PC for The Sims 4: system requirements and which PC to choose By the FlowUP team, gaming PC builder in Genappe (Belgium) · Updated 30 September 2026 In brief: The Sims 4 runs on almost any recent PC: the minimum is a Core i3-3220 or a Ryzen 3 1200 , 4GB of RAM a...
ATX 3.0 vs ATX 3.1: what are the differences for your power supply? By the FlowUP team, gaming PC builder in Genappe (Belgium) · Updated 30 September 2026 In short: ATX 3.0 (2022) and ATX 3.1 (2023) are Intel’s standards for PC power supplies. ATX 3.0 introduced manag...
Connecting a PS5 controller to a PC: USB, Bluetooth and Steam By the FlowUP team, gaming PC builder in Genappe (Belgium) · Updated 30 September 2026 In short: to connect a PS5 controller to a PC , the easiest way is to plug it in using a USB-C cable : Windows re...
PCIe: what is it, and do you need PCIe 4.0 or 5.0 for gaming? By the FlowUP team, gaming PC builder in Genappe (Belgium) · Updated 30 September 2026 In short: PCIe (PCI Express) is the bus that connects the graphics card and NVMe SSDs to the processor. Each gene...
CPU socket: what is it? AM4, AM5, LGA1700 and LGA1851 explained By the FlowUP team, gaming PC builder in Genappe (Belgium) · Updated 30 September 2026 In brief: the socket is the motherboard’s mounting that holds the processor. A processor only works with the sock...
4K resolution: what is it and which PC do you need for 4K gaming? By the FlowUP team, gaming PC builder in Genappe (Belgium) · Updated 30 September 2026 In brief: 4K resolution (or 4K UHD) displays 3840 x 2160 pixels , i.e. over 8.2 million points: 4 times more than...
RTX 5070 vs RX 9070: which one should you choose for 1440p gaming? By the FlowUP team, PC assembler for gaming in Genappe (Belgium) · Updated 27 September 2026 Same launch price, same target, same focus on 1440p: the GeForce RTX 5070 and the Radeon RX 9070 go head to...
Ray tracing and path tracing: what are they, and which graphics card should you choose? By the FlowUP team, building gaming PCs in Genappe (Belgium) · Updated 27 September 2026 Reflections that truly follow the scene, soft shadows, light bouncing from one wall to the next: that’s what ra...
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070: review, price and comparison for 2026 By the FlowUP team, PC gaming system integrator in Genappe (Belgium) · Updated 27 September 2026 The RTX 5070 is the graphics card NVIDIA puts right at the heart of the market: built for 1440p, more a...
CPU clock speed in GHz: what is it and how much do you need? (2026) By the FlowUP team, a gaming PC assembler in Genappe (Belgium) · Updated 28 September 2026 The frequency of a processor, expressed in gigahertz (GHz), tells you how many calculation cycles it performs...
CPU thread: what is it and how many do you need in 2026? By the FlowUP team, assembling a gaming PC in Genappe (Belgium) · Updated 28 September 2026 A thread (execution thread) is a sequence of instructions that a CPU core can process. Thanks to simultaneou...
CPU core (processor core): what is it and how many do you need in 2026? By the FlowUP team, assembling a gaming PC in Genappe (Belgium) · Updated 28 September 2026 A core ("core" in English) is a complete computing unit inside the processor. Each core reads, decodes and e...
