Finished building my Gaming PC. Now what?

Your2EzY

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So i just finished building my gaming PC. What shall i do? i want to make sure i am using my eight core processor to the max and getting the best out of my graphics card. I have installed the Graphics card driver thats it and im not sure what i am supposed to do now to make everything fast and safe. Can anyone please give me some tips or advice.
 
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To put it simply, windows might only use a select amount of cores as your pc needs it in order to save power. In order to get the best performance out of your cpu you should disable core parking.

RazerZ

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Use HW monitor to check your cpu and gpu temps and make sure everything is running in the right range.

Then you could try this program and disable core parking, though it might already be disabled:

http://www.coderbag.com/Programming-C/Disable-CPU-Core-Parking-Utility

Other than that you should be good to do.

Edit: I see you installed your GPU driver. Make sure to get the latest drivers from the official amd/nvidia website rather than using an old driver that might have come on a cd.
 

RazerZ

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To put it simply, windows might only use a select amount of cores as your pc needs it in order to save power. In order to get the best performance out of your cpu you should disable core parking.
 
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