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Crysis 2

2012-05-12T22:46:00.000-07:00

Hey guys. How are you all doing? This post of mine is all about Crysis 2. I'll be sharing with you some basic knowledge, story and requirements of Crysis 2. So lets get started.

Crysis 2is a first-person shooter video game developed by Crytek, published by Electronic Arts and released in North America, Australia and Europe in March 2011 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. Officially announced on June 1, 2009, the game is the second main installment of the Crysis series, and is the sequel to the 2007 video game Crysis, and its expansion Crysis Warhead.

Set in 2023, three years after the events of the first Crysis, the game begins with news footage of a large outbreak of the "Manhattan" virus, a gruesome disease that causes complete cellular breakdown, and panic about an alien invasion by the Ceph , the tentacled, squid-like alien race. Due to the breakdown in social order within New York City, Manhattan is placed under Martial Law(imposition of military rule), and under contract from the US Department of Defense, soldiers from C.E.L.L., a private military company run by the Crynet corporation, police the chaos.

A United States Marine Corps Force Recon unit is deployed to New York City by submarine to extract former Crynet employee Doctor Nathan Gould, who may have vital information on combating the alien race. However, insertion goes awry, with the Cephaloids destroying the sub, and Force Recon Marine "Alcatraz" being left as the only apparent survivor. Delta Force officer Prophet saves Alcatraz, and is distressed with the situation, expecting the squad to support him. Left with no other choice since he himself has been infected by the Manhattan virus, Prophet gives Alcatraz his suit, the futuristic and high-tech Nanosuit 2.0. He then kills himself so that the Nanosuit will stop associating itself with him and be able to assimilate with Alcatraz. Assuming that Alcatraz is Prophet, Gould gets in contact with him and asks him to take the Marines to his laboratory. Prior to the incident, Prophet had been targeted by CELL Commander Dominic Lockhart as an active biohazard due to having been infected with the Manhattan virus, and also in part due to ethical disagreements regarding the side effects of wearing the Nanosuits (with Prophet describing the wearers as "Dead Men Walking"). Because of this, Alcatraz also faces combat with CELL operatives, who believe that he is Prophet because of his Nanosuit.

So this is how Alcatraz finds himself surrounded with many situations at a single time. Now with the help of Nanosuit he will have to use all of his experience to combat the alien species.

Crysis 2 requirements are as under:

	Minimum	Recommended	Highly Recommended

CPU	Core 2 Duo	Core 2 Duo	Core i7
CPU speed	2GHz	2.66GHz	3GHz
RAM	2GB	3GB	4GB
Graphics Card	8800GT / HD 3850	GTX280 / HD 4870	GTX 560 Ti / HD 4870 X2
Video Memory	512MB	1GB	1.8GB
DirectX version	DX 9.0c	DX 9	DX11
Operating System	Windows XP	WindiwsXP	Windows 7

Crysis 2 nahi khela to kya khela. Crysis 2 is a must play game for all the hardcore gamers out there. The amazing real world graphics, realistic sound effects, awesome alien technology and gadgets can easily drive anyone crazy.

Here is a story trailer of the game:

So that was it from this article. Thank you.

Grand Theft Auto

2012-05-02T06:25:00.000-07:00

Hey guys. How're you all doing? I am back with an amazing post which I hope you all will appreciate.

A game which broke all popularity meters. A game series about which even a guy of about half your age, living in your neighborhood knows about. A game, which becomes the Hottest news of the season to be most talked about whenever a new part of the series is about to be released. Yes, I am talking about one of the most popular games of the Planet, GTA. No matter which part of the series is about to come, no matter when it comes, the anxiety and excitement of gamers is always at its peak. So lets begin with an introduction to the game.

Grand Theft Auto(usually abbreviated GTA) is a series of games that incorporate driving and action gameplay styles. Created by the British developer Rockstar North, GTA games are set in vast, predominantly urban environments, and feature protagonists involved in organized crime. The distinguishing feature of the games is the possibility to hijack and drive most vehicles encountered in the game world. With the exception of the expansion packs to the first Grand Theft Auto, which is set in London in the 1960's, all GTA games are set in the USA, in fictional cities modeled after real-world locations such as New York, Miami, Los Angeles, and others.

The GTA series in today's date is comprises of 14 games. Grand Theft Auto, Grand Theft Auto 2, Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto V are the main among the 14 game series rest are the sequels and prequels or expansion packs. The 14 game series is as under.

Grand Theft Auto (GTA I)

Grand Theft Auto is the first game of GTA series. This game was introduced in the year 1997. It is an action-adventure open world video game created by games developer DMA design (now Rockstar North) and published by BMG Interactive. The game was originally intended to be named "Race N Chase" but was nearly cancelled due to production issues. It was made available for PlayStation, MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows and Game Boy Color.

The game allows the player to take on the role of a criminal who can roam freely around a big city. Various missions are set for completion such as bank robberies, assassinations and other crimes. Some stills from the game are as under.

Grand Theft Auto: London 1969

Grand Theft Auto: London, 1969is the first expansion pack, to the original Grand Theft Auto. GTA: London 1969 was released in 1999 for the PC and PlayStation. It offered 32 brand new missions, as well as a total of 30 new vehicles, relative to the time period. As the name implies, the game takes place in London in the year 1969.
The game is very similar to the original Grand Theft Auto because it uses the same game engine and is presented in the same format of missions, sections and cutscenes. Some pictures of the game are as under.

Grand Theft Auto 2

The second game in the series, Grand Theft Auto 2, was developed for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation, and Dreamcast and released in the year 1999. Set in the indeterminable future,it featured updated graphics and somewhat different gameplay based upon the player's appeal to various criminal organisations. Grand Theft Auto 2 takes place in a retro-futuristic setting, in an unnamed American city.
A reduced Game Boy Color port was also produced. It is the only Grand Theft Auto game to have a "T" rating (teen) for a PlayStation console, it is also the only numbered sequel to have a digit in the title instead of a Roman numeral. Some stills are as under.

Grand theft Auto III

Grand Theft Auto III was released in October 2001, and served as the breakthrough for the franchise. The game's setting takes place in fictional Liberty City, which is closely based on New York City, but also incorporates elements of other American cities.Grand Theft Auto III brought a third-person view to the series, rather than the traditional top-down view of earlier titles although the view was still made available as an optional camera angle. For the first time, the problem of navigating was solved by implementing a constant GPS triggered mini-map that highlighted the player's position as well as those of current targets. Graphics were also updated. GTA III improved in many other areas such as voice-acting and plot (in previous games, there was speech only in short animated cut scenes between levels, while other communication was simply subtitles running on the bottom of the screen). Some stills are as under.

Grand theft Auto: Vice City

After the success of Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City was released in 2002. This game was set in 1986 in Vice City, which was based on Miami, Florida. The game's plot focuses on the cocaine trade during the 1980s. Vice City was the first game to introduce fully functional flying vehicles that could be used by the player, such as seaplanes and helicopters. It also featured a variety of new weapons and vehicles.

Upon its release, Vice City became the best-selling video game of 2002. In July 2006, Vice City was the best-selling PlayStation 2 game of all time. Vice City also appeared on Japanese magazine Famitsu's readers' list of the favorite 100 videogames of 2006.The game goes around the main character Tommy Vercetti, a member of the Liberty City mafia, has been just released from prison in 1986 after serving 15 years for killing eleven men. Some pictures of the game are as under.

Grand theft Auto: San Andreas

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, released in October 2004, is set in 1992, focusing on California gang life and the awakening of the drug epidemic brought on by crack cocaine. The setting was in the fictional state of San Andreas, which was based on some California and Nevada cities, specifically Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Las Vegas. The game also included countryside in between Los Santos and San Fierro and also between Los Santos and Las Venturas, and a desert in between Las Venturas and San Fierro.

San Andreas revolves around the gang member Carl "CJ" Johnson returning home from Liberty City to Los Santos, San Andreas, after learning of his mother's murder. CJ finds his old friends and family in disarray. Over the course of the game, CJ gradually unravels the plot behind his mother's murder. Some stills of the game are as under.

Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories

In 2005, Rockstar released Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories for the PlayStation Portable, developed by Rockstar Leeds (Rockstar studio based in Leeds UK). Liberty City's layout is largely similar to Grand Theft Auto III, while it also incorporates elements found in GTA III's successors, such as more indoor environments, clothing changes, and motorcycles. In addition, in keeping with recent GTA games, the player has more flexibility in terms of moving the camera around for viewing surroundings. Two innovations from the previous game, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas that are omitted from this game are the ability to climb and the ability to swim.Some stills are as follows.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories is a 2006 action-adventure open world video game developed by Rockstar Leeds in association with Rockstar North. It was published by Rockstar Games for the PlayStation Portable in late 2006 and later for the PlayStation 2 in March 2007. The game is the eighth installment in the Grand Theft Autoseries. Victor Vance is an American who is a soldier in the U.S Army. He is a man who came from a poor family, with his brother suffering from asthma and another brother lazy, and he is trying to make money for his family. He just arrived in Vice City and he is now serving in Fort Baxter. Some stills are as under.

Grand Theft Auto IV

Grand Theft Auto IVwas released on 29 April 2008, after a six month delay. It was the first Grand Theft Auto game to be released simultaneously for both Sony and Microsoft's video game consoles. In August 2008, Rockstar announced that it was going to publish GTA IV for PC. GTA IV's game engine is the Rockstar Advanced Game Engine (RAGE).

Grand Theft Auto IV has much more realistic gameplay than its predecessors, no characters from previous games appear in GTA IV; according to Dan Houser (creator of game) "virtually none of the characters from the previous games returned, as a lot of them are dead anyway." The game once again takes place in a redesigned Liberty City that very closely resembles New York City.

Grand Theft Auto IVfollows the story of Niko Bellic, a thirty-year-old veteran of an unnamed war in Eastern Europe, who is haunted by the betrayal of his 15 man army unit. A trailer of the game is as under.

Grand Theft Auto: The Lost and Damned

Grand Theft Auto: The Lost and Damned, originally known as Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned, is the first of two episodic expansion packs developed for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC versions of Grand Theft Auto IV, developed by Rockstar North in the United Kingdom. It was first released for the Xbox 360 on 17 February 2009and on PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Windows on 13 April 2010. It is the third expansion pack game in the Grand Theft Auto series (the first since Grand Theft Auto: London, 1969, released in 1999), and the twelfth release overall.

The Lost and Damnedfeatures a new protagonist, Johnny Klebitz, who is a member of Liberty City's biker gang The Lost, a gang which is featured in missions throughout the course of Grand Theft Auto IV. Dan Houser, vice president of creative development at Rockstar Games, claims the episode will show "a different side of Liberty City". A trailer of the game is as under.

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is the first Grand Theft Auto game to be released on the Nintendo DS. This game has several new features, such as touch screen mini-games. The game was released on 17 March 2009 in North America and 20 March 2009 in Australia and Europe. The game is rated 18+. A PSP version was later announced on 22 June.

The story goes around Huang Lee, a spoiled rich kid from Hong Kong. Huang Lee owes his status as a Triad member to his father, a Triad boss from Kowloon. After the murder of his father, Huang is called to Liberty City by his Uncle Wu "Kenny" Lee to deliver a family 'heirloom", the Yu Jian Sword, to secure his family's claim to the leadership of the Triad gangs. But the process turns into a dangerous adventure as the sword gets stolen. Huang will have to dig deep into the rotten core of Liberty City - and deep within himself - to avenge his father's murder and reclaim his family's honor. Some stills are as under.

Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony

Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony is the second of the two episodic expansion packs available to the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC versions of Grand Theft Auto IV, developed by Rockstar North and released for the Xbox 360 on 29 October 2009. It was then released for the PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Windows on 13 April 2010. It is the fourth expansion pack in the Grand Theft Auto series, the final game of the Grand Theft Auto IV era. The Ballad of Gay Tony follows the exploits of protagonist, Luis Fernando Lopez, a member of the Dominican drug dealers and the personal bodyguard of Anthony "Gay Tony" Prince. Prince is the owner of the two largest nightclubs in Liberty City and is a high-status socialite. A trailer of the game is as under.

Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City

Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City is a standalone compilation of the downloadable content (DLC) episodes for the 2008 video game Grand Theft Auto IV. Created by Rockstar North in the United Kingdom, it contains both The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony on one disc.It was released alongside the DLC release of The Ballad of Gay Tony on 29 October 2009 for the Xbox 360 and released on 13 April 2010 for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 3.
Unlike the downloadable versions of the episodes, the compilation does not require a copy of Grand Theft Auto IVto play, nor is an Xbox Live or PlayStation Network account necessary (except for multiplayer). The content is also played straight from the disc, and does not need to be downloaded to a hard drive to play. Under are some stills from the game.

Grand Theft Auto V

Grand Theft Auto V (commonly shortened to GTA V) is an upcoming open world action-adventure video game being developed by games developer Rockstar North in the United Kingdom and published by Rockstar Games. The game will be the first major title in the Grand Theft Auto series since Grand Theft Auto IV (2008). GTA V is to be set in fictional Los Santos in the state of San Andreas and its surrounding areas, based on modern-day Los Angeles and Southern California.
A highly anticipated game, Grand Theft Auto V was officially announced on 25 October 2011. The debut trailer for the game was unveiled on 2 November 2011.

So friends that was it from this post. Hope you would have enjoyed it. Thank you

Top GPU's of 2012

2012-04-27T04:18:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone. I am back with a subject which proves to be a gamers most searched topic over the web.

In this article I have tried to bring all the relevant and useful information under one head so that one doesn't have to search for the related topics anywhere else.

Before beginning with the main body lets know a bit about what graphic card or graphics processing unit (GPU) or video card actually is.

Most of today's media consumers are used to the high quality and stunning visual effects of everything from web pages, movies, application softwares to games. Those awesome effects and visuals are created and viewed utilizing one very important piece of computer hardware- the graphics card.

Video cards come in various shapes, size and brands and which one is right for you depend on what you intend to do with your computer.

There are two main manufacturers of the brains of a video card - the graphics processing unit, or GPU - and each has its' advantages and disadvantages in each card it offers. NVIDIAand AMD/ATI both offer everything from entry level to world class GPU's and video cards.

So those were some basic know-what's about GPU's. Now the GPU's which are called the bosses of video cards are as under.

[1] AMD Radeon HD 6990 (Fastest GPU in the world)

HD 6990 got released on 08-03-2011 and claimed the fastest 'single' graphics card available on the planet, title soon. At that time we all knew that it won't get removed from its title very easily. Even today it continues to be the fastest among all. This gaming machine is loaded with features like

Interface: PCI-E 2.0 x16

Core Clock: 830 MHz

Shader Clock: 830 MHz

Memory Clock: 2500 MHz (5000 DDR)

Memory Bandwidth: 320 GB/sec

FLOPS: 5099.52 GFLOPS

Pixel Fill Rate: 53120 MPixels/sec

Texture Fill Rate: 159360 MTexels/sec

Max Power Draw: 375 W

Noise Level: Loud

Frame Buffer: 4096 MB

Memory Type: GDDR5

Price: Around Rs 40,000 i.e. $700+

HD 6990 is measurably faster, but considering the negative aspects, it is $700+, power-hungry, and embarrassingly loud.

[2] Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 (Kepler)

Kepler-based GeForce GTX 680 got released on 22nd March 2012. This video card was in news since the year 2010 about its power efficiency levels. Its numbers regarding power requirement are much better then HD 6990. Where HD 6990 max power draw is 370 W, GTX 680 only draws 190W of maximum power. Under are some of its other specifications.

Interface: PCI-E 3.0 x16

Core Clock: 1006 MHz

Shader Clock: 1006 MHz

Memory Clock: 3004 MHz (6008 DDR)

Memory Bandwidth: 192.256 GB/sec

FLOPS: 3090.432 GFLOPS

Pixel Fill Rate: 32192 MPixels/sec

Texture Fill Rate: 128768 MTexels/sec

Noise Level: Moderate

Frame Buffer: 2048 MB

Memory Type: GDDR5

Price: Around Rs 23,000 i.e. $500

[3] AMD Radeon HD 7970

HD 7970 is the AMD's latest GPU. It was introduced in the market on 22nd December 2011. This card is the industry's first with a few things, it uses the first ever high-performance GPU built on the 28 nanometer silicon fabrication process; Radeon HD 7970 is the industry's first card compliant with Microsoft's DirectX 11.1 API and is the first card to use the PCI Express 3.0 x16 bus. Further details of HD 7970 are as under.

Interface: PCI-E 3.0 x16

Core Clock: 925 MHz

Shader Clock: 925 MHz

Memory Clock: 2750 MHz (5500 DDR) Memory Bandwidth: 264 GB/sec FLOPS: 3788.8 GFLOPS

Pixel Fill Rate: 29600 MPixels/sec Texture Fill Rate: 118400 MTexels/sec

Max Power Draw: 250 W

Noise Level: Moderate

Frame Buffer: 3072 MB

Memory Type: GDDR5

Price: Around Rs 30,000 i.e. $550

[4] AMD Radeon HD 7950

This card got released on 9th January of this year. Physically, the Radeon HD 7950 is identical to AMD’s already-available Radeon HD 7970—save one distinguishing feature: a second six-pin auxiliary power connector. That’s a telltale indication of a sub-225 W maximum board power (75 W from the slot, plus up to 75 W from each plug). In fact, AMD rates the 7950 right at 200 W. Other details of 7950 are as under.

Interface: PCI-E 3.0 x16

Core Clock: 800 MHz

Shader Clock: 800 MHz

Memory Clock: 2500 MHz (5000 DDR) Memory Bandwidth: 240 GB/sec FLOPS: 2867.2 GFLOPS

Pixel Fill Rate: 25600 MPixels/sec Texture Fill Rate: 89600 MTexels/sec

Noise Level: Moderate

Frame Buffer: 3072 MB

Memory Type: GDDR5

Price: Around Rs 22,000 i.e. $449

[5] Nvidia GeForce GTX 590

GTX 590 made an entry into the market on 24th March 2011. The GTX 590 is actually two GTX 580 chips melded together and crammed into a single casing. It is really incredible to find out that the GTX 590 has a remarkably quiet cooler for a heavy duty pixel pusher of its kind. Its other specs are as follows.

Interface: PCI-E 2.0 x16

Core Clock: 607 MHz

Shader Clock: 1215 MHz

Memory Clock: 1707 MHz (3414 DDR) Memory Bandwidth: 327.744 GB/sec FLOPS: 2488.32 GFLOPS

Pixel Fill Rate: 58272 MPixels/sec Texture Fill Rate: 77696 MTexels/sec

Max Power Draw: 365 W

Noise Level: Moderate

Frame Buffer: 3072 MB

Memory Type: GDDR5

Price: Around Rs 33,000 i.e. $699

So that was it from this post. Hope it was of some help to you. I'll soon be back with a new post. Thank You.

Battlefield 3 " The Most Awaited Game of 2011"

2012-04-25T23:18:00.001-07:00

Hey guys. I am back with a post which I was really waiting to share with you all. Yeah "Battlefield 3" an awesome game for a hardcore gamer.

I had been eagerly waiting for this game since the day I saw its trailer way back in 2011.

I knew this game would be a record breaker and benchmark setter and now it is available in the market, feels great.

In this post I will be sharing with you some important facts one would like to know about in order to play this game without any hindrance.

Battlefield 3 (BF3) is a first person shooter game developed by EA Digital Illusions CE (DICE) and published by Electronic Arts (EA). It is a sequel to 2005's Battlefield 2.

The game was released in the end of the month October 2011 in different parts of the world. BF3 supports DirectX 10 and 11 and is available for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

The storyline is set in 2014, SSgt Blackburn leads a five-man squad on a mission to locate, find and safely return a US squad investigating a possible chemical weapons site, whose last known position was a market controlled by a hostile militia. After engaging in several gun battles, Blackburn and his squad are caught in a massive earthquake whose epicenter is in Iran. Later, Miller takes part in a tank assault upon an enemy rocket battery, before preparing to advance on what appears to be a burning city.

In campaign mode, players take on the personas of several military roles, a USMC recon Marine, an F-18 systems officer, an M1A2 Abrams tank operator and a SPETSNAZ operative. The game features maps set in Paris, Tehran as well as other locations in Iran, Sulaymaniyah, New York, Kuwait, Wake Island, Oman and the Persian Gulf. The maps cover urban streets, metropolitan downtown areas and open landscapes suited to vehicle combat.

The game as a whole is a nice effort, looking towards the facts that the characters move naturally, the lighting is beautiful and explosions are often scary in scope and impact. It sounds like a proper war zone, with the most terrifyingly authentic audio I have heard in a game.

So that was something related to the game play. You'll also need to know about its requirements which are as follows:

OS: Windows 7 64-bit
Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD CPU
RAM: 4GB
Graphics card: DirectX 11 Nvidia or AMD ATI card, Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 or ATI Radeon 6950.( also works fine with HD 6770 and HD 6850)
Graphics card memory: 1 GB
Sound card: DirectX compatible sound card
Hard drive: 15 GB for disc version or 10 GB for digital version

So that's it about the game. Please do comment if you liked it. Thank you.

What is the basic difference between DDR2 and DDR3 memory?

2012-04-25T09:38:00.000-07:00

Hey guys. In this post I would like to tell you all about the basic difference that I was able to make out between DDR2 and DDR3 memory.

Before beginning with the main topic lets know a bit about what actually DDR is........

Well DDR is an abbreviation for Double-Data-Rate. Double Data Rates as the name suggests, refers to transferring data on both the rising and falling edges of the clock signal.

Mainly the DDR memory is used in RAM (Random Access Memory). Before the DDR RAM became popular in market, SDRAM were used in computers. SD RAM stands for Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory.

In a computer system, the clock signal is used to coordinate interaction between digital circuits, in simple words, it synchronizes communication. Digital circuits designed to operate on the clock signal may respond at the rising or falling edge of the signal. SDRAM memory chips utilized only the rising edge of the signal to transfer data, while DDR RAM transfers data on both the rising and falling edges of the clock signal. Hence, DDR RAM is essentially twice as fast as SDRAM.

Above was some general knowledge about DDR memory, now lets get to the main topic i.e. the difference between DDR2 and DDR3.

DDR2	DDR3
· DDR2 (Double Data Rate 2) memory came in market in 2003 and still is quite into use.	· DDR3 (Double Data Rate 3) memory came into market in 2009 and since then slowly but gradually is replacing DDR2 in every CPU.

^·DDR2 with an internal clock running at half the external clock, allows it to handle twice the frequency, thus being up to twice as fast as DDR.

^·DDR3 doubles DDR2 peak bus frequency, and further increase latency.

· DDR2 uses 1.8V per chip.

^·DDR3 uses 1.5V per chip, which is 0.3V less than DDR2.

^·DDR2 (depending on its chip) can run at 400-1066 MT/s (mega transfer per second).

· DDR3 can run at 800-2133 MT/s.

^·DDR2 in regards to its peak transfer rate, it can transfer from 3200-8533 MB/s.

· DDR3 can transfer from 6400-17066 MB/s.

^·In regards to the I/O bus clock, DDR2 is only available between 200-800 MHz.

^·DDR3 supports from 400-1600 MHz.

After all the above differences it can be clearly made out that DDR3 is a much advanced then DDR2 and the fact that DDR3 consumes less power in outperforming DDR2 is impressive.

DDR2 and DDR3 RAM are available at par price rates in market. They can be found at about $30 i.e. Rs 1500 per 2GB chip.

Also DDR4 RAM is ready to hit the market. It might get available by 2014.

Hope this information was of any help to you. Thank you.

How to build a gaming pc within budget ?

2012-04-25T04:55:00.001-07:00

Hey guys. This is my first blog post. Yeah it definitely feels good. Hope you'll appreciate my efforts.

Well I decided to post on this topic because few months ago I was searching for the same topic. Though many sites had contents related to it but I hardly found a single one of any help. Most of the sites had outdated matter and each provided quite different information which was very frustrating as well as confusing. So I decided to make some efforts and gather some relevant information of my own.

Following are the things you would require:

Beginning with the sole of pc

Processor

Time has changed and so are the processors. New quad core processors have spread all over the market. Today gamers like to spend their resources on advanced quad cores rather then dual cores for the best gaming experience. It is a pretty good ‘sweet spot’ to spend when building a new system as it allows more budget for a good video card.

The processor I would recommend for this is - Intel core i3-2120 sandy bridge. It has 3.30 GHz of clock speed, 2x256kb of L2 cache and 3mb of L3 cache, DDR3 memory. Its power consumption is much less then i3-2105 and i7-2600k.

It is available at an attractive price range of $120- $125 i.e. around Rs 6346.

Motherboard

Asus P8H67 motherboard and perfectly compatible with sandy bridge processors.

P8H67-M LE (REV 3.0)is my recommendation under this subject. This is compatible with 2nd generation i7/Core, i5/Core, i3 Processors. It has 2 xSATA 6.0 Gb/s ports, 4 xSATA 3.0 Gb/s Ports, 2 x USB 3.0/2.0 ports.

You can find this at a price of about $125 i.e. around Rs 6600.

RAM

RAM plays a major role in a good gaming pc. There should be at least 4-8 GB memory of RAM in a gaming rig. RAM is generally easily available and with their not so expensive nature they prove to be the cheapest part of a gaming engine.

There is also DDR3 RAM available in the market. DDR3 is much advanced then DDR2. So while making a purchase one should keep in mind that he/she is getting the more advanced version.

My advice for this would be Corsair 4 GB DDR3 RAM 1600 Mhz PC12800 XMS3 (2 x 2). This will cost for about $30 i.e. Rs 1,500 each 2GB chip.

Graphics Card (GPU)

Now this is a very important unit for a gaming rig. All the games you play or wish to play depend upon the decision you make regarding this.

If you wish to play hardcore games with ultra graphics like Battlefield 3, Skyrim, Crysis 2 etc. then you'll have to expend at least $100-$200.

Recommendation from my side under this subject are HD 6770 and HD 6850. These are mid range GPU'S which deliver high performance. Go for brands like Sapphire and XFX.

Price of HD 6770is around $115 i.e. Rs 6000-Rs 7000and HD 6850 is around $200 i.e. Rs 10,000.

Power Supply Unit (PSU)

PSU is also a unit which should be wisely thought about while making a purchase. PSU is responsible to provide power to your pc and in case not enough supply is available then it might result in some serious damage to your engine.

For a gaming rig 550W-650W PSU proves to be sufficient.

Corsair VX 550 is a 550W PSU and is available for about $110 i.e. Rs 6,000.

Hard Drive

For gaming a lot of hard disk space is required as the size of games is increasing day by day. In order you can store more then few you would require lot of memory.

For this, product like Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX (1TB) is perfect. It is around $115 i.e. Rs 6300.

These are the main things you will require to build a decent gaming engine. Well the list do not include monitor, keyboard, mouse etc. as these are easy pickings and do not affect gaming much.

I hope that this blog post was of any help to you. Thank you.