Here are some tweaks:

(Note: these are not my tweaks (I did not write them), they are off another forum)

note: these tips are for superpi only. some may work well for other benchmarks but may hurt your scores in other benchmarks. pedro rocha's tweak is an excellent exampe for this. it will boost your 3dmark2001 score by quite a bit but it will have a negative effect on your pifast score.

use windows 2003 server (sp2 or sp4 , that I don't know yet)

run --> msconfig --> diagnostic boot mode

This will shut down lot's of services and give you a nice boost

Remember to run superpi.exe in Real time mode (from task manager) and turn off explorer.exe and userinit.exe during the run. You can run explorer.exe after the run from task manager. (typically C:\windows\explorer.exe I think)

running superpi in realtime doesn't give me a noticeable gain on Axp or P4.

Some people experienced worse scores from killing explorer.exe and minimizing superpi.

set page file to 0. this didn't help me mutch but I didn't' time it with that process timer proggy so it might help a few milli seconds.

I use blackviper's registry patch instead of diagnostic mode... disables a lot of services mostly and adds some other tweaks like the no page file tweak...

if you use page file, delete, defrag and set again.

clean install is best offcourse and defrag right away after installtion aswell best to use a 3rd party defrag tool. most will do a much better job at it then the windows defragger.

apparently, a lot of the japanese (asians in general I suppose) benchmarkers use a ramdisk program but I haven't found out wich one and when I ask around, nobody can (will) tell me wich program to use.

also, some use ram optimization tools. maxmem is often used. I haven't tried it myself though, it may or may not do the same as the boot.ini maxmem tweak.

so the boot.ini maxmem tweak (doesn't always help and slows your system down): look at in the advanced options of boot.ini, there is "MAXMEM"

in the boot.ini after /fastdetect add /maxmem=104 (or 105)

for example : multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windo ws Server 2003" /fastdetect /maxmem=104

if the option isn't available through msconfig then the boot.ini will do the trick.

link : http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums...tid=21045&stc=1

for the cpu, high mhz is more important then high fsb in dispite of the fact that high fsb is faster in most applications.

for the memory, tight timings are more important then high bandwith, offcourse there are limits to this and you'll have to find a good compromis.

apparently, sometimes deleting all the files in the superpi folder except the .exe and .txt files can rid you of the "not exact in round" error message.

Reports on the pedro rocha's multiprocessor tweak are two fold, good and bad : device manager > pc > computer > acpi uniprocessor pc > update driver > acpi multiprocessor pc

carefull though, this tweak causes higher loads on the psu (12V line, others I don't know), higher cpu heatoutput, cpu and/or gpu instability.

link : http://www.xtremeresources.com/foru...achmentid=12637

Go to: Control Panel ---> System ---> Advanced ---> Performace Options ---> Advanced

set Processor Schedulling to Programs and Memory Usage to System Cache



most of these tweaks will give you little boosts but imho, will not gain you a full seccond. then again, sometimes, all you need is that extra millisecond faster