What to Do After Building a PC
The very first question after building the PC is “now what?”
My experience was like that:
- I turned on the PC and checked the BIOS.
At least BIOS was telling me the hardware information: CPU, RAMs, Storage units
Thankfully it was not surprising. - I was going to use Windows 10, so my bootable USB was ready.
- After Windows setup, I connected my PC to internet, and got all the necessary Windows updates.
- During Windows update, I did not touch the PC, I needed to restart it several times, and that was it.
- After than, I checked drivers. Therefore I visited support pages of motherboard, CPU, GPU …
Windows had found the latest drivers already so I did not have to do much. - Then I installed the anti virus.
- I was suspicious about if something is wrong still, so I checked several things afterwards briefly using following programs:
7.1. cpuz https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html
7.2. HWiNFO https://www.hwinfo.com/
7.3. HWMonitor https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html - Lastly I visited https://www.userbenchmark.com and tested speed of my PC with the help of UserBenchMark software.
- So far so good.
- Unfortunately Windows does not have a package manager, so after a fresh install, I need to find my favourite programs one by one and install them again. But meanwhile, I found out via reddit that some people may have a solution for this: https://ninite.com
I used it and I think it is a great solution for my kind of problem.
Disclaimer: I do not have any relationship with the programs/websites mentioned above.