Best practice after building PC

[Dean037]

Hi everyone recently purchased the list below for my son for Xmas

Antec CX500M RGB M-ATX Mini Tower Black

AMD Ryzen 5 7600x 6 core / 12 threads AM5 38MB Cache upto 5.3Ghz max boost

MSI B650M Gaming Plus WIFI MATX Motherboard

Team Group G50 2TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E

Crucial Pro DDR5 Ram 32GB 2x16GB 6000 mhz CL36 overclocking gaming memory

MSI Mag A650GL PSU 80 Plus Gold

B Grade Sapphire Radeon RX 7600 Pulse Gaming 8GB GDDR6 PCI-Express GPU

Thermalright Assassin King 120 SE ARGB CPU cooler 120mm

I have been trying to watch some.youtibe videos to refresh my memory as been years since built a PC and didn't have nvme ssds etc.

Any hints or easy mistakes that are usually made like what os the best slots for ram in motherboard etc and how much thermal paste still a pea size or do most do a X and should I then spread out iver the cpu with a glove or something similar.

Also once all together what's next I have made a windows 11 is drive so hopefully it works. Should I leave disconnected from Internet so don't need to sign in etc.

Once windows installed do I need to download all drivers for my hardware and what else does anyone recommend ?

Sorry just been so long since had a PC .

Thanks dean

 

[Kelt]

The mobo manual will tell you the best slots for the ram, usually 1 and 3 for two sticks.

For paste, I usually Google what method for the relevant CPU.

I normally have the newly built PC connected to the internet for all the drivers/updates it will require.

 

[Dean037]

The mobo manual will tell you the best slots for the ram, usually 1 and 3 for two sticks.

For paste, I usually Google what method for the relevant CPU.

I normally have the newly built PC connected to the internet for all the drivers/updates it will require.

I seen a few situations didn't want to connect or should I say sign in when installing windows so everything isn't signed in to a certain account.

All drivers for motherboard cpu and gpu will need downloaded from there sites ?

Also do I have to change bios to up speed of the ram as usually set lower ? I won't be overclocking cpu or gpu at all yet as hopefully not required but I imagine makes sense to use ram at speed it is supposed to be ?

Thanks dean

 

[darael]

After powering on the motherboard, one of the first things I check is the BIOS version and whether there is an updated version out. Tweaking the BIOS before realising you'll have to reset it after updating it can be frustrating to say the least. Currently the latest version for your motherboard is 7E24v18, released on 19/12/2024 - so it's probable your motherboard doesn't have the latest BIOS installed at the time of installation.