Buying PC

[A-Man]

GHz is the clock rate; basically the amount of instructions (very low-level ones) a processor can do in a second (in order of 10^9). It is probably the main thing you should be looking at when you're buying your processor. The number of cores in a processor has to do with the number of "threads" a computer program is allowed to make. Most average games use 1 for its logic, one for the sounds stuff and one for networking stuff, so a good core i5 processor (4 cores) should often suffice. The Cache memory is another important thing you've to look for. 4MBs are usually just enough.

Don't know much about graphic cards. Just make sure you get one that supports "OpenGL", as there has been few ones out that doesn't support that.


Would be cool if Someone else would take the liberty of explaining those in more detail XD.