Top 5 ways to make your PC faster for FREE!

Dont have a lot of money but want to make your PC faster, try these tips to make your pc faster!

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[TitaniumLegRay]

Motherboard bios 0:40
Enable XMP-DOCP 2:32
MSI Afterburner Power limit & Fan Curve 5:52
System clean up + Memory 7:52
Clean the entire physical System 10:50

[pupaepedorra]

Mr. TwoCents, we need a "Top 5 ways to make your PC slower for FREE!" video, it will be a novelty.

[obiwanceleri]

Pro tip : if you're using compressed air from a can, PLEASE always use the can vertically since you might have liquid air coming out from the nozzle and it can be VERY COLD and BREAK COMPONENTS (It happened to one of my favorite sound cards years ago!)
Another point to consider with air from a can : don't use the air stream on continuously! Use a series of small 1-2 second shots so it will not get too cold (and damage your components).
One last thing. If you do use XMP / DOCP, you NEED to test your system RAM for a while. Memtest86+ comes to mind. Failure to do so might result in ram errors and corrupt file transfers (since they are copied to ram when the system copies it from media to media).

[Matt]

Good tips on blowing out a system, I use a small blower like you guys do. Since I blow out systems fairly often and only take fans off to wipe down the fins every 3-6 months, depending on the system... For the times I'm not taking them out, I hold a finger on the fan(s) or between the blades while blowing out the area around them to prevent them from spinning up.

[carbon_no]

Thanks to this channel I’ve finally built my first PC! Nothing special to anyone whose ever built one before, but I’m not them, I’m me. For being 36 years old, I’ve come to grips that I will forever be unimaginably ignorant when it comes to computers. Either way, this channel has given me enough knowledge to be able to build my system!

[Smudger]

Always good to revisit stuff like this so thank you.

I am sure it’s been mentioned before in previous videos.

But my tip:
If your placing your tower on a floor and it’s carpeted. Use some MDF or board as a flat hard surface. It’s easy to clean and does not suffocate your bottom fans or power supply dragging all that dust into the system. The amount of friends and family I visit and have it on carpet. Drives me nuts!!!

[watchraventhehostage]

My go-to blower tool is a basic hair dryer. DON'T use the hot setting. My basic Revlon comes with a boost trigger that boosts the fan while turning the heat off. I also use a soft bristle paint brush to loosen the dust buildup on the fan blades and air cooler crevices beforehand. I do the same with my keyboard. It's worked well so far.

[MasterJediSean]

yearly thermal compound changing helps as well. plus I weekly run the sfc /scannow command in power-shell, really helps with weird system hangs, crashes etc. Try to keep your system on your desk or on a short ( 1-2 foot) stand so that it is not on the carpet, also if your computer is on the floor, one thing about pet hair and dust, it always seems to gather around the base boards allowing the pc to suck that crap up. so yes! weekly or by weekly filter cleanings. Great advice Jay! thanks.

[grievesy]

Pay attention to airflow direction. I had a GTX 1070ti in a case with three front intake fans. Then I realised that GPU exhausts out the end of the card, not the sides; this means one of the case fans was blowing directly at the GPU exhaust really trapping the hot air in the GPU cooler. I REMOVED the middle front intake fan that was level with the GPU and it ran much, much better as it wasn’t thermal throttling.
More fans doesn’t always equate to more cooling - pay attention to airflow direction as moving air in the right direction can be way more important than just moving more air.

[korone]

trick I used for my old 1080 to get temps down a bit. I took some of the command strip velcro for hanging pictures and used it to attach an extra fan blowing air towards my GPU. Of course this will depend on your GPU's cooler and the rest of your setup but might help a bit. Also if you cable manage it well it's easy to take out if you need to get around it, then you can just stick it back on thanks to the velcro. All with no modification to the case.

[kenanthony]

Outstanding tips given Jay, I also live in the high desert area and a old school gamer plus over 40 years working on computers Going back when you had to solder the memory stick to the mother board. We had to keep all the heavy computer clean every quarter (LOL) I keep all my home system clean.

[surft]

You can actually just use a leaf blower on the lowest setting if you are just getting rid of dust (do it outside) . Just remember to tape the fans so they don't move.

[jankoutecky]

Another tip: Make sure to not have a completely full disks of data. Specially your OS drive. It will slow down your drive and could blue screen due to Windows not being able to perform updates.

[destoc]

My number one tip would be casing and air flow for non water cooling builds. I was using the old casing from 2010s which has stupid front brackets blocking the intake fans. System runs hot easily. When choosing new casing, I suggest get those with more spacing for bigger fan or AIO mounting. I made a mistake by choosing a nice casing instead of a practical casing. When I tried to put AIO into it, only to find out there is not enough space to install it at the top.

[MindstabThrull]

With respect to enabling the power limit and fan curve, something I just found out: If you don't see a power limit slider on Afterburner, try changing to a different skin. I went from the default Afterburner skin v2 to default skin v3 and suddenly the slider came up. So if you don't see it - try checking your skin! (Settings -> User Interface, which is the last tab and you might have to use the arrows at the top to get to it.)

[DevinJHiggins]

Just wanted to thank you for your channel and content @JayzTwoCents
I've been following you for about a year or so and based on the information you've provided about CPUs, GPUs, Motherboards, RAM, etc., I successfully solo-assembled my first PC two weeks ago!
Got a DDR5 capable board with Ryzen 7/7700x CPU and 32GB of RAM, but the big worry was finding a decent GPU in my budget. After watching your MANY vids on the subject, I went with a Gigabyte 3060TI I got on Amazon from the company's page for about $450.
So far, it's been running fantastic and as someone who never thought I'd be able to do my own build, what you do is greatly appreciated! Cheers!

[simoncodrington]

Cheers for comments on the power slider and how that number is built into the vbios of the card. It's an important point to raise because that's the power limit the manufacturer says your card can be pushed to given its thermal design.

[ruthlesshonor]

All these tips really does work really well. I've also did some upgrades along the way and I've bought a Thermaltake Core P3 case which is an open case. Its pretty much like a open air test bench but it works great. The main thing I'll have to do is dust it regularly and use an air blower like Jay has and its really simple. I do appreciate the tips you guys

[StealthNinja]

Dusting every so often is important. Got some new thermal pads for a repair I was doing and I had an old pad that I added paste onto... not knowing you don't do that xD so when I repaded and repasted the correct components I also dusted the cooler off. Lungs are great compressed air generators outside with proper technique so you're not spitting or inhaling dust. Been using the start up, minimal programs approach for years and it's so important. If you do use a HD in 2023 you'll have a positive normal experience with a high rpm drive with no clutter.

[DBW-Media]

14:50 Tips for keeping system cool - probably the one thing people have trouble understanding for a first time build. I suggest, in general, to plan out the airflow through the case with priority going to supplying fresh air to the CPU and GPU, while maintaining positive pressure inside the case, and try not to intake air from the bottom of the case (dust). Having said that, it's pretty general, but as long as people follow that thought process, it should help. ALSO, as you noted in one of your videos a long time ago: try to avoid air bubbles in a liquid colling config (assuming they use an AIO) by mounting the radiator above the CPU or at least parallel, with the the loop inlet/outlets at the top (12 o'clock) of the CPU block to avoid air bubbles that will cause degradation of thermals and also cavitate the pump, and have the inlet/outlets on the radiator at the lowest point possible, just to ensure any air will just end up at the top of the radiator.