**Asus PC Build: A Comprehensive Guide**

When it comes to building a high-performance PC, Asus is one of the top brands that come to mind. In this comprehensive guide, we'll take you through the process of setting up an Asus PC build, from selecting the right components to customizing and optimizing your system for optimal performance.

**Hardware Components: A Must-Have for Any PC Build**

When building a PC, it's essential to select the right hardware components that will work together seamlessly. For starters, you'll need a CPU (central processing unit) that will serve as the brain of your system. Intel CPUs are popular choices among gamers and content creators, but if you're looking for an integrated graphics solution, you may want to consider AMD or Nvidia GPUs.

The audio ports on the back of your PC are also worth considering, especially if you plan to use them frequently. VGA drivers are necessary for connecting external monitors to your system, and having a good pair of speakers can enhance your gaming experience. Bluetooth is another useful feature that can be handy in everyday life.

**Software: The Unsung Heroes of Your PC Build**

While hardware components are essential for any PC build, software plays a crucial role in optimizing performance and enhancing the overall user experience. For starters, you'll need to install drivers for your graphics card, CPU, and motherboard. Asus AI Suite is an excellent tool that allows you to overclock and monitor fans, ensuring that your system runs smoothly and quietly.

Within Windows, you can also utilize software like Armory Crate and Aura Creator to customize your game-specific settings and RGB lighting. These tools are invaluable for gamers who want to personalize their experience without compromising performance.

**RGB Lighting: Adding a Touch of Personality to Your PC Build**

RGB lighting is an excellent way to add some personality to your PC build, making it stand out from the crowd. NZXT Cam is a popular software that allows you to tune and control all your RGB lighting, giving you complete control over the look and feel of your system.

However, before diving into RGB lighting, ensure that you've got all the necessary headers and USB ports plugged in correctly. This will prevent any issues with the software not recognizing your hardware.

**Monitoring Your System: Keeping an Eye on Temperatures**

Monitoring your system's temperatures is crucial for ensuring optimal performance and preventing overheating. Hardware Monitor Pro is a free software that allows you to dive into your system's temperatures, clock speeds, and memory settings in real-time. This tool is invaluable for identifying any potential issues with your system before they become major problems.

With Hardware Monitor Pro, you can:

* View motherboard temperatures

* Check CPU temperatures

* Monitor clock speeds and voltages

* Track memory performance

By keeping an eye on these metrics, you'll be able to identify any potential issues with your system and take corrective action to prevent overheating or throttling.

**Task Manager: The Ultimate Tool for PC Performance**

Task Manager is a powerful tool that allows you to monitor your system's performance in real-time. By accessing Task Manager, you can:

* View the current running processes

* Check memory usage and allocation

* Monitor CPU and GPU usage

* Identify any resource-intensive programs

To access Task Manager, press Ctrl + Shift + Esc simultaneously. From there, navigate to the "Performance" tab and select "Memory" to check your RAM speed.

By using these tools and following this comprehensive guide, you'll be well on your way to building a high-performance PC that meets your needs and exceeds your expectations.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enif you've just built a brand new gaming PC you're probably wondering what on Earth to do next how do you get windows installed properly make sure you're connected to the internet and have the right drivers installed and heck even clocks that pesky memory up to the right speeds well in this video I'll be walking you through it all starting with the BIOS showing you guys how to install Windows and finishing setting everything up A-Okay and making sure we're all good to get gaming as soon as possible let's do this the first thing you need to do is grab yourself a monitor a keyboard and a mouse make sure these are all plugged in correctly and that the monitor is connected to the graphics card and not to the ports on the motherboard that's one of the most common issues I often find people face in ensure that the switch on the power supply is set to 1 and not zero as without that the whole thing isn't going to turn on and then hit the power button on the top of your PC case once you've done this you want to repeatedly hit the delete key on the keyboard you're going to continue to press this as the system Cycles through all of its initial boot up settings and this can take a while especially in the first instance we should hopefully then see a splash screen on the monitor lovely stuff and be taken straight into the BIOS if you're having trouble getting into the BIOS there's a couple of things to check first is the power button wired up correctly on the case if not go fix this second is the monitor input set to the correct one so if you've got a HDMI plugged in make sure it's set to HDMI one or two as often the auto doesn't always get things right then I want to quickly check all of my Hardware is detected properly I know I've got four randoms of eight gig each and I can see here yeah one two three four are all popped up and I can also see it's picking up my CPU just fine the I5 13600k I then want to go down to this setting called XMP now this will be located in different areas depending on the Motherboard BIOS this is the Asus one so it's nice and easily on the home page and if we enable this you can see now it's picked up the profile for the ram running at the correct rated speeds XMP can make a huge difference to your memory performance so make sure to tune this on and if you need to adjust the speed say you want to turn it down or up slightly you can hit F7 jump into the AI tweaker or memory overclocking menu and jump right down here to our memory and adjust any of the speeds that we like this is the profile that it's picking up from the ram but if you scroll all the way down you can turn the dram frequency to whatever best suits the memory that you've gone for then once we've done that we need to generate ourselves a bootable Windows USB this is basically the modern version of the old windows DVDs you used to put in a system to get windows installed and actually generating this USB stick is very simple grab yourself USB flash drive something that's USB 3 with about 32 gigs of capacity would be my recommendation simply then head over to the windows bootable media tool which will link below on an existing Windows PC plug the memory stick in it will format the drive to make sure there's no sensitive or important family files on there before creating a USB stick that we can now use to install Windows plug this into the one of the USB 3 ports on the back of your computer and hit F10 to save and exit you can see it's going to give you all the changes that it's made so it's turned our Ram speed correctly and change the cast latencies hit enter and we should now be automatically booted into the windows USB we just popped in the back of the machine that looks promising in theory now we should be booted in yes we are the beautiful purple screen of relief to see the windows tool and we can go through and just select all the settings now I'm in the UK so I'm going to click United Kingdom and then head over to to install now this whole process to install Windows takes anywhere from 5 to 25 minutes depending on the speed of your drives and all that sort of stuff you either enter your license key at this stage or select I don't have one if you'd rather license it via your Microsoft login or add a key later I'm going to select Windows 11 home as that's the key I'll be using but if you've got a system with loads of memory and great for video editing you might want the pro version instead except all of Microsoft's terms and conditions choose custom install Windows only and then go ahead and select the drive you want to install Windows on a bit of a top tip for you if you're installing multiple drives in a system if they're the same capacities they might look the same in this list so uninstall the ones you don't want to install Windows on now or before of course preferably the PC has turned on and then that will just leave the OneDrive that you do want to use if they're different capacities it's much easier to determine which Drive is which it's then going to go through and run through all this installation process this bit can take anywhere from 5 to 20 minutes it's perhaps the most time consuming part but for me it seems to be flying so far so I'll see you in a few moments once Windows has gone ahead and installed itself onto this drive you'll then see the windows Spinning Wheel reappear for the very final stages of the installation this is where it's going to ask you about things like targeted ads use of location you can choose to answer these however you wish and you can also add it into play here your Microsoft account if you have one when it asks you to connect to the Wi-Fi you may have varying levels of trouble here depending on your board this motherboard seems pretty easy when it comes to connections but some will need drivers so that might mean leaving the Wi-Fi or ethernet connection until later if it does simply skip this part and download the drivers from your motherboard's website as you can see on the screen now which will get you connected a bit later on I've had a bit more look in this case though which should allow us to boot straight into windows and we are in so rather handily the first time you jump into Windows you get this nice little start menu and there are a few things I want to do straight away the first thing I'm going to do is install Chrome mainly because I've got lots of drivers and other software to install and try to do these by using Microsoft Edge just isn't going to end well at this point we also want to install GeForce experience now that's because we've got an Nvidia GPU if you've got an AMD one you want amd's Radeon software instead and I'll link all of these down below you then want to go ahead and just download the latest GeForce game ready drivers if you've got an Nvidia graphics card it will detect the right one and make sure you've got the right driver installed now at this point you might find that your display is quite pixelated everything's not rendering improperly GeForce experience or the AMD equivalent will fix that sometimes though like now you have a bit more look it tends to be a little bit 50 50 as to whether the drivers are installed before your screen goes into full res but for the right gaming performance you need the drivers full stop go ahead and just select Express installation and you'll be guided through all the appropriate steps to install the drivers when it comes to graphics card drivers you want all the recommended settings video and AMD won't tend to put a load of bloatware on your system so trust them and just go ahead with the express install and just like that it's finished nice and successfully the only other thing really to do now is head to the motherboard page for your particular motherboard design so in this case I'm going to open up a tab on Chrome not an edge who do you think I am Chrome please thank you and search for the Asus Rog strix z790a Wi-Fi I've spelled that wrong but Google's gonna help me out head over to the website and then go ahead and look at support in the support section this is the same for all the different motherboard manufacturers you will find a driver's and utility section now in here you'll pick your OS Windows 11 and then you've got loads of drivers so land drivers and wireless drivers even if it's working like mine is it's a good idea to get these in now make sure you avoid any problems later audio is of course for the audio ports on the back VGA drivers you won't need unless you've got just your Intel CPU and no extra graphics card that's for if you use an integrated Graphics bluetooth's another good one to have even if you don't use it for gaming it's nice it for it to be working properly and you'll also find some software for the Asus AI Suite it allows you to overclock and monitor fans and stuff like that Within windows and then also Armory crate and Aura Creator that's for your RGB and all your game specific settings once you've got all those set up you might also want to go ahead and get some RGB Control software I've got an NZXT based build here so nzxtcam is what I'm looking for but you might also find yourself interested in Corsair IQ or the various software Suites from Cooler Master thermaltake and loads of other brands like that nzxtcam where do I download this where's the download button ah I clicked the wrong link I want the first link download Cam and that's going to allow me to tune all the RGB I'll give you a little bit of a rundown on how exactly this works as it's a similar principle across multiple different software Suites also can we just admire the talent here to actually use this monitor while looking at it from totally the side I can't really see much but we're getting there a bit of a warning as well ahead of using these RGB softwares you need to make sure that you've actually got all of the RGB headers and USB ports plugged up correctly as that's the only way you'll be able to find the items in your bell old now if we jump through we want to go into lighting first of all and sort out our LCD display because currently it's sideways so we're going to rotate the display choose where the pumps are they are down the bottom for me save and that's fixed already lovely stuff we can then go ahead and change all of our different RGB lighting there's loads of different settings for like RGB waves we've got like a white for a sleeker aesthetic and you can go through and tune all of these as you wish a couple of final bits of software I'd recommend MSI afterburner is great for overclocking the graphics card Nvidia frame view is awesome for showing frame rates on both AMD and Nvidia gpus while Reaver tuner statistics server or rtss is also fantastic for monitoring your system temps and that kind of thing a great one though to install as well is a piece of software called hardware monitor Pro it is free and let me show you how it works I'm giving away all my secrets in this video my Trade Secrets Google Chrome here we go hardware monitor Pro and we're going to download that from CPU ID which is the official site this is a super receive a small program there's no bloatware or anything like that involved definitely worth installing on your build if you can and the installation for this software is typically pretty rapid I'll show you in real time install finish boom it's done if we just put hwn hardware monitor Pro yes and open up the software there we are now it's not the most pretty piece of software that you'll ever see however what it does allow you to do is dive through temperatures so let me show you now these are the motherboard temperatures our CPU is what we want so you can see here we've got all the different temperatures for the p and the e chords all broken down you've got your max ones as well so if you're seeing any throttling you can go and take a look at how hot the CPU got at any point you've also got all the different clock speeds temperatures for your memory super nerdy stuff the main one really to look at is temperatures and clock speeds if you have any problems hardware monitor Pro will show you that your graphics card or your CPU is running at 97 degrees and you've obviously got a bit of a problem with cooling but otherwise we're nearly done one more thing jump into task manager which you can do by hitting Ctrl shift and Escape at the same time go down to the more details section save Windows 10 and 11 head to Performance memory and just double check that the speed is all good 3200 megahertz if you enable XMP and your RAM is not really liking it the speed will automatically drop down to check it's right and if it isn't go back in and try and iteratively find the fastest Ram speed that your memory is stably able to achieve and just like that your PC build is all ready to get game in if you found this video helpful please do get subscribe and drop a like rating down below any questions drop them in the comments and me or someone from the community will be sure to try and help thanks a lot for watching and as always we'll see you in the next one oh yeahif you've just built a brand new gaming PC you're probably wondering what on Earth to do next how do you get windows installed properly make sure you're connected to the internet and have the right drivers installed and heck even clocks that pesky memory up to the right speeds well in this video I'll be walking you through it all starting with the BIOS showing you guys how to install Windows and finishing setting everything up A-Okay and making sure we're all good to get gaming as soon as possible let's do this the first thing you need to do is grab yourself a monitor a keyboard and a mouse make sure these are all plugged in correctly and that the monitor is connected to the graphics card and not to the ports on the motherboard that's one of the most common issues I often find people face in ensure that the switch on the power supply is set to 1 and not zero as without that the whole thing isn't going to turn on and then hit the power button on the top of your PC case once you've done this you want to repeatedly hit the delete key on the keyboard you're going to continue to press this as the system Cycles through all of its initial boot up settings and this can take a while especially in the first instance we should hopefully then see a splash screen on the monitor lovely stuff and be taken straight into the BIOS if you're having trouble getting into the BIOS there's a couple of things to check first is the power button wired up correctly on the case if not go fix this second is the monitor input set to the correct one so if you've got a HDMI plugged in make sure it's set to HDMI one or two as often the auto doesn't always get things right then I want to quickly check all of my Hardware is detected properly I know I've got four randoms of eight gig each and I can see here yeah one two three four are all popped up and I can also see it's picking up my CPU just fine the I5 13600k I then want to go down to this setting called XMP now this will be located in different areas depending on the Motherboard BIOS this is the Asus one so it's nice and easily on the home page and if we enable this you can see now it's picked up the profile for the ram running at the correct rated speeds XMP can make a huge difference to your memory performance so make sure to tune this on and if you need to adjust the speed say you want to turn it down or up slightly you can hit F7 jump into the AI tweaker or memory overclocking menu and jump right down here to our memory and adjust any of the speeds that we like this is the profile that it's picking up from the ram but if you scroll all the way down you can turn the dram frequency to whatever best suits the memory that you've gone for then once we've done that we need to generate ourselves a bootable Windows USB this is basically the modern version of the old windows DVDs you used to put in a system to get windows installed and actually generating this USB stick is very simple grab yourself USB flash drive something that's USB 3 with about 32 gigs of capacity would be my recommendation simply then head over to the windows bootable media tool which will link below on an existing Windows PC plug the memory stick in it will format the drive to make sure there's no sensitive or important family files on there before creating a USB stick that we can now use to install Windows plug this into the one of the USB 3 ports on the back of your computer and hit F10 to save and exit you can see it's going to give you all the changes that it's made so it's turned our Ram speed correctly and change the cast latencies hit enter and we should now be automatically booted into the windows USB we just popped in the back of the machine that looks promising in theory now we should be booted in yes we are the beautiful purple screen of relief to see the windows tool and we can go through and just select all the settings now I'm in the UK so I'm going to click United Kingdom and then head over to to install now this whole process to install Windows takes anywhere from 5 to 25 minutes depending on the speed of your drives and all that sort of stuff you either enter your license key at this stage or select I don't have one if you'd rather license it via your Microsoft login or add a key later I'm going to select Windows 11 home as that's the key I'll be using but if you've got a system with loads of memory and great for video editing you might want the pro version instead except all of Microsoft's terms and conditions choose custom install Windows only and then go ahead and select the drive you want to install Windows on a bit of a top tip for you if you're installing multiple drives in a system if they're the same capacities they might look the same in this list so uninstall the ones you don't want to install Windows on now or before of course preferably the PC has turned on and then that will just leave the OneDrive that you do want to use if they're different capacities it's much easier to determine which Drive is which it's then going to go through and run through all this installation process this bit can take anywhere from 5 to 20 minutes it's perhaps the most time consuming part but for me it seems to be flying so far so I'll see you in a few moments once Windows has gone ahead and installed itself onto this drive you'll then see the windows Spinning Wheel reappear for the very final stages of the installation this is where it's going to ask you about things like targeted ads use of location you can choose to answer these however you wish and you can also add it into play here your Microsoft account if you have one when it asks you to connect to the Wi-Fi you may have varying levels of trouble here depending on your board this motherboard seems pretty easy when it comes to connections but some will need drivers so that might mean leaving the Wi-Fi or ethernet connection until later if it does simply skip this part and download the drivers from your motherboard's website as you can see on the screen now which will get you connected a bit later on I've had a bit more look in this case though which should allow us to boot straight into windows and we are in so rather handily the first time you jump into Windows you get this nice little start menu and there are a few things I want to do straight away the first thing I'm going to do is install Chrome mainly because I've got lots of drivers and other software to install and try to do these by using Microsoft Edge just isn't going to end well at this point we also want to install GeForce experience now that's because we've got an Nvidia GPU if you've got an AMD one you want amd's Radeon software instead and I'll link all of these down below you then want to go ahead and just download the latest GeForce game ready drivers if you've got an Nvidia graphics card it will detect the right one and make sure you've got the right driver installed now at this point you might find that your display is quite pixelated everything's not rendering improperly GeForce experience or the AMD equivalent will fix that sometimes though like now you have a bit more look it tends to be a little bit 50 50 as to whether the drivers are installed before your screen goes into full res but for the right gaming performance you need the drivers full stop go ahead and just select Express installation and you'll be guided through all the appropriate steps to install the drivers when it comes to graphics card drivers you want all the recommended settings video and AMD won't tend to put a load of bloatware on your system so trust them and just go ahead with the express install and just like that it's finished nice and successfully the only other thing really to do now is head to the motherboard page for your particular motherboard design so in this case I'm going to open up a tab on Chrome not an edge who do you think I am Chrome please thank you and search for the Asus Rog strix z790a Wi-Fi I've spelled that wrong but Google's gonna help me out head over to the website and then go ahead and look at support in the support section this is the same for all the different motherboard manufacturers you will find a driver's and utility section now in here you'll pick your OS Windows 11 and then you've got loads of drivers so land drivers and wireless drivers even if it's working like mine is it's a good idea to get these in now make sure you avoid any problems later audio is of course for the audio ports on the back VGA drivers you won't need unless you've got just your Intel CPU and no extra graphics card that's for if you use an integrated Graphics bluetooth's another good one to have even if you don't use it for gaming it's nice it for it to be working properly and you'll also find some software for the Asus AI Suite it allows you to overclock and monitor fans and stuff like that Within windows and then also Armory crate and Aura Creator that's for your RGB and all your game specific settings once you've got all those set up you might also want to go ahead and get some RGB Control software I've got an NZXT based build here so nzxtcam is what I'm looking for but you might also find yourself interested in Corsair IQ or the various software Suites from Cooler Master thermaltake and loads of other brands like that nzxtcam where do I download this where's the download button ah I clicked the wrong link I want the first link download Cam and that's going to allow me to tune all the RGB I'll give you a little bit of a rundown on how exactly this works as it's a similar principle across multiple different software Suites also can we just admire the talent here to actually use this monitor while looking at it from totally the side I can't really see much but we're getting there a bit of a warning as well ahead of using these RGB softwares you need to make sure that you've actually got all of the RGB headers and USB ports plugged up correctly as that's the only way you'll be able to find the items in your bell old now if we jump through we want to go into lighting first of all and sort out our LCD display because currently it's sideways so we're going to rotate the display choose where the pumps are they are down the bottom for me save and that's fixed already lovely stuff we can then go ahead and change all of our different RGB lighting there's loads of different settings for like RGB waves we've got like a white for a sleeker aesthetic and you can go through and tune all of these as you wish a couple of final bits of software I'd recommend MSI afterburner is great for overclocking the graphics card Nvidia frame view is awesome for showing frame rates on both AMD and Nvidia gpus while Reaver tuner statistics server or rtss is also fantastic for monitoring your system temps and that kind of thing a great one though to install as well is a piece of software called hardware monitor Pro it is free and let me show you how it works I'm giving away all my secrets in this video my Trade Secrets Google Chrome here we go hardware monitor Pro and we're going to download that from CPU ID which is the official site this is a super receive a small program there's no bloatware or anything like that involved definitely worth installing on your build if you can and the installation for this software is typically pretty rapid I'll show you in real time install finish boom it's done if we just put hwn hardware monitor Pro yes and open up the software there we are now it's not the most pretty piece of software that you'll ever see however what it does allow you to do is dive through temperatures so let me show you now these are the motherboard temperatures our CPU is what we want so you can see here we've got all the different temperatures for the p and the e chords all broken down you've got your max ones as well so if you're seeing any throttling you can go and take a look at how hot the CPU got at any point you've also got all the different clock speeds temperatures for your memory super nerdy stuff the main one really to look at is temperatures and clock speeds if you have any problems hardware monitor Pro will show you that your graphics card or your CPU is running at 97 degrees and you've obviously got a bit of a problem with cooling but otherwise we're nearly done one more thing jump into task manager which you can do by hitting Ctrl shift and Escape at the same time go down to the more details section save Windows 10 and 11 head to Performance memory and just double check that the speed is all good 3200 megahertz if you enable XMP and your RAM is not really liking it the speed will automatically drop down to check it's right and if it isn't go back in and try and iteratively find the fastest Ram speed that your memory is stably able to achieve and just like that your PC build is all ready to get game in if you found this video helpful please do get subscribe and drop a like rating down below any questions drop them in the comments and me or someone from the community will be sure to try and help thanks a lot for watching and as always we'll see you in the next one oh yeah\n"