I believe it's easier just to search 'Delete temporary files' on the start menu, which will open window where you can select which type of files to delete and it will automatically search for useless files and also Windows update files which can take up A LOT of space.

To my fellow moderators of the board, I know some of these stuff are already here but they are extremely outdated and it has been years since someone has updated them.

Again, sorry to all my AMD users. I am not very knowledgeable in AMDs therefore I wouldn't want to give any advice to y'all and mess your shit up. 

To my Nvidia users, high five. I am going to show some tweaks that you can do in 5 minutes to improve performance of your PC.

Head over to your Nvidia Control Panel.

Then go to "Adjust image settings with preview" and then tick the middle box where it says "Use the advanced 3D Image settings" after clicking that make sure to hit "Save" and then press the blue text "Take me there"

Click on Global Settings and copy my settings on to yours.


Now keep in mind, these differ from each PC to another. Some of you might have different features, some of you might have the exact same or some of you might have few features missing. If you are confused on what to use on few features that are not on my screenshot provided feel free to drop a screenshot of the feature or just reply with the feature's name and I will tell you exactly what to choose.

Side note: Please check out this topic, after checking this topic out, you will know what your MAXIMUM refresh rate of your monitor is. I would recommend LIMITING your FPS relative to your refresh rate. You can find the setting here, so example: 60 Hz - Press 'On' and type 60 FPS in the box, and so on.

Running 144 FPS when your monitor is only able to go up to 75 Hz is pointless and uses up resources of your PC for no reason.

Not necessarily, he could be playing with his FPS capped at 60 FPS. This is also another good point, you should just cap your FPS relative to the refresh rate of your monitor.

Yep, I was already editing the reply because I saw where it would be wrong.

Honestly the higher refresh rate causes more eye strain to me after a long session, though admittedly the smoother scrolling is nice.

Will this result in higher CPU / GPU / RAM usage?

No, your PC is already consuming that to generate the FPS, the monitor is just (not) showing them.

EDIT: this is in the case of gaming ^
In general PC usage it would consume more (if that setting is forcing a baseline for refresh rate across the OS)

Hi everyone, just wanted to share something with everyone in the community that might be helpful to most of you. As you know, you can have the beefiest and best computer a man could possibly have but without a lot of knowledge you can have just a 60hz or even as low as 50hz monitor.

Now you might be asking yourself, why would I care how many hertz my monitor is? Well let me explain. I will bring the example on CIT so it doesn't confuse anyone. Let's say you are playing at a stable 144 FPS but you have a 60 HZ monitor, you will only be able to experience the 60 FPS smoothness. Just because your computer is able to run CIT on 144 FPS does not mean you are seeing these frames per second because you are being limited by your monitor. Which really does suck.

I used to play Fortnite, and I would be running around 250-350 FPS but the game would still feel like shit for me compared to my friend's gameplay, and I realized that it is because the max refresh rate of my monitor is only 60hz.

Anyways, back to the topic and how to overclock it. It is very simple but the sad part is I only know how to do this on an Nvidia GPU (sorry to my AMD people).

So, head over to your desktop screen.
Right click on your desktop and find Nvidia Control Panel.

Then go click on the left hand side "Display > Change Resolution"

You will come to this screen, then you need to press "Customize"

After clicking customize, you will be redirected to this page. Click on the box to check mark it, then press "Create Custom Resolution".

Then you will be redirected again to another window, you will see many things here but the only thing you need to worry about here is where it says "Refresh Rate". Now in this page you need to play around with it. Go up by increments of 5, so let's say it's set to 60 for you right now, go up to 65, if it doesn't give you black screen move up to 70 and so on. If at any time you get a black screen and your monitor does not turn back on just press ESC and it will return you to the safest refresh rate.

You can also go up by increments of 1, see what your maximum will be. As long as you screen stays on and it doesn't black screen then you are fine where you are. I have a 240hz monitor, and I was able to push all the way up to 265hz.

Just like always, please let me know if you have any questions or need any help with any of this.