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hey guys this is Austin and today I'm here with gaming pc myths part 2 so a couple weeks ago I did a video going over a lot of the common misconceptions that people have about PC gaming and since some of you guys like that video and suggested a ton more for me to go over here are more gaming pc myths the first one is that consoles have better graphics than a gaming PC now this one really isn't true both the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 are both pretty old at this point and while the ps4 and Xbox infinity will definitely improve this they still should be no match for a proper gaming computer especially with the 360 and ps3 a lot of the games are actually running at 720p or low resolutions whereas with a gaming computer you can rent to 1920 by 1080 you run at 2560 by 1440 in fact you can even game on multiple monitors if you want that's the thing you gonna be able to do with a console anytime soon another is that to be a PC gamer you have to use a mouse and keyboard and while this is a good way of controlling your games and it's what I use 95% of the time if it's not for you you can also use a controller so the best way to do is if you have an Xbox 360 controller if you have a wireless version you can buy an adapter if you have a wired controller all you do is plug it into your computer and it'll be good to go now not all games will support controllers for example you're probably going to be wanting to use one with StarCraft however most games will automatically detect the controller and you'll be good to go and even ones that don't are pretty simple to set up another myth is that you have to buy an expensive gamer mouse and keyboard now all sometimes it does make sense to get a little bit of a nicer mouse and keyboard for the most part this isn't necessary so take a mouse for example a lot of times you'll see some specialty mice which will have a bunch of buttons on them or have some super high settings but for the most part this really isn't necessary now sure in some games having 10 buttons on your Mouse might be helpful but for most people it's really not worth spending all that extra money to get something that's really marginally better than anything else on the keyboard side of things typically the major upgrade you're going to want to look for as a mechanical board now this is something I use and it does make a difference however just like with the mouse while it is nice to have it really is not a necessity it's not going to make a huge difference in your games if you're going to be using a standard mouse and keyboard that cost 30 bucks or a really nice gamer set that costs 200 each another one I see all the time is that you have to have a thousand watt power supply to run a gaming PC now a lot of people way overestimate what they actually need I would have no problem building even a fairly high rigged with a 500 watt supply now of course there's no real maximum amount of power that you can have in a system if there's extra overhead it's not going to hurt anything however if you're paying a bunch of extra money for an 800 watt power supply when you're running a core i3 and it's 7850 it's definitely not really needed another common myth is that you have to have 16 gigabytes of RAM right the thing is gaming PC's actually don't really need all that much RAM obviously if you're going to be trying to play battlefield 3 on a half a gigabyte of RAM you've gotta rent in some issues however if you do have 4 8 gigabytes of RAM that's really all you need for a gaming PC now sometimes it can be helpful to have more RAM so for example some programs like Adobe After Effects and virtual machines can definitely eat up 16 gigabytes of RAM but if you're just doing a normal gaming PC for 8 gigabytes of RAM is really all you need and since you made it to the end of the video I've got a special giveaway just for you guys so I've teamed up with my friends over at HH Greg once again we're going to be providing a 32 inch LG TV to one lucky winner all you need to do is hit up the first link in the description of this video to enter and you have until March 28th until we pick the winner you can also enter to win one of 64 TVs the HH greg is giving away for March Madness so to do that go to HH greg comm slash march where i'll have another link in the description of this video and you can enter up to once per day on top of that if you want extra entries there's another video i will have linked in the description as well as an annotation but you can take a look at and share and that will also give you an additional entry to win one of those TVs this giveaway is only open in the United States so if you're interested definitely be sure to get in on it to win anything from a 32 to a 60 inch LG TV anyway that's about it if you have any other gaming pc myths definitely be sure to let me know in the comments below and if you're interested in more videos like this be sure to subscribe anyway guys I will catch you next time