Quote Originally Posted by Movieman View Post
Someone want to list the basic tweaks for a clueless,n00b?
OS:
1. For your own sake (unless you know what you are doing), pick a tinyXP OS
2. LSC, Large System Cache
3. Affinity, bind benchmark to a thread, and make it high priority or real time - result is likely to be same, except realtime is more likely to cause crash (in my experience)
4. Cpt. obvious; Disable pause screen
5. Have 2 partitions on the OS, you'll need it for CW (Copy Waza)

The most obvious none OS tweaks are;
Max out ram
Use right BIOS, some motherboards sucks for effeciency, especially the cheap ones.... I cannot recommend GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3 for benching, while the (accept that challenge DINO!!!)

More complex OS tweaks:
maxmem
pagefile
manual copy waza
registry tweaks in generel (I only do ram settings myself in registry...)
msconfig, no - dont do diagnostic... Manually disable all the crap you wont need...

Other tiny tweaks;
16K run a couple of times prior to your actual run..... BUT; A new folder with SuperPi beats that (Sure I am picking a fight with everyone on that...)

--- There are a heck of alot more tweaks, but those are the basics and should be a very decent start for you, also, use OCX Tweaker for Copy Waza, untill you figure how to do it better manually yourself.