If you want to make a career both on YouTube and Twitch or just want to have a good time with friends, you’ll need a good gaming PC. Finding the best gaming PC can be a challenge given how many options there are out there from literally dozens of brands.

When you don’t know what you are looking for to have the perfect Gaming PC for your needs, it’s best to get expert advice that can help you get what you want. But it’s always important to know the minimum you need to know so, you don’t arrive uninformed about the hardware you’re looking for. In this post, we tell you what are the minimum components needed and some brands that work very well.

In a gaming PC, the most important components are, in this order, the graphic card, the processor, the RAM memory, and the storage.

The processor can be Intel or AMD, the latter being generally cheaper and better value for money. The graphics card can be AMD or NVIDIA, and again AMD graphics cards offer a better price/performance ratio, although NVIDIA graphics cards are currently ahead in pure performance. For the RAM memory, 8 GB will be enough for most cases, but if you want to play hard and your budget is high do not hesitate and go for 16 GB of RAM.

Regarding storage, there is no doubt: buy an SSD. It doesn’t matter if you are on a budget and have to settle for a SATA 3 SSD, right now they are very cheap and provide excellent gaming performance compared to a traditional mechanical hard drive