Software to Install After Building a New Performance PC

Psychobagger

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After building my quintessential 'amazing gaming PC,' I'd like to be well-equipped with newfound knowledge of what software I should install to check/benchmark the new rig.

I know to use:

3DMark & Unigen to benchmark, but other suggestions are more than welcome.

CPU-Z to check basic things like CPU temp, etc... But some more advanced things would be awesome.

I have an ASUS Z170 mobo, so any software related to their boards would be good to have. MSI's 'Dragon Gaming Center' on my laptop is basically perfect, and supplies me with everything I need to check my laptop's health. Having something to check/control fan speeds would be cool for an Asus board.

Help is appreciated, and thanks.

-TP
 
Solution
Well, there is AI suite for asus boards but it can be buggy with fan controls (it turned my cpu fan off a few times), so I don't recommend it.. that was a year ago, it might be fixed. It has a 5 step optimiser which includes software overclocking, and the fan speed optimiser. Not sure you can run one without other.

[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efA0dqUvZXw"][/video]

Asus don't really have anything that updates your drivers for you.

I had a stack of benchmarks last year when I first got this, its always fun to see where you stand.

Colif

Win 11 Master
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Well, there is AI suite for asus boards but it can be buggy with fan controls (it turned my cpu fan off a few times), so I don't recommend it.. that was a year ago, it might be fixed. It has a 5 step optimiser which includes software overclocking, and the fan speed optimiser. Not sure you can run one without other.

[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efA0dqUvZXw"][/video]

Asus don't really have anything that updates your drivers for you.

I had a stack of benchmarks last year when I first got this, its always fun to see where you stand.

 
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Psychobagger

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May 16, 2016
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Does that suite come with a CPU multiplier for OCing? That's pretty neat, actually.

Any recommendations for checking like PSU efficiency, GPU efficiency, etc.?