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I’m going to be getting a new computer in the next month or so, and I was wondering what the best option would be if I wanted to start making games in the future? Could I do a laptop, or should it be a desktop? What kinds of specs should I look for?
(And all apologies if this isn’t where I should have asked this.)
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laptop; games don’t need too high specs so you can get something more economic. If you want to use flash, then use something a little higher. 2 GBs of ram, a decent CPU. You’ll need a graphics card for game for sure. Laptop is fine, and is a good idea since you can take it with you to college or somthin.
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Unless you need it to be portable for some reason, get a desktop – you can get higher specs for less monies, and they don’t overheat so easily.
Aim for a quadcore processor and 4gb or more of RAM, if that’s within your budget (you didn’t mention pricing), or a dualcore processor if you have to go cheaper. You need plenty of RAM if you’re gonna be using a program like Flash for making your games, unless you like lag, but a code only compiler will be fine with less.
If you have plenty to spend, one of the newer i-series processors will be the absolute fastest, but you’re unlike to notice much difference between them and a reasonable quadcore processor. Add a decent graphics card if you want to play games (real games,not Flash ones) – something in the GTX range if you’re gonna be doing a lot of gaming on it. Highend PC games need a good graphics card to run well, Flash games will run fine without one.
Don’t bother with a soundcard unless you’re a huge audio freak, because the PC will have an onboard soundchip with the motherboard which is enough for most people anyway.
And for the hard drive – well you might think you don’t need that much space, but once you have a decent PC that’s good at handling whatever you install on it, you’ll start using the space for more stuff. So get one with lots of space.
In a desktop PC the motherboard is the hardest thing to upgrade later, followed by the processor. Anything else can easily be clicked out and replaced with something else, so if you have to cut back on options to fit your budget, dont’ drop the processor too something too low, get a cheaper graphics card or less RAM instead.
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Who said that Flash Games were not real games? Also, flash may also require a gfx card. Things like pixel bender and Molehill depend n the gfx card for its purpose.
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Let’s not be picky over my choice of words, its obvious what I meant.
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I’m leaning towards the desktop, but I wanted to know if one was preferred over the other. Thanks for the help!
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If you are going to college anytime soon, get a laptop. For sure. (~2 years).
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