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Building a Gaming PC part 3:

Building a Gaming PC part 3:. How do I do that?. Today’s Learning Target. Got Fans? It’s a RAID! Adding Lights & Gauges. Today’s Sponge. What is Overclocking your video card? What does a good FPS do for your game?. Gotta have fans and heatsinks !.

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Building a Gaming PC part 3:

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  1. Building a Gaming PC part 3: How do I do that?

  2. Today’s Learning Target • Got Fans? • It’s a RAID! • Adding Lights & Gauges

  3. Today’s Sponge • What is Overclocking your video card? • What does a good FPS do for your game?

  4. Gotta have fans and heatsinks! When your PC is built with the fastest components on the planet… Your PC runs faster & hotter!

  5. Your card should provide at least 2 fan cages • These are square boxes that look much like drive cages. • Typically with blades either 80 mm or 120 mm in diameter

  6. How do I hook it up? • You’ll need standard PC power supply connectors • At least one free internal power cable (or y splitter-that turns owe power connector into 2)

  7. Use ball bearings The best fans use ball bearings -Run faster, moving more air through your case -Typically more quiet than cheaper “free- spinning” units -Most fan specs. Include an airflow rating in cubic feet per minute (cpm)

  8. How many fans do I need?! • If your PC has a single, high-end 3-D video card & a gaming processor • Recommendation is 2 case fans • Use 3 fans if you are using 2 or 3 video cards in SLI mode.

  9. You also need a heatsink • A finned hunk of aluminum or copper that you can add under your fan (or in some cases, in place of a fan) • Recommend buying a combo unit that integrae both a heatsink and a fan. • The heatsink/fan combo is separated from the CPU itself by a special thermal compound

  10. It’s a raid! • Stands for redundant array of independent disks • Huh? • A RAID array is a series of hard drives that work together to provide either faster read/write performance or a “mirror” backup that produces two copies of the same data. • Gamers are far more interested in the faster read/write performance, but it is nice to back up their save game files.

  11. How do I create a “RAID?” • You need at least two hard drives • Most PC owners choose two or more of the same model • Consider 10,000 rpm SATA drives • Your MOBO’s BIOS settings must support RAID operations

  12. How do I create a “Raid?” • After installing the drives, you must create the array from the mobo’s BIOS setup screen • Recommendation to install a fresh copy of Windows on a new RAID array • Allows the operating system to automatically recognize the RAID installation and configure itself accordingly. • Vista calls this a “clean install.”

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