Comments on: Whats The Diffence In A Gaming Computer And A Regular Computer?

By: grayure

grayure — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:56:53 +0000

I may be wrong, but i’m pretty sure that the Sims isn’t generally particularly demanding on the hardware, and you could play it on quite a low-spec computer. I don’t think you need all that stuff, but i couldn’t be specific and i couldn’t swear to it.

By: Rick R [WINDOWS-TEAM]

Rick R [WINDOWS-TEAM] — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:35:48 +0000

Hi ms nyla, my name is Rick and I work with the Windows Outreach Team, and I think your computer is more than enough to run most games out there, especially the Sims Games you have mentioned. There isn’t really a difference between a “gaming machine” and regular computer, accept that most games demand a bit more memory (RAM) and a dedicated Video Card to play optimally. Usually a gaming systems has a Video Card with lots of Ram, usually 256gig or 512gig, for best performance. Your choice of Vista 64 bit is perfect for games, and you should be able to run most of the big name titles out there as well as anything that will be coming out in the future. The Large display you have chosen will certainly be great for viewing the game, but not necessary. I would say you have gaming, plus anything else you have in mind covered by your proposed build.
Rick, Windows Outreach Team

By: akeegazo

akeegazo — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:13:50 +0000

for the difference in computer question:
gaming computers have very high specs. specifically designed for computer intensive graphics and normal computers are for the ordinary user willing to search the internet and use word processing programs while gaming computers can run the best games it doesnt mean ordinary computers cant if your going to use and “ordinary” computer for sims im sure it will be fine.
oh and gaming computers can do anything normal computers can do but better and faster
-akeegazooka-

By: James D

James D — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:44:00 +0000

Sounds good.
And By the way, Sims 3 is released 20th February 2009.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:52:36 +0000

Just to be shure, we are talking laptops here right? You are shure that you need a laptop, and that that 18.4″ monster won’t be a tad big for you to carry around?
The difference between a gaming PC and any other PC is pretty much just the video card. You need a good video card for 3D rendering, but for almost any other task than gaming it doesn’t really matter what video card you have.
Your customized system looks like a top notch gaming laptop, still, an equivalent stationary gaming PC would only be considered middle-good, and would probably cost less than half of the laptop.