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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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EXAM TIP Standalone sound cards are pretty much irrelevant in today’s

systems. You’ll see the “requirement” for one only on the CompTIA A+

exams.

We haven’t covered the GPUs yet; you’ll get all the details in Chapter 17,

“Display Technologies.” The rest of the pieces should make a lot of sense at

this point. Remember the high-end CPUs from Chapter 3? Crank them up and

throw on some high-end cooling, like a purpose-built water-cooling rig, to

give a gaming system the foundation for greatness.

To wrap, a gaming PC needs:

• Multicore processor

• High-end cooling (maybe liquid)

• High-end video/specialized GPU

• High-definition sound card

Graphics/CAD/CAM Design Workstation

Professional photographers and graphic designers generally work with pretty

hefty files, so at its core, a graphics workstation requires a fast, multicore

CPU, maximum RAM, and serious storage space. Because designers work

visually, add to that mix the need for high-end video components. Finally,

throw in specialized software to make it all work. Professional photographers

use Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom. Graphics engineers have a few

other options, but they fall into computer-aided design (CAD) and computeraided

manufacturing (CAM) categories.

NOTE CAD/CAM software programs enable engineers to create and build

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