PC Gaming Discord Wiki

Welcome to the PC Gaming Wiki! This website will house links and tutorials for the vast amount of useful free software out there on the web.

Table of Contents:

• Websites
• Benchmarking / Stress Testing
• Informational
• USB Booting / Imaging
• Customization
• Other

Posts & How-To’s

• How to use DDU - Link (placeholder)

• Surface level PBO guide for Ryzen 5000 - Link (Placeholder)

• Medicat tutorial - Link

Helpful Software & Links - All Free to Access and Use

• Websites:

  • Cultists PSU Tier List
    • Large tier list for computer power supplies
  • SSD List - Google Sheets
    • Contains most well known consumer SSDs, contains things like DRAM cache, flash type, etc.
  • Why UserBench is Unreliable - Youtube
    • Yeah, just don’t use them, use 3DMark/Cinnebench for benchmarking
  • SteamDB / ProtonDB
    • Third party tools with information on player counts, pricing and (ProtonDB) linux compatibility.
  • PCPartPicker
    • Powerful PC part compatibility and price comparing tool, use the sharable link to share your PC

• Benchmarking / Stress Testing:

  • Furmark
    • A popular GPU burn test, 15-30 minute test length recommended so long as temperatures are safe
  • 3DMark - Steam
    • The free version is the “demo” on steam, CPU and GPU benchmark
  • Prime95 Download
    • A popular CPU burn test, 15-30 minute test length recommended so long as temperatures are safe
  • MSI Afterburner
    • Overclocking tool for graphics cards, EVGA Precision X1 recommended for EVGA cards (RIP EVGA)
  • Cinebench R23
    • CPU Benchmarking tool
  • 3DMark - Steam
    • CPU and GPU benchmarking tool, free download as a “demo” on steam. Use Time Spy for modern GPUs.

• Informational Software:

  • CrystalDiskInfo / CrystalDiskMark
    • S.M.A.R.T monitoring and synthetic drive read/write speed testing
  • HWMonitor / HWInfo
    • Primarily for monitoring temperatures, clock speeds, etc. HWInfo provides less monitoring and more hardware information.
  • Snappy Driver Installer Origin
    • A free driver installer that seems to work well, installing the (few) drivers you need manually is still recommended
  • CPU-Z / GPU-Z
    • Excellent tools that provide detailed information about your CPU/GPU
  • BlueScreenView
    • View past Blue Screen of Death/Bug Check dumps, this provides the error code and the offending drivers/services that likely caused the crash.

• USB Booting / Imaging

  • Medicat
    • A vast 20GB collection of nearly every tool you could ever need for disaster recovery. Though it will cause Windows Defender to freak out.
  • Netboot.xyz
    • Versatile iPXE server, requires a machine/VM to boot the netboot image and host other images.
  • Ventoy
    • Useful tool for creating bootable USB drives with >1 disk image
  • MediaCreationTool - Windows 10
    • Required to install, or repair windows. Helpful to have one lying around, just in case.

• Customization Software:

  • Microsoft PowerToys - Github
    • A first-ish party tool (maintained by Microsoft Employees) that adds numerous different features
  • Rainmeter
    • Widgets on the desktop!
  • Lively Wallpaper
    • Allows for extended customization of the desktop wallpaper
  • TranslucentTB
    • Customizable taskbar application
  • Fan Control Software - GitHub
    • A powerful and lightweight fan control software for Windows
  • OpenRGB / SignalRGB
    • RGB software with the aim to combine RGB ecosystems.

• Other Software:

  • 7Zip
    • The (arguably) best tool for unzipping RARs, TARs, etc on windows.
  • DNSBenchmark
    • Useful for finding the fastest DNS server for your area, usually Cloudflare (1.1.1.1) and Google (8.8.8.8) are good enough
  • Heroic - GitHub
    • Epic Games Store + GOG alternative that allows you to bypass needing the EGS installed to play games, requires re-authentication every so often.
  • UWPHook - GitHub
    • Allows you to add Windows Store apps to your Steam library
  • Playnite
    • Aims to bring all your libraries from different launchers into one (similar to what GOG is trying to do)
  • FreeDownloadManager / FDM
    • Powerful download manager with torrent support and pause/continue downloads
  • WizTree
    • Don’t know whats eating up disk space? WizTree read the Master File Table of NTFS drives making it dramatically faster than WinDirStat.
  • CompactGUI
    • Uses compact.exe to transparently compress games with a minimal impact on performance.

Disclaimer: None of these resources are owned or operated by us. We are at the mercy of these developers to provide safe downloads. An adblocker is a good idea for browsing the modern web, Ublock Origin is recommended. Links are to the softwares main page unless otherwise noted, downloads for github are found on the right side of the page labeled “Releases”.