Optimizing a new PC

[Buksi]

Hey! I built a PC yesterday for the first time ever. Here is my new baby: 

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor	$324.99 @ Amazon
CPU Cooler	ARCTIC Freezer 34 eSports DUO CPU Cooler	$47.97 @ Amazon
Motherboard	Asus TUF GAMING X570-PLUS ATX AM4 Motherboard	$164.99 @ B&H
Memory	Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory	$74.99 @ Adorama
Storage	Samsung 970 Evo Plus 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	$109.99 @ Amazon
Video Card	Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB GAMING OC 3X Video Card	$499.99 @ Newegg
Case	Phanteks Eclipse P400A ATX Mid Tower Case	$77.98 @ Newegg
Power Supply	Corsair RMx (2018) 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	$109.99 @ Amazon
Case Fan	ARCTIC P14 PWM PST 72.8 CFM 140 mm Fan	$10.54 @ Amazon
Case Fan	ARCTIC P14 PWM PST 72.8 CFM 140 mm Fan	$10.54 @ Amazon
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$1451.97
	Mail-in rebates	-$20.00
	Total	$1431.97
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-01-30 09:37 EST-0500

 

 

Before this I've been using a PC I bought in 2013 and I wasn't able to work or do any gaming on it anymore. Windows 10 is also new to me as I've been using Windows 7.

 

My question is: is there a definitive way to optimize the performance of every piece of hardware in this new PC? If so, can you link me a written or video guide? I am completely new to these new hardwares/drivers/programs/benchmarks/etc and I feel kinda lost. I don't necessarily mean overclocking as I wanna run a very stable system. So far I downloaded the following programs: AI Suite 3, Cinebench, CPUID CPU-Z, Aida64 Extreme, HWiNFO64. The past few hours I've been looking at them but I can't really seem to figure out how to use them and what I can use them for really.

 

Also, I wanna test my GPU and CPU to see if I "won the silicon lottery" or not. How could I do that exactly? Again, I'd appreciate a detailed (step by step) written or video guide on these.

 

Thanks in advance!

[nick name]

First thing.  NO NO NO AI Suite!  It won't play well with half of the other programs you listed.  And those monitoring programs may also slow things down if ran together.  HWiNFO is the only one you want for actual monitoring.  CPU-Z I only use for benchmark confirmations.  Aida64 I use to test my RAM performance.  Cinebench is a benchmark, but that one you probably knew.  

 

As far as optimizations: make sure you have a sterile Windows environment.  What that means to me is that you disable all unnecessary programs and services.  A quick way to start is by opening Task Manager and finding all the things you don't recognize and then Googling them to see if they're essential.  If you can then prevent them from even loading then that's the goal.  Also, go into Windows Services and find what's not needed in there.  There are guides online for that.

 

There's more with drivers and power management, but we will save that for later.  

 

[Withenex]

if you want to be absolutely sure about your placement in the silicon lottery, you can send it to siliconlottery.com to get your speeds verified but it's expensive and you're gonna need a reasonably high end motherboard to get those speeds anyway

[boggy77]

1 hour ago, Buksi said:

Also, I wanna test my GPU and CPU to see if I "won the silicon lottery" or not.

that literally means whether your CPU and GPU overclock very well. since you don't want to overclock (you should), then you shouldn't care about silicon lottery