Theres quite a few things I do, none of them are "cheats" (for example, those people who disable aero to squeeze more points) my optimisations are simply that, optimised configurations without sacrificing visuals or stopping Windows services that would otherwise be running. Be ready to take notesOriginally Posted by Glow9
- Download modded Quadro 267.17 drivers (very good performance and image quality, stable too)
- Click start>run>type "services.msc" google the services on startup type "automatic" and "delayed start" and decide which you can switch to manual which won't affect you. (Don't outright disable the services, if you do anything that depends on that service will not be able to start) This won't only help speed up Windows, but also reclaim some of your RAM.
- Of course, the usual HDD, registry and boot-time defragmentations along with cleaning out all those old musty restore points and making a single new fresh one and a cleanup of the registry. Diskeeper and Tuneup utilities are excellent apps for these tasks.
- Again obvious, but the latest drivers for all your hardware.
- Download Regcleaner and click the "startup" tab, you'll be surprised at all the sh|t that starts up with Windows that really doesn't need to. This is yet another way to speed up Windows and reclaim more RAM.
With the software side done, moving on to hardware
- Make sure your hardware is optimised for is current configuration, for example; memory timings, FSB/BCLK, any on-board mainboard hardware you don't use is disabled, etc.
- Lastly, don't be too conservative with your 24/7 OCs, as long as load temps are reasonable, you're good to go.
Well, theres the rough and ready guidelines but you can't go too far wrong following them. Just remember a benchmark is not the defacto of a PCs performance, benchmarks are little more than a simulation. Try to run tests based on real games such as the AvP benchmark, Crysis / Warhead benchmarks, Stalker benchmarks, etc.
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