The most powerful PC for games: description, specifications, manufacturer

The game industry in the modern world is blooming and fragrant. Instead of the development of space technologies, humanity is completely immersed in toys, and computers are also being perfected exclusively in this direction. What should a powerful PC look like that is capable of running all the newest games? Let's try to understand this, using data on the requirements for applications released in 2015-2016. As an example, take the strategy X-Com 2, shooter Tom Clancy's: The Division and best seller GTA V. So, what should a powerful PC look like?

How to choose an operating system

We did not start from this point in vain. On the one hand, it is quite obvious that games released in 2016 should only work in the newest operating systems. These are now Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. At the same time, the licensed "eight" increasingly insists that users upgrade to the tenth version.

In practice, the "seven" takes a large amount of computer resources for itself. Even the most powerful computer for games in the world will suffer if it is forced to give up almost 2.5 GB of RAM to the operating system only, without considering antiviruses and many other minor but important utilities.

The tenth version of the well-known OS requires even more computer resources. Thus, by reading the requirements for the game, do not forget to add to them also those capacities that go to maintain the system.

RAM

Reading reviews for various games, you can often find comments in which players say: even if the system fully meets the requirements, the game is still slow. We already found out that such problems can be associated with wasting resources on the OS. But this is not always the case.

Take, for example, GTA V. In the recommended requirements explicitly written - 8 GB of RAM. However, at the same time, FPS sags in 50% of the players. Of course, this can be due to both the processor and the video card. But, as practice shows, the biggest effect is the increase in memory size up to 16 GB.

This size though will not be top, but it will allow to run the most demanding toys on your car without any problems.

CPU

This is the most ambiguous parameter of the computer. On the one hand, this device can be overclocked to higher performance, on the other - it was noticed that even with a complete disparity of this parameter the game could be launched at high settings.

All modern applications in the recommended requirements are made by quad-core processors. For example, "Division" asks for i7-3770 with 3,4 MHz, and X-COM 2 - any other similar in frequency and cores model. Of course, the computing power of the computer plays an important role, therefore, buying a computer with a margin for the future, it is worth paying attention to the processors with the number of cores from 6. True, they will cost 4 times more expensive than those mentioned above. For information: the six-core processor i7-4960X costs about 90 thousand rubles, while i7-3770 - 25000.

Video card

A graphics card is the main component of any modern computer. And in the first place, the main role is played not by the size of its memory, as many believe, but by the clock frequency. Any powerful computer for games should have a video card that not only quickly processes the graphic component, but also supports all modern technologies for data processing. A large amount of memory in this case becomes only a pleasant bonus.

In the three games we are considering, the recommended requirements are reduced to the GeForce GTX 660, 770 and 970 graphics cards . In general, these models do not differ much from each other. If you are building a powerful PC, then you can do without the old GTX 660, it will be enough to run most games at high settings. However, for those who want to get the maximum effect, it is better to choose something newer.

Here the range is not limited. Many models from different manufacturers allow you to choose the best option. Often the choice will be between the number of computing processors and the frequency of video memory. If you are an experienced computer programmer, it is better to prefer a larger number of processors, because the frequency can always be overclocked to large values.

Additionally

Separately, let's talk about minor equipment. First of all, if you are building a powerful PC, check how much future "miracle" will consume energy, and buy a suitable power supply. If it does not deliver enough power, then all of your equipment will not work as it should.

Also get a large enough hard drive. One terabyte in our time is just "garbage", considering the amount of multimedia content that is stored on user computers. But games take up 50-60 gigabytes each. Therefore, it's up to you to choose the size of the HDD, but it's not worth taking less than 2 TB.

The best

And now let's talk about the dream of any gamer. How to find the most expensive and most powerful computers? In any case, the "price-quality" parameters are directly proportional to each other. Therefore, the most powerful PC will be the most expensive.

Consider, for example, the game computer Hyper Cosmos X. It uses the eight-core processor i7-5960X with a frequency of 3 MHz. The operative memory is 64 GB (8 slats for 8 gigs) of DDR4 format. As a video card four cards are used: GeForce GTX TITAN X with 12 GB of video memory each at a frequency of 7000 MHz. The total disk capacity is estimated at 10 TB. To all this "feed", installed a power supply for 1500 watts.

And this "miracle" costs almost 900 thousand rubles. However, if you remove three extra video cards, reduce the amount of RAM in two times, the price will drop by almost two times. At the same time, performance will not decrease by one unit of FPS even in the newest games. However, similar assemblies continue to be sold, apparently, very, very successfully.

Power

You can talk about home gaming computers and their cost, but the most powerful PCs in the world are not game platforms, but research supercomputers. Their performance is almost impossible to estimate in comparison with what we can see on the shelves in the stores, since they are intended for other purposes.

Every six months the rating of such devices is published. For their evaluation, the concept of "flops" is used - this is the number of operations with a floating point per second. For comparison, the world's first computer had a performance of 500 flops. Now the most usual home PC has a capacity of hundreds of gigaflops, and the most popular PlayStation 4 is 1.84 teraflops.

We will not talk about the whole rating, but only call number 1 of it. It's funny that the top 10 supercomputers are mostly American computer centers. However, the most top line of the hit parade is a miracle of Chinese technology, while it is almost twice as large as its closest opponent. Computer "Tianhe-2" ("Milky Way") has a capacity of 33.86 petaflops (ten to fifteenth power).