What's the difference between Internet cafes/home computers?

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'PConline Talk'At present, our entire series of Internet cafes have come to an end. In the past few of our PConline Internet cafes, we have done practical tests on the hardware of Internet cafes/Internet cafes. This is related to the actual performance of Internet cafes. This time we will have an Internet cafe. The external device, which is what we see, the ear, and the touch of the hands, is the difference between the peripherals and displays of the Internet cafes and the peripherals used by our own consumers? A small summary of the Internet cafe series, what are the differences between Internet cafes and home computers?

This is the topic of the previous topic of our Internet Café Visit series. Interested partners can click the following portal to watch!
'The Secret of Internet Cafe You Don't Know' Issue No. 1: The 20 Years of Internet Café Industry
'The Secret of Internet Cafe You Didn't Know' Issue No. 2: Why can't Internet Cafe Computers? Why can't you think of it!
'Do not know the secret of the Internet cafes' No. 3: 3000 Internet cafes easily eat chicken insider Boss spent millions of magic
'The Secret of Internet Cafe You Didn't Know' Issue No. 4: Mystery of the Internet cafe owner personally: I modified the water for a million
'The Secret of Internet Cafe You Don't Know' Issue No. 5: Measured by the Internet Café Diskless System The performance of different systems under the same configuration is actually 60% worse
'The Secret of Internet Cafes You Didn't Know' Issue No. 6: Internet Café Computer Configuration Competition Which hardware is more popular with Internet cafes?

Display

Keywords: surface large 1080p gaming

Select curved screen or straight screen

In the selection of displays, current Internet cafes generally prefer curved displays. It is difficult to see Internet cafes with a straight screen. For personal experience, curved displays do have a very good immersion experience. In our measured Internet cafes, Basically, they use the surface display strategy directly, and they are also more popular among consumers. For personal reasons, they also prefer curved displays, but curved displays need at least 27 inches or more to have a good sense of immersion. The game is not suitable for curved displays.

Unlike ordinary gamers, the eSports players who are known to the public use straight screens. The eSports competitions also use a straight-screen solution. Compared to curved displays, straight screens do not distort. Although theoretically curved displays It will be more in line with personal viewing habits, but many games are not optimized based on curved screens. In the selection of straight screens and curved displays, the e-sports industry has chosen a straight screen, and it is not so simple to say that e-sports have chosen straight screens. Can say that gaming currently has a straight screen.

Larger and bigger

Internet cafe monitors basically follow the big and bigger strategy in the choice of size. Today, the screens that can be seen in Internet cafes/Internet cafes are generally more than 27 inches, and they are generally 32 inches in size. Just like mobile phones, although everyone Saying that the big screen doesn’t have to be said, the result is that Apple’s large-screen PLUS series come out one by one, all of which are bought and bought. The size of the screen actually complements the curved display, and we remember that the honourable one mentioned earlier, under 27 inches, Curved display basically has no advantage. The biggest advantage of curved display relative to straight screen is giving a good immersive feeling. The screen below 27 inches is too small to give a good immersion.

At the same time, the person’s perspective is about 150 degrees, but when we look at the object, the horizontally clear line of sight area is only 35 degrees, while the vertical line of sight area has only a clear range of 20 degrees. That is, if the monitor is within a certain distance, The screen size displayed by the movie screen is too large. Therefore, the image outside the range of 35 degrees wide and 20 degrees high from the human eye cannot be clearly observed. If the eye is in such a state, it will barely see all the content displayed, and the eyeball will have to constantly scan up and down, scan the monitor or the screen left and right, so that the muscles inside the eyeball can easily fatigue after repeated movements, which will make the eyes produce Discomfort, slowing down the reaction rate. This is why many e-sports players choose 24” and up to 27” monitors. But this is not the same as our average consumer. We choose the monitor not just to play the game, we still have to watch it. Video, watching movies, browsing web pages, etc. For the game's reaction and surface experience, choosing a large-screen surface does have a better experience.

Resolution Collective 1080p

In the resolution of the monitor, Internet cafes basically all choose 1080p. Basically, Internet cafes will choose to play games. For games, the experience on high resolution is far less than the smoothness of the picture, so Internet cafes There is no incentive to drive up and down the resolution of the display.

At another point, improving the resolution of the display will inevitably require hardware upgrades, and the increase in cost will not add more revenue. This is why Internet cafes/Internet cafes generally do not choose higher resolution displays.

E-sport monitor

HKC 144Hz Gaming Monitor

The e-sports display has been favored by many players for its high refresh rate of 144Hz, low latency response, and high refresh brings a smoother picture experience. On this point, it is hoped that the buddies will not spray high refresh rate again. Use, According to our field interview with Zhongshan SO Haocao results, with the configuration, more consumers will choose to monitor the gaming area with a high refresh rate of 144Hz, even if the price is higher, if you still do not believe, large You can go and try again.

Of course, there are not only e-sports monitors in the Internet cafes, but also in general recreation areas or ordinary displays. After all, the price of e-sports displays is there. There are also many people who do not have such a strong e-sports demand. Ordinary displays are also To play the game, the requirements for the core hardware such as graphics cards will also be lower. It is also convenient for Internet cafes to divide and ladder pricing in different regions, and accurately face multiple consumer groups.

What is the difference between an Internet cafe monitor and our home monitor?

According to our on-the-spot surveys and interviews with HKC monitor manufacturers, there is not much difference between an Internet cafe monitor and our average home monitor. There are not many requirements for the color gamut, so the Internet cafe monitor is basically available. Home monitors will choose according to their own needs, if you want to say the biggest difference is that the interface is reduced, because the reasons for the unified adoption of Internet cafes, the display interface can be reduced, but the consumer market is not, I believe in vigorously promote HDMI With the DP interface today, there are still many people using the DVI and VGA interfaces at home. The hardware replacement of the Internet cafes will be more timely than the home computers, so the specifications can be customized in a unified manner. Do not underestimate the reduction of several interfaces, the manufacturers from the reduction Process, materials, working hours, etc. In the case of large quantities of shipments, it can save a lot of costs, not to mention rounding when calculations are not.

What is the trend of the monitor now?

According to last year's monitor statistics, the entire display industry has shrunk by 30%, but e-sports monitors have a huge increase of 166%. The entire display market is evolving towards e-sports. Many companies directly enter the display industry and do e-sports directly. Monitors. Nowadays, e-sport displays are no longer low quality in the eyes of everyone. Only high refresh rates and low delays can be said. Recently we got the OPTIX series displays from MSI dedicated to gaming. 100% NTSC color gamut, interested partners can look at the PConline DIY peripheral channel, and we will bring this top e-sports monitor's review next Wednesday.

Keyboard mouse peripherals

Keywords: Non-drive Waterproof and dustproof Easy to lose

If you want to say that the biggest differences we can experience in Internet cafes are Internet peripherals, keyboards, mice, and headphones as our personal touch devices, we don’t know the Internet cafes’ peripherals and the peripherals we generally buy. Did you experience the difference in the product?

keyboard

The biggest difference between the Internet cafes' keyboard may lie in the environment of Internet cafes. The environment of Internet cafes is very dusty and easy to be spilled by liquids. In addition, the use of high-frequency times requires that the keyboard of Internet cafes has a very good keyboard. Physically, can afford to build. At this time the first demand for Internet cafes cybercafé became stable, long life, so now a lot of Internet cafes for Internet cafes keyboard is strengthened by the dust and water treatment. At the same time the keyboard The use of the drive is also no-driver setting. The diskless boot system of the Internet cafe is to reduce the number of services in order to ensure the cleanliness. It is basically impossible to add the driver software for the peripherals. Therefore, the vendor follows the no-driver in the provision of peripherals in the Internet cafes. However, it is possible to preset the function keys on the keyboard to realize the multi-function and change the lighting requirements of the keyboard. It is even possible to reserve a light area next to the keyboard, which can facilitate the Internet cafe/Internet cafe owner to stick their own LOGO on the product.

mouse

In the selection of the Internet cafe peripherals, since the keyboard is not driven, the natural mouse is also a driver-less configuration, and no driver does not mean that the mouse is on the low end. Still, the Internet cafe's equipment needs to deal with high frequency and high intensity use. , Internet cafes and mice are full of performance. Many players to Internet cafes / Internet cafes and will not specifically to debug the mouse, Basic will choose the default settings, Even if the parameters of the DPI and other adjustments, Will only come from the hardware The default mode is adjusted, and many players do not specifically study the various adjustments of the device, not to mention the download and installation of the driver, so the lack of driver is also due to the consumption habits of Internet cafes.

headset

Headphones are also flashing lights, mainly gaming headsets, gaming headphones do not want the pursuit of sound quality, after all, onboard five hair sound card, Even the best headphones are useless. Internet cafes headset is the smallest difference in peripheral products, you can Basically, there is no difference between the earphones that our average consumer uses. And we use the keyboard or mouse.

What are the differences between Internet cafes and mouse peripheral products and our home?

Recently, we have reviewed a keyboard for Internet cafes/Internet cafes, and asked the manufacturer about the difference between the Internet cafe peripherals. This is consistent with the results obtained from our actual field tests. The waterproofing has been strengthened. Even the appearance of the pluggable shaft now is convenient for the maintenance of the Internet cafe/Internet cafe. The appearance of the optical axis and other similar shafts allow the use of the mechanical keyboard of the Internet Café to have a better and longer life. At the same time, the cost of the entire peripheral is also reduced. Without the configuration of the drive, some of the functions of the drive are directly preset on the keyboard. The peripherals of the Internet cafe are consumables, which are completely different from the positioning of peripheral products used in our home. According to the industry situation that the classmates know, the Internet cafe will replace the peripheral products in about 8 months, among which the earphone is most likely to be damaged, followed by the mouse and the keyboard.

What is the current trend of mouse and keyboard headset peripherals?

Different from display products, peripheral products have formed two distinct lines in Internet cafes and consumer markets. For the Internet cafes and Internet markets, large quantities of customers, and Internet cafes peripheral products are consumables, low-profit and large-volume production The increase in market share is currently the strategy of Internet cafe peripheral manufacturers, and for the general consumer market, the high-level, low-end, step-by-step market structure that has been formed will continue to be stable. The Internet cafe peripherals will still think of waterproofing. Dust prevention and other special needs are improved, and peripherals in the consumer market will pay more attention to the improvement of experience and appearance.

Core Hardware

Keywords: diskless system hardware special supply

To talk about the biggest difference between Internet cafe computers and home computers, it may be diskless system, and the system has also been streamlined.

Diskless system

Internet cafes diskless system, which is a diskless network system used in Internet cafes. Internet cafes machines are divided into two parts: server and client. Under diskless system, clients do not need to configure hard disks. All clients are connected through the network. The large-capacity hard disk in the server is booted using the system image in the hard disk. The files in the hard disk of the server can be read on all clients. This method is called the diskless system of the Internet cafe.

What are the benefits of diskless system? First of all, of course, to save money, do not need to be equipped with a hard drive on each computer. Second, the hard disk of the Internet Café server uses an array of high-speed enterprise-class hard drives, and some even directly use the enterprise-class SSD, which can give consumers a non-trivial user experience, but the cost will be less than the installation of SSD or high-speed mechanical hard disk for each computer. And the use of diskless system, every time the customer boot reading is a new mirroring system (Or use a restore card), which is equivalent to reloading the system every time you turn on your computer. This eliminates the need for ordinary users to use daily caches to create computer caches. This way, the Internet cafe's computer experience is even better.

Every time the Internet cafe is read, the system is very streamlined. Most of the software that has nothing to do with the game is removed. For example, what kind of guards and the like, then you will have very few background programs when you run the game. The speed of the computer is naturally faster. The local basic will be 16GB dual-channel large memory software running naturally let the player feel that the computer's speed is not fast enough.

The biggest advantage of the diskless system is that the maintenance cost is reduced because the amount of games provided in the Internet cafe is much more than that of the average home machine. If each machine has an independent system disk, the update game can put network management to death. The advantage of the diskless system is simply to update the game on the server disk, simple and crude.

Hardware supply

In addition to the optimization of the software system, there is no special optimization on the hardware, but the bulk of the hardware can facilitate Internet cafes in the software adaptation has a great advantage, but in terms of cost savings because of the large-scale demand for Internet cafes and the unified system , Unlike the mixed demand of the consumer market, it is difficult to achieve unified customization.

In terms of chassis power, and because the specifications are unified, we can customize the fixed chassis, even without a chassis. At present, even if there is a chassis, it is more for the cool light source and the single water cooling, creating a high-end cyber cafe atmosphere. Our interview with Xingu Electromechanical manufacturers: Internet cafes are more concerned about user experience, the chassis is more concerned with the visual experience, prefers to arrange lighting effects, and the power supply requires stability.

On the motherboard, usually many interfaces that we can see will be emasculated. According to our interviews with the motherboards of Biotek and Seven motherboard manufacturers, we know that the specifications of the Internet cafes are relatively simple, the specifications of the consumer models are relatively complete, and the functions and applications are relatively abundant. For example, a conventional motherboard will have a VGA display interface, and the series of motherboards of the Internet Café will save the unnecessary VGA display interface, which can optimize unnecessary costs. The software part of the Internet cafe motherboard shipment BIOS defaults to diskless boot. Ordinary motherboard is a disk boot.

In addition to the CPU (basic Internet cafes are basically) we all bought the same, the graphics card will also have a special edition, even last year's version of the GTX 1065 are special for Internet cafes.

What is the difference between cyber cafe hardware and our home computer?

Diskless system is the biggest difference between Internet cafe computers and home computers. Each time the diskless system is powered on, it is equivalent to starting a new computer. The hardware's special offer is to reduce the cost of Internet cafes, such as chicken games 4G memory is not enough, 6G Memory is more, NV precision knife 5G give you Internet cafe owners, the motherboard VGA display interface to save extra, you can optimize unnecessary costs, etc. ...

What is the future trend of hardware?

For Internet cafes and consumer markets, as with peripherals, cybercafe hardware sets up separate lines to provide specific products, while the consumer market will provide large and complete products. Currently, Internet cafe hardware has a very good advantage of relying on diskless systems, but with With the popularity of SSDs, the advantages of Internet-based diskless systems are gradually being eliminated. The future of Internet cafes is predicted boldly. In the future, Internet cafes will probably need to restore SSD local system operations until gigabit LAN and 10 Gigabit LAN in the Internet Café diskless system. On the popularization, it is possible to revert to a diskless system, because the advantages of SSDs are now greatly reduced by the current 100M diskless system. My original understanding is that if you do not consider maintenance costs and hardware costs, the SSD experience should be It is the only way to hang up the diskless system. However, we have also seen a situation where the SSD solid-state drive built-in system is tied to the diskless system of the Internet cafe in the actual test of Internet cafes (both the Internet cafe and SSD are win10 systems, and the specific test results are also Will be affected by the server, network and other factors. Of course, there are also SSD solid-state disk built-in system to hang up the Internet diskless system, the specific situation can look at me 'The Secret of Internet Cafe You Don't Know' Issue 5 Internet cafes diskless system measured the same configuration under different system performance is actually 60% worse.

PConline Summary

Have you learned about the differences in various aspects of Internet cafes/Internet cafes? Have you already known before reading articles? Which ones you knew before? Perhaps the difference in experience is not significant, but it is actually tested and disassembled. , Still found a huge difference between the Internet cafe computer and home computer, there are some points that we did not think before testing, such as Internet cafes diskless system can only be tied with the SSD solid-state disk system through the network cable.

After finishing the Internet cafe/Internet cafe, it is different from how Internet cafes will continue to evolve. The current Internet cafe machines will have stronger overall performance than ordinary home-use machines. They are also better social venues for competitions, but currently Internet cafes. The pattern is somewhat flat and flat. There is no orthodox profit model. A small amount of network fees cannot support the return of Internet cafes. More often, it tends to be profitable. The survival of Internet cafes seems to rely more on new games. Appearing, it is like the current chicken. The future of Internet cafes, it will certainly present an entertainment complex model, is no longer an Internet cafe + water bar, may be integrated into the catering, entertainment, etc., form an entertainment complex Model management, integration of more elements, providing a more comprehensive and comprehensive one-stop service. On the analysis of the future Internet cafes and cyber cafes, concerned small partners can pay attention to our PConline DIY channel, we will be based on interviews with many industry professionals in the next period. , With everyone looking forward to what the future of Internet cafes will go.