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am I looking at here how do I get past this well for starters you're going to have to get past today's sponsor thorum it's Valentine's Day do you know where your gift is get yourself or your loved one a unique and stunning ring this Valentine's Day and make it extra precious For Your Precious just go to the link down below and use code LT to get 20% off our goal in making this video was to be as comprehensive as possible so while we would recommend watching it all the way through the first time we've added convenient chapter markers if you ever want to come back for a topic specific refresher we'll begin with the physical things that you need to set up starting with location now obviously easy access to your ports is critical so depending on your case you might prefer it on the right or on the left but what's less obvious is that your PC's position can have a big impact on future maintenance requirements the main way that dust enters your case is by being sucked into the front or the bottom intake fans keeping those off the floor means that your system will require far less frequent cleaning this is especially true for carpeted flooring which not only acts as a pet hair magnet but can also starve your power supply of fresh air depending on its orientation if you must have your system on the floor though at least do yourself a favor and put it under the edge of your desk even with top exhaust fans a shocking amount of dust can settle down into your system if you have an open top grill if your system has an antenna it should be in line of sight with any Bluetooth peripherals that you intend to connect later and it should be clear of anything that might block the signal to your Wi-Fi access point like a dense concrete wall or granite countertop or even the PC's chassis itself I mean you know what they say distance makes the RF signal stronger now you're ready to plug in and the first cable is going to be power this ensures that your equipment is grounded and protected from electrostatic discharge as for the other end of the cable well good PC power supplies can handle a wide range of power conditions before supplying anything to the rest of your PC but plugging into the wall or into a dumb power strip can stress it if your wall power is noisy or prone to voltage sagging and brownouts this is especially true when other high power appliances are running like say an air conditioner a UPS or premium search protector can help clean that power up a bit before it hits your PC or display but failing that I'd recommend at least a basic surge protector which can help protect your computer against voltage spikes from things like a lightning strike for desktop peripherals I'd recommend plugging your keyboard and your mouse into the slowest USB ports that are connected directly to your motherboard's chipset they're not going to use the extra performance of a faster Port anyway and plugging them into secondary controllers or into addin cards can sometimes cause them to stay inactive until the system is finished booting or experience delays and hitches you can check the block diagram for your motherboard if you're unsure which ports are connected to what the same is true by the way if you're using a USB headset or a desktop dck and amp pretty much every time I've seen someone report issues with these things it's because they're connected through a hub or something do yourself a favor connect directly now if your audio device uses an old school headphone jack you can either use the front panel ones if your case has them or you can use the ports on the rear they'll usually be colorcoded green and red for the headphones and mic respectively or else they'll have symbols next to them some Modern motherboards will actually prompt you for what you've plugged in and they'll work regardless of where you plug things in but they may not work optimally on that subject some cases and laptops might not have two separate three-pole Jacks but rather have a single four-pole Jack in that case you're going to need to get a y cable like this one unless your headset includes one in the box next up is display most gaming PCs come with a dedicated GPU installed in a PCI Express slot and you should always plug your main display into that rather than the ports on your motherboard's IO panel those ones are routed to your onboard Graphics instead now with the right UEFI BIOS configuration we'll touch on that in a moment your system May support connecting extra monitors to both of them at the same time but if you run your game off of the wrong ports it will have a negative impact on your gaming experience as for which cable to use HDMI DisplayPort or USBC that boils down to what your monitor supports and what your graphics card supports when in doubt DisplayPort is usually the more correct choice for PC thanks to its generally higher bandwidth and broader support for extras like variable refresh rate gaming but you should also refer to your GPU and display manuals to see exactly which features are supported one last thing if you're using a desktop with built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and you intend to use it please make sure you screw in your antennas unlike laptops desktops often don't have integrated antennas and while you might be able to see nearby networks you will almost C ly struggle to stay connected to them it usually doesn't matter which one screws into where if you've got wired Ethernet instead then you'll often have one place to plug it in and you're good to go but if you have to it's probably worth checking your motherboard's manual to find out what's what sometimes they're the exact same thing and completely interchangeable but other times one will use a slower but maybe more broadly supported controller while the other might use a multi- gig controller that's faster but requires additional drivers once distributed into Windows these multi- gig ports can be a huge boom to creatives and to storage enthusiasts who have network attached storage devices or actually even Gamers who have balling out internet plans but if they're plugged into a typical Network that has gigabit ports everywhere else they're going to be limited to gigabit speeds anyway with everything plugged in and in place now's a good time to tidy up your cables you can use zip ties in a pinch but hook and loop cable ties are a better solution for future maintenance LTT storage also we have something even better coming soon sign up for an instock notification for our cable management arches at the link below now that that's done it's finally time to fire it up flick the switch around back on your power supply give it a second and then hit the power button if nothing happens you can refer to our last PC guide you'll ever need for some helpful troubleshooting tips before you do that though make sure your surge protector is plugged in and turned on too it's actually a more common mistake than you think is it going to power on first try oh crap oh power bar needs to be on oh even for us now that fan spin is achieved it's time to game right not yet nearly every modern computer has what we still refer to incorrectly as a BIOS the more modern term is UEFI but we're old school so BIOS is the screen you go to when you power on your PC and it usually has the logo of the manufacturer it's not just an ad though there's a whole menu buried in here if you press the right key before your operating system starts to boot up sometimes the you need to press to access it is listed on the screen but it'll usually be delete F2 F10 or F12 if you're unsure check your manual feeling that just Mash all the above that usually gets the job done the exact layout of this setup screen will vary a lot depending on the manufacturer and model year of your system there are DIY motherboards from a decade ago with full graphical interfaces while some Modern machines have almost retro looking interfaces with no mouse support whatever the layout the first screen usually has information about the hardware installed the date and time and sometimes the order of the storage devices the PC will check for an operating system to boot before continuing make sure that everything is showing up as expected missing RAM for example could mean you need to receip the module or the CPU itself even if you've been around the block a few times you should check the manual to familiarize yourself with the layout before changing anything after all new platforms bring new features and new features bring new headaches it's at this point that you might want or sometimes need to upgrade your BIOS to the latest version on your motherboard or PC manufacturer's website the exact steps for this vary greatly by manufacturer and by Era but the gist is this turn off the PC download the BIOS from the manufacturer and unzip it to a flash drive which often must be formatted fat 32 once that's done eject it plug it into your PC again on a motherboard chipset Port get back into the BIOS and usually you'll find an option in here with flash in its name nine times out of 10 this is what you want select the flash drive choose the file you downloaded confirm then kick back and hope that the power doesn't go out your system May reboot a couple of times during this process which is normal but if It suffers a power loss it's quite vulnerable it's being bricked so if you have a battery backup of some sort kicking around please do use it there are sometimes ways to recover without this backup but the exact details VAR by vendor and you do not want to find out that yours doesn't have one after the fact read your motherboard's manual to be sure once it's done it should say the BIOS was updated and settings were reset allowing you to enter setup to continue now there are a few options of particular interest inside the BIOS starting with XMP and Expo the memory overclocking standards that were also previously L known as docp on older AMD platforms the location of this setting does vary a little bit but many motherboards will have it on the main page because it is such a common thing for enthusiasts to enable if you've got RAM That's rated for highp speeds this is a one touch way to hopefully reach those speeds enabling it will correctly set all of the relevant settings in your Motherboard BIOS including voltages and something called the memory ratio you don't need to fully understand what that means but for best performance 1: one is ideal on Intel and on AMD you often want to see the F clock match half of the memory speed don't worry too much if it doesn't line up though fast RAM is usually better than the alternative now this is technically overclocking though so it's worth noting that this might not work in every configuration if you have very fast memory or if you have more than two modules for example your CPU may have trouble running at the rated speeds if you're worried about stability you can go ahead and leave this step till last then when your system is fully set up that way you could even Benchmark the before and after if you happen to be a turbo nerd like me if you do enable XMP and find that your system fails to boot or is occasionally unstable manually dialing back the memory speed or slightly increasing the voltage might make the difference worst case scenario you can disable memory overclocking entirely and everything should work normally if it doesn't you could be looking at a warranty replacement next up if you've got a beefy enough cooler some bioses let you toggle a setting like core enhancement or Precision boost enhancement this can help e a little bit more performance out at the cost of additional heat and power draw by making your CPU turbo more aggressively or for longer this one is less likely to harm stability but again if you experience problems I'd recommend just turning it off our next stop will be resizable bar a feature that boosts GPU performance by giving the system more efficient access to its onboard memory this is usually going to be somewhere in the advanced section often under a heading for PCI devices if you don't see it it's possible your motherboard doesn't support it but it's also possible that you need to enable above 4G decoding in order for it to show up unlike memory overclocking this setting has no real downside so you might as well enable it it won't do anything if your GPU doesn't support it and on some Modern gpus it is basically essential for proper performance to the point where the very newest motherboards as of writing might ship with this on by default another option we want to make sure is enabled is virtualization on Intel this is often called VTX while AMD calls it svm along with letting you run virtual machines if you want to with very little performance penalty virtualization technology is used by operating systems to enhance security by sectioning off parts of the system which is generally considered to be a very good idea TM this is often buried inside inside the CPU configuration settings section and like resizable bar the newest motherboards may ship with this on by default a related setting is the trusted platform module or TPM Windows 11 mandates it as the second part of its virtualization-based security feature and for improving Windows hello biometric login and bit Locker dis encryption security for that reason it's usually best to keep it enabled or enable it if it isn't already otherwise no Windows 11 for you at least not officially anyway you'll also officially get no Windows 11 if you don't enable secure boot which helps guarantee that nothing malicious slipped in between the BIOS and loading the operating system this could be a simple toggle or you might need to select the option to install the default Keys like on this board from ASUS but if that option doesn't show up anywhere it could be that CSM or compatibility support module is enabled which puts the computer into a sort of old school boot mode and secure boot doesn't roll that way so unless you know that you actually need it it's usually best to disable CSM one hot tip that might save you some headaches later is to determine what onboard Hardware you don't need for example motherboards with built-in Wireless secondary land ports or any other extras will have them all enabled by default and they can sometimes be excessively chatty this often manifests as stuttering or hitching even when the system isn't even close to fully loaded because the CPU has to drop whatever it's doing to listen to your Wi-Fi cargo blah blah blah about the signal strength of your neighbor's Wi-Fi that you're not even using so take a moment and disable anything you're 100% sure you don't need just remember you did it so you're not tearing your hair out later trying to figure out why your serial Port drivers won't install there are a handful of other features you might wish to play around with for example you might want to reorder your boot devices or set up custom fan control if your board supports it but for the most part you should leave the rest of the stuff in here alone especially voltages unless you're sure you know what they do and accept the risks for now if you built your own PC it's time to install your operating system or if you bought a pre-built it's time to install your operating system I mean I mean you don't strictly speaking have to but since so many machines come with bloatware pre-installed on them it may actually take less time to just load up a fresh one than to sanitize what you've already got step one then is to download your OS we're going to use Windows 11 as our example but most of this also applies to Windows 10 Microsoft provides a free tool to download an ISO that can either be saved so you can burn it or used to automatically build a USB installer we're going to have that linked Down Below download it grab your USB flash drive and make sure that anything you care about on it is backed up cuz this is going to wipe it clean go through the prompts the recommended version is almost always what you want and choose USB flash drive select the drive and it's Off to the Races while you wait for this to finish I would strongly recommend downloading your Hardware drivers from the manufacturer's websites in particular you are definitely going to want your network driver and some systems might also need the storage driver in order to get Through the Windows setup process I usually just grab it all cuz storage is cheap and I'm not doing anything right now anyway once the Windows flash drive is finished unzip the drivers to it I like making a driver's folder with individual folders for each driver to keep them easy to find then eject it and pop it into your new pc and restart it it should boot right into the installer but if it doesn't you should be able to choose the installer from the BIOS or through a boot menu which is usually accessible by mashing f8 or F2 12 on the bio screen fun fact did you know that you can open a command prompt at any time during Windows setup by holding shift and pressing F10 a fun little Pro tip is if you do this and then type dis part right at the beginning and hit enter Then list disk you can see all the drives that are installed on the PC that way if your storage device isn't showing up it's a faster way to know and you can quickly reboot the system and troubleshoot it and if it is showing up you can type select disk followed by the number next to it it and type clean to remove anything from that drive if you want to be really sure and you have some time to kill clean all will crawl the drive and directly set every single bit to zero which is basically a secure Ras though that takes a while especially with higher capacity drives once you're done type exit twice hitting enter both times to close the command window then proceed through the prompts if you come to the part where you need to select where to install Windows and nothing is there it's time to put that storage driver to use click load driver then find the folder on the flash drive that you unzipped your storage driver to with any luck the driver will pick up your drive and you can proceed as normal in some situations by the way Windows does a thing and splits your install across two drives most often if one of the installed drives has an existing Windows partition on it so if you have an old drive that you're planning to copy data from that has an operating system I would strongly recommend shutting down the system and removing it until you finished the setup process now most people will want to select the unallocated space for the drive you want to install Windows on and continue but if you only have one drive and you want to separate Windows from your documents Games Etc so that you can wipe Windows clean without worry later then you can create a new Partition for just that with this button this will steal the amount of storage capacity you choose for it from the Windows drive so you'll have to make the call on how much to assign to Windows and to your storage Drive based on what you expect to need installed on your Windows drive you can then click the remaining unallocated space to install Windows to it it'll set up everything on its own when you're satisfied click next and make a sandwich quickly though because this shouldn't take too long on a modern PC after a reboot or two you should see the screen to get connected to the network and download updates if nothing comes up here this is where those network drivers come in press shift and F10 again then Dev management. MSC and hit enter find the unknown devices called Ethernet controllers rightclick them and click update driver again browse to where you extracted the drivers to your USB drive and it should pick them up unfortunately Windows doesn't give you an easy way to know which one is which so there might be a bit of trial and error with selecting the right driver for each controller if you have more than one or if you get bored of this monkey business entirely you can just bring the command prompt back up and type UB back/ bypass nro and then you can just deal with the network drivers once you hit the desktop fun fact this also removes the requirement for an online Microsoft account if you're successful installing network drivers however your yellow exclamation point should disappear from device manager allowing you to proceed that's the end of the hard part so we're just going to mostly skip over the rest just noting that we would suggest turning off most of the analytics options and oh make sure you take a note of that restore from backup option if you did use a Microsoft account you're going to learn what that's for later now that you're on the desktop then now what well first order of business is drivers some systems will offer to install them automatically using built-in software and some of those let you thankfully disable that feature in the BIOS if you don't like software you can't control lurking inside your system but more importantly it can also lead to extra bloat being installed on your machine for now you should install all the drivers you downloaded previously which might take a couple of reboots before you get through them all but should be fairly straightforward for most driver packages nowadays if all you have is a cab file and an INF file you might have to go to the device manager and use that update driver trick that we showed you earlier but that shouldn't be a big deal once everything's installed and your yellow exclamation marks are gone go ahead and grab Windows updates until there aren't anymore then right click the taskbar go to taskbar settings then remove search cuz it's pointless and left align the start menu because you are a man or lady of culture now you're ready to start getting settled in if if you have any Bluetooth devices that you want to connect you can do that through the Bluetooth icon in the system tray just click add device choose Bluetooth and make sure that your device is in pairing mode it should show up in a few seconds and then all you need to do is Select it and follow the instructions on screen some devices will connect right away While others may need you to press a button or key in a code to confirm once the device is connected it should reconnect automatically every time it's turned on if you later pair it with another device though and it no longer works with your PC just look for it in the license list click the three dots to forget it and go through the pairing process again once you're satisfied everything is connected it's time to check your network config Windows has a firewall built in to protect your PC from unauthorized access from your network but it has two modes that Define how strict it will be the first nowadays the default is public which treats all incoming connections with suspicion unless you specifically allow an app to accept them this is great for connecting to unsecured public Wi-Fi at your favorite coffee shop but if you have a home network and you'd like to share files you'll want to change over your connection to private which relaxes security to allow connection from your local network you can change this by right clicking the network icon in the system tray then clicking network and internet settings click on the network connection you want to change then toggle either private or public as desired the next thing you'll want to do especially if you're sharing files on the network is to set up your power options in the settings app under system then power here you can set when your PC goes to sleep when your screens go to sleep and how aggressively your PC should try to optimize for performance or power using by default Windows will set your PC to sleep after 10 minutes but if you're a fan of accessing your PC remotely through an app like team viewer parsec or tail scale or sharing files like we mentioned earlier it'll be inaccessible while it's asleep without some very specific steps in that case you might want to set your PC to never sleep though that does mean you'll be missing out on those sleep power savings you can however tune that power draw by searching for edit power plan in the start menu and clicking the change Advanced power settings Link in the vintage window that pops up there are a bunch of settings here ranging from when to turn off spinning hard disks and how many power saving features are enabled for your Wi-Fi USB and PCI Express devices as well as the ability to set the minimum and maximum performance of your CPU these options can also be useful for troubleshooting things like periodic dropouts and disconnections for example if your USB cable is good and the port is good try turning off USB selective suspend or if your Wi-Fi is unreliable you can try setting it to maximum performance now that your devices and core settings are set up you want to tweak some of the more common user settings for example most Gamers don't like Mouse acceleration and the easiest way to find this is by typing Mouse in the start menu search and then selecting change the mouse pointer display or speed in this window click pointer options then uncheck enhance pointer Precision if it's enabled you should generally leave the cursor speed where it is and use DPI switching that's built into your mouse or Mouse software for that instead you can change the other options here to taste or lack there of but for now just hit okay it's a good idea at this point to set up some File Explorer settings by hitting these dots here and opening up the options window here among other things we can choose whether to see the default home view with recent documents or the this PC view where only drives attached to the system are shown if you'd like to avoid getting duped by the way like when we had our Channel hacked recently you should then go to view and uncheck hide extensions for known file types I will never understand why this is enabled by default there are some other options in here like showing hidden files uh restoring previous Windows when restarting and so on and so forth so go ahead and modify to suit your tastes or click on restore defaults if you can't find that one option that you changed that you ended up not liking one more thing you'll notice in this window is the apply to folders button what's that do well if you rightclick empty space in an Explorer window you're going to see a view option with a bunch of different layouts here's what each of them looks like and here's the available columns to sort with the details view regardless of the view you can sort or group Group by these criteria grouping by date by the way is a great way to sort your downloads and your photos if you get it set up just right and you want to use that layout as the default for all folders on your PC that's what the apply to folders button does if you want a specific folder to show large icons or thumbnails you can set it separately which is pretty neat right and don't worry if you mess something up the reset folders button is always there to help you speaking of folders did you know you can change the location of these main folders here just right click on them click properties and then look at the location tab click move and you'll be able to choose a new spot for them it doesn't work very well with one drive but if you've got a separate drive or a partition that you'd like to use for your files while keeping Windows separate this is for you when you click okay it'll even ask if it should move any existing files over to the new location which is super handy if you're doing this on a system that you've already kind of moved into of course there's a more fundamental way to personalize your PC if you rightclick the desktop and click personalization you'll find options to change the background colors and more you can even have a group of background pictures that will change periodically if you use slideshow under colors you can choose whether you're on the light or dark side enable or disable the mic transparency effect on some Windows and manually select an accent color if you don't like what Windows chose to match your background oh and you can choose whether it should apply to the taskbar and to Windows too a special note here is the contrast themes section this can be really helpful for people with visual impairments or just to look cool if you dig the aesthetic because it applies everywhere and you can edit the colors that it selects yourself there's some other useful stuff in the accessibility section of the settings app too for example you can make scroll bars always show if you hate the autohide stick you can turn off Windows animations for faster navigation you can change the size and style of your cursor and importantly for people who don't use them you can disable the keyboard shortcuts for sticky keys and filter Keys oh that toggle Keys function can be helpful too it plays a beep whenever you enable caps lock num lock or scroll lock so you don't have to look down at your keyboard to see if they're on a common problem for monitors is that either HDR or high refresh rate aren't set up correctly by default even though your display supports it you can fix that by right clicking on the desktop and clicking display settings HDR settings can be found in the brightness and color section and clicking on it gives you the option to enable HDR as well as Auto HDR which will cause non-HDR games to pretend their HDR with um honestly mixed results you can also adjust how SDR content will appear when you're in HDR mode using this slider which will also affect the brightness of the desktop if you have multiple HDR monitors congrats you fancy pants you uh you can adjust them independently of each other also HDR or not if you you have multiple monitors and they're not in the right order and you haven't already fixed it yourself because of how infuriating it was you can drag them around in the display settings window like this and even rotate them if you like having one in portrait or even one upside down using the display orientation drop down you can see which is which by using the identify button to make this a bit easier and you can choose which one is your main display so the one with the system tray using this checkbox here one little Pro tip by the way is that if your cursor jumps As you move between the displays you can tweak the alignment in this menu like so if your monitors are different sizes and resolutions you're not going to be able to get it absolutely perfect but it'll at least help smooth things a little bit for refresh rate you're going to need to scroll down to Advanced display from here you can choose each of your monitors individually up top and then select the refresh rate down below now Windows is usually okay about selecting refresh rates but overclocked monitors including monitors with overclock functions right out of the box will often report the non overclocked refresh rate as the best one and that is just factually incorrect so if you still don't see your refresh rate you might need to use your GPU's Configuration utility or try a different cable another thing Windows guesses at sometimes with comically bad results is the size that you might prefer for your Windows and for your text if you want things larger or smaller just look for scale about halfway down the display settings window a 20 7 in 4k monitor will typically be set to 150% which is roughly equivalent to how big things would look if it were 1440p if you were to set that 4K display to 200% it would look like if it was 1080p at that size just sharper and so on and so forth if you've got multiple monitors you can select each one independently at the top of the window and then choose different scales so for example 100% for a 1080p gaming Monitor and 200% for a secondary 4K content consumption monitor could make things on screen appear to be the same size assuming that they're the same size physically you're going to have to experiment with it a little bit and see what you like and it's worth noting that you might have to log out and log back in for it to take effect in every app rather not enter your password again well good news if you're using a Microsoft account you can enable Windows hello what's it do it enables you to use your fingerprint a pin or your face with a compatible camera to log in without your password why would you do that first forgetting your password sucks and getting locked out of your PC sucks more second it can actually be more secure because typing out your password means a key logger or a particularly nosy housemate might be able to read your keystrokes this way Windows hello makes it so someone gaining access to your PC doesn't also gain access to your Microsoft account to secure your PC even better than a password alone Ever Could you can use bit Locker bit Locker encrypts your entire drive and while by default it will only protect against someone cloning or removing your storage device you can optionally lock it down with a pin a password or USB flash drive key that's required before your PC ever gets to the login screen it's best to enable bit Locker shortly after you install Windows so the encryption doesn't take forever but once it's encrypted it's super fast to encrypt and decrypt on the fly on Modern Hardware your apps will barely even notice speaking of apps how do you install them well you could go every website and download the installers individually like some kind of cave person but you could also use tools to make things simpler a classic is Nite which lets you batch download and install a wide variety of apps in one shot it's a huge timesaver here's some of the stuff that we might select for ourselves for a new install just one pro tip here please don't install multiple anti-malware Shields if you value your sanity or your performance one is fine though there are some other great options for managing software too one of which is to use the Microsoft store and I know I know before you say it I know it's loaded with crapware and requires a Microsoft account but there are plenty of normal apps on there including a lot of the ones installed By Nite and as a bonus they're updated automatically along with all your other store apps so you don't need to keep on top of app updates individually here's a bunch of our commonly installed apps that are available on the Microsoft store another bonus is that they're automatically redownloaded if you have to reinstall which is pretty sick if you have more selective taste in software or you just want to install everything in one place you can make use of a little known Windows feature called wind get we brought this up previously along with a thirdparty alternative chocy but with either of them you can search for the software you want copy the exact name and shove that into a batch file with commands to install or update them that can be a little tedious to maintain but the upside is you can keep that batch file on a flash drive or cloud storage so the next time you need to install Windows you can get back up and running extremely quickly and like with the Microsoft store you can schedule it to automatic check for updates for you steam is a special boy though it's like an app store all on its own once installed you've got steam Library folders that contain anything that you download to them and if you have a separate drive that you'd like to use instead of your Windows Drive whether it's a partition or a physical one you'll need to go to steam settings then storage click the plus next to your C drive select your other drive then click add it's going to show up right next to your C drive click the three dots and select make default to make sure that steam install software to that drive instead of your main one by default then you're off to the races which is great and all I hear you say but I've got these peripheral things and my RGB is out of control what do I do well many peripherals these days do come with driver software but if you want my humble opinion you should be asking yourself if you really need it before you click that download button even the most reputable vendor software can be very re resource intensive and if you're not married to a single brand for all your peripherals you could end up with three or four different programs just to control your devices but okay if you've got to have them what you can do to help with this is to install them then disable them from starting automatically using task manager built-in startup item section just fire up task manager there's a few different ways to do this listed here but the pro mov is of course control shift escape and then with this method method you can for example set up your mouse DPI switches and all of your lighting save it to the mouse's onboard memory then close the software for maximum gaming performance and only run it when it's necessary to make your stuff work it's actually a good idea by the way to check this list from time to time and disable anything that you don't want or need the same goes for companion software that's installed by your Hardware drivers this stuff can add up I'm talking sound control panels temperature monitors I mean the list goes on and let's be real they're usually not very polished despite the alleged R&D budgets of these companies so maybe try some third party software like the peace equalizer APO goey or Hardware info instead which can give you much greater granularity and aren't tied to specific Hardware oh since we're on the subject by the way Hardware info is a great tool for double-checking that all your devices are actually showing up and for making sure that you didn't make any mistakes while you were installing your cooler a simple combination stress test like cinch and furmark while monitoring your CPU and GPU core temperatures will quickly reveal any critical errors in your build hopefully before they become a long-term problem anything under 90° here is probably fine but we'd like to see 70 to 80 though of course there are exceptions like some high performance CPUs for example are going to Target 90 to 100° or more whether you like it or not speaking of like it or not RGB it's there and I think the one thing we can all agree on love it or hate it is that the Control software is a CPU hog for best performance then I would recommend leaving that RGB alone either rainbow bar or off but if you must adjust it there are 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