Researching Video Cards, CPUs etc

[engineiro]

Hey mini Toms!

What do you look at when researching PC parts? Particularly, Graphics and CPU since those are the most research intensive and important to the pc experience.

I normally check out reviews, then benchmarks and finally some youtubes of people building with these parts mostly out of curiosity, but I am curious if there is something that someone does to close in on a decision for that part.

 

[rolli59]

I simply look up benchmarks. Use anandtech and tom's for CPU's and this for gaming performance of GPU's http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Sapphire/HD_7870_Flex/28.html

 

[engineiro]

Best answer selected by engineiro.