Last Saturday, another SHINE x *SCAPE esports workshop was held at *SCAPE. Following up on the casters workshop last week, this week’s SHINE x *SCAPE esports workshop by Aftershock touched on building a PC. The event was held on 30 June, Saturday, 3.00 pm to 5.00 pm.
The workshop began with an introduction into Aftershock. Founded in 2012, the company’s strives “to deliver a PC experience in Singapore that was not just about powerful hardware but about aftercare service as well”. There was a display of the various products being sold by Aftershock, not limited to their laptops and PCs but the Omnidesk, which is a customisable table and the PRISM+ which is Aftershock’s gaming monitors. Make me think about spending more money to upgrade my own gaming set up liao.
After the introduction, the workshop delved into a guide to buying PCs. Aftershock went into detail regarding the different components of a PC such as the processor, graphics card, storage and RAM. With each component, Aftershock also explained the logic behind the choice of specific tiers based on each component. For example, when picking a graphics card for your PC, the type of graphics card you would choose varies according to the type of gameplay you wish to achieve on your PC. Simply choosing to buy the latest and most “powerful” graphics card might not be the best choice. If you were only aiming to play games such as Dota 2 or League of Legends on 1080p, then purchasing a 1080ti graphics card would not be as cost effective as purchasing a 1060.
After a detailed run through of each component, the workshop then shifted to a PC building course. Aftershock assembled a PC from scratch, all the while detailing each step of the process. Audiences were also invited to come up close to witness how the assembly process looks like. The Aftershock senior builders made the process look so easy but if I do confirm look like kiam chai like that.
All in all, the SHINE x *SCAPE esports workshop by Aftershock was an enlightening experience. PC enthusiasts as well as would-be PC builders should definitely keep an ear out for any future workshops such as these. Don’t say bo jio!
