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all I did was get all tangled up well most stupid brick is out stuff you should have on your computer take one what's up guys Jase $0.02 here and I'm gonna do a little follow-up to the video that I did a few weeks back of what to do after you build your Tower I mean there's a lot of new people buying computers right now we've talked about the fact that the market is being disrupted so if you were waiting that you would be happy with building a PC that's available to you now you might want to do that because who knows what availability may be like in the future but we're gonna kind of build upon that now after showing you how to get your windows up and updated and get your drivers installed know that we're now going to talk about our favorite software that we have to have on pretty much every computer that we build around here Corsair is proud to present their new Hydra X line of custom water cooling products the new x g5 series radiators offer the perfect balance of finden city and air 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that we're now going to show you though our favorite five pieces of software that we basically can't live out without around here now obviously your five if you're a power user you've been using computers for quite a while might vary from ours so do me a favor if r5 don't match your 5 put in a comment down below what your 5 most necessary necessity what are the five most important pieces of software to you anyway because we had hard time kind of coming up with this we know what five we use but we also know there's other software out there that's worth talking about some that didn't make the list I'm curious if they made yours another thing do it okay little interruption here you want to stop that from happening okay here's what you're gonna do bonus content if you don't want Windows updates messin with your stuff this is pretty simple you're just gonna click the little Windows button down here you're gonna start typing type updates it says check for updates right so currently I'm up to date it says I've last checked at 10:07 a.m. however if I want to stop that and I just don't want it to check and start interfering and/or doing an update when I restart the system and it's super annoying you see this button this is pause for seven days so if I click it once it's like ok you will not check again until well it's funny that says three eleven is that seven days oh I guess it is matha but check it click the click ticket now won't check again until April so that's alright but we can do is we can change a couple things here so click Advanced Options make sure that receive updates for other Microsoft products when you update Windows is off download updates on metered connection extra charges apply they're referring to your ISP obviously make sure that is off so what we just did now is we told Windows whether or not it can download when it's on a metered connection but it still doesn't know whether you're on a metered connection or not so on the left here it says find a setting just type network status and then it'll take you over to the network page and you'll see right here if you click change connection properties that'll bring you right here to the network profile and you see right here it says metered connection just set as metered connection and you're done so that's a quick and easy way to stop Windows updates from ruining your life the first couple of pieces of software on here are actually monitoring software as new builders you probably are curious like what are my temperatures running out am i running okay what is my fan speed what is mine where am i throttling am I gonna throttle where would I throttle so all this stuff can actually be found with a couple of different pieces of software so the first one we're going to talk about here is techpowerup gpu-z so gpu-z and all these pieces of software are free actually that was another prerequisite for this video they had to be free because one this is not a sponsored video and two we don't want to we want people to be able to use this software have it be beneficial to them and cost nothing which is obviously hard to complain about free so gpu-z is just that it is a species of software that would tell you everything about your graphics card it will tell you its BIOS version and it'll tell you when the card came out it'll tell you how many do add doodads and diodes and diocese actually that's it that's it that's a church thing right whatever but as you can see right here your GPU clock this will tell you your base clock your memory clock and then your boost clock so if you were just kind of curious if you hover over it even tells you what it is so if you're curious as to where your card would max out in terms of like on its own that is what its gonna be shooting for but if you go up here to advanced that's a pretty neat tab because it will tell you everything you know tell you your current power limit your minimum and your maximum so it'll tell you without even opening up another piece of software how far you could potentially overclock this card in terms of power draw where is it gonna throttle you can see right here it's currently set to throttle at 83 C and its minimum temp 65 C what does that mean well that basically means that is the temperature that it's going to immediately target it's the it's fan curve is going to allow it to get to 65 C with its current fan setting so that's this is all in the BIOS by the way so if you do a go and adjust this stuff in another piece of software these figures are not going to change this is specific to what the bios is saying minimums and maximums are allowed so you can see defaults 83 maximum is 88 88 C is how far we could push the temperature in another piece of software that we'll talk about in a second before those same throttle limits would start to apply same thing with its adjustment range you can see that in a percentage - 22 % - plus 6% on on temperature but obviously at the bottom going to show you what graphics card you have currently installed if you have more than one graphics card or SLI or it'll show you that so you can see we currently have a 2070 super installed and this is all the information that corresponds with that this is also a piece of software that's very useful I tried to validate a graphics card if you have no clue as to what it is there's no markings on it or anything plop it in your system install gpu-z and it will tell you exactly what the die is reporting back the BIOS can be a lie we've talked about this we've showed this we've talked specifically about how you can fool 5,700 into being a fake 5700 XT and the BIOS will reflect that however gpu-z doesn't lie because it actually talks to the core and the core talks back and says this is how many of this I have and you can identify it that way but we obviously want to talk about temperature monitoring and stuff like that so that's where we use a piece of software called H W monitor our Hardware monitor it's free it's from cpuid and it will tell you a lot of things going on with your system so you can see we've got it right here and if we just kind of start from top to bottom it'll tell you what motherboards you have because that's obviously reporting so this is an Asus tech or Asus ace who's tech is actually the corporate name Computer Inc ROG if we scoot that over ROG Strix z3 90i gaming we can even see our current voltages our mins and our max so it'll tell you what current is minimum and maximum from the time that the software is open if we screw scroll down here you can see our temperatures mainboard temperature your chipset has a temperature involved with it it is an ASIC so it will report back temperatures your CPU obviously that's your CPU package and then temp into temp in three five and six those are different temperature sensors on the board some motherboards have additional sensors that you can plug in and why are that centers sends her to somewhere else so you can monitor things you can even tape it to a different part of your GPU or whatever so those are the different temperature probes that are available there but you can see right here our fans CPU fan is currently running at 922 rpm we can see it's ran all the way up to a thousand eleven and our chassis number for fan at 38 68 that's actually our a i/o pump because that's plugged into the motherboard reporting back on rpm that way we can get an alarm or know if our pump stops running so we can even see here memory utilization but the cool stuff and I think the stuff people are gonna care about most is going to be core speed and core temperature so as you can see the package that's the actual socket the socket reports a temperature and then each core individually reports a temperature to and what you'll typically find is that the cores will often be hotter than the package in terms of its maximum temperatures at least with Intel sometimes with AMD they pretty much just match across the board but this will allow you while you're doing your different gaming sessions and while you're doing your benchmarking and stuff it's a piece of software you could have open monitoring those temperatures and those voltages but scrolling down here you can see obviously your course speeds and as you can see we are locked to five gigahertz because of the previous testing we did with this particular case and this is how we can also check to see are we throttling are we if this is how we knew that we had to kind of go in and tweak this motherboard a little bit because of its early power savings and its power limit capabilities of this so ITX motherboards tend to hit a power limit much sooner than ATX motherboards so we knew that we were hitting that because we would only get about 10 seconds of full-speed and then it would drop down we knew that because we were monitoring using a hardware monitor so that way we can kind of keep an eye on things in fact I need to rewind for a second here too because in gpu-z one thing I forgot to show you is that that also has a sensors tab that you can use to compare to Hardware monitor if you want because if you click sensors you can see it'll show you the various same things so it has a graph that will kind of work from right to left you can see fan speed fan percentage rpm temperatures but more importantly it will actually give you a reason for throttling so if we were under load right now it would tell us the reason why we're throttling under perf cap reason or performance cap reason so right now when performance capped because we're idle it says idle we know we're idle so I'm not doing anything right now but if we saw a power or voltage or whatever it would tell us and then you would know okay my cards not going any faster and this is why I get emails all the time from people saying Jay my graphics card is not going to 99 percent usage why well he had gpu-z it would tell you why because if it wasn't if you didn't see any of the reasons being listed here then you could actually then start monitoring your CPU and if your CPU percentage was really high and your DP percentage is low CPU bottlenecks so you could start using these free pieces of software to figure out what's going on with your system just by looking at the charts and seeing the actual reasons now we've talked about doing temperature testing and overclocking and all that sort of stuff so Jay how do I do that well you know the most common thing people seem to want to overclock these days is their GPU now yeah CPU overclocking is something a lot of people care about but we're not talking about that today because that sort of takes place more so in the BIOS than anything desktop related that's running an Intel CPU and then you can run the Intel Extreme desktop or tuning tweaking software those bikes to you we're not talking about that today you could start to cause yourself some problems if you don't know how to use that I think we'll do a full tutorial on that later but GP UI is it's much easier to overclock without getting catastrophic failures that you can't recover from without having to do all sorts of workarounds and so one of the software that I use to actually test not to make changes but tests is heaven benchmark now a lot of people are like Jay why do you use heaven that's such an old DirectX 11 test well because believe it or not it's still a really good burn test the theme with dx11 though is it's still gonna push any of your stream processors that you're gonna find on AMD or your CUDA cores that are still the bulk of your entire gaming experience on Nvidia to their limit and with this being dx11 you have tessellation adjustments that you can make so if you max tessellation you max anti-aliasing and you max the resolution to your system resolution then you can definitely find out what your maximum temperatures are going to be using this particular free benchmark now I don't care about the numbers on this because honestly no single benchmark is going to give you an indicative experience as to whether or not you're stable you're gonna have to use a suite of benchmarks we have something like 9 games that we use around here to test our benchmarking and if we can't make it through all nine we're not stable if we make it through eight and not nine we're not stable so Hardware monitor is something we use to do our temperature testing but Jay what about fur mark fur mark is a it's got all the big fuzzy donut and that's known to be really difficult yeah and you know what that's also known to cause a lot of problems with graphics cards it has literally caused graphics cards in the past to catch fire it's kind of like prime95 for your GPU only way harder in fact a lot of manufacturers now started to in order to keep the warranty intact because fur mark does not play nice with graphics cards and can cause physical damage drivers have started baking in reductions in core clock to keep temperatures down if fur mark is detected so even then it's not a true test of your overclock because as soon as you go into another game and a ramped up to the higher clock which may not have been stable to begin with now in terms of setup though because it is old here's what you're going to notice if you go down to resolution it caps out at 2560 by 1600 which is a really weird number that's basically like the the 10 is 16 by 10 version of 1440p but if you just said it's a system it's going to go to whatever your system is so in this case it's 4k this is a 4k monitor but if anti-aliasing at 8 X we have tessellation on extreme which is as far as it'll go quality is on ultra and then preset is on custom because we changed some of those things so if we go ahead and just say run and not run it in full-screen you can run it in windowed mode then what that will allow you to do is to have your other monitoring software up that you can see that's happening at the same time so I just wanted to show you here what heaven looks like and if we look over here at the right though we'll see we're currently running at 55 C on the GPU we're only getting 30 fps but that's because it's a 27 T super a great piece of software to use for temperature testing but we know why you're really here that's because you want to know what software you should use for overclocking this is msi afterburner it is the piece of software that all the third parties all the brands I don't care who they are unless you're msi because they already have it that everyone aspires to be when it comes to tuning software for your GPUs a will tell you everything about your system as well so if we double click the chart down here you'll see we get this pop out and it will show you everything happening with your system and this can be exported as well so it's and you can even export this into a CSV I think into Excel which you can then take that data and turn it into a map chart that you can turn into a visual we just take pictures or screenshots of the chart that it builds for us as you can see right here we've got core clock for the graphics card SD usage vid usage bus C system you can see right here that we've got CPU core temperatures are showing so we can see what our CPU is doing while monitoring our GPU so if we go ahead and look here just in some of the settings though you can go to monitoring and this is where you can turn on off the various things that you don't want to necessarily see a lot of people also ask us Jay when you show your benchmarks and stuff you've got that overlay that shows the current fps and the temperatures and percentage and all that this is how we do it it's through MSI Afterburner if we want to monitor GPU temperature just click right here show in on-screen display and then let's say we want GPU usage click that again show an on screen display core clock that's a good one oh yeah framerate there we go so we'll activate it by clicking the checkmark click framerate click show on on-screen display now that's not gonna on its own automatically make it show up we now want to click on screen display and we want to toggle keys so I'll do f11 that's when I typically use hit apply so from there go to more this is where you can now customize the way it's on the screen so as you can see we've got it set to orange it's up in the top left corner you can click the corner to move it around you can even change how big it is but because it's 4k we can make it as big as we want it's not going to be that big on the screen I'll show you here in a second and then I like to set my application detect the detection level to medium that way it does better at detecting that it's a 3d app but yeah so here's what we do we'll open heaven again and I'll show you MSI Afterburner and is practical use and then with it running in windowed mode we can make changes in real time by just alt tabbing back to MSI Afterburner and you can see our overlay is showing up in the top right corner now so there's our fps as our GPU temperature there's our GP percentage and our GPU clock go check this out now if I just do like let's say a plus 50 on the core and then click the checkmark watch the top right corner there with says 1920 megahertz now we can see our core clock started to change and have an effect and then if I wanted to benchmark what these changes did in terms of practical changes or you know actual tangible increases in scores I'd rerun whatever benchmark I was running using msi afterburner to do the overclocking and then see what the differences are if you don't want to have em aside afterburner running every time just click this button underneath startup and what that will do is it will apply these changes to the graphics card every time windows start even if msi afterburner is not active be mindful though if you were to accidentally click like plus 1000 on the core and you have that button checked every time you boot windows and you go into the desktop you'll probably crash which means you have to go into safe mode uninstall msi afterburner and then restart the system to actually get back to your desktop so that button can have a negative so that's MSI Afterburner that's how we do all of our or GPU overclocking and it will work with any graphics card AMD or Nvidia the only time you would actually need to use the manufacturers own built-in software is probably for lighting control which is unfortunate so you would have to run whatever piece of software came with your EVGA or your gigabyte or whatever to adjust the lights once it lights or adjusts it then you can run MSI Afterburner to do while you're tuning now last but not least one that we're actually using to make this video it's a free piece of software called OBS studio and I go down here you'll see it there it is like that it's currently doing the Infinity window it's or as Phil calls divide by zero OBS is a piece of software that's free it's been around for years it has definitely matured but because of the amount of people that want to start doing screen recording YouTube videos live streaming this is the software that I highly recommend it does not require a subscription it does not require any sort of sign up you simply download it it even has a tuning wizard that will allow you to tell it what you want to do I want to stream to twitch it will then adjust all your settings to make them optimal it'll test your internet connection to connect to the proper server to make sure that you're getting the best latency and ping when it comes uploading to the server and then will do everything it can to make your quality as good as possible without impacting your internet throughput or your bandwidth in either direction as much as as possible so we have a pretty decent connection here so it's I'm not gonna go into toriel on how to use it there's plenty of tutorials online but the perfect example of it is the fact that we were screen recording the entire time we were making this video which is how you're watching it right now and the fact that you could take your new system start recording making video start live streaming or doing you know Game Capture and clips and stuff for free makes it a pretty obvious reason as to why it's on the system so guys those are our favorite five there's obviously other pieces of software that we use on a regular basis but this is the favorite five we have for beginners on pieces of software that you should have on your system if your list differs which I'm pretty sure it does put in the comments below what piece of software that you think is a must-have and then maybe what we'll do is we'll we'll heart the ones that we think people should see and can the best one guys thanks for watching and as always we'll see you next

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Length: 19min 54sec (1194 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 07 2020

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