

If you’ve installed the chipset driver, the option should then be available to select. You can get to this by opening settings with Windows Key + I and then typing in choose a power plan. Once installed, the chipset driver will give you access to the AMD Ryzen Balanced power plan. AMD RYZEN:įor AMD Ryzen systems, please head to AMD’s website and download your system’s latest chipset driver.

Now, depending on what chipset you’ve selected (AMD Ryzen or Intel) the option that you change to will affect pc performance greatly. If you are running video editing or 3D design software that is putting a heavy load onto your system’s hardware, then you might see a larger improvement in that department. The only real improvement in changing your power plan might come upon initial start-up which is beneficial for people who enjoy a super-fast boot time. Changing your power plan can improve speed on systems where hardware continually goes to and from an idle state, for example, when running a game, all your hardware will already be working together to populate the environment around you. We’ll start with the Windows setting called Power plan. If only just received your pre-built PC, then we would recommend checking out our Software updates guide for new PCs buyers first before you go through this guide.


If you’ve recently bought a pre-built gaming PC and you’re wondering how you can make sure you get the very best out of your system, then look no further! We’re here to bring you this guide which will teach you what settings you need to change or update within your system, whether it would be within Windows 10 under power plans, optimization settings, updating your graphics drivers, or installing utility software such as MSI Afterburner and optimizing your games within GeForce Experience for NVIDIA graphics cards and within Radeon Software for AMD graphics cards.
