Is there any useful settings for gamers that I should change on windows 11?

[SkScotchegg]

Hi guys, please can you offer any advice.

I've recently built a new rig thanks to the help from some of you guys on the forum.

I'm running a 9800x3d + 5070ti + m.2 + 32gb DDR5 memory and everything is running sweet for Cyberpunk and Battlefield 6 etc but I just wondered if there's any settings in windows, the bios, or Nvidia control panel you would recommend I change?

I know you can search google and find 1000 post about this, but the problem is, I don't know which are useful in November 2025 on the latest version of windows, Nvidia and bios etc and I've seen some people say they've seen no difference from changing this setting or that setting.

So I thought I'd ask you guys once and for all to see if there's actually some good settings to change that make a difference so I can get the best performance possible out of my PC.

Thanks in advance.

 

[ED209]

Nothing really you need to do.

I assume this was a clean install of Windows 11 and not an OS that was installed on a previous system?

Only thing I normally do is make sure Gsync is enabled, the max framerate is a bit below the monitor refresh rate (mine is 165hz monitor and capped at 163 for fps.) etc

A few hardware things to note.

When you turned the system on for the first time or entered the bios did it ask you to enable X3D Gaming mode? If you enabled this then the 9800X3D will run at 8 core 8 thread instead of the 8 core 16 thread.

I enabled this on my system and then wondered why it was only running at 8 core 8 thread and then I disabled the X3D Gaming mode.

Did you change the ram to run at EXPO?

 

[SkScotchegg]

Nothing really you need to do.

I assume this was a clean install of Windows 11 and not an OS that was installed on a previous system?

Only thing I normally do is make sure Gsync is enabled, the max framerate is a bit below the monitor refresh rate (mine is 165hz monitor and capped at 163 for fps.) etc

A few hardware things to note.

When you turned the system on for the first time or entered the bios did it ask you to enable X3D Gaming mode? If you enabled this then the 9800X3D will run at 8 core 8 thread instead of the 8 core 16 thread.

I enabled this on my system and then wondered why it was only running at 8 core 8 thread and then I disabled the X3D Gaming mode.

Did you change the ram to run at EXPO?

Thanks for quick reply mate.

Yeah fresh install of windows 11 on a brand new m.2.

I didn't ask me to set that "x3d gaming mode" and I could see 16 cpu's in msi afterburner so think my cpu is running ok.

I couldn't find expo for ram but I found something called DOCP 1 which I think is the same thing on my Asus x87 mobo? it says my ram is running at 7200mhz.

So looks like everything is set ok in bios

 

[ED209]

Looks good then

Enjoy the new system

How are you finding the 5070Ti? as currently looking at getting 1 of these for my system (9800X3D, 32GB of ram, Gigabyte X870 Eagle motherboard)

 

[SkScotchegg]

Looks good then

Enjoy the new system

How are you finding the 5070Ti? as currently looking at getting 1 of these for my system (9800X3D, 32GB of ram, Gigabyte X870 Eagle motherboard)

Cheers mate, and yeah it's absolutely fantastic, I upgraded from an RTX 2080 and it's a huge upgrade imo.

In Cybperunk on my old GPU if I enabled Path Tracing I got 1-3fps lol but with the 5070ti I now get 120+ fps in ultra settings maxed out with Path tracing enabled so it's insane how far we've come!

Battlefield 6 I'm getting 170-180fps in ultra settings too where as before I was like 85-95fps.

Best PC I've ever built, so happy with it right now!