What to Consider When Changing Peripherals on Your PC

If you have changed or you are about to change one or more peripherals of your PC , they will work without problems simply by disconnecting the old ones and connecting the new ones through USB. However, if you want to have the best performance and enjoy all its features to the fullest, in this article we are going to give you some guidelines on recommended configurations that you should do.

There are many users, especially gamers, who start with a computer with very basic peripherals and later, as soon as they have the opportunity, make the jump to gaming peripherals for their PC. If this is your case, normally you will not have to do almost nothing to get the most out of them, but if you already had some gaming peripherals before and you have jumped to new ones, then there are more things you should do for a good maintenance of your PC.

What to Consider When Changing Peripherals on Your PC

Uninstall software from old peripherals on your PC

If you are going to exchange some peripherals for others, the first thing you should do even before connecting the new ones is to uninstall the software you are going to replace. This is a good practice to keep the PC with good greeting for longer, since these software after all start with the operating system even if there are no branded peripherals connected, and they will not only be taking up disk space hard but they will also be consuming system resources at startup.

Servicios periféricos PC

Certainly, if for example you had a SteelSeries brand mouse and you change it for another one of the same brand, you will not have to uninstall SteelSeries Engine and then reinstall it, since it is a unified software and all the brand peripherals use the same . The same goes for Corsair, Roccat or Razer peripherals for example, but if you had a SteelSeries mouse and now you have a Razer mouse, if you no longer have SteelSeries peripherals you should uninstall their software.

Similarly, there are many brand peripherals that are not of the first order and that do not have unified software but specific to the product in question. If this is your case, you should definitely uninstall this software for the reasons stated above. However, if you had peripherals that don’t use configuration software but rely on generic operating system drivers to work, then you won’t have to worry about uninstalling anything.

Install the software for your new peripherals

Although currently all USB PC peripherals are Plug & Play and will work as soon as you connect them, most of them – especially gaming ones – need specific software to be able to access and configure all their options, and it is essential if it is your case and you want to enjoy the best experience with them.

Thus, for example, Corsair peripherals use iCUE software, Razers use Synapse, SteelSeries uses SteelSeries Engine, Logitech uses Logitech Gaming Software or Roccat uses Roccat SWARM. All of them are unified softwares that will serve you for all the peripherals of the brand, regardless of the model or if they are a mouse, keyboard or headphones.

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If the peripheral you have purchased does not have unified software, be sure to enter the manufacturer’s website to download and install its specific software, as it is essential to get the most out of it and configure it as you want.

Another important aspect that you should take into account to get the most out of your PC peripherals is to update their firmware as soon as you start using them, since this way you make sure that it has all the manufacturer’s optimizations from the beginning.

Configure your peripherals

Once you have removed the software from the old peripherals and installed the new one, feel free to “fiddle” all the parameters of this to configure it to your liking. One of the biggest advantages of gaming peripherals – in addition to specific hardware and the RGB lighting that is so common – is its ability to be personalized. Normally you can configure from the sensitivity of the mouse to the equalization of the headphones, going through the creation of macros for the keyboard and a long etcetera.

Editor de macros en SteelSeries Engine

This is the best way not only to get the most out of your new peripherals for the PC, but to eliminate the software that you had before and thus keep the PC in the best possible state, and with the best performance.

Imagine a PC in which you have a Razer mouse, a Corsair keyboard and SteelSeries headphones, since you would already have three softwares installed in the system and all of them consuming resources. If in addition to all that you also had the software of the previous peripherals installed, the situation would worsen even more and, in the end, the performance of the PC would be affected.