Friday 6 May 2011

GAMING COMPUTERS






SUPER GAMING COMPUTERS


Why Buy a Computer for Gaming?

You may play a fast–paced game with detailed graphics where split–second decisions mean a win or a loss, but if your computer isn’t up to par, all is lost. A gamer is only as good as their hardware. Gaming PCs are built to process huge amounts of information while playing online role–playing games or first–person shooters. These power gaming PCs come with high–end graphics cards, lightning fast CPUs and in many cases use liquid cooling.
Gaming computers are equipped with numerous ports including USB, FireWire, headphone and microphone ports on the front of the tower. This makes it easy to plug in all your peripherals including joysticks, steering wheels, headsets, and other gaming devices. These are not your typical desktops. Gaming PCs incorporate style and portability. Towers may have transparent sides, neon lights, or innovative designs so they look as good as they perform.
In this site, you’ll find articles on gaming PCs, news stories and comprehensive reviews on the best gaming computers that will help you make an informed decision on which computer is right for you. At TopTenREVIEWS We Do the Research So You Don’t Have To.™


Gaming PC: What to Look For

Gaming computers have high–end graphics cards, processors and lots of RAM—the components needed to enhance your gaming experience. When considering a gaming PC you should carefully evaluate your needs. Most manufacturers provide individual customization, so you can get a desktop that will fit your gaming style and budget. Below is the criteria TopTenREVIEWS used to evaluate gaming PCs.



Video/Audio

A game is only as good as the graphics card supporting it. Many games have life–like, real–time images that require a powerful graphics card. ATI and nVidia graphics cards are the most common amongst gamers, and at least 1GB of proprietary video RAM is needed for most current games. A gaming PC sound card, integrated or not, should be capable of reproducing 5.1 or 7.1 channels of sound so you can know where your enemies are approaching from.




Processor

A fast CPU, or processor, will aid the video card in drawing billions polygons per second in first person shooters and MMORPGs (massively multiplayer online role-playing games), alike. All good systems will include a powerful quad-core or six core processor.



Memory/Storage

Large amounts of memory allows the computer to quickly access frequently used information or programs; a critical component for gaming. A gaming PC should have at least 4 GB of RAM and sufficient hard drive space to have multiple games installed at a time. Some games can occupy over 35GB of hard drive space. Over the past year or two it has also become very common to use a SSD (solid state drive) as your primary storage device.





Additional Features

Some computers come with various peripherals including a mouse, keyboard, speakers and a monitor, while others don’t. This may or may not be important depending on your needs. Additionally, some gaming systems come with uniquely designed towers with custom paint and neon lights. Windows 7 is a must for any system and at least one high speed optical drive is needed.





Support/Warranty

The first–class manufacturers provide quality help and support through email, phone, online chat, a community section and a FAQs page. They also provide up to three-year warranties at no additional cost.

BEST GRAPHIC CARD IN THE WHOLE WORLD...




AMD Radeon™ HD 6990 Graphics

Features:-
  • Harnessing the incredible power of dual second-generation DirectX® 11-capable GPUs, the AMD Radeon HD™ 6990 is quite simply the fastest graphics card in the world.6
  • Featuring 4GB of high-speed GDDR5 memory, the AMD Radeon™ HD 6990 is the definitive solution for ultra-high resolution gaming across up to six simultaneous displays.1
  • Break barriers. Crush records. Flip the Unlocking Switch and take your AMD Radeon™ HD 6990 beyond the bleeding edge.8
  • Higher clocks. Faster gaming. Devastatingly intelligent power management. That’s AMD PowerTune technology on the AMD Radeon™ HD 6990.7


SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:-


  • PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
  • 750W Watt or greater power supply with two 150W 8-pin PCI Express® power connectors recommended (1000W and four 8-pin connectors recommended for AMD CrossFireX™ technology in dual mode. 1200W recommended for optimal performance).
  • Minimum 1GB of system memory
  • Installation software requires CD-ROM drive, a keyboard, a mouse, and a display
  • DVD playback requires DVD drive and a DVD
  • Blu-ray™ playback requires Blu-ray drive and a Blu-ray disc
  • For an AMD CrossFireX™ system, a second AMD Radeon™ HD 6990 Graphics card, an AMD CrossFireX™ Ready motherboard and one AMD CrossFireX™ Bridge Interconnect cable is required
  • Use of 3 or more displays with AMD Eyefinity technology requires a DisplayPort-capable panel or an AMD Eyefinity validated dongle. 


Specifications:-

Default (BIOS1)

    • Up to 830MHz Engine Clock

    • 5.10 TFLOPs Single Precision compute power

    • 1.27 TFLOPs Double Precision Compute Power

  • Overclocked (BIOS2)

    • Up to 880MHz Engine Clock

    • 5.40 TFLOPs Single Precision compute power o 1.37 TFLOPs 

    • Double Precision Compute Power

  • 4GB GDDR5 Memory

  • 1250MHz Memory Clock (5.0 Gbps GDDR5)

  • 320 GB/s memory bandwidth (maximum)

  • TeraScale 3 Unified Processing Architecture
    • 3072 Stream Processors
    • 192 Texture Units
    • 128 Z/Stencil ROP Units
    • 64 Color ROP Units

    • Dual geometry and dual rendering engines

  • High Speed 256-bit GDDR5 memory interface

  • PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface

  • “Eye-Definition” graphics

    • Second generation DirectX® 11 graphics

      • Full DirectX® 11 support

      • Scalable geometry processing technology

      • Shader Model 5.0

      • DirectCompute 11 support

      • Quad advanced programmable hardware tessellation units
      • Accelerated multi-threading
      • HDR texture compression
      • Order-independent transparency
    • OpenGL 4.1 support
    • Image quality enhancement technology

      • Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing modes

      • Adaptive anti-aliasing

      • Enhanced Quality Anti-Aliasing (EQAA)

      • Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA)

      • 16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering

      • 128-bit floating point HDR rendering

  • AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology1

    • Native support for up to 5 simultaneous displays

      • Up to 6 displays supported with DisplayPort 1.2 Multi-Stream Transport

    • Independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls, and 
    • video overlays

    • Display grouping


        • Combine multiple displays to behave like a single large display

  • AMD App Acceleration2

    • OpenCL 1.1 Support

    • DirectCompute 11

    • Double Precision Floating Point

    • Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling

    • UVD 3 dedicated video playback accelerator

      • MPEG-4 AVC/H.264

      • VC-1

      • MPEG-2 (SD & HD)

      • Multi-View Codec (MVC)

      • MPEG-4 part 2 (DivX, Xvid)

      • Adobe Flash

    • Enhanced Video Quality features

      • Advanced post-processing and scaling

      • Dynamic contrast enhancement and color correction

      • Brighter whites processing (Blue Stretch)

      • Independent video gamma control

      • Dynamic video range control

    • Dual-stream HD (1080p) playback support

    • DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support

  • AMD HD3D technology4

    • Stereoscopic 3D display/glasses support

    • Blu-ray 3D support

    • Stereoscopic 3D gaming

    • 3rd party Stereoscopic 3D middleware software support

  • AMD CrossFireX™ multi-GPU technology5

    • Dual card performance scaling

  • Cutting-edge display support

    • DisplayPort 1.2

      • Max resolution: 2560x1600 per display

      • Multi-Stream Transport

      • 21.6 Gbps bandwidth

      • High bit-rate audio

    • HDMI 1.4a with Stereoscopic 3D Frame Packing Format, Deep 

    • Color, xvYCC wide gamut support, and high bit-rate audio

      • Max resolution: 1920x1200

    • Dual-link DVI with HDCP

      • Max resolution: 2560x1600

  • Integrated HD audio controller

    • Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI with no additional cables required

    • Supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio formats

  • AMD PowerPlay™ power management technology3

    • AMD PowerTune technology7

      • Intelligent power management hardware

    • Dynamic power management with low power idle state

    • Ultra-low power state support for multi-GPU configurations

  • AMD Catalyst™ graphics and HD video configuration software

        • Software support for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP



    • AMD Catalyst™ Control Center - AMD Catalyst™ software application and user interface for setup, configuration, and accessing features of AMD Radeon products.

    • Unified Graphics display driver - AMD Catalyst™ software enabling other PC programs and devices to use advanced graphics, video, and features of AMD Radeon™ products.
The cost of the above the graphic card is about $699...


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