Free Programs that EVERY PC should have! (NOT SPONSORED!)

hey what's up everyone J2 sense here and I'm going to take you guys along for a ride on some very important and free software that I think every single computer should have on it I don't care if you're a beginner Builder a moderate intermediate or an advanced uh PC user every single system should have at least some of this software on there it's going to make your life so much easier in the future if you ever have to troubleshoot or test anything so don't go anywhere I think this could definitely help everyone we interrupt this video to bring you a special message from iFix it no we interrupt this interuption with this Interruption about new stuff from I fix it we a new graphics card but inventory sucks fix the inventory problems with I fix it wo don't drop it can't fix that with I fix it just kidding yes you can wish you could take iix it with you anywhere but your pockets AR big enough introducing the new Mo and the new minnow take them with you anywhere so get iix it for your loved one or just get them for yourself there's no real particular categories or anything to this and a lot of this stuff we actually talked about in individual videos and we've done this kind of concept in the past um But as time goes on and software changes and improves or sometimes gets worse we like to kind of change up our recommendations um so first and foremost I feel like every single system should have some sort of monitoring software so that's why for this I use CPU ID uh hardware monitor now hardware monitor basically just scans every single sensor in your system and what it will do is give you a live readout of what all of those sensors are so most of this information that's in here is going to be probably irrelevant to most people uh for instance you know your CPU reports temperature but did you know your motherboard also reports a temperature for the CPU and then there's a socket Temp and then there's a package Temp and then there's di temps there's all sorts of temps you can kind of see everything that's going on and if you just kind of go by what's on the motherboard sometimes you don't know exactly which readout that's going to be so in this particular laptop as you can see I can see what my package temperature is right here for my CPU it's currently 5 5 59 57 I can see my e cores and P core temperatures currently are I can see the minimum they've ever been the maximum they've ever been um I can see the amount of wattage being drawn wattage is kind of a big deal too cuz if you were to put your system under a stress test and you can see how much watts that your system is actually generating while underload it can kind of give you a good idea of how big to size your cooler um maybe you can give you some ideas to determine whether or not your cooler might be too small but it's not just what uh CPU that we can see so we can see all of our frequencies obvious ly we can see all of our voltages um this right here is specifically I believe for our Ram so we can see our Ram no actually is that this right here yeah okay so we can actually see what our our SSD temperatures are we can see what our Ram temperatures are we can see vrm temperatures we can even see like hot spot and Edge temp when it comes to our graphics cards which is something that often times like Nvidia doesn't report its hotspot temperature if you look up at like MSI After Burner or something it just reports like the Edge temp which is like the better looking temperature but there's a range of temperature across the die and each core kind of has its own temperature diode and stuff so you can get a good idea of what those temperatures look like by actually coming down here to let's say GPU right here so we can see we got our GPU utilization we got our performance temperature limit so it even shows us what our limits and stuff are going to be but it's a 100% free piece of software anytime a new CPU or GPU comes out they always update it um I think it's extremely important now I T I talked about doing uh stress testing a second ago and checking out coolers um and cooler temps and stuff like that which means you obviously need a way to stress test your system now there's two particular stress tests I recommend here and I would always have a monitoring piece of software like hardware monitor or something like that going while you're running stress test um so cinebench is one that is kind of nice however cinebench really only kind of tests an AVX extraction set basically it just says hey we can render a scene you'll be able to see that all it's doing right now is it's basically doing R tracing it's just doing math to say where the light is bouncing and what the image is to create so if we bring up hardware monitor too you can see now what's actually happening with the CPU so we're at package temp of 70c it's actually not too bad at all on this core I9 12 900h cores are sitting in the high 60s low 70s e cores are in the mid-60s our frequency is all the way down to 2.5 GHz though that's because the fact that it's a huge load for a laptop it's only drawing 49 watts of power on the CPU so that now you can see how the hardware monitor software really comes in handy when doing stress testing but this only stress tests one aspect of your system I'm going to go ahead and stop this test right now and that's the CPU it doesn't hit the Ram at all it doesn't hit the GPU at all so I also like to use occt as an alternative to the CPU test if you want to get a more kind of a robust systemwide test going on in fact when we even did our our factory tour recently of iby power we showed how occt occt is what they use for an hour and 5 minute test um but again completely free piece of software that you can download from the internet you can see here we can test all sorts of different things we can test our memory we can test 3D standard 3D adaptive we can test our vram our power um you can even set up a custom stability test which will go in and kind of check everything it just sort of runs different size instructions different types of instructions different workloads long math short math all sorts of stuff even uh SSD tests to kind of get a good idea of everything your system is running correctly and all of that can happen right here on the left now it does have its own monitoring built in as you can see right here and it's very very similar to what we can see in hardware monitor pretty much because it's giving all of the same exact temperature uh and sensor readouts that you would find in in uh your system it's kind of redundant to have OC's Monitor and hardware monitor going at the same time so if you're using occt I would just use the built-in monitoring only because anytime the software is pinging the CPU or any of those sensors saying like hey hey what's happening and then the sensor has to like report back what's going on that actually takes a little bit of processing power away from whatever test that you're running so if you're doing benchmarking and you're going for like high scores or whatever you wouldn't want multiple pieces of monitoring software happening at the same time you just want to use whatever is built in because it will prioritize the fact that the test is more important than um the monitoring built in whereas hardware monitor is a separate application which is going to demand some um priority when it comes to pulling those particular sensors so so just wanted to kind of point that out there plus this gives you a little graph over time that you can also record and you can spit out into a graph and see later like if you want to run it for an hour you can see how it did over that whole hour it's a very nice piece of software to have it's something that has grown quite a bit over time in fact when you do your stability test one of the things I like about it is the fact that it gives you um it's going to start right now you're going to see a little animation icon and the cool thing about the animation icon is they call it a freeze test because of the fact that it's going to be able to give you a visual indicator on whether or not something in the system has hung so you see this little kind of a snake going over here it's just going round and round and round telling you that the system is doing something if that were to stop and it's not moving anymore it means your system froze it hung maybe your overclock isn't stable your RAM isn't stable or something like that and it will show you any errors that it found along the way depending on what kind of test it's running and how long you've told it to run so it really is good also if you're getting random blue screens and stuff and you can't really figure out what's going on necessarily maybe with event logging and stuff in Windows it can give you a place to start to try and figure out where some of the instabilities in your system are now when we talk about cooling it's nice to have a way to control your fans and I've done a piece of I've done a video about this software in the past I absolutely love this software um I made a pretty big donation to this guy too because we he didn't know we were doing this video but this is fan control fan control uh has no sensors that would make sense probably because I'm on a laptop yes yes yes we did a video about how to use this this will allow you to go in there and find every single fan header built into the system and every single temperature sensor built into the system and allow you to be able to assign curves to your particular fans based on what load you're having it monitor you can even have it monitor multiple sensors at the same time so the problem is you go into your your bios and you tell your cooler like hey monitor the CPU temp let CPU temp be what triggers uh our fans and stuff well if you got a gaming system more often than not the biggest source of heat in your system is going to be your G GPU now your GPU is not something that the motherboard is tracking or monitoring it's only monitoring onboard sensors from the motherboard in fact when it says uh monitor the CPU temp more often than not it's not even monitoring the actual die temp on the CPU itself it's monitoring its own temperature sensor built into the socket of the motherboard to figure out what the CPU temp is um so now I'm not going to go through a tutorial on how to use this but I just wanted you to see what the software looks like this is where you go in and you identify your fans and stuff you can tell it to start up uh with the system system you can even give it a delay to start like let's say you can tell it to start 30 seconds after the rest of the system boots that way everything is started up and then this starts minimize it's actually a really smart piece of software um but what you can do is you can set multiple sensors for one header so you can tell it prioritize whichever is hottest CPU or GPU that way if your CPU goes under load because you're doing rendering or you're streaming or you're editing video or whatever and you tell it to encode suddenly the CPU is doing stuff let's say you're not GPU encoding for whatever reason your CPU temp goes up the fans will ramp up with that CP CPU curve but you can do a mix curve which also says if the GPU is warmer use the GPU as a priority so it's kind of nice that you don't have to set one header to be one or the other which is what your bios uh and even most of the software built into motherboards these days for the OS is going to prioritize one or the other so I love the fact that fan control is nothing more than a a user interface or a guey a graphics SU user interface that allows the user to go in and Visually set curves and stuff for their fans it's an extremely strong piece of software you can set up schedules you can even set up different types of fan curves for different like times of the year if you want you could even say Okay I want to use my summer fan curve which is now going to suddenly and you just toggle them on and off as you want you have a su summer fan curve where things are maybe more aggressive because it gets hotter in your room you could have a winter fan curve or maybe you live in a very cold climate you open the window and suddenly it's very very cold in your room room and you don't need your fans blaring so you could slow them down and have your system be much more silent and again it's 100% free nothing about this software is behind any sort of a pay wall everything is donation based so I think fan control is a very very important piece of software that every system should have whether it's even a laptop desktop or not so we've talked about uh monitoring our temperatures and stuff we've talked about how to stability test and stress test our system uh which I think is very important for every system we've now talked about how to control our fans and stuff if you determine during stress testing that your coolers are or your fans are not properly speeding up as they should so there's there's fine tuning you can do to get your temperatures going what about your GPU well the GPU is where I've got two pieces of software here that I would recommend one MSI After Burner I think most people know what MSI After Burner is basically it does exactly like what I just uh showed like hardware monitor can do for your um monitoring all your sensors and stuff on your mother border your whole system but MSI After Burner allows you to take control over perimeters in your vbios on your graphics card that are unlocked or available to you you'll notice my cord voltage is gray out my power limits gr out my temp limit is gr out that's pretty much because of the fact that I am on a laptop but if we were using a desktop we would have core voltage slider which is not going to increase our voltage it's just going to slide our voltage um ratio with clock limit uh up or down to make to basically for stability reasons if you start pushing your core frequency to try and overclock you might need more voltage sooner in that frequency so you can slide it uh basically moving it up slides it down if that makes any sense um but core clock here this is where you can come in and do your overclocking you can overclock your memory you can control your fans right here because I'm on a laptop here I can't actually go in here and change the fan speeds I'd have to use the laptop software to do that unless I was doing something like fan control um but it allows you to go in there and customize your GPU in terms of fan speeds overclocking uh on things that are available to you which is going to be specifically your GPU core and your RAM if you're not interested in doing that but you want to know more about what's happening with your GPU and you don't necessarily want to install a piece of software like CPU ID hardware monitor which shows you everything you could use Tech PowerUp GPU Z this is also going to scan all of the sensors in your GPU and I like how it's showing the Intel Iris because currently that's the GPU that's activated if you hit the lookup button it even tells you like exactly what that is so if you were like what is my graphics card you click look up it takes you to their own database to show you like here's what those particular graphics card settings are or what that graphics card is but because I'm a laptop I have multiple graphics cards in here so I can go in here and select now my 3080ti laptop now we can see the fact that this is a RTX 380 TI laptop click look up there's more information about it I can see how many cores I've got what's the Boost what's the bit rate for the memory all that information it's very very cool but back to what I was saying about limits if I was to come over here and go to sensors and I was to expand this this we can see right now perf cap or performance cap and even if you hover over it explains why right now it says we're technically thermal limited but that seems a little arbitrary considering the fact that we're not really doing anything it's currently sitting at 57.3 C it'll actually go up to like 85 or 90c but if I were to put this under load by using something like heaven or some synthetic benchmarker even gaming it'll more than likely go to voltage limit and probably go back and forth between voltage limit and power limit as being reasons for being limited but you can see now our load is basically think of it as like a dashboard for your graphics card just your graphics card to tell you everything that's happening there so if you want to actually create a file though to go back and reference later you could click log to file it'll tell you where to save it you save the location I'll just do documents and now it's actually making a file and if you want you can even screenshot what this particular graph looks like and then you can save the file or even upload to free image host whatever just save to file and then it creates a graphics interface uh file or a gif I'm going with GIF you can go and start that argument um it's not graphics it's Graphics okay just saying but let's say you're getting stuttering or something in your games you can't figure out why and you just want to know what's happening you could be logging and then you can notice like where those stutters are by looking at the chart you might notice some sort of a dip in the frequency um you might have noticed that the engine load went down suddenly and that could be an indicator of C GPU bottlenecking or other issues happening with your system so you can kind of figure out what is going on by just simply logging it and GPU z uh is another important free piece of software now let's talk about the other side of things we we did a video on this recently and they did exactly what I said they would do is they took down the free downloader but it's back so I'm going to go ahead and mention this again and that is Revo uninstaller which is an extremely powerful piece of software it allows you to go in and delete anything you want from your system yes anything so be careful but it allows you to remove things even from Windows that maybe you don't want in there like if there's any of the built-in software that's you just don't want you can get rid of it more importantly you can get rid of things that are just also bloatware on laptops or desktops it just you maybe maybe you've had software just accumulating for years on your system and your system is acting funky and you've got registry files that are just scattered all over the place you can use this to get rid of that stuff so I'll just do a quick demo here so I would right click on OBS and click uninstall we can uncheck make system restore point now that's nice that that's there you means you can make an image of what your system looked like before that file gets deleted that way if you screw something up you can at least take that image and restore from it and be back to where you were beforehand I always unclick it because I like to live dangerously so we're going to hit continue what it's going to actually do is bring up the OBS uninstaller it's not going to go into delete files yet it's going to bring up the OBS uninstaller we can say we want to delete our settings and scenes and everything and click uninstall now on the surface it seems like cool OBS uninstalled itself it got rid of everything nice no it didn't now we can hit Advanced on our performing the initial analysis and un uninstall hit scan so look at all of these files that I left behind like these are registry files right here you can see hkey current user software Microsoft Windows current version so that's all in the registry and the registry as that gets Fuller and Fuller and more full of junk that slows down your OS it really does and then there's other files that are left behind just wherever like right here system program files OBS Studio bin64 ob. EX like it left its executable behind somewhere so anyway we can hit select all and then delete are you sure you want to delete the selected system or files yes oh look it even left some more behind so now we're going to select all again delete again yes now every single trace of OBS is gone we've even done this for getting rid of drivers we've done this for getting rid of bloatware mostly but we can also use it to get rid of apps that we don't want that are installed with Windows so that's a very nice piece of software to have I was disappointed to see that they had um gotten rid of the free download I think that's because so many people downloaded at one time after my video that we were probably hitting their download server way too hard so that was why they removed it temporarily but when they removed it they also did a 50% off their paid version which has extra features available to it um which a lot of people actually ended up buying it I guess I I've never talked to this company I I don't know I don't even have the paid one myself but uh apparently a lot of people came back and said it's the best piece of soft software they've ever had uh even the free version or the the half off version was more than worth it so I don't know if they'll do that again but we'll see but I think it's a very important uh piece of software to have in fact there's so many other things it does I'm not even aware of like I don't even know what Hunter mode is anyway one last piece of software that I think is an honorable mention is going to be open RGB I can't really demonstrate it on this particular laptop because I don't have much RGB on this laptop other than the keyboard yeah see it's saying interfaces fail to initialize mostly because of the fact that this does not have much going on with it RGB Wise It's not a standard like motherboard doesn't have any controllers built in for like IQ or anything like that but open RGB is a free piece of RGB software that's constantly being updated and works with many of the main like main controllers that are out there I think from like Razer and NZXT Corsair Rog so that instead of having to have like let's say you have Corsair RAM and you've got an Rog motherboard well technically they supposed to SDK work together most of the time they don't so that means you would have like IQ for controlling the memory RGB and then you would have the Armory crate for controlling the r Rog stuff and then you've got an MSI graphics card so then you've got to have like Mystic light or whatever to control the graphics card and then you've got in there some of the like let's say you got I don't know RGB fans from be quiet so those are plugged into the motherboard but then you're having a hard time making everything sync you can actually use open RGB to create profiles to run all of your RGB from one piece of software this this is something we've been asking for for a long long time in in like the industry it's nice to see that open RGB is a is a publicly funded like by donations and stuff from patreon and all this other sources that they that they get community funding to continue the project going because I'll tell you right now super simple super free and to be honest does it in my opinion kind of better than like a lot of those companies do it it can and it's always getting updated with different modes and stuff so Phil uses it and this is one of the reasons why it's on here I think it's honorable mention if you're just frustrated and tired what really led to Phil wanting this or doing this is because of how many times or Armory crate has bricked itself on his system and sometimes the only way to actually get that back is to like reinstall Windows and you got tired of going through all that so that's how I found out about Revo on installer cuz I was trying to fix Armory crate and we also fixed our infinite Spinning Wheel of death of thinking wheel on my I on my mouse that we still don't know exactly actually it was Asus causing that it was Asus so anyway there we go guys just uh video to show you kind of like what I think is must have software at every s single system regardless how New or Old the system is the older the system the more important I think Revo and installer is going to be um I normally would do a video about each of these independently but I wanted to kind of give one Hub uh one stop for people to go to find really important pieces of software to have on their system after they've built their Tower or a tower that's been around for a long time all of these are useful for everybody so there you go guys what is your go-to piece of software like what is your your most most important like every system I build must have it comment down below oh and also too I think something else you should really install is a subscription to our channel on your YouTube sub feed that would actually be a very very nice one to have on there um not free though cuz you have to actually look at this that costs you that that cost you probably anxiety maybe a little bit of inconvenience to your optic nerve and then your your hearing Canal your ear canal has to listen to this so there's that

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Published: Wed Apr 03 2024