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when I recently completed my 174 dollar PC a lot of people were wondering how I actually managed to get my PC running at 1440p with over 60 FPS and multiplayer titles well today's video is going to be talking about important thing in PC gaming that I like to call the balancing act welcome to tech city this is Brian and I'm going to cut straight to the chase here it's all about balance when you buy a GPU always think about the CPU you're going a couple of width or vice versa for gaming now I'm going to be straight up with you guys I've had a lot of experience building use pcs especially over the last year and this is allowed me to go near autopilot mode when it comes to tuning a particular rig that is knowing what games will work or what settings without having to play around an awful lot but here are some tips for you guys if you want to tune your PC properly first off optimize your OS I've got guides for all these all the way from windows 7 up to the latest anniversary update of Windows 10 after that I recommend getting a program called MSI Afterburner with River tuner statistics installed this won't just allow you to overclock your GPU different topic for a different day but it will also allow you to bring up the on-screen display which you will show you statistics like temperatures memory usage and more importantly percentage of your CPU or GPU being used this is a particularly important one because this is where you're going to start tuning your games to level both the CPU and the CPU to over 90% to near 100% if possible when you start doing this then you are fully utilizing the maximum price performance of your PC the one thing to keep in mind here is that you will want to start optimizing your games for a smooth experience and this is just simply playing the game and looking at what is actually coming out on your screen and this is where it plays an important role with just sitting down looking at things and forgetting about an FPS meter and just using your eyes to seeing what's coming out on the screen if you look at my csgo settings for example you'll notice that I dropped the shadows and shaded detail this was not only because I wanted to up the frames but more importantly I wanted to get rid of stuttering now I'm OCD about stuttering more OCD and roaches about input lag and trust me that's really next-level OCD reach for the wind by the way but getting back on topic sure I speak for all PC gamers when I say that no one likes stuttering even if it is the micro kind now how do you eliminate this well stuttering will mainly come from your CPUs side though it can come from the GPU side as well especially when it comes to memory limitations so try to make sure your GPU is not near its maximum limit if you can again using River tune-up to identify how much GPU memory is being used and looking at the specs of your graphics card to see how much actual memory it has for instance the 79-78 used had three gigabytes of gddr5 memory and in games I tested I turned down and sometimes completely off any anti-aliasing settings as for the CPU side of things again turning off and down things like shadows to distance draw in physics like bullet impacts for example can help greatly in increasing frames and reducing stuttering now the last type guy will go on to here is a benchmark that I really like and it is a really popular one - that's fire strike it will give you a physics score a KS CPU score and a GPU score and you should always try to have these so that one isn't too far out of proportion to the other in the 1440p $174 build that i did for example the balance was just about right with a ratio of 1.6 or 1.7 GPU to one CPU score or physics score now the kicker here is that having a higher physics score in proportion to a GPU score is not a bad thing though it can mean that money hasn't been spent efficiently but having a GPU score that far outnumbers the cpu score for example a ratio that is higher than two to one especially on budget pcs will generally give you a bad stuttering experience however on a higher end 4k gaming rig it will be a different story since the GPU is getting taxed a lot more in proportion to a 1080p gaming rig also one more thing to mention is that the fire stripe benchmark does favor hyper threading quite a bit but with the way games are going with multi-threaded support I don't see this as a bad thing since CPUs even in the nalem generation that's the first generation of our 7s they're still very strong to this date for gaming anyway guys hope you enjoyed this video and if you have any questions about tuning or balancing or if you have any tips of your own then be sure to drop a call in the comment section below and I'll catch you guys in the next Tech video very soon peace out for now bye