processors unless you know for a fact you are going to be doing more with your computer than just gaming the next common question that I'm regularly asked is how much RAM do I need in my computer uh do I need 8 gigs 16 gigs 32 gigs well uh as you may have guessed the question honestly once again what a am I going to be doing with my computer if I'm going to be playing simply games and games only 8 GB of RAM is all I'm going to need I will never use more than 8 GB of RAM playing video games now if I am once again going to be doing video editing photo editing or anything that puts a heavy CPU load on the computer then I am going to probably want to recommend 16 GB as The Sweet Spot 30 2 GB in most instances unless you're running some sort of a server and I don't mean a file server and I don't mean a music server I mean a server you do not need 32 GB it is bragging points and it gets you nothing performance-wise I'm also regularly asked about video cards the video card is the single most important part of your computer the video card takes the brunt of the force when it comes to rendering video games so you want to go is something that's the best that you can afford there are many options and many many different price brackets when it comes to video cards on top of having to decide on the brand whether it be AMD or Nvidia either brand you decide to go with your gaming experience will probably be just fine so when it comes to video card and if you're gaming don't be cheap put your money into your video card and you will notice a better smoother gameplay experience motherboards are an interesting piece of equipment when it comes to the computer you will very rarely ever see any sort of gaming or speed Improvement of your computer overall by going with a high-end motherboard versus a mid-range or even a low-end motherboard what you gain by going with the higher end motherboards are bells and whistles bios functions and usually overclocking if you plan to overclock or you're not afraid to overclock I would definitely recommend going with a motherboard that has a ufi bios fortunately these UEFI bios are becoming more common even on the lower in motherboards if you're not familiar with what a UEFI bios is basically it is a new type of format that the BIOS is displayed in that allows you to use your mouse and keyboard uh rather than just having the old blue green with the yellow font and having to use your keyboard to click around and also allows you to save various profiles uh and can give you all sorts of information about your computer in real time generally the higher-end motherboards are expensive due to their overclocking abilities so if you don't think you're going to overclock or you are too afraid to overclock then you can save some money on the motherboard you won't see any real improvements especially when it comes to gaming another thing I'm commonly asked is about solid state drives and whether or not they improve the gaming experience the answer is both yes and no um I'll start with a no first you are not going to see any sort of frames per second Improvement or smoothness uh of gameplay improvement with a solid state drive however what you will notice is that the loading time of the game is much much faster but that's not true for even just games uh that's true for Windows booting any program that you open that's actually stored on the solid state drive or any files that you're trying to access uh I defragmented my solid state drive the other day and it took approximately 4 minutes to read the entire drive so that's very very fast the last topic I'd like to cover is kind of an important one um it's regarding case and cooling options for your gaming computer you definitely have to have adequate cooling the video card alone depending on the model can get up to 90° C or hotter and that's a lot of heat that's getting dumped into the air and your computer will be recycling this air so it's important that you have adequate air flow I would recommend a case that has at minimum front rear and top fans the front would obviously be pulling air into the computer and the rear and the top would be expelling or exhausting air out of the computer those of you who have seen my PC setup have noticed that I am water cooling my computer I've been water cooling any computer that I have owned since about 2001 uh every computer I own from here on out will also be water cooled and I do this because I do a lot of heavy overclocking with my equipment and I have to keep the temperatures as low as possible so water cooling is something that would be an entirely different topic uh maybe you look for that in the future but when it comes to PC cooling you want to make sure that you have a large heat sink fan on the CPU because the stock fans that come with the computer are just simply not adequate enough I prefer something that's either a heat pipe design or has large uh fans on the CPU dissipating the heat having a large CPU Cooler will keep the temperatures overall fairly low which will then increase the lifespan of your processor okay so what did we learn today you need to pick your processor BAS based on the tasks you're going to be doing with your computer if you're going to be doing nothing but gaming if you thought that new Intel i7 looked really appetizing and you're not going to do anything else you might be surprised at how much money you can save and how comparable the performance of an i5 could be you also could save a lot of money by scrimping on the video card a little bit if you're not planning on doing gaming and when it comes to memory remember more memory never hurts however it very rarely actually helps so stick to that 16 G Sweet Spot you'll find that it's more than enough for almost anything you can do at it I personally run 16 GB and I do a lot of video editing with my computer these tips apply whether you're building your own computer or buying a computer however I would suggest giving a shot at building your own computer because you can save a lot of money in the long run and a lot of headache and you are in complete control over what ends up inside your computer I hope you've enjoyed today's video click the video on the left to learn about a and misconception by console Gamers when it comes to PC gaming click the video on the right to learn a little bit more about who I am and my love for technology and as always click that like button click subscribe and follow me on Twitter for upto-date details on what I'm doing on YouTube\n"