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Beginner's Guide To Gamer Laptops: What You Need To Know About Gaming Laptop Computer Microprocessors, Memory, And Operating Systems

thehigherstandard | Jan 8, 2012 |

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This article is Part 2 of an article discussing what you must know to about gaming laptop computer microprocessors, memory, and operating systems. Part 1 of this article can be found here: What You Need To Know About Gamer Laptop Computer Microprocessors. These articles should be read together as the first part of the article includes information needed to make an educated decision regarding choosing the best CPU for your gaming computer, while this part of the article discusses what you should know about your laptop computer gaming memory and operating systems.

Gaming Laptop Computer RAM

Gaming Laptops Need A Large, Superpower Memory Capacity

As previously discussed, if you intend to play high-speed, graphic and audio intensive computer games, you will need a laptop model that has the correct microprocessors, memory, and operating system. We have already learned that getting enough power to operate your gaming system properly is controlled by the microprocessor (also known as the “CPU”). As such, let’s turn out attention to the gamer laptop memory system. Typically expressed as RAM, you will want as much of this stuff as you can get. Accordingly, when you are considering which computer make and model you intend to buy, you need to determine how much RAM that laptop can support by the entire systems (the motherboard, microprocessor, and the operating system).

In a nutshell, RAM is housed on what is typically referred to as a “memory chip.” While smaller than your fingernail, the information contained thereon is mind boggling. I am sure everyone has heard of that website where the owner divided up his landing page into one million individual cells and sold off each cell for one dollar. When he sold all one million cells on the page, he became one of the web’s most creative millionaires! You can think of the memory chip along the same lines, except exponentially bigger. However, instead of each cell containing a paid-for advertisement, they house a bunch of “0s” and “1s” (the way information is processed by computers). Each individual cell has an “address,” and is meticulously tracked by the computer’s index. As inputs and outputs are processed, data is moved back and forth onto these RAM chips, allowing things to happen throughout the entire computer.

Keep in mind, however, that gaming computers really tax the memory systems and must be supercharged and supersized in order to function properly. Most laptops made today typically supported between two to four GB of RAM. You need to know this to ensure you will not have insufficient RAM to play your computer games properly. One way of making that determination without getting too technical is to see what operating system the laptop is using. If it is using the 32-bit Windows 7 or Windows Vista operating system, the most RAM that laptop will support will be 4 GB. On the other hand, if it is utilizing the 64-bit version of Windows 7, you know that it has a 64-bit process and, accordingly, can handle must most RAM. Of course, anywhere between 2GB and 4GB of RAM will usually be enough to run your gaming system. However, the most RAM the better so, if possible, buy a gaming laptop computer that has a 64-bit processor so you can add more RAM!