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what is going on guys you're watching Jays two cents and you guys have really been requesting of me lately to do some commentary style computer talk like my AMD vs Nvidia and my AMD vs. Intel videos and I've decided to go ahead and do that maybe this is what it takes to get me playing some games again and once again we are playing battlefield 3 simply because I just do not approve of Call of Duty I hate Call of Duty I can't do call of duty but you know battlefield 3 is probably a close second of those games that become extremely annoying but this is battlefield 3 this is Palace and it is conquest domination here and it's an alright gameplay I think I go like 17 and 5 or 17 and 6 something like that maybe it's worse than that but whatever we're gonna talk today about how to know when it's time to upgrade your computers now when it comes to a laptop it's a little bit different we're going to be talking about desktops today a laptop you know is an all-in-one unit with the exception of hard drive RAM and well I guess that's pretty much it hard drive and RAM is the only thing you can upgrade in the laptop everything else is soldered in it's a all-in-one unit that you're just gonna probably have to determine on your own whether or not it's meeting your needs so we're gonna go ahead and talk about the individual components in the computer and when it's time to upgrade how to know when it's time and we're gonna go ahead and start with the obvious graphics card why because most of you guys like me like to consider yourself gamers the graphics card is usually one of the single most expensive components inside of your computer with the exception of probably the entire computer itself and it's the number one most influential factor in a computer when it comes to gaming performance now all day long every single day day in and day out tons and tons of comments and messages asking this graphics card or this graphics card should I upgrade my graphics card is my graphics card good in the and here's the bottom line when it comes to that everybody's computer needs are different everybody's gaming standards are different and the games everybody plays are different and so the needs are going to be different case-by-case now there are some exceptions to games and graphics cards and I want to throw those out there now minecraft and Skyrim and games like that usually simulator type games require more CPU power than they do graphics card powers so those are the exceptions immediately because I know you Minecraft fanatics and you Skyrim players are gonna bite my head off if I say CPU performance isn't that important when it comes to gaming so those are some of the exceptions right there now when it comes to graphics cards if your graphics card is no longer able to meet the demands of the game and your and your desired settings and you find yourself having to reduce the settings on games as you install them it might be time to upgrade your graphics card and what I mean by that is this game that you're watching right here this is battlefield 3 played on a GTX 680 and it is overclocked right now on water and I have all the settings maxed everything is on max ultra everything is on the highest tessellation setting I have motion blur turned on everything is running and this game never once dropped below 60 frames per second and I do have adaptive vsync which is an Nvidia feature turned on so does it mean it's time for me to upgrade this graphics card if I'm a battlefield 3 player the answer is no but if you're a hardware junky like I am that 780 really starts to look good because you look at it and go well you know I like to have the top-of-the-line stuff and sheesh I just I really have a hard time telling myself I don't need it because you know that's the way I am so the 680 is more than sufficient for the game that I'm playing in this in this commentary right here and including Crysis 3 the game is just fine and these are some of the most demanding games that are out graphically right now still Crysis 3 and battlefield 3 now I've got battlefield 4 coming up so I'm gonna bleep wait until it gosh I'd like to think that I could wait that long chances are I won't wait but battlefield 4 may end up being a little more demanding in my 680 may start to dip down below 60 frames-per-second a little bit which means that I'm gonna to start backing off my settings now that's where you determine whether or not it's time to upgrade are you content with backing off your settings to keep frames per second at a decent you know playable frame rate or are you a graphics whore like me and you're gonna say well I want to keep everything at Ultra and this card is no longer cutting it so do I upgrade my graphics card or add a second card or whatever it is that's the question that you guys all have to determine how important is maximum ultra graphics settings for you for me it's very important so once the 680 no longer is able to include Ultra settings on the graphics I'm gonna put in either a second card or upgrade to a 780 or something along those lines or maybe an AMD card if they've come out with something better than the 780 when I'm ready to purchase so with that said once games are no longer able to play Ultra settings it's time for me to upgrade my card now for you if you're ok with medium or you're ok with high then you'll get more life and loud out of your card now CPU CPU is not that important when it comes to gaming 3d games like this with the exception of Minecraft and Skyrim or some of those other games need to put a disclaimer there so you guys don't actually buy my head off like you did me other video saying that minecraft is a demanding game on your CPU there there's a disclaimer so if you're a minecraft player there you go if you're a minecraft player you're gonna want to have a more powerful CPU because it's very CPU dependent game because there's a lot of algorithms and there's a lot of coding in there that demand high CPUs so if you've got yourself a slow quad core and it's just not cutting it it's probably time to upgrade your CPU if your game is no longer to play at a frame rate that's important to you then like minecraft or Skyrim I think Skyrim is very heavy on memory also then it may be time to consider upgrading those but for the most part CPUs are going to be most important to people like me who are playing games and rendering these games at the same time doing live streams Photoshop any of those types of programs maybe you do graphics design maybe do web design Dreamweaver maybe you're a programmer or maybe you're just running virtual machines or databases or whatever on your on your computer then your CPU is going to become a much more important item to upgrade and if you're not a heavy gamer but you definitely use a lot of CPU heavy tasks like this then you are gonna want to consider upgrading your CPU when it's time to upgrade your CPU is when it's not gonna be as cut and dry as a GPU where you could say oh I've got to lower my settings because I can no longer play at a frame rate that's enjoyable to me but what you may start to realize is geez these tests that I do these sequel scripts and I'm running this database as I'm operating or this editing that I'm doing is really starting to take a long time it's starting to just you know I'm tired of waiting 45 minutes to render a video when I know J's $0.02 is rendering 10 minute videos in under 11 minutes so that's when it becomes important to you or you have to determine how important is your time to use your time worth $300 for a new CPU and in many cases in if you upgrade the CPU you're gonna probably have to get a new motherboard as well unless you're on the AMD side because AMD is very good at being backwards compatibility or being backwards compatible with their newer CPUs onto older socket sets Intel could probably take a little lesson from AMD on that one so CPU and motherboard pretty much go together a lot of people have asked me if motherboards are important to upgrade if they're going to be putting the same CPU and GPU in there pretty much no especially when it comes to the Intel side because motherboards really they do what they do I mean I don't know how else to explain unless you're gonna be looking at doing a lot of overclocking most of the features on a motherboard people never touch they plug in their CPU they plug in their graphics card and they just turned on and off they go but if you're going to be doing multiple graphics cards two-way SLI 3-way SLI and if you're considering doing four-way SLI chances are you're not watching the video because you are to do some sort of an enthusiast on your own motherboards are really just you know unless you got to get three terabyte drive compatibility or you're doing some sort of raid then you know your motherboard is going to be one of the lower things to consider when it comes to upgrading you're never gonna upgrade just your motherboard usually you'll do it as a package so we'll just throw that out there when it comes to ram ram sort of falls into the same category as cpu you can determine it's time to upgrade your RAM if your rendering is starting to become very laggy and what I mean by that is your CPU usage is not being maxed out you're seeing that your CPU is instead of at 100% utilization when rendering a video or doing some sort of video encoding or you know you're doing DVD you know copying or rent converting or whatever you're doing file conversions and you see your CPU is sitting at about 65 75 % and it fluctuates up and down usually what that means is there's a bottleneck somewhere and in most cases that bottleneck is gonna be either one the memory or two your hard drive sometimes your hard drive can't copy the data as fast as it's being sent so it has to slate says hey hey CPU slow down there whoa slow your roll I can't I can't write fast enough sometimes the memory is saying whoa dude hold on I've got everything I'm sending all the information as fast as I can you're just gonna have to chill a minute so that's the easiest way to tell whether or not it's gonna be time to upgrade your RAM if a lot of these heavy rendering ops you know tasks that you're doing are slowing down the CPU in the sense that the CPU is just like tapping its fingers going okay any day now let's do this which now brings us down to hard drives hard drive is probably one of the most immediate ways to see performance increase especially inside windows and game loading time hard drives versus solid-state drives are just night and day check out my solid-state video if you haven't seen it already when you put in a solid-state drive you cut the read time or you increase the read time usually four or five times and you at least at least double the write speed depending on which SSD you go with and they're only getting cheaper I definitely recommend an SSD you haven't already if you're still running a hard drive it's time to upgrade to an SSD regardless of what drive you've got but guys I hope you've enjoyed this battlefield 3 commentary I know 11 minutes is a long video and there's a lot of information to try and get out in 11 minutes so put your questions down in the comments as always we've got an awesome community here on Jason's channel a lot of you guys are helping each other out and I think that's great I appreciate you guys watching my videos if you stumbled across my little corner of YouTube hit that subscribe button check out my other videos if you don't like it feel free to unsubscribe but check it out I've got a lot of PC stuff up here technology stuff got a whole variety of things that I do on this channel reviews and look at this guy can't be on the corner god they're bolted to the head that's what he deserves alright guys as always I really appreciate you guys checking out my channel here you guys have made YouTube and wonderful experience thus far and let's see just how far we can take this little rollercoaster ride here on J's 2 cents and until next time I'll see you in my next video when I see you