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For the intended use the present hardware is a good balance but we could do with knowing the details of the most important component in a PC, can you post the brand and model name or number of the PSU..
Glad to hear that you are not keen on OCing as it opens up a whole new can of worms, for optimal performance AMD recommend a liquid cooler for the present CPU but you have a perfectly good cooler that will suffice, any OCing though would require a liquid cooler and coming with that is additional maintenance and the risk of leaks.
Some tips on improving PC performance and health.
Install Windows on its own boot drive or partition on a larger capacity drive, any drive or partition needs to be a minimum of 250GB.
Maintain plenty of free storage space on all drives or partitions, example, on a 250GB SSD boot drive always have at least 38GB free and on a data only 250GB drive or partition maintain at least 25GB free.
Don[ICODE]t use any third party AV or Firewall, Windows own are amongst the best performers, are free and won[/ICODE]t cause conflicts.
Avoid using VPNs and anti cheat programs if at all possible, the former interfere with internet connectivity and performance and the latter are known to cause conflicts, both cause lag.
Never update drivers for no reason, see my canned info below.
Once Windows has been installed, you install the necessary drivers for the MB and other hardware and then leave well alone, drivers should not be allowed to auto update and you should never update any driver/s unless the new drivers are intended to resolve a specific issue that you are having, installing new drivers unnecessarily can actually cause you the very issues that any new drivers are intended to resolve and uninstalling the new drivers may not resolve the problem/s that installing the new drivers has caused.
Depending on priority it can take many months before the driver provider releases any fix and depending on the age of the hardware or software concerned they sometimes do not even bother or may have already announced an end of support.
The exact same policy applies to the BIOS, do not update it unless it is advised by the manufacturer of the hardware or alternatively if it is to allow for a CPU upgrade.
Updating things for no reason has a 50/50 chance of bricking your computer, don`t gamble unless you can (A) Do without the computer (B) have loads of spare cash and can buy a new one with no problem or (C) Both of the previous.
Glad to hear that you are not keen on OCing as it opens up a whole new can of worms, for optimal performance AMD recommend a liquid cooler for the present CPU but you have a perfectly good cooler that will suffice, any OCing though would require a liquid cooler and coming with that is additional maintenance and the risk of leaks.
Some tips on improving PC performance and health.
Install Windows on its own boot drive or partition on a larger capacity drive, any drive or partition needs to be a minimum of 250GB.
Maintain plenty of free storage space on all drives or partitions, example, on a 250GB SSD boot drive always have at least 38GB free and on a data only 250GB drive or partition maintain at least 25GB free.
Don[ICODE]t use any third party AV or Firewall, Windows own are amongst the best performers, are free and won[/ICODE]t cause conflicts.
Avoid using VPNs and anti cheat programs if at all possible, the former interfere with internet connectivity and performance and the latter are known to cause conflicts, both cause lag.
Never update drivers for no reason, see my canned info below.
Once Windows has been installed, you install the necessary drivers for the MB and other hardware and then leave well alone, drivers should not be allowed to auto update and you should never update any driver/s unless the new drivers are intended to resolve a specific issue that you are having, installing new drivers unnecessarily can actually cause you the very issues that any new drivers are intended to resolve and uninstalling the new drivers may not resolve the problem/s that installing the new drivers has caused.
Depending on priority it can take many months before the driver provider releases any fix and depending on the age of the hardware or software concerned they sometimes do not even bother or may have already announced an end of support.
The exact same policy applies to the BIOS, do not update it unless it is advised by the manufacturer of the hardware or alternatively if it is to allow for a CPU upgrade.
Updating things for no reason has a 50/50 chance of bricking your computer, don`t gamble unless you can (A) Do without the computer (B) have loads of spare cash and can buy a new one with no problem or (C) Both of the previous.
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