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The Gaming PC we all need and can afford- What is a Gaming PC- Gaming PC is basically just like any other Personal Computer we have had since a long time. It does all the normal work that include surfing the web, listening to music,watching movies,working with Office related applications like MS Word,MS Excel etc. The main difference between any Tom,Dick and Harry PC and a gaming PC is that a Gaming Rig is made with the main purpose of playing the latest games,which in this era require high quality of graphical processing and fast responses, which makes a gaming PC have a requirement of good hardware. Is it possible to build a Gaming PC yourself? A lot of us with a very little knowledge about the technical side of the computer world think that it is a very complicated task to assemble a gaming pc all by yourselves,but what we all forget is that this generation is the generation which has YouTube, bro people can learn what not on this huge platform. There is YouTube and other platforms where one can get complete knowledge of building a powerful and efficient rig all by yourselves at home with not much things required other than your efforts and passion to build yourselves a PC that you can run all the games you’ve always wanted to. It will also be easier to upgrade your old school CPU instead of building an entire new gaming rig if you’re unsure that you can create an entire new one. Also it helps in reducing the cost as you won’t require a new PC case. Main Components- There are a number of hardware required to run a powerful rig, just like we require a Heart,mind,blood to run our bodies. Processor- We all know that Processor plays one of the most important roles in running a system smoothly. It is the one that manages most of the tasks in a Computer. Most of the people with lesser technical knowledge on this subject think that the latest graphically demanding games require the latest processors in the market,which is a myth. Processors do not actually handle all the pressure for the processing on themselves in a gaming machine. Also the generation of the processor matters,because what we are looking for here is Value for Money.For example- i5 Coffee Lake processor (i5-8400) is better than a i7 Kaby Lake processor (i7-7700k). Our Choice- Intel i5-8400 Tech Specs- Cores- 6, Base Clock- 2.8GHz, No Overclocking ( We won’t be requiring it),Cache- 9MB PRICE- INR 17,000 Motherboard- Motherboard as we all know is the centre and acts as spinal cord to the computer. It is the part which makes the communication between the different components of the computer possible. It also allocates the power to the different system parts,and this is why choosing an efficient motherboard is necessary for a powerful machine. Our Choice- MSI Gaming Intel B250 Tech Specs- DDR4-2400 Memory Support,Number of USB Ports- 6,Number of HDMI Ports- 2,Number of RAM Ports- 4,Intel Optane Memory & VR Ready PRICE- INR 10,000 (Gaming Mouse Free) Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) One thing all of us know here is, that a Graphic Card is the heart of any Gaming Rig,and is the most significant part of the machine. All of the games are heavily dependant on this hardware. A Graphic card is also often referred as a Video Card. This is because this card is the part which is responsible for delivering the graphical images/videos to the system. A GPU receives its instructions from the CPU which is the Central Processing Unit and then processes the request. This is an important component as Gaming mainly depends upon how good the graphics are looking and how fast is the new frame loading and being shown on the screen. Our Choice- ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1060 Tech Specs- Clock Speed- 14,000 MHz,Boost Clock- 1771 MHz,Memory Size- 6GB,Interface-6 Pin PCI Express 3.0 x16,VR Ready Price- INR 14,000 RAM- RAM is the area that stores needed variables and content. Once you launch a game on your gaming PC, the RAM is an active participant because the game is loaded into it. RAM is used instead of the hard drive directly because it's faster and intended to store temporary items. A Random Access Memory Disk or commonly known as RAM,is an important piece of hardware which stores all the content that is being in the need by the games continuously. RAMs are used because they are a faster alternative than HDD (Hard Disk Drives) or even a SSD(Solid State Drives). The DDR4 RAMs gives us the most efficient types of RAM sticks as it provides the performance as well as the pocket-friendly costs hand in hand. Our Choice- Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB Tech Specs- Memory Type-DDR4 SDRAM, Size- 16GB (2Sticks x 8 GB),Processor- 8 Price- INR 9,000 Storage- People usually do not give storage enough significance and do not make it a priority, but forget that all of the data that will be utilized will be used from the storage disk only. Cheaper storages give out poor performance by delivering low data transfer rates. There are two main types of Storage devices in the market currently, traditional HDDs and the new era SSDs. HDDs while being the more cost efficient option between the both,but because Hard Disks contain a moving element to read the magnetic disk to provide the data is slower than SSDs which do not have any moving parts are expensive.Hence, a combination of HDDs and SSDs are often used,where SSDs are used as the boot drive to provide quicker speeds in booting of the computer and also players tend to run their more demanding games on these drives while keeping HDDs for less demanding games and other things to store. Our Choice- Samsung 860 EVO 500GB Tech Specs- Size-500GB, Read Speed- 500+MBPS, Type- SATA III Price- INR 5,500 In the world of gaming, each one of us have their own choices, some prefer a better FPS with a lower Graphical Quality and some of us have an opposite preference, this is what makes choosing the perfect components extremely hard for us,but we have tried to mention the best of both worlds, performance as well as the budget. You may or may not agree with us on more than one thing here,and we welcome all of yours thoughts. It will be great if you drop in your ideas too. We hope to have inspired you to create your own Gaming Rig and enjoy all those games that you have always wanted to play and stream it with your friends. GamerzByte India is an eSports Entertainment Co., dealing in managing and organizing electronic gaming events, contests and/or tournaments across India. They are based in Mumbai, India and are expanding their network progressively PAN India. through our channel partner. At GamerzByte, eSports or Competitive Gaming Tournaments are played across platforms such as PC, Console, Mobile and VR. They currently have 2 verticals – Offline Tournaments & an Online eSports Events Portal. Offline Tournaments are held across India covering 4 cities so far with an expansion plan of covering all major tier-1 cities by next year. Their Online eSports Events Portal is built with an idea of bringing the tournaments experience online & with a vision to reach out to every gamer in India. With a passion and a commitment to the best gaming experience, GamerzByte India strives to create a professional community for gamers. GamerzByte Events – https://events.gamerzbyte.com This post is written by Karan Gaggar. Gamer and a traveler at heart, and I love to spend my time trying in contributing what all I can do for these communities. I have been gaming since I can remember, also into the field of freelance photography and cinematography. Cheers guys.

The evolution of the Video Games Consoles- What is a console- A gaming console is basically a device that allows us to play graphical games over a screen. Traditionally gaming consoles allows specifically to play games ,but with the evolution, consoles have started providing innovative features with gaming, the industry has skyrocketed generating billions of dollars in revenue across years of sales. The biggest players in the industry are Sony’s PlayStation, Microsoft’s XBox and Nintendo. Birth of Gaming- The history related to Gaming can be seen as far back as the 1950s, when simple video games were developed for personal entertainment purposes only. This was the time when the gaming industry was kept inside a small building with people having no idea about “it’s potential in the coming future. The first ever game, for most of us would be the great “PONG”, but unheard of the story of “Tennis for Two” , which was the brainchild of a Physicist, and made just to make a Science Conference a little interesting for it’s visitors to know that Science has a relevance with the population. William Higinbotham, the physicist behind the game, made the working game within a couple of weeks. He was the in-charge of Brookhaven National Laboratory’s instrumentation subsidiary, and headed the it’s exhibition and hence wanted to give it an interesting approach to it’s thousands of visitors. Therefore reaching the idea of developing a simple game to keep the visitors interacted with the science exposition. This lead to the making of “Tennis for Two”, this game was extremely simple ,and as the name suggests based on Tennis. The game had to be played with two players, there were only two components, a knob and a button.Players could turn the knob to adjust the angle and press the button to hit the ball. The game was very uncomplicated and the players could get out only if they failed to hit the button at the correct time. The Original Tennis for Two Graphics The Game- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PG2mdU_i8k Establishing of the Gaming Industry- When it comes to gaming,everything is interesting, and so is the story behind the creation of the first ever commercial game- PONG. In the early 1970s, the Atari Company gave their employee a task to create a game based on Table Tennis. Pong was planned to be a very simple game with only a joystick type of controller which would control the pads on which the ball would bounce. Allan Alcorn developed the “Pong”, and Atari Co. finally released it in the year 1972.Pong became a success. Though the Magnavox Odyssey sued them over copyright infringement. It didn’t stop Atari from making Pong bigger and better than ever before. Pong’s success led them to release Pong’s Home version. Which became even a bigger success. Pong hence became the first ever commercially successful game in history. The Original Pong Arcade Game The commercial success of the Atari produced Video game, helped many others to try their hand in this industry which is now currently estimated to be worth more than $200 Billion. Development of Gaming Consoles- Brown Box “The minute we played ping-pong, we knew we had a product. Before that we weren’t too sure.” This line was said by- Ralph Baer. The founder of the first ever Gaming Console or Gaming Box as said back in the day. The brown box could be made to be played with a number of different games by switching multiple switches. The Console which was named “Game Unit #7” as it was the seventh prototype developed by the team, was patented in the year 1967, and was called the Brown Box because of the looks of the box, which was made of Brown wood. Game Unit#7 AKA The Brown Box 2. Magnavox Odyssey Magnavox Odyssey was the first ever commercial home based video console. With brown box gaining popularity through word of mouth publicity, the concept,design and the license was brought by Magnavox. Magnavox in the future realeased a series of Gaming Consoles. The Magnavox Odyssey didn’t have any sound for the games and only presented visual graphics on the screen.The box was made of three individual boxes, White, Black and a brown box,each having their particular task. This console had a total of 28 individual video games in it. This console earned more than $100 Million over the span of 25+ years, of which the major portion was earned through a number of lawsuits. Magnavox Odyssey 3. Nintendo Game & Watch In 1979, Gunpei Yokoi gained the idea of handheld gaming while seeing a commuter trying to pass his time on a portable calculator. He then decided to make a handheld gaming console which was named the “Game & Watch” . This series became Nintendo’s success and led the company to a global phenomenon. Later Nintendo released a number of gaming consoles named as “Nintendo Famicom”. In 1989, Yokoi agained made a new console with the portability of Game&Watch and cartridge interchangeability so that players have multiple choices of games Super Nintendo or Super NES was Famicom’s successor with higher hardware capabilities was released in 1993. This lead Nintendo to even a bigger success, in 1995 Nintendo had sold more than a billion cartridges with Mario Bros been the most successful franchise. The Nintendo Game & Watch (Left) and The Nintendo Famicom (Right) 4. Sony PlayStation Sony first released the Original PlayStation in 1994. Sony Interactive Entertainment completely changed the face of console gaming industry with its launch. Though this soon to be a legendary gadget, was once a failure. The console which later became the most sold gadget in the history of gaming ever was originally a joint project between Sony and Nintendo. This console had a CD-Rom with an already existing Nintendo Famicom, but Nintendo decided to cancel its partnership as both the companies were on an argument over revenue distribution and later in time went on to partner with Philips with the same technology. This led Sony to make their very console “THE PLAYSTATION”. PlayStation released 3 more generations of their consoles, PlayStation2 which is the most sold individual console in the history- with more than 155 Million units sold, PlayStation3 and the PlayStation4 which sold a million units within its first 24 hours of launch,creating a world record in the gaming industry. Sony PlayStation 5 which is supposed to be launched in the coming years, will allegedly be offering 8K graphic support, Ray tracing which is the latest enhancement in the industry. PlayStation(1994) 5. Microsoft XBox After two Japanese Tech giants already into the marketing, and succeeding with their humongous sales numbers. An american company,which at that time was the most valuable company finally entered the Billion Dollar industry of Gaming Consoles. This american company was obviously Bill Gates lead Microsoft. The Xbox which was the 5-th generation gaming console was launched in the american market in 2001,the main rival of the console at the time were Sony PS2. The PlayStation 2 being the most sold ever console,XBox could not really beat it, but Microsoft trusted their console and launched its successor the XBox 360. Sony had their numbers with them, but Microsoft had the advantage of being Microsoft, the coverage of their PC Software, Windows. Hence, they started giving PC access in their gaming console,which became their USP. The 2001 XBox Console XBox 360 had several hardware enhancements,with the main being Kinect Motion Sensor which allowed gamers to use motion to control their movements in some games. This lead to a huge sale with making XBox 360 the most sold American console,and also got in the list of top-10 most sold gaming consoles. The XBox 360 Gaming Consoles have become a household device in the last decade.With this industry gaining even higher popularity, the market now not only features gaming but serves the fundamental principle of entertainment,by providing the consoles the power of multiple features.With the market getting more competitive with PC gaming,the consoles have started getting more interactive and cost-efficient day by day. The current market worth is estimated to be around $40 billions and is calculated to reach $55 billions in the upcoming 5 years. GamerzByte India is an eSports Entertainment Co., dealing in managing and organizing electronic gaming events, contests and/or tournaments across India. They are based in Mumbai, India and are expanding their network progressively PAN India. through our channel partner. At GamerzByte, eSports or Competitive Gaming Tournaments are played across platforms such as PC, Console, Mobile and VR. They currently have 2 verticals – Offline Tournaments & an Online eSports Events Portal. Offline Tournaments are held across India covering 4 cities so far with an expansion plan of covering all major tier-1 cities by next year. Their Online eSports Events Portal is built with an idea of bringing the tournaments experience online & with a vision to reach out to every gamer in India. With a passion and a commitment to the best gaming experience, GamerzByte India strives to create a professional community for gamers. GamerzByte Events – https://events.gamerzbyte.com This post is written by Karan Gaggar. Gamer and a traveler at heart, and I love to spend my time trying in contributing what all I can do for these communities. I have been gaming since I can remember, also into the field of freelance photography and cinematography. Cheers guys.