An easy tip on Performance

[Kapitan]

This tiny corner of the monitor is the most important part of your computer for related performance issues

Clicking with the mouse it shows you which programs are running (thus eating ram, cpu and gpu

I know this for the last 20 years but there are still people who dont know

 

As you can ser I only have 3 icons

one is the USB drive (meaning is ready to use)

the other is the Nvidia settings control panel

a third one is the Audio HD driver but thats not necessary either so I can close it also

 

If you have more programs there, specially antivirus, Vpn or any other program, your i7 maybe performing like an i3 or i5 so you waste money in a top cpu but by letting other programs eat resources you have actually a weak cpu that will render less fps

 

Other programs or windows services also eat resources and can be seen in ctrl-alt-del processes but thats trickier

Edited September 18, 2020 by Kapitan

[tiger1962]

You can also do without the nVidia control panel icon - it's removable in the app, and a right-click on the desktop background brings up a window with a link to nVidia Control Panel anyway.