5 Settings you need to change after building your pc
We understand that right after building your gaming PC you want to jump in and start playing your favourite game. However, due to the overwhelming excitement people tend to skip some critical settings that need to be made to their system to get the best performance. Here, we have listed 5 Settings you need to change after building your pc to get the smoothest of experiences.
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- Change Low-latency mode to Ultra.
- Enable Max frame rates and set them close to the refresh rate of your monitor
- Enable Vertical Sync at all times
- Enable enhanced pointer precision
- Enable XMP to get the best performance from your Ram.
1. Change Low-latency mode to Ultra
- Open Nvidia Control Panel
- Head to the Manage 3d settings section
- Find Low-Latency mode and set it to Ultra
This lowers the latency input significantly and takes complete advantage of the games supporting Nvidia Reflex. This works perfectly for multiplayer shooters and is much needed as even a mili second of delay matters. However, if you only play single player games then it may not make that much of difference hence leaving it on off as it is CPU intensive and might affect your single player experience.
2. Enable Max frames
- Open Nvidia Control Panel
- Head to the Manage 3d settings section
- Enable Max frame rate and set the value to 4 less than the refresh rate of your screen
This ensures that the framerate average stays close to the refresh rate of your screen making the experience smoother while also avoiding any screen tearing.
3.Enable Vertical Sync at all times
- Open Nvidia Control Panel
- Head to the Manage 3d settings section
- Find V-sync and enable it
Enabling Vertical at all times ensure lower latency and a better experience overall. Now, regardless of the fact whether you have G-sync or Free-sync you should keep vertical sync on as it will only improve the performance and feel of the game.
Make sure to apply all the settings before
4.Disable enhanced pointer precision
- Search mouse on your desktop
- Scroll your way down to additional mouse settings
- Navigate to the Pointer optionssection there
- Disable Enhanced pointer precision
Enhanced pointer precision is enabled b default, though it provides a smoother experience when moving the cursor around but unfortunately it reduces the accuracy somewhat when playing games and may cause you to miss shots while playing shooters.
5. Enable XMP
- Restart your computer
- Press F12 or the del key to enter the bios settings
- Enter the advanced mode and navigate to the overclocking section
- Enable XMP
Your Ram by default is clocked to a slower frequency than it is capable of and turning the XMP on allows your Ram to run at its true potential. For example, in case you bought a Ram with a clock speed of 3000mHz by default it is clocked to 2133mHz enabling XMP will allow your Ram to run at its true speed.
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